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ORDINANCE #13-10 CITY OF RAMSEY ANOKA COUNTY STATE OF MINNESOTA AN AMENDMENT TO CHAPTER 117 OF THE CITY CODE, WHICH CHAPTER IS KNOWN AS ZONING AND SUBDIVISIONS OF THE CITY CODE OF RAMSEY, MINNESOTA AN ORDINANCE AMENDING DIVISION 5 (TREE PRESERVATION) OF THE RAMSEY CITY CODE. The City of Ramsey Ordains: SECTION 1 AUTHORITY This ordinance is adopted pursuant to and under the authority of the City Charter of the City of Ramsey. SECTION 2 AMENDMENTS Section 117-324 (a) is hereby amended as follows (additions indicated as underline, deletions indicated as strike through): (a) Purpose. The purpose of this division is to enhance the community and its citizenry, and not to be punitive or to cause hardship to any individual, private or public company. Section 117-326 (c) is hereby amended as follows (additions indicated as underline, deletions indicated as strike throughl: (c) Storage upon public land. No person shall deposit, place, store, or maintain upon any public place of the municipality; any stone, brick, sand, concrete, vehicles, equipment, toxins, animals, tree carving, or other materials which may impede the free passage of water, air, or fertilizer to the roots of any tree growing therein, except by written permit of the environmental specialist city. Section 117-327 is hereby amended as follows additions indicated as underline, deletions indicated as strike through): (f) Removal threshold. (1) Within residential developments, at least forty percent (40%) of the inches of existing significant tree DBH shall be retained on site. (2) Within business and employment developments, at least thirty percent (30%) of the inches of existing significant tree DBH shall be retained on site.