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Subd. 7. Adjacent Landowners Limited Responsibility <br /> <br />a. Trees planted along City property lines will be watered by those property <br /> owners adjacent to said trees. <br /> <br />1. No one other than City employees or their designee may trim, prune, or <br /> remove public trees. <br /> <br />9.24.04 <br /> <br />Private Trees in New Development Areas <br /> <br /> Subd. 1. Requirements for a Tree Preservation Plan. Prior to any <br />development, land clearing, filling, or any other land alteration, as described in Subd. 2 of this <br />sub-section, a tree preservation plan shall be submitted to and approved by the City. The <br />developer shall be required to erect suitable protective barriers around all trees to be preserved <br />and these protective structures, where required, shall remain until such time as they are <br />authorized to be removed by the City or issuance of a final Certificate of Occupancy. <br /> <br /> Subd. 2. Tree Preservation Plan. A tree preservation plan shall be <br />submitted with preliminary plats and/or site plans, drawn to the same scale as the other <br />preliminary plat or site plan submittals. The submitted tree preservation plan must include a <br />buffer and landscape plan for the project. <br /> <br />Residential and commercial development plans shall be designed to preserve <br />natural vegetation areas as much as possible. Streets, parcels, structures and <br />parking areas shall be laid out to minimize the destruction of wooded areas or <br />outstanding tree specimens. Developers of land are encouraged to designate <br />wooded areas as park reserves. <br /> <br />b. The City may require either the clustering of dwellings or alternate locations <br /> of dwellings to preserve significant trees during the plat approval process. <br /> <br />There shall be no movement, clearing, or storage of equipment within a <br />designated tree protection zone. The owner, developer, or agent shall not <br />permit the placement of construction materials, debris, soil deposits, or fill; <br />not cause or permit disposal of waste materials such as paints, oils, solvents, <br />asphalt, concrete, mortar or any other harmful material within the dripline of <br />any protected tree area. <br /> <br /> Subd. 3. Plan Specifications Content. The content of all tree preservation <br />plans submitted shall, for purposes of City Staff review, include the following: <br /> <br />a. Delineation of all areas located within a 100-year flood plain; <br /> <br />A tree survey overlay on the plat, which locates all trees, identifying both <br />diameter and species. Dead or diseased trees shall be identified on the survey. <br />All tree surveys for subdivisions involving the construction of roads or <br />drainage conveyances shall be performed by an International Society of <br />Arboriculture Certified Arborist and shall be consistent with the engineer's <br />grading plan contours. <br /> <br />c. Existing soil conditions throughout the parcel; and <br /> <br /> <br />