911.01 Definitions.
911.02 Permit.
911.03 Spacing of street trees.
911.04 Trees prohibited on public property.
911.05 Stump removal.
911.06 Adoption of rules.
911.99 Penalty.
CROSS REFERENCES
Power to regulate shade trees - see Ohio R.C. 715.20
Assessments for tree planting or maintenance - see Ohio R.C. 727.011
Injury or destruction - see GEN. OFF. 541.06
As used in this chapter:
(a) “Person” means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
(b) “Street” or “highway” are synonymous and mean the entire width of every public way, easement or right-of-way, between the property lines, when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for the purpose of vehicular and/or pedestrian traffic, and includes alleys.
(c) “Public property” shall include all other grounds owned by the City of Galion, including parks.
(d) “Property line” means the line between the outer edge of a street or highway and the abutting real estate.
(e) “Treelawn” means that part of a street or highway, lying between the property line and that portion of the street or highway usually used for vehicular traffic. This definition includes curb strips, but also any other unpaved street right-of- way, whether or not a sidewalk is present, and regardless of a sidewalk’s location.
(f) “Public trees” shall include all shade and ornamental trees now or hereafter growing on any street or on any public property.
(g) “Property owner” means the person owning real property as shown by the County Auditor’s Plat of the City of Galion, Crawford County, Ohio, including the executor, administrator, or beneficiary of the estate of a deceased owner.
(h) “Tree” means a tall growing woody plant with one or more perennial main stems or trunk which develops branches from the aerial section of the stem rather than the base; capable of being pruned to provide at least six feet of clear branchless trunk below the crown within five years of planting.
(i) “Shrub” means a low growing woody plant with one or several perennial main stems producing branches, shoots, or multiple stems from or near the base of the plant and incapable of being pruned to provide at least six feet of clear branchless trunk within five years of planting. (Ord. 95-6133. Passed 4-25-95.)
(a) No person shall hereafter plant any tree or shrub upon any public way, street or alley unless he shall have first obtained a permit in writing from the Chief Building Inspector specifying the size, type, species and location on the public right-of-way, street or alley, of the tree or shrub so to be planted.
(b) The Chief Building Inspector shall have the authority to deny a permit to any person who proposes to plant any tree or shrub upon a public way, street or alley of a size, type or species found to be undesirable or so found to be undesirable for the location proposed; or he may deny a permit to any person who proposes to plant any tree or shrub upon a public right-of- way, street or alley if at a location found to be of a size or type unsuitable for planting of trees or shrubs. (Ord. 95-6133. Passed 4-25-95.)
(a) The spacing of Street Trees will be in accordance with the three species size classes referred to in Galion’s Permitted List of Street Trees, and no trees may be planted closer than the following:
Small Trees: thirty feet;
Medium Trees: forty feet; and
Large Trees: fifty feet;
except in special plantings designed or approved by the Street Tree Commission.
(b) The distance trees may be planted from curbs or curb lines and sidewalks will be in accordance with the three species size classified in Galion’s Permitted List of Street Trees and no trees may be planted closer to the curb or sidewalk than the following:
Small Trees: two feet = four feet tree lawn;
Medium Trees: three feet = six feet tree lawn;
Large Trees: four feet = eight feet tree law.
(c) No Street Tree shall be planted closer than thirty-five feet of any street corner, measured from the point nearest intersecting curbs of curb lines. No Street Tree shall be planted closer than ten feet to any fire hydrant.
(d) No Street Trees other than those species referred to as Small Trees in Galion’s Permitted List of Street Trees may be planted under or within twenty-five lateral feet of any overhead utility wire, or over or within five lateral feet of any underground water line, sewer line, or other utility.
(Ord. 95-6133. Passed 4-25-95.)
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