Agenda - Planning Commission - 07/27/2023

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1 submitted tree preservation plan must include a buffer, if required, and landscape plan for the 2 project. 3 (1) Residential and commercial development plans shall be designed to preserve native natural 4 vegetation areas as much as possible. Streets, parcels, structures and parking areas shall be 5 laid out to minimize the destruction of wooded areas or outstanding tree specimens. 6 Developers of land arc encouraged to designate wooded areas as park reserves. 7 (2) The city may require either the clustering of dwellings or alternate locations of dwellings to 8 preserve significant trees during the plat approval process. 9 (3) There shall be no movement, clearing, or storage of equipment within a designated tree 10 protection zone nor shall any construction materials, debris, or soil/fill be stored or deposited 11 within a designated tree protection zone. The owner, developer, or agent shall net -permit the 12 placement of construeti-on material, debris, soil deposits, e fill; nor cause or permit disposal 13 of waste materials such as paints, oily, se4v-ents, asphalt, concrete, mortar or any other 14 harmful material within the-dripline-ef any protected trcc arca. 15 (C) Plan specifications content. The content of all tree preservation plans submitted shall be prepared 16 and signed by a licensed surveyor or forester not more than two (2) years prior to submission to the 17 city and shallor purposes of city staff review, include the following: 18 (1) The name(s), contact information (telephone number and email), and address(es) of 19 applicant(s), property owner(s), developer(s), and/or builder(s); 20 (2) Delineation of all buildings, structures, and impervious surfaces situated thereon or proposed 21 to be built thereon; 22 (3) Delineation of all areas located within a 100-year floodplain; 23 (4) Location, diameter, species, and condition of all significant trees on site in both graphic and 24 tabular form. For the purposes of this division, significant trees shall include: 25 a. All species of oak that have a DBH of four inches or greater; 26 b. All coniferous species that have a DBH of four inches or greater; and 27 c. All other trees that have a DBH of eight inches or more; 28 (5) Identification of which significant trees are to be (1) preserved, (2) removed; and (3) exempt 29 from the removal calculation per subsection (f) (3) of this section. This shall be in both graphic 30 and tabular form; 31 (6) Tabulation of total significant tree inches on site; 32 (7) Calculation of total inches being removed on site excluding exempt significant tree inches; 33 (8) Calculation of total exempt significant tree inches and indication of why each significant tree 34 is exempt; 35 (9) Calculation of removed significant tree inches (excluding exempt tree inches) divided by the 36 total significant tree inches on site (excluding exempt tree inches); 37 (10) Proposed locations and details of tree protection fencing to be installed around trees being 38 preserved; 39 {2) A trcc survey overlay —on the grading plan, which locates all significant trccs within the 40 developable areas of the site, i-d-entifyLi g both diameter and species. Dead or diseased trccs 41 shall be included in the survey. All tree purveys for subdivisions in onstruction of 42 roads or drainage conveyances shall be performed by an International Society of 43 Arboriculture Ccrtificd Arborist or a Society of American Foresters Ccrtificd Forester. For thc 44 purposes of this division, gig„ cant tre-cs shall include: 45 a. All species of oak that have a DBH of four inch -es -or greater; 46 b. All evergreen species that have a DBH of four inches or greater; and 47 •c. All other trees that have a DBH of eight ineh-e-s-or more; 48 {3) Exiting soil conditions throughout thc pared; and Page 47 of 160