§ 825-120. Maintenance/monitoring requirements.

(A)

Maintenance period. The licensee shall be responsible for maintaining the health of any replacement or relocated tree for one (1) year from planting.

(B)

Determination of success.

(1)

The city may assess the condition of each tree one (1) year after the tree was relocated or planted, or request the licensee to do so.

(2)

Should any tree die or be in a state of unnatural decline within one (1) year of being planted or relocated, the licensee shall be required to replace the tree within sixty (60) days of that determination. The one-year monitoring and approval period shall begin anew whenever a tree is replaced. If that replacement tree is found not to be viable at the end of the second year monitoring period, the licensee may pay the appropriate amount into the tree preservation trust fund as required by section 825-130 in lieu of planting a third replacement tree. If the licensee fails to replace the tree or to pay the appropriate amount into the tree preservation trust fund within sixty (60) days, then the licensee shall be in violation of this section.

(C)

Large-scale projects. If a tree removal license includes the relocation of ten (10) or more trees, or the planting of one hundred (100) or more replacement trees, the determination of success for the overall relocation effort shall be braced upon a percent survival rate. A successful project shall be one in which ninety (90) percent or more of the relocated or replacement trees are determined to be viable after a period of one (1) year. If a larger scale project is determined to be successful, additional replacement trees will not be required.

(Ord. No. 2010-20, § 2(Exh. A), 9-14-10)