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Opacity - The degree to which a structure, use or view is screened from adjacent <br /> <br />properties. <br /> <br /> Park - Shall include any city public spaces designated for recreation and/or <br />conserv~ion. <br /> <br />Person - An individual or firm, association, partnership, and corporation. <br /> <br /> Pest - Any injurious plant, animal, disease, insect or other organism that harms <br />trees or other woody vegetation or humans. <br /> <br /> Planting - Vegetative installations and related improvements, retained or <br />introduced for the purpose of beautifying or enhancing property, buffeting adjoining uses, <br />control soil erosion, etc. <br /> <br />Property Line - The boundary between two distinct properties. <br /> <br /> Property Owner - The person owning such property as shown by the County <br />Auditor's Plat of the City of Ramsey, Minnesota. <br /> <br />Pruning - The judicious removal of plant parts to increase usefulness, beauty, or <br /> <br />vigor. <br /> <br /> Pruning Standard - The standard(s) established by the International Society of <br />Arboriculture for use in the pruning of plant material located on public property. <br /> <br /> Public Area - Property within the city limits of the City of Ramsey and (1) <br />owned by the city in fee simple absolute, or (2) implied or expressly dedicated to the public for <br />present or future use for purposes of vehicular or pedestrian traffic, or for public easements. <br /> <br /> Public Tree - All trees now, or hereafter, growing along any street, in any park, <br />or any other public place. <br /> <br /> Raising - The removal of lower branches or the removal of smaller branches from <br />larger branches to increase the clearance height of the limbs over streets, alleys, or buildings. <br /> <br /> Replacement Planting - The replacement of trees and landscape materials into <br />the minimum required landscape areas, as determined by the Zoning Ordinance, conditions of <br />zoning approval, or the provisions of this Ordinance. <br /> <br /> Screening - A method of reducing the impact of noise and visual intrusions with <br />less offensive or more harmonious elements, such as plants, berms, fences or any appropriate <br />combination thereof. <br /> <br /> Street Trees - Trees, shrubs, bushes, and all other woody vegetation on land lying <br />between property lines on either side of all streets, avenues, or ways within the City of Ramsey. <br /> <br />146 6 <br /> <br /> <br />