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r <br />IV. Procedures. <br />* • <br />A. Development Standards. Developments shall be designed to preserve significant <br />trees, specimen trees or stands, and perimeter buffers where such preservation would <br />not negatively impact the public health, safety or welfare. The City may prohibit <br />removal of all or a part of a stand of trees or existing perimeter buffer. Additionally, <br />nothing in this policy shall prevent building on an existing lot of record, provided <br />that such building shall be designed to save as many trees as possible. Criteria to be <br />used in determining compliance with this section include but are not limited to. <br />1. <br />2. <br />3. <br />Size of trees. <br />Species, health and attractiveness of the trees including: <br />a. Sensitivity to disease <br />b. Life span <br />c. Nuisance characteristics <br />d. Sensitivity to grading <br />Potential for transplanting. <br />4. Need for thinning a stand of trees. <br />5. Effect on the functioning of a development. <br />6. Public benefit of maintaining a perimeter buffer. <br />B. Land Alteration Permit Supplemental Requirements. For any activity covered in <br />Item II above which requires a land alteration permit or building permit which <br />involves disturbance of the land and involves the potential removal or destruction of <br />trees, the following supplemental permit requirements apply to the issuance of said <br />permit: <br />1.A tree survey, prepared by a registered land surveyor or landscape <br />architect, shall be submitted showing size, species and location of <br />significant trees, stands of trees, and existing perimeter buffers. <br />2. A Tree Preservation Plan shall be submitted with the following: <br />a. <br />b. <br />c. <br />Preliminary plat for the subdivision of property. <br />Other permit drawings as part of the building permit process <br />for the construction of new principal buildings. <br />Non-residential site plans, either as a separate drawing or as <br />part of the landscape plan.