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City of Arden Hills Chapter 13 Zoning Code <br />Hills and to encourage a resourceful and prudent approach to development. The <br />city council finds it is in the best interest of the city to protect, preserve, and <br />enhance the natural environment of the community and to encourage a resourceful <br />and prudent approach to development and property alteration. In the interest of <br />achieving these objectives, the city has established the comprehensive tree <br />preservation regulations herein to promote the furtherance of the following: <br />1. Protect and preserve the environment and natural beauty of the City; <br />2. Minimize tree and habitat loss during development and construction; <br />3. Establish minimum standards for tree preservation and the mitigation of <br />environmental impacts resulting from tree removal; <br />4. Enforce tree preservation standards to promote and protect the public <br />health, safety and welfare of the community. <br />5. Increase and maintain property values; <br />6. Enhance energy conservation through natural insulation and shading; <br />7. Prevent or reduce soil erosion, sedimentation and stormwater runoff; <br />8. Protect privacy by maintaining buffers between land uses; and <br />9. Preserve the variety and extent of trees which exist in the City and which <br />are an integral part of this City's identity. <br />B. City Authority. To preserve protected trees, the City may: <br />1. Require and enforce a tree preservation plan as described below; <br />2. Specify trees or groups of trees for preservation; <br />3. Specify grading limits; <br />4. Require the clustering of buildings or the relocation of roads, drives, <br />buildings, utilities or storm water facilities when this would preserve protected <br />trees; <br />5. Specify time periods in which tree cutting, trimming or injury may not occur <br />in order to prevent the spread of disease; and <br />6. Require easements to ensure that groups of significant trees are not <br />destroyed after the development has been approved. <br />Subd. 2 Tree Preservation Plan. <br />A. Scope. A Tree Preservation Plan is required as part of an application for: <br />1. New building construction in any zoning district; <br />2. An expansion of an existing building or hard surface by ten percent or <br />greater, where an approved tree preservation plan is not on file with the city; <br />Section 1325.055 — Tree Preservation <br />Adopted: April 28, 2008 <br />Page 2 of 7 <br />