It shall be the duty of property owners to remedy public nuisances on their property and on abutting rights of way.
A. The city forester or his/her designee has the authority to enter onto private property where there is a tree or shrub that is suspected to be a public nuisance.
B. The city has the authority to deem a tree a public nuisance and to cause the pruning or removal of any such tree on private or public property.
C. No tree growing near a sidewalk shall be cut down or removed solely because of the interference it causes or may cause with a sidewalk, unless the city forester in conjunction with the city engineer finds that the sidewalk cannot reasonably be reconstructed without removal of the tree. When feasible, sidewalks shall be reconstructed around trees so that trees are not removed solely to facilitate construction of sidewalks. The cost for the reconstruction of the sidewalk shall be the responsibility of the abutting property owner. (Ord. 2812, 2007)