§ 12.16.040. Responsibility for tree-damaged sidewalks and public improvements.

A.

The public works director will periodically prepare a list of particular street trees that have created a present and immediate danger to pedestrian travel, by causing damage to public improvements, sidewalks, or have interfered with drainage flow in gutters, or resulted in traffic hazards in adjacent streets.

B.

The public works director shall order the repair or replacement of such damaged public improvement. Trees shall only be removed if it is determined that the public improvements will cause the tree to be unsafe or unstable or will likely cause the need for recurrent repair to public improvements. Prior to removal of any street tree causing such damage, the adjacent property owner will be notified, in writing, by the public works director. The public works director shall order a new tree to be planted as a replacement tree, when the site is appropriate, as determined by the director.

(Ord. No. 656, § 1, 8-27-2013)