HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrd. 1225ORDINANCE NO. 1225
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF LYNw00D AMII~IDING SECTION 28-2 OF THE
LYN[~OD CODE OF THE CITY OF LYN[~OD RELATING
TO PLANTING AND RENIOVAL~ OF STREET TREES
The City Council of the City of Lynwood, DOES HEREBY ORDAIN, as
follows:
SECTION 1. Section 28-2 of the Code of the City of Lynwood hereby
is amended to read as follows:
(A) (;FNF.RAT
(1) Trees which are SOo or mcre within the public right~f-way, shall
be considered City trees. This measurement shall be taken at the base of
the tnu~lc at the ground surface.
(2) The City of Lynwood is responsible for caring for all City trees
within the public right-of-way including planting, tr~*~~ng, spraying, and
general maintenance.
(3) Property owners are responsible for any required watering of newly
planted trees in parkway.
(4) The City is not responsible for maintenance of non~ity trees.
(5) Property owners and City Personnel are not allowed to remove or
alter any City trees unless one of the criteria listed below is met or special
approval is received from the City Council.
(B) TREE RII~VAL
(1) City Responsibility - The City will remove a City tree at its own
expense when:
(a) Tree is dead or SOo declining;
(b) Tree is diseased beyond cure;
(c) Tree is hazardous to the public or necessary root
surgery would render it hazardous;
(d) Tree conflicts with sidewalk to be installed by
property owners on parcels where curb and gutter
is in place;
(e) Tree removal is necessary for a City improvement
project; or
(f) Tree causes repeated extensive damage to underground
utilities or curb, gutter, and sidewalk.
(2) Property Owner Responsibility - With the issuance of an Engineering
Permit by the Public Abrks Department, a tree within the public right-of-way may
be removed under the following conditions at the property owners expense:
(a) Trees bearing fruit and causing a nuisance to the
property owner may be removed. Trees in parkways
will be replaced at City's expense as part of its
tree planting program;
(b) Trees may be removed to widen existing driveway or
to construct a new driveway. Trees in parkways will
be replaced at City's expense as part of its tree
planting program;
(c) Trees may be reproved when less than 500 of the-tree is
within the public right-of-way;
(d) Trees may be removed as part of an approved development
when curb and gutter do riot exist.
SECTION 2. Severability. If any section, subsection, subdivision,
sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this ordinance, or the application
thereof to any person or place, is for any reason held to be invalid or un-
constitutional by the decision of any court of oompetentjurisdiction, such
decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this
Ordinance or its application to other persons or places. The City Council
hereby declares that it would have adopted this Ordinance, and each section,
subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof, irrespec-
tive of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, subdivisions,
sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions, or the applications thereof to any
person or place, be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk is hereby ordered and directed to certify
to the passage of this Ordinance and to cause the same to be published once
in the Lynwood Press, a newspaper of general circulation, printed, published,
and circulated in the City of Lynwood.
First read at a regular meeting of the City Council of said City held
on the 20th day of March 1984, and finally ordered published at
a regu a~e~ ting of sai unci eld on the 3rd day of Apr it 1984.
AYES: COUNCILMEN BYORK, HENNING, ROWE, THOMPSON,MORkIS
NOES: N O N E
ABSENT: NONE
ATTEST:
~ .Y
ANDREA L. Fi00PER, City Cler
City of Lynwood
APPROVID AS TO FORM:
Ci y At ey
E. L. MO , Mayor
City of Lynwood
APPROVID AS TO CONfENP:
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HAROLD C. WILLIAMS, P. E.,
Director of Public V3orks/City Engineer
City of Lynwood
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
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COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of Lynwood, and
ex-officio clerk of the Council of said City, do hereby certify that the
above is a true and correct copy of Ordinance No. 1'L 25 adopted by
the City Council of the City of Lynwood, and that the same was passed on
the date and by the vote therein stated.
Dated this 9th day of Apri 1 1984.
(SEAL)
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City Clerk, City of Lynwood