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• TREE PRESERVATION POLICY which is normally attached to or positioned on land, including portable structures. 9. Tree - Any self supporting woody plant, usually having a single woody trunk, and a potential DBH of 2 inches or more. 10. Tree Preservation Policy - Approved and adopted by the City of Lino Lakes Council to regulate and provide standards and guidelines for the preservation of trees through development and construction process within the City of Lino Lakes. 11. Woodlot - A treed area of at least one -half acre of which at least 25% of the area includes large trees. IV. PROCEDURES. (Summarized in Figure 1.) A. Any required density reduction or increase in lot size must save signified or specimen trees. The City Council may require Rezoning and Special Use Permits. 1. The City Forester will conduct a preliminary review of all Rezoning cases and Special Use Permit applications. 2. A field review of select cases will occur under the following conditions: a. For community unit plans, and major development cases. b. Other cases as determined necessary by the preliminary review. 3. Conditions to rezoning will be applied where determined necessary by the preliminary review. These conditions may either be general, or specific in nature, and will reflect the standards or provisions of the Tree Preservation Ordinance. 4. The City may reduce the maximum allowed density on that part only of the development that has significant trees, where such reduction would save all or part of such significant trees. However, regardless of the requirements in this article, the minimum allowed density shall not be reduced below 67% of the allowed density in the City's land use plan for multiple dwellings. The minimum lot size shall not be increased above 15,000 square feet for single dwellings. Any Required Significant Trees: The City Council may require the clustering of dwellings in the form of townhouses, quads, apartments or similar uses, where it is necessary to preserve significant trees. 5. Compliance to these conditions will be verified by review of a revised site plan prior to the issuance of a land disturbance permit. B. Developments shall be designed to preserve large trees and woodlots, where such preservation would not affect the public health, safety or welfare. The City may prohibit removal of all or part of a woodiot or stand of trees subject to the limitations in Section 3. In addition, nothing in this article shall prevent building on an existing lot of record, provided that such building shall be designed to save as many trees as possible. This decision shall be bases on, but not limited to the following criteria: 1. Size 2. Species, health and attractiveness of the trees including: Page 2