(A) Permits authorizing removal pursuant to § 99.016 may be issued by the Director of Community Development or Director of Parks and Recreation under the following conditions:
(1) The tree is dead or dying;
(2) The tree is diseased;
(3) The removal of the tree is consistent with established good forestry practices; and/or
(4) Refusal to allow removal of the tree would deny the applicant all reasonable and economically viable uses of the property.
(B) (1) If none of the above criteria are satisfied, the Director may authorize removal if it is mitigated by “replacement trees in lieu of preservation” consisting of a double inch for inch replacement of the tree to be removed, unless good forestry practices or an approved landscaping plan warrant a lesser replacement, which in no case shall be less than an inch for inch replacement of the tree to be removed.
(2) The replacement trees may be required on the property from which the tree was removed, or on adjacent properties or rights-of-way as determined to be necessary by the Director to mitigate the loss of the tree of trees in a protected area.
(Prior Code, § 42-5) (Ord. 01-38, passed 12-3-2001; Ord. 2010-16, passed 5-3-2010; Ord. 2010-32, passed 6-7-2010)