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DRAFT <br />3-2 -O7 <br />SECTION: <br />1127.01: <br />1127.02: <br />1127.03: <br />1127.04: <br />1127.05: <br />1127.06 <br />1127.07 <br />CHAPTER 1127 <br />TREE PRESERVATION & LANDSCAPING <br />Purpose <br />Definitions <br />General Tree Protection Requirements <br />Tree Removal on Lots without Construction or Grading Permits <br />Landscaping <br />Appeal Process <br />Violation and Penalties <br />1127.01: PURPOSE. The purpose of this chapter is to identify trees and woodlots <br />which are to be preserved in general and saved when development is occurring or at <br />any point thereafter. It is the City's goal to ensure that development is compatible with <br />the natural environment and is accommodated without destroying desirable <br />environmental features and natural amenities. It is not the City's intent, however, to <br />preserve significant trees or woodlots where substandard subdivision design, poor <br />drainage, excess slope in streets and driveways or inefficient utility construction will <br />result. <br />1127.02: DEFINITIONS: When used in this Chapter, the following words and <br />phrases shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the <br />context clearly indicates a different meaning: <br />DRIP LINE: The imaginary line at the outer edge of a tree or shrub, the point where <br />water would drip to the ground from the outermost branches or leaves. <br />HIGH VALUE TREES: Any tree from the list below. <br />■ Birches (River & Paper) <br />■ Black Walnut <br />■ Catalpa <br />■ Cherry <br />■ All Firs <br />■ Flowering Crabapples & <br />Hawthorns <br />■ Hackberry <br />■ Hybrid American Elm <br />■ Ironwood <br />■ Japanese Tree Lilac <br />■ All Lindens <br />■ All Maples <br />■ All Oaks <br />■ Ohio Buckeye <br />■ Pines (except Jack) <br />■ All Spruce <br />ROOT ZONE: That area of effective tree rooting (out to the extent of the branches plus <br />5 five feet). <br />1 <br />