(A) The spacing of street trees shall be in accordance with the size classes listed in § 98.05. No trees may be planted closer together than the following: small trees, l5 feet; medium trees and large trees, 35 feet; except in special plantings designed or approved by a landscape architect and the Parks and Recreation Director.
(B) Trees may be planted in the sidewalk space where there is more than six feet between the edge of the sidewalk and the curb of the street. Street trees shall be planted no closer than three feet from a sidewalk, driveway, or street.
(C) No street tree shall be planted within the sight triangle. The sight triangle is defined as an area at a street intersection in which nothing shall be erected, placed, planted, or allowed to grow in such a manner as to materially impede vision between a height of two and one-half feet and ten feet above the grades of the bottom of the curb of the intersecting streets, measured from the point of nearest intersecting curbs or curb lines 45 feet in each direction along the curb line of the streets. At the intersection of major or arterial streets, the distance of 45 feet shall be increased to 75 feet for each arterial leg of the intersection. No street tree shall be planted closer than ten feet of any fireplug.
(D) No street trees other than those species listed as small trees in § 98.05 may be planted under or within ten lateral feet of any overhead utility wire, or over or within five lateral feet of any underground water line, sewer line, transmission line, or other utility.
(E) The city reserves unto itself the right to plant trees, plants, and/or shrubs in the sidewalk space of all streets in the city.
(Ord. 1988, passed 12-27-07; Am. Ord. 2144, passed 11-14-13)