8.40.040 Management program.
In consultation with the parks commission, planning commission and public works department, the director of parks and recreation or his/her designee, shall develop and implement a public tree policy consistent with other city regulations designed to provide an orderly program of tree management. Such program shall include all public property and rights-of-way including parks, public greenbelts and other city-owned property except Lake Chaplain. The development of such a program include the following objectives:
A. The setting of standards for the planting, maintenance, protection, preservation, removal and replacement of existing trees;
B. Planning and planting of trees for future benefit of the citizens of Everett;
C. Approval of all tree plantings, maintenance, and removal of trees on city-owned property and rights-of-way; and
D. In the short term, no net loss of forest canopy cover on city-owned public lands and right-of-way; in the long term, measurable gain. (Ord. 1948-93 § 4, 1993.)