919.01 TREE REMOVAL PROHIBITED; EXCEPTIONS.
   No person, firm, association, corporation or public utility shall remove or destroy or cause to be removed or destroyed, by cutting, burning, bulldozing or any other means more than two trees six inches caliper or more, measured fourteen inches above the ground within the corporate limits of the City in any one calendar year with the following exceptions:
   (a)    Within a building perimeter or fifteen feet outside a building perimeter;
   (b)    Within a walkway, driveway, right of way, excavation, parking area or other construction, or three feet outside of the same;
   (c)    Within a landscaped area where the plans have been approved by the Landscape Architect;
   (d)    Diseased, dead or previously damaged trees as determined by the Building Inspector;
   (e)    Such other areas as may be permitted by the Planning and Zoning Commission; provided that the removal or destruction of trees will not be likely to cause soil erosion, result in pollution or in an unreasonably large loss of oxygen, interfere with drainage and the natural supply of water, or that it will not result in an unsightly and blighted condition, or will not depress the values of adjacent property. (Ord. 7-1972. Passed 3-28-72.)
   (f)    The City Engineer shall have the authority to designate trees that interfere with drainage plans and require that they be removed after all alternate methods to design drainage plans without destruction of trees have been exhausted.
      (Ord. 28-1976. Passed 5-25-76.)