When any building permit or zoning permit is applied for pursuant to the city code and a proposed structure would require the destruction, removal or pruning of a heritage tree, the official issuing the permit shall take into consideration the provisions of this chapter and the granting or denying of the permit; and, the applicant shall be required to either obtain the requisite permit or file the requisite notice in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. In event a permit to destroy or remove a heritage tree is issued in order to enable the applicant to carry out some project of development or improvement of his or her property, the permit shall be valid and effective only in connection with the actual accomplishment of the project.
(1995 Code, § 8.52.110)