Lemay Forest owner given cease and desist order for tree cutting [Video]

The City of Winnipeg has sent a letter ordering the owner of the Lemay Forest to stop knocking down trees.

The letter comes after homeowners backing onto the forest woke up Tuesday morning to the sights and sounds of trees being levelled. Dan Scanlon was one of them.

“He went straight through a bunch of trees and started knocking them down,” said Scanlon.

It’s the latest development in this development full of drama. Property owner Tochal Developments wants to build a 5,000-bed assisted living facility on the site.

Area residents have been lobbying to save the forest and were shocked to see trees lying on the ground.

“We had no notification or anything that he was doing it, as far as we knew, he hasn’t had anything approved.”

Planner John Wintrup represents Tochal. He said the work was first stopped after area residents got in the way.

“People running around …