Hot take · 59:16
// THE QUOTE
“one thing is the trees too that was a big shocker to me”
— Andre Kulakevich · Kulak Construction Ltd.
Up to $50K per tree to remove and replace, plus a whole HRM department for trees that can block the entire permit. Concrete cost-shock number; complete and niche-credible.
Full episode at 59:16How Two Halifax Developers Do Their Own Permits, Plumbing, and AutoCAD — In-House Build Model Explained (Connect East & Kulak Construction) ▸
THE LESSON THIS CLIP CARRIES
Tree-replacement levies on city-property trees can run up to $50,000 per mature tree and can hold up an entire building permit until a replanting plan is submitted — budget and schedule for this.
“some of the trees go all the way up to fifty thousand per tree to demolish it... blocked the entire permit until we came out with the plan”
THE CHAPTER IT LIVES IN
Deep dive on HRM permitting — process, timelines, barriers, appeals
46:00
Clips like this, every two weeks.
SOURCE: 59:16 of How Two Halifax Developers Do Their Own Permits, Plumbing, and AutoCAD — In-House Build Model Explained (Connect East & Kulak Construction)