TABLE II: TREES NOT ACCEPTABLE FOR PLANTING.
   (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)