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SPECIFIC CO. ,LENTS OF SECTIONS BY THE Hh X BUILDERS <br /> ASSOCIATION OF LANE COUNTY: <br /> 6.315 Tree Felling - Prohibited <br /> (2) No person may fell more than five trees within a period of 12 consecutive <br /> months from a parcel of private property consisting of 20,000 or more <br /> square feet of an area, unless the person has first obtained a permit pursuant <br /> to section 6.317 of this code. <br /> Home Builders Association of Lane County Comments to 6.315: <br /> Hypothetical situation: <br /> A person has two (2) adjoining properties each under 20,000 sq. ft, but total more than 20,000 <br /> together. Suppose there are cottonwood trees present on the combined properties and one <br /> tree, through natural aging processes, falls over. Can the owner of the two properties cut <br /> down other trees that endanger other properties within a close proximity without being <br /> subjected to violation? This would qualify as common sense, but would property owner have <br /> to prove safety issues? <br /> (3) No person may fell any tree from an undeveloped parcel of private property <br /> consisting of less than 20,000 square feet of area, unless the person has first <br /> obtained a permit pursuant to section 6.317 of this code. <br /> Home Builders Association of Lane County comments to the above (3): <br /> Reference above hypothetical situation. <br /> (4) A person a may obtain a permit pursuant to section 6.317 of this code when: <br /> (a) the person proposes to fell the minimum number of trees necessary <br /> for implementation of an approved development proposal; or <br /> (b) The person proposes to fell trees necessary to remove or alleviate a <br /> danger to life or property due to the hazardous, deal, decaying, or <br /> diseased condition of the trees. <br /> (5) No permit pursuant to section 6.317 is required to fell trees in an approved <br /> planned unit development. Also include: "approved subdivision or any <br /> development site" to this sentence. <br /> Home Builders Association of Lane County comments to the above (4) and (5): <br /> The City of Eugene has already been given the opportunity to issue the permit; <br /> therefore, is another level of bureaucracy necessary? <br /> (6) The council finds that the city's financial resources are insufficient to pursue <br /> all alleged violations of this code. In order to ensure some recourse for <br /> individuals affected by violations of this section that the city will not <br /> pursue, a private cause of action is created Nothing in this section <br /> restricts or otherwise affects the city's enforcement authority for violations of <br /> this section. <br /> Home Builders Association of Lane County comments to (6): <br /> Under section (6) above, the bolded, italicized sentence is not acceptable by our <br /> membership on the basis that it allows far too much authority to private citizens to <br />