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TREES ON PUBLIC PROPERTY
The Engineering Department will formulate an official street tree species list for the city. The list of allowable species shall be broken down into categories of small, medium and large trees. No species other than those included in this list may be planted as street trees without permission of the city’s Engineering Department.
(Prior Code, § 91.105) (Ord. 24, passed 12-21-1992)
The spacing of street trees will be in accordance with the three species size classes listed in § 91.090 of this chapter, and no trees may be planted closer together than the following; small trees, 30 feet; medium trees, 40 feet; and, large trees, 50 feet, except in special plantings approved by the Engineering Department.
(Prior Code, § 91.106) (Ord. 24, passed 12-21-1992)
The distance trees may be planted from curbs or curblines and sidewalks will be in accordance with the three species size classes listed in § 91.090 of this chapter and no trees may be planted closer to any curb or sidewalk than the following; small trees, two feet; medium trees, three feet; and large trees, four feet.
(Prior Code, § 91.107) (Ord. 24, passed 12-21-1992)
(A) No street tree shall be planted closer than 35 feet of any street corner, measured from the point of nearest intersecting curbs or curblines.
(B) No street tree shall be planted closer than ten feet of any fire hydrant.
(Prior Code, § 91.108) (Ord. 24, passed 12-21-1992) Penalty, see § 91.999
All street trees shall be planted according to the current approved and accepted guidelines for utility planting. No street trees shall be planted within five feet of any underground utility.
(Prior Code, § 91.109) (Ord. 24, passed 12-21-1992; Ord. 1, passed 1-2-1996) Penalty, see § 91.999
The city shall have the right to plant, prune, maintain and remove trees, plants and shrubs within the right-of-way lines of all streets, alleys, avenues, lanes, squares and public grounds, as may be necessary to ensure public safety or to preserve or enhance the symmetry and beauty of such public grounds. The city’s Engineering Department may remove or cause or order to be removed, any tree or part thereof which is in an unsafe condition and could cause injury or damage to persons or property, or which by reason of its nature is damaging to sewers, electric power lines, gas lines, water lines or other public improvements, or is affected with any injurious fungus, insect or other pest. This section does not prohibit the planting of street trees by adjacent property owners providing that all selection and location of the trees is in accordance with §§ 91.090 through 91.094 of this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 91.110) (Ord. 24, passed 12-21-1992)
It shall be unlawful as a normal practice for any person, firm or city department to top any street tree, park tree or other tree on public property. TOPPING is defined as the severe cutting back of limbs to stubs larger than three inches in diameter within the tree’s crown to such a degree so as to remove the normal canopy and disfigure the tree. Trees severely damaged by storms or other causes, or certain trees under utility wires or other obstructions where other pruning practices are impractical may be exempted from this chapter at the determination of the city’s Engineering Department.
(Prior Code, § 91.111) (Ord. 24, passed 12-21-1992) Penalty, see § 91.999
Every owner/occupant of any tree overhanging any street or right-of-way within the city shall prune the branches so that such branches shall not obstruct the light from any street lamp or obstruct the view of any street intersection or sidewalk so as to not interfere with vehicular or pedestrian traffic. Said owners/occupants shall remove all dead, diseased or dangerous trees, or broken or decayed limbs which constitute a menace to the safety of the public. The city shall have the right to prune any tree or shrub on private property when it interferes with the proper spread of light along the street from a street light or interferes with visibility of any traffic-control device or sign or interfere with vehicular or pedestrian traffic.
(Prior Code, § 91.112) (Ord. 24, passed 12-21-1992; Ord. 1-96, passed 1-2-1996) Penalty, see § 91.999
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