12.04.010 Findings and Purpose.
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A. The City Council finds that the protection and proper maintenance of street trees serves to protect the public’s health, safety, and welfare; and that street trees constitute a vital environmental, historic, visual, and economic resources for the benefit of the city’s residents and visitors.
B. The purpose of this chapter is to:
1. Establish permit requirements for work on street trees; and
2. Establish competency requirements for the major pruning of street trees by requiring major street tree pruning to be done or supervised by a person who has obtained a street tree worker license; and
3. Delegate authority to the City Forester to determine appropriate street tree selection and to determine where street trees should be planted on existing and new streets. The City Forester may also implement administrative regulations to process applications for street tree work permits and street tree worker licenses, so long as such regulations are consistent with the requirements of this chapter; and
4. Regulate appropriate street tree species selection, where street trees must be planted, and how street trees must be maintained and protected.
C. It is expressly the purpose of this chapter to provide for and promote the health, safety and welfare of the general public and not to create or otherwise establish or designate any particular class or group of persons or individual who will or should be especially protected or benefited by the terms of this chapter. (Ord. M-3766 § 1, 10/16/2006; Ord. M-667 §1, 1963)