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1. Planting and maintaining perennial and/or annual flowers, shrubberies, gardens, and rain gardens; 2. Installing and maintaining private driveways, sidewalks, curb and gutter, or parking lots, which are allowed with an approved permit from the City; 3. Installing and maintaining mail boxes in conformance with Federal Post Office Regulations; 4. Installing and maintaining irrigation systems or below -ground pet containment systems; 5. Engaging in snow removal activities; or 6. Undertaking activities on behalf of federal, state, county, or city agencies. B. The following activities shall not be deemed maintenance of the right-of-way, and shall be prohibited within the boulevard, between a person's property and the edge of the improved portion of the right-of-way: 1. Placement of above -ground fences; 2. Placement of retaining walls without a permit; 3. Placement of large boulders within fifteen (15) feet of the edge of the pavement; or 4. Placement of other major landscaping improvements or obstructions, as determined by the City, within fifteen (15) feet of the edge of the pavement. Subd. 3 Responsibility of Private Owners. It shall be the responsibility of the adjacent property owner to: A. Maintain the boulevard between their property and the improved portion of the right-of- way. Improvements made within the right-of-way by a property owner are done so at the property owner's own risk, and may be removed by the City at the owner's expense. The City is not responsible for damage to landscaping or other right-of-way improvements resulting from any activity related to the City's use of the right-of-way. B. Allow only those plant materials that do not have characteristics detrimental to the public welfare, such as susceptibility to disease and wind damage, or a tendency to interfere with utilities, public easements, or rights -of -way. C. Trim, prune, maintain, and/or remove as necessary, any tree in the boulevard between their property and the improved portion of the right-of-way. Trees shall be pruned to sufficient height to allow free passage of pedestrians and vehicular traffic: nine (9) feet over sidewalks and sixteen (16) feet over streets. Trees not properly maintained, or found to be structurally unsound, may be deemed a public nuisance by the City Forester, and abated in accordance with Section 602 of the City Code. D. Remove any tree in the boulevard between their property and the improved portion of the right-of-way found to be diseased or dying by the City Forester, in accordance with Section 710 of the City Code. The adjacent property owner is responsible for the cost of removing trees located in the right-of-way. 193361v6