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CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED ORDINANCE NO. 2003 - 69 BY: Council Member Gareau AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 950.03 OF CHAPTER 950 OF THE STREETS, UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE ENTITLED "URBAN FOREST" BY INSERTING STANDARDS AND PROCEDURES FOR TREE PRESERVATION AND/OR REMOVAL PERMITS IN THE COURSE OF DEVELOPMENT PLAN REVLEW AND TO AUTHORIZE THE ASSESMEIVT OF PERMIT FEES FOR THE FORESTER'S REVIEW, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY, AS AMENDED. WHEREAS, it is the desire of this Council, in the course of this Council's review of commercial and residential development plans, to protect existing trees and vegetation to preserve the visual and aesthetic qualities of the City, to encourage site design techniques that preserve the natural environment, control erosion, provide natural buffers against light and sound, and to protect existing wildlife habitation; and WHEREAS, it is the desire of Council to enable the City Forester, in consideration of the permit requirements for tree removal, to review the submission of tree preservation/removal and landscaping plans, to assist the Architectural Review Board and to pravide the expertise and arboricultural consultation necessary to satisfy development plan review procedure; and WHEREAS, it is the recommendation of the Director of Law, in consideration of the procedure associated with development plan review, including the integation of and provisions for tree preservatian/removal or other landscaping plans to be reviewed by the Architectural Review Board, together with appropriate arboricultural consulting services or advice from the City Forester, that amendments of North Olmsted Codified Chapter 950 are necessary and appropriate to require and co-ordinate such review, as well as to provide for the administrative costs of such services; and WHEREAS, it is the desire of this Council, as an exercise of its powers of local self-government and not in conflict with general law, based upon the aforesaid recommendations, to enact the additional amendments proposed in conjunction with the urban forestry consultation items herein, as may be necessary, appropriate and complimentary to the tree preservation and removal authorization, by and through the development plan review procedure, to address the following: