A.
The Board of Trustees of the Incorporated Village of Munsey Park
hereby finds that there is a direct relationship between preservation
of and the planting of trees, shrubs and associated vegetation in
sufficient number in populated areas of the Incorporated Village of
Munsey Park and the health, safety and welfare of the Incorporated
Village of Munsey Park residents. The Board of Trustees further finds
that trees, shrubs and associated vegetation are related to the natural,
scenic and aesthetic values and the physical and visual qualities
of the environment which the Incorporated Village of Munsey Park is
obligated to protect. Trees and such vegetation reduce noise, provide
welcome shade to the Incorporated Village of Munsey Park residents,
preserve the balance of oxygen in the air by removing carbon dioxide
and foster air quality and create a bucolic and rural atmosphere in
the Incorporated Village of Munsey Park, especially along the roads.
Trees also stabilize the soil and control water pollution by preventing
soil erosion and flooding, yield advantageous climatic effects and
provide a natural habitat for wildlife.
B.
The destructive and indiscriminate removal of trees and related vegetation
causes increased Incorporated Village of Munsey Park costs for proper
drainage control, impairs the benefits of occupancy of existing residential
properties, impairs the stability and value of both improved and unimproved
real property in the area of the destruction and adversely affects
the health, safety and general welfare of the residents of the Incorporated
Village of Munsey Park.
For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms, phrases
and words shall have the following meanings:
The person applying for a permit required by this chapter.
The Board of Trustees of the Incorporated Village of Munsey
Park.
The natural growing characteristics of any tree or specimen
tree, which includes branch spread and distribution, branch height
above ground and root spread and distribution.
The existing conditions in which a tree or trees are growing,
including but not limited to existing grade, surrounding vegetation,
adjacent structures, drainage conditions, and sun/ wind exposure.
Any living, woody plant of a species that is not defined
as a specimen tree with a caliper (diameter at four feet six inches
height above ground level) of 12 inches or more.
Any resident of Munsey Park or any individual, firm, partnership,
association, corporation, company, public agency, public utility or
organization of any kind or agent thereof.
Includes all unimproved and improved real property within
the Incorporated Village of Munsey Park.
Any living, woody plant of the following species with a caliper
(diameter at four feet six inches height above ground level) of six
inches or more:
Deciduous trees:
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Ash (Fraxinus), all species
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Beech (Fagus), American species and European species and its
cultivars Birch (Betula), all species
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Black locust (Robinia pseudo-acacia)
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Coffee-tree (Gymnocladus dioica)
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Elm (Umus), American and English species
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Flowering cherry (Prunus)
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Flowering crabapple (Malus)
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Flowering dogwood (Comus), American or Chinese species
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Hawthorn (Crataegus), any species or named cultivar
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Hickory (Carya), any species
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Honey locust (Gledilsia)
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Hornbeam (Carpinus), all species
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Horse chestnut (Aesculus), all species
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Japanese maple
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Japanese pagoda tree (Sophora japonica)
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Linden (Tifia), all species and cultivars
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Magndia (Magnolia), all species
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Maple (Acer)
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Mountain ash (Sorbus), any species
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Oak (Quercus), all species
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Phellodendron amurense
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Plane-tree (Platanus)
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Sassafras (Sassafras albidum)
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Serviceberry (Amelmichier), all species
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Sorrell tree or sourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum)
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Tulip tree (Liriodendrom Tulipfera)
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Walnut (Juglaris nigra)
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Yellow wood (Cladrastis lutea), six inches in diameter or more
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Zelkova (Zelkova japanica)
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Evergreen trees:
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Arbor vitae (Thuja occidentalis)
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Cedar (Cedrus), all varieties
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Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
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False cypress (Chamaecyparis), all species and cultivars
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Firs (Abies) all species
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Hemlock (Tsuga), Canadian and Carolina species and cultivars
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Holly (Ilex), all species
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Pines (Pinus), all species
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Spruce (Picea), all species
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Yew (Taxus), all species, hybrids and cultivars
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Shrubs, evergreen:
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Mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia), four inches in diameter
or more
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Rhododendron (Rhododendron), all species, hybrids and cultivars,
four inches in diameter or more.
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Any cutting or drastic pruning or elevating of a tree or
Specimen free which impairs, destroys or endangers the life of such
tree or specimen tree or its habit or habitat, and shall include but
shall not be limited to heavy or unnecessary cutting of top branches
and cutting of major lower limbs. The addition of excessive soil or
mulch at the base of any tree, cutting or filling of the grade in
the critical root zone and chemical damage to roots, trunk and crown
are included in this definition.
The committee of three persons appointed by the Board of
Trustees to carry out the duties of the Tree Committee as set forth
in this chapter.
