CHAPTER 8
TREES AND SHRUBS
SECTION:
5-8-1: Definitions
5-8-2: Landscape Provisions
5-8-1: DEFINITIONS:
   ARBORICULTURAL: The cultivation of trees; the art of planting, dressing and managing trees and shrubs.
   CLASS 1, 2, AND 3 TREES: Classes of trees listed in this chapter. Class 1 trees are usually small and ornamental. Class 2 trees are appropriate for planting near streets, sidewalks and paved areas and are medium to large in their size and shape. Class 3 trees are large and require considerable amounts of open space.
   CONTROLLER: Every person (owner, agent, tenant, occupant, contractor, developer or lessee) who exercises care, custody and control of real property, to include that abutting a right of way upon which a public tree or shrub is located.
   GENERALLY ACCEPTED IN PROFESSIONAL ARBORICULTURAL PRACTICE: As used in this chapter, this phrase shall mean and refer to a standard of care to be employed when planting, installing, selecting, caring for, maintaining, pruning, removing, or otherwise treating a tree or shrub. Such standard of care shall be consistent with techniques routinely employed by professionals trained and knowledgable in arboriculture.
   INJURIOUS PEST OR DISEASE: Organisms capable of seriously damaging the form or structural integrity of the tree.
   NUISANCE: Shall have the meaning described in subsection 5-8-2D of this chapter.
   PARKWAY: That portion of public right of way situated between the curb line of any street and the property line abutting and adjoining any street. In the absence of a curb, the curb line of a street shall be deemed to be the edge of that portion of public right of way maintained and open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. The purpose of the parkway is to increase pedestrian safety and to improve the visual aesthetics and environmental quality of roadways.
   PERSON: Any person, firm, partnership, corporation, association, company or organization of any kind.
   PESTICIDE: An agent used to destroy pests.
   PRUNING: The removal of plant parts, dead or alive, in a careful and systematic manner so as not to damage other parts of the plant or the tree as a whole.
   PUBLIC TREE AND/OR SHRUB: Any tree or shrub located, in whole or in part, upon or over any street or other public property.
   SHRUB: A multiple stemmed, woody plant whose height at maturity is between three feet (3') and fifteen feet (15').
   STREET: Highways, roads, alleys and bridges, dedicated, purchased or otherwise acquired for the public, including the unimproved or unused portion thereof, maintained and open to use by the public, including sidewalks, parkways and special tree planting easements adjacent to a street granted by property owners.
   TOPPING: Cutting back the limbs of a tree within the tree's crown to such a degree as to remove the natural canopy and disfigure the tree. Topping starves the tree of needed nutrients and increases its vulnerability to disease and insect infestation.
   TREE: A woody perennial plant usually having one main stem or trunk and many branches; it usually exceeds fifteen feet (15') in height at maturity.
   VISION OR SIGHT TRIANGLE: A protected vision area established to ensure that drivers have an unobstructed view as they come upon a driveway access, alleyway or intersection. Measuring from the projected intersection of the roadway edge a distance of forty feet (40') along each roadway edge and connecting the two (2) points with a straight line, this defines the boundaries of a vision triangle at the intersection of two (2) roads. (Ord. 527, 3-14-2005)
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