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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES CC 1988 520 1988 1116RESOLUTION NO. 88 -520 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF MOORPARK ADOPTING GUIDELINES FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF A MASTER TREE PLAN FOR THE CITY OF MOORPARK THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. INTENT /PURPOSE It is hereby declared that the public interest and welfare require that the City maintain a program for the planting and preservation of trees on all public property in the City as a municipal affair in order to beautify the City, purify its air, and provide shade for its inhabitants. This resolution provides for plans and established regulations for the selection of appropriate species of trees to achieve as much uniformity as possible for beauty and economy, and for a consistent and adequate program to preserve such trees. A. DEFINITIONS 1. "Preservation" shall mean acts to promote the life, growth, health, or beauty of trees, shrubs, or plants, including, but not limited to, pruning, trimming, topping, root pruning, spraying, mulching, fertilizing, cultivating, supporting, and treating for disease or injury. 2. "Public property" shall mean any property or area owned by or under the control of the City. 3. "Parkway" shall mean that portion of public property available for planting between the street curb, or curb alignment, and the abutting private property line. 4. "Director" shall mean the Director of Community Services. B. AUTHORITY The Master Tree Plan shall provide that the Director shall have exclusive control over the planting, preservation and removal of trees, shrubs and plants, and the performance of , .'PES98 72 any work incidental thereto in, on or over any public property and any other City controlled property. C. TREE BEAUTIFICATION 1. Master Tree Plan. The Director is authorized to formulate a Master Tree Plan, in accordance with these guidelines, to be approved by the City Council. Such Plan shall specify the species, spacing, and location of trees to be planted on public property, including parkways of the City. Such Plan shall include a Master Tree List and a Master Tree List For Parkways approved by the City Council. The Master Tree List For Parkways shall include those trees which the Director determines may be planted in parkways without causing damage to any adjacent concrete improvements or under- ground utilities in such parkways. The Master Tree List shall include those trees which the Director determines may be planted in any public property, except parkways. All plantings shall conform to such Plan. The Director shall consider the following factors in formulating such Plan: a. Such Plan shall be coordinated with other established plans for the City; and b. Trees shall be selected and placed on an appropriate tree list based on such trees' desirable characteristic of growth and beauty, their root structure, and their adaptability to local climate and soil. 2. Parkway Trees. The Ci�y's policy shall be to plant in parkways those trees included on the Master Tree List For Parkways. a. In selecting any particular species of trees from this list for planting in any parkway, the Director shall consider the following factors: 1) Overhead and underground facilities surrounding Ir in r.:�e parkway; 2) Location of _iny street and traffic signs; 3) Width of the parkway and the location of any concrete installation adjacent thereto; "K /R.ES)872 4) Setback of any building from the parkway; 5) Parkway's soi'- condition; and 6) Existing landscape of the area. b. Number and Size of Parkway Trees. The Director shall plant trees in parkways at approximately 60 -feet intervals, provided he shall plant at least one tree taken from a five - gallon container for each lot or parcel. If the adjacent property owner desires more trees than the Master Tree Plan indicates that he is entitled to, or larger trees, or a combination of both, the Director shall plant such tree or trees provided that such property owner pays the additional cost in advance and such trees, considering the criteria specified in subsection 2 of this section, are acceptable to the Director. C. Commercial or Industrial Property. Tree planting in a parkway fronting commercial or industrial property may be waived by the appropriate Director if he determines that such property owner's proposed or existing landscaping is consistent with the Master Tree Plan. d. Historic Tree List. The Director is authorized to develop and maintain a Historic Tree List, which is to be approved by the City Council. Such list is intended to include those trees of special interest to the City, including, but not limited to trees associated with historical events or trees of outstanding beauty or size located on public or private property. The property owners of such trees will be notified by the Director that such trees on their private property are included in a Historic Tref- List. Property owners shall have the opportunity to appeal this decision to the Parks and Recreation Commission and said decision shall be appealable to the Ci t y Cc)uncil . - 3 - D. CONSULTANT A landscape consultant, arborist or horticulturalist shall be hired to aid in preparing a Master Tree List and a Master Tree List For Parkways that will be part of the Master Tree Plan. In addition, such consultant shall do a comprehen- sive, City -wide study of trees for the Historic Tree List. SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify the adoption of this resolution. PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 16ttiday of November , 1988 ATTEST: 1 MAYOR City Clerk I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly adopted by the City of Moorpark, at a regular meeting thereof held on the 16th day of November 1988, by the following vote of the Council: AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: Brown, Harper, Perez and Mayor Lane. NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: None. ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: Councilmember Galloway. WITNESS my hand and the official seal )f said City this 28th day of November, 1988. l�L1-2 i LI City Clerk -4-