§ 6-3-1. DEFINITIONS.

In this chapter:

(1)

BOARD means the Environmental Commission.

(2)

CURBLINE means the boundary of a street or alley used for vehicular traffic.

(3)

DAMAGE means injury to a tree including: uprooting; severance of the root system or main trunk; storage of material or compaction of surrounding soil; a substantial change in the natural grade above a root system or around a trunk; pruning or removal of more than 25 percent of the living tissue; or surrounding with impervious paving materials.

(4)

OWNER means the record owner of real property or the occupant or a person with the right to exercise control over the property.

(5)

PLAN means the Comprehensive Urban Forest Plan.

(6)

PUBLIC PROPERTY means real property owned or controlled by the city with unrestricted public access, excluding a utility or drainage easement on private property.

(7)

PUBLIC TREE means a tree with at least two-thirds of its trunk diameter on public property.

(8)

TREE means a self-supporting woody perennial plant, excluding a bush or shrub, with a trunk diameter measured at four and one-half feet above grade of:

(a)

not less than three inches; or

(b)

not less than two inches if planted by or on behalf of the city.

(9)

TREE VALUE means the appraised value of a tree based on the latest edition of the Guide for Plant Appraisal by the Council of Tree and Landscape Appraisers.

(10)

URBAN FORESTER means a city employee qualified as a forester.

Source: 1992 Code Sections 10-6-4, 15-10-3, and 16-7-1; Ord. 031023-10; Ord. 031211-11; Ord. No. 20141211-204, Pt. 24, 7-1-15 .