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• § 1001.126 TREE REPLACEMENT. • • 59 (1) Subdividers and/or home builders shall be required to replace significant trees which were indicated on the tree preservation plan to be saved but ultimately were destroyed or damaged. Each significant tree that was supposed to be saved but was destroyed or damaged shall be replaced with 2 replacement trees. (2) Replacement trees shall consist of nursery stock and be no less than the following sizes: (a) Deciduous trees: No less than 2.5 inches in diameter; and (b) Coniferous trees: No less than 6 feet high; (3) Replacement trees shall be species similar to the trees which were destroyed or damaged and can include those species shown on the following table: (a) Deciduous trees: maple, oak, linden, ash, honeylocust, birch, hackberry; (b) Coniferous trees: fir, red pine, white spruce, eastern red cedar, black hills spruce, white pine, Austrian pine, northern white cedar. (4) Unacceptable trees: The following trees are unacceptable because of structural instability, susceptibility to disease, or because they are invasive species: (a) Deciduous: Norway maple, Siberian elm, silver maple, cottonwood, amur maple; (b) Coniferous: Colorado spruce. (5) Replacement trees shall not be placed on easements or street rights -of -way. Prior to planting replacement trees, the subdivider or home builder shall submit for city review and approval the locations of the replacement trees. (Ord. 04 -03, passed 2 -24 -2003) IMPROVEMENTS § 1001.140 REQUIRED PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. (1) No final plat shall be approved by the City Council until improvements and construction of the land, streets, and trails, together with all other necessary facilities in the plat have been designed and satisfactorily arranged in accordance with provisions of the regulations for land improvement and construction and conditions of subdivision approval. In addition to construction on land, streets, and trails, the developer, as part of the final plat, shall install and pay for light poles, fixtures and street name signs as DRAFT JANUARY 26, 2009