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«4 " <br />nif CITY OF <br />Mil ORONO <br />CITY OF MINNETONKA <br />GUIDE TO THE TREE PRESERVATION ORDINANCE <br />JUN <br />1. PURPOSE OF TREE PRESERVATION ORDINANCE <br />F- * ^ <br />The City of Minnetonka has eotablished a Tree Preservation Ordinance to govern the <br />preservation, protection, and removal of trees within the city. This document is a summary of the <br />ordinance. For specific details of the ordinance, please refer to City Code Section 300.28, <br />subdivision 19 or call the planning department at 939-8290. <br />2. DEFINITION <br />The Tree Preservation Ordinance only applies to trees that meet the city’s significant tree <br />definition. Trees that do not meet this definition are not regulated by the ordinance. <br />Significant Tree - A deciduous tree of at least eight inches caliper or coniferous tree of at least 15 <br />feet in height, excluding a diseased tree which is likely to die. The caliper of a deciduous tree <br />shall be measured 4.5 feet above the base of the tree. <br />3. WHERE SIGNIFICANT TREES CAN BE DESTROYED WITHOUT REPLACEMENT <br />A. Significant trees may be destroyed for development, without any required replacement, in <br />the following areas: <br />1) within the width of required easements for public streets and utilities, and the required <br />areas for surface water ponding, <br />2) within the areas improved for reasonably-sized driveways, parking lots, and structures <br />without frost footings and within ten feet around those improvements, and <br />3) within the footprints of buildings and 20 feet around buildings with frost footings. <br />B. Tree removal on property with an existing home or other principal structure shall be exempt <br />from this subdivision, except as stated in 4C below, unless the tree removal is to <br />accommodate new development or the expansion of the existing development. <br />4. REPLACING SIGNIFICANT TREES <br />A. For each significant tree removed in areas outside of those identified in 3A above, a <br />replacement tree must be planted on the property, subject to the followii.g: <br />1) The applicant will not be required to raise the number of trees above 25 trees per acre. <br />2) If the applicant and the city agree that there is no appropriate location for seme or ai! of <br />the replacement trees, those trees will not be required.