(A) The following is a listing of trees more or less common to the area that are not suitable as street or parkway trees. Their lack of suitability is based on undesirable growth habits, fruiting habits, form, susceptibility to serious diseases, propensity to storm damage, and a host of other limitations too numerous to mention. The limitations listed for each tree or species group are not all-inclusive, and lists only the more serious problems encountered locally. In essence, there are far too many superior street or parkway trees listed in Table I to warrant the use of any of the trees listed in Table II except under special circumstances.
(B) Though many of the trees listed in Table II are presently growing on our parkways as the result of previously unrestricted plantings, they do constitute a maintenance liability to the village and as such, upon removal, should be replaced with species listed in Table I.
Scientific Name | Common Name | Problem or Limitation |
Scientific Name | Common Name | Problem or Limitation |
Abies sp. | Fir | Form - visibility hazard |
Acer saccharinum | Silver Maple | Weak wooded (but very common) |
Aesculus sp. | Horsechestnut | Foliar diseases, leaf blotch |
Ailanthus altissima | Tree-of-heaven | Weedy invasive species |
Betula sp. | Birch | Environmental stress, borers |
Catalpa sp. | Catalpa | Littering fruit |
Diospyros | Persimmon | Littering fruit |
Gleditsia sp. | Honeylocust | Serious disease/insect problem |
Juglans sp. | Walnut | Littering fruit |
Juniperus sp. | Juniper | Form - visibility hazard |
Malus sp. | Common Apple | Littering fruit, disease prone |
Morus alba | White Mulberry | Highly invasive, birds spread seeds |
Picea sp. | Spruce | Form - visibility hazard |
Pinus sp. | Pine | Form - visibility hazard |
Platanus occidentalis | Sycamore (Amer.) | Disease - twig blight |
Populus sp. | Poplar | Fast growing, weak wooded |
Pyrus sp. | Common Pear | Littering fruit |
Pyrus calleryana cv’s | Callery Pear (e.g., Bradford and others) | Very weak |
Quercus acutissima | Sawtooth Oak | |
Quercus palustris | Pin Oak | Iron chlorosis |
Robinia sp. | Black Locust | Shallow rooted, borers |
Salix sp. | Willow | Weak wooded, storm damage |
Thuja sp. | Arborvitae | Form - visibility hazard |
Ulmus parvifolia | Chinese or Lacebark Elm | Weak wooded |
Ulmus pumila | Siberian Elm | Extremely weak wooded |
(Ord. 86-10-3, passed 10-13-1986; Ord. 13-07-02, passed 7-23-2013)