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Sul)d. 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 Residential Development Areas <br /> <br /> Subd. l. Requirements for a Tree Preservation Plan. "Prior to any <br />development, land clearing, filling, or any other land alteration, a tree preservation plan shall be <br />submitted to and approved by the City. The developer shall be required to erect suitable <br />protective barriers around all trees to be preserved and these protective structures, where <br />required, shall remain until such time as they are authorized to be removed by the City or <br />issuance o[" a final Certificate of Occupancy. <br /> <br /> Subd. 2. Tree Preservation Plan. A tree preservation plan ~shall be <br />submitted witln the preliminary plat drawn to the same scale as the other preliminary plat <br />submittals. The subnnitted tree preservation plan must include a buffer and landscape plan for <br />the project. <br /> <br />a. Subdivision and development plans shall be designed to. preserve natural <br /> vegetation areas as much as possible. Streets, parcels, structures and parking <br /> areas shall be [aid 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 /> c. There sinai] be no movement, Clearing, or storage of equipment witlnin 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 hannfut 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 Staffreview, 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 tlne' 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 througlnout the parcel; and 335 <br /> <br /> <br />