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• Section 5.5.2.2 Tree Protection Standards - °eesiiadeRtoal and NGRFesadential Deye!GpFne"4 (a) Application. The provisions of this Section apply to all new re6ide tial and RORFesideRtial development within the City. (b) Protection of Trees During Construction. (1) All protected trees next to an excavation site or to a construction site for any building, structure, or street work, shall be guarded with a good substantial fence, frame, or box not less than four feet high and surrounding the trunk of the tree. In addition, at least three inches of mulch or compost shall be spread beneath the drip line of the tree. (2) The barriers shall be approved by the Planning Director and shall be in place before any site clearance or other site-disturbing act commences. (3) All building material, dirt, excavation or fill materials, chemicals, construction vehicles or equipment, debris, and other materials shall be kept outside the barrier. (4) Barriers shall remain in place until the final building and landscape site inspections are satisfactorily completed for the issuance of the Certificate of Occupancy. (c) Action Around Protected Trees. No person shall excavate any ditches, tunnels, or trenches, place any paving material, or place any drive within the protective zone of any protected tree without first obtaining a written permit from the Planning Director. (d) Damage to Protected Trees. Unless specifically authorized by the Planning Director, no person shall intentionally damage, cut, carve, transplant, or remove any public tree or shrub; attach any rope, wire, nails, advertising posters, or other contrivance to any public tree or shrub; allow any gaseous, liquid or solid substance which is harmful to such plants to come in contact with them or with the soil; or set fire or permit any fire to burn when such fire or the heat thereof will injure any portion of any protected tree or shrub. (e) Duty of Persons for Trees on Property. (1) It shall be the duty of any person or persons owning or occupying real property bordering on any street upon which property there may be trees, to prune such trees in such manner that they will not obstruct or shade the street lights, obstruct the passage of pedestrians on sidewalks, obstruct vision of traffic signs, or obstruct the view from any street or alley intersection. The minimum clearance of any overhanging portion thereof shall be ten feet over sidewalks and 14 feet over all streets, except truck thoroughfares which shall require a clearance of 16 feet. (2) It shall be the duty of any person or persons owning, occupying or controlling real property upon which tree trimming or removal occurs to advise all landscape contractors, tree services, arborists and others who remove or trim trees of the need for proper disinfection of all cutting tools and the required painting of all tree cuts on oak trees with a proper sealant immediately after cutting or pruning to prevent the spread of oak wilt and to ensure such sealing of cuts. (f) Removing Tree(s) from Development Site(s). The removal of an existing tree(s) from a development site must be in accordance with this and all other applicable ordinances of the City. Prior to the removal of any protected or specimen tree, as defined within this