Some Brentwood residents want the city to stop planting trees in a park near their homes and say the new foliage impedes sight lines and therefore safety in the community.

Ian Burgess says he likes trees but is annoyed that the city didn't tell him it was putting 15 new ones in his cul-de-sac's park.

“When you have 90 percent of the people on a street that’s affected by something, that have no idea what’s going on until heavy equipment shows up, that’s just not proper consultation and the main issue we have,” said Burgess.

Burgess says if the city had consulted him, he would have told them to spend the money pruning existing trees and fixing the back lanes instead.

He says the new trees will increase cover for people doing drugs or sleeping in the park once they are full-grown.

“We have these nice little open areas that are covered enough that, if you wanted to, just put a blanket down and you’re not going to get snowed on and you’re not going to get rained on,” he said.

He is also concerned that the new trees will reduce the open play space for children in the area.

“It’s going to reduce the usability of the park as well as reduce sight lines. So when the kids start to get a bit older and a bit more independent, we won’t be able to keep as close an eye on them without actually coming out and being the helicopter parents,” said Burgess.

ReTree YYC is the city's $37 million program to remedy 2014's Snowtember, which damaged 50 percent of public trees.

Little damage was done to the park in Brentwood so some people are wondering why plant here?

“We didn’t lose any trees, we don’t need any more,” said Vicki, area resident. “Put the trees in neighbourhoods that did lose a lot of them, let them have them.”

The Brentwood Community Association told CTV News that the city held three in-person  information meetings about the ReTree projects and that the association put the information on its website and emailed it to members, with a link to submit comments to the city.

“It’s too bad that they missed those opportunities but we did the best we could as a city to reach out,” said Jeanette Wheeler, urban forestry lead with the City of Calgary.

The city says its Brentwood community consultations were extensive and that ReTree YYC isn't just about planting a new tree where every damaged one stands, it’s also about improving the overall health and abundance of trees in the impacted communities.

For more information on ReTree YYC click HERE…

(With files from Lea Williams-Doherty)