For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ARBORIST. An individual engaged in the profession of arboriculture who, through experience, education and related training, possesses the competence to provide for or supervise the management of trees and other woody plants.
CITY. The City of Prospect, Kentucky.
HISTORIC TREES. Any public tree found by the arborist for the city or by resolution of the Prospect Forestation Board of the city to be of notable historic interest because of its age, type or size; or a tree which traces its ancestry through seed or propagation to an historic event or notable personage including trees descendant from a tree found at an historic location and trees descendant from a tree planted by a prominent individual.
PARK TREES. Trees located within the city's established parks, open areas, landscaped areas, open lawn areas, confined spaces around buildings, recreational facilities, plazas, parking lots, buffers, and recreational areas of the city.
PROTECTED TREES. Any public tree within the corporate limits of the City of Prospect with a circumference of 42 inches or more, measured at four feet above natural grade, and which is deemed by the arborist for the city or by resolution of the Prospect Forestation Board to have significant or historical interest to the city.
PUBLIC SHRUBS OR BUSHES. Any low, multiple-stemmed, woody vegetation located within the public right-of-way, within the city’s established parks, open areas, landscaped areas, open lawn areas, plazas, parking lots, buffers, and recreational areas of the city.
PUBLIC TREES. Collectively include "street trees", "park trees" and "trees on other public properties" as further defined in this chapter.
STREET TREES. Trees located within the public street right-of-way of the city.
TREES ON OTHER PUBLIC PROPERTIES. Trees within greenways, along trails, in riparian zones and drainage areas, in buffers, or in utility easements within the city. This type of forestation is commonly identified with densely wooded areas or flood plains adjacent to streams and creek banks.
TRENCH OR TRENCHING. A linear cut in the ground exceeding 12 feet in length and of such depth as to significantly affect the tree roots of a public tree in the area of the trench. A trench or trenching on private land falls within the definition of regulated trenching in situations where such trenching affects roots of trees on public land.
(Ord. 484-2007, passed 12-10-07)