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1 (1) Residential and commercial development plans shall be designed to preserve native natural 2 vegetation areas as much as possible. Streets, parcels, structures and parking areas shall be 3 laid out to minimize the destruction of wooded areas or outstanding tree specimens. 4 Developers of land arc encouraged to designate wooded areas as park reserves. 5 (2) The city may require either the clustering of dwellings or alternate locations of dwellings to 6 preserve significant trees during the plat approval process. 7 (3) There shall be no movement, clearing, or storage of equipment within a designated tree 8 protection zone nor shall any construction materials, debris, or soil/fill be stored or deposited 9 within a designated tree protection zone. The owner, developer, or agent shall not permit the 10 placement of construet+on material, debris, soil deposits, ef-fill; nor cause or permit disposal 11 of waste materials such as paints, oily, solvents, asphalt, concrete, mortar or any other 12 harmful material within the-dripline-ef any protected trcc arca. 13 (C) Plan specifications content. The content of all tree preservation plans submitted shall be prepared 14 and signed by a licensed surveyor or forester not more than two (2) years prior to submission to the 15 city and shall -or purposcs of city staff review, include the following: 16 (1) The name(s), contact information (telephone number and email), and address(es) of 17 applicant(s), property owner(s), developer(s), and/or builder(s); 18 (2) Delineation of all buildings, structures, and impervious surfaces situated thereon or proposed 19 to be built thereon; 20 (3) Delineation of all areas located within a 100-year floodplain; 21 (4) Location, diameter, species, and condition of all significant trees on site in both graphic and 22 tabular form. For the purposes of this division, significant trees shall include: 23 a. All species of oak that have a DBH of four inches or greater; 24 b. All coniferous species that have a DBH of four inches or greater; and 25 c. All other trees that have a DBH of eight inches or more; 26 (5) Identification of which significant trees are to be (1) preserved, (2) removed; and (3) exempt 27 from the removal calculation per subsection (f) (3) of this section. This shall be in both graphic 28 and tabular form; 29 (6) Tabulation of total significant tree inches on site; 30 (7) Calculation of total inches being removed on site excluding exempt significant tree inches; 31 (8) Calculation of total exempt significant tree inches and indication of why each significant tree 32 is exempt; 33 (9) Calculation of removed significant tree inches (excluding exempt tree inches) divided by the 34 total significant tree inches on site (excluding exempt tree inches); 35 (10) Proposed locations and details of tree protection fencing to be installed around trees being 36 preserved; 37 {2) A tree purvey overlay —on the grading plan, which locates all significant trees within the 38 developable areas of the site, identifying both diameter and species. Dead or diseased trccs 39 shall be included in the survey. All tree surveysor subdivisions involving th-c construction of 40 roads or drainage conveyances shall be performed by an International Society of 41 Arboriculture Ccrtificd Arborist or a Society of American Foresters Ccrtificd Forester. For the 42 purposcs of this division, significant trees shall include: 43 a. All species of oak that have a DBH of four inches or greater; 44 b. All evergreen species that have a DBH of four inches or grctcr; and 45 c. All other trees that have a DBH of eight ineb-e -or more; 46 {3) Exiting soil conditions throughout the pared; and 47 -(4) Existing contour data for the -entire property with vertical contour data eonsistcnt with city 48 standards for all areas te-be-disturbed by proposed trcc removal operation, extend-i*g for a Page 47 of 160