(A) (1) The Park, Cemetery, and Tree Board shall develop a written plan for the care, preservation, pruning, planting, replanting, removal, or disposition of park and street trees, which it shall recommend to the City Council for adoption by the City Council. Upon adoption of such a plan by the City Council by ordinance, with or without amendments, the plan shall constitute the official comprehensive City Tree Plan of the city.
(2) The Board shall review the plan not less often than annually, and shall recommend to the City Council amendments, if any, which the Board deems to be in the public interest, and the City Council shall by ordinance enact such amendments, if any, as the Council deems to be in the public interest.
(B) (1) The Park, Cemetery, and Tree Board shall recommend to the City Council for adoption a list of tree and shrub species for planting as park trees, and a list of tree and shrub species for planting as street trees. The trees and shrubs shall be listed by common name and include species recommended by the State Forester’s office for planting in this geographical area.
(2) The lists shall include small, medium, and large trees and include spacing requirements for each species of street trees. Upon adoption of such lists by the City Council by ordinance, with or without amendments, the lists shall constitute comprehensive official lists of permissible park and street trees. Copies of such lists shall be available at the office of the Director of Public Works, who also shall distribute such copies to nurseries and other businesses in the city which sell trees to the general public. The official lists shall be updated on a regular basis by the Park, Cemetery, and Tree Board and City Council in the manner herein provided for the original lists.
(C) It shall be unlawful for any person to plant any species of tree or shrub other than those included on the official list of street trees in any location such that the tree or shrub, upon planting, shall constitute a street tree within the meaning of § 97.01.
(Prior Code, § 97.02) (Ord. 1417, passed 10-24-1989; Ord. 1728, passed 6-23-2003) Penalty, see § 10.99