Trees with characteristics that make them appropriate for use in the public right-of-way and which are recommended as suggested street trees can be found in the Planting Manual for the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government. Characteristics that make trees unacceptable for use in public rights-of-way and are not permitted for street trees include, but are not limited to:
(1) Disease or insect problems;
(2) Dirty, drooping branches, objectionable fruit or bark;
(3) Weak-wooded, apt to lose large branches in wind or with age;
(4) Unpredictable or irregular habits that may develop;
(5) Root problems, shallow and destructive roots; or
(6) Unsafe, dangerously thorny or poisonous.
(Ord. No. 70-94, § 1, 5-5-94; Ord. No. 044-2023 , § 9, 4-27-23)