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STRECODE Page 1 July 19, 1995 Local Street Plan Street Trees The ordinance provides for. 1. For residential development new street trees on internal and extemal streets that are paid for by the development and installed and established by the City. 2. Meet the Urban Forestry Management Plan # 7 by giving the City more control in the selection and quality of new street trees and the effective establishment of these new trees. Ordinance Language for Street Trees a. Street trees shall be required to be planted and established in the public street right of way for all developments. b. For residential development, prior to the approval of a subdivision or partition final plat, the applicant shall deposit with the City an amount equal to the cost of purchase, installation and establishment of the street trees. The sum shall be calculated based on the standards, specifications and fees set by the City Manager or his designee. c. In infill situations, the owner of the lot shall deposit with the City an amount equal to the cost of the purchase, installation and establishment of the street trees. The fees can be waived through a written agreement by the City and the owner of the lot. The agreement shall require the owner of the lotto purchase, plant and establish street trees according to the approved street tree plan, urban forestry standards and specifications. b. In non - residential developments a street tree plan shall be part of the final approved landscape plan. The street tree plan shall be approved by the Urban Forester and follow the urban forestry standards and specifications adopted by the City Engineer. c. Existing street trees shall be retained unless approved for removal by the Urban Forester during site development or in conjunction with a street construction project. Any street tree removed shall be replaced by the developer within the street right of way at a location approved by the Urban Forester. The replacement tree shall be established and maintained by the developer for a period of three years after the date of planting. d. Failure to meet these conditions of development shall result in a lien placed on the lot for the cost of purchasing, installing and establishing the required street trees. Notes 1. The establishment period is for three years after the time of planting. Establishment includes watering, initial pruning and replacement if needed for a period of three years. 2. This approach will enable the City to communicate to the new homeowner about their new tree and the City's Urban Forestry Program. The new resident will receive literature and information about trees and Eugene's Urban Forestry Program OF policy #18 and 19 will be implemented by a direct communication with the new homeowner through a distribution of literature and information on trees. 3. The cost for street trees could be reduced if the new property owner waters the tree for three years during the establishment period. There needs to be a hook to assure compliance. Putting a lien on the property will not get the street trees planted for perhaps a very long time. I am not sure what the best hook would be but we need an effective one if we want to give the property owner this option. 4. Given an interest bearing account, the funds deposited should cover costs for replacements as needed. 5. Calculations for the required street trees shall be on a linear foot bases for public street right of ways. The dollar amount can be justified by a breakdown of costs including purchase, planting, initial pruning, three years of watering maintenance, and administrative costs. The linear foot figure will include reductions due to intersection clearance standards. It would be difficult to include other infrastructure improvements such as driveways, lights, signs etc. since at the time of the recording of the final plat these details may not yet be worked out. I will work on more justification and breakdown of costs but $200.00 per tree is in the ballpark. 6. I would like to see the integrated list of approved street trees be a part of the adopted urban forestry standards and specifications rather than attached to the plan. The list will include all recommended street trees for use on city streets. The particular site requirements like soil, planter width, overhead wires, species diversity etc will determine the trees that would be selected from the list. The list would include both large and small canopy trees with the encouragement to use larger canopy trees when there is sufficient room. All of this will be included in the urban forestry standards and specifications. I will attempt to have the first draft ready by September but I don't think we will have it adopted by October of this year. A draft of the list can go along with the plan for illustrative purposes but the final adopted list should be part of the standards and not part of the local street plan.