(a) No person, firm or corporation shall plant or set out any shade tree or cause or authorize or procure any person to plant or set out any shade tree, in or on any part of any public highway within the City, without first obtaining from the Director of Public Properties a written permit to do so or without complying in all respects with the conditions set forth in such written permit.
(b) Before any permit shall be issued for planting more than twenty-five (25) trees on any one (1) permit, the Director may request from the applicant a detailed declaration of intentions either in the form of a planting plan or written statement in duplicate. All planting plans shall be drawn on tracing cloth in ink. One (1) copy of each plan or statement of intentions shall, when approved by the Director, be returned to the applicant and the other copy shall be kept on file by the Director.
(c) All planting plans shall show accurately:
(1) The proposed street width, together with its subdivisions of pavement, curb, gutter, parking strip and sidewalk areas, to a definite indicated scale;
(2) The proposed location of each and every proposed tree together with the location of each existing within the proposed street lines in scaled relation to the other features of the plan;
(3) The variety of each and every tree proposed to be planted and of those already existing within the proposed street lines, either indicated on the plan or referenced with a number to key list;
(4) The distance between trees in any one (1) row in feet;
(5) The nature of the soil in the planting space, to a depth of three (3) feet, and all existing and proposed surface or subsoil drainage system.
(d) All statements filed in lieu of a planting plan shall contain the same information as required on the plan.