2838-24 Amended Tree Removal Ordinance_With Comments.pdf

Draft 2/7/24—Administration Revisions to the Amended Tree Removal Ordinance 4 IMPROVED LOT — A parcel of land with a building or other physical improvements. LAND USE BOARD — The Planning Board or Zoning Board of Adjustment of the Township of West Orange. LOT—A designated parcel, tract of land established in the record as of local and county registers of deeds by plat, deed, subdivision, zoning lot of record, or as otherwise permitted by law. MAJOR TREE — A tree species with a mature height of at least 50 feet. MINOR TREE — An evergreen tree, ornamental tree or other small tree that is not defined as a Major Tree. NONVIABLE TREE — A hazardous tree that a Qualified Tree Expert and/or the Township Forester determines is dead, dying or otherwise non-viable. PERSON — The owner of a parcel of real estate or any other individual, group, company, firm, corporation, partnership, association, society or other legal entity. PROPERTY LINE TREE—Shall mean a tree whose tree-trunk is on more than one Lot and/or on the boundary of the Lot. QUALIFIED TREE EXPERT — A New Jersey Licensed Tree Expert pursuant to N.J.S.A. 45:15C-11 et seq. and is registered by the Township. REPLACEMENT TREE — A native tree species approved by the Township Forester and of nursery grade, properly balled and burlapped, untreated with herbicides or pesticides and meeting the minimum measurements of a major or minor tree. SPECIES — The common name of a tree. SPECIMEN TREE — A tree in good health of unusual or exceptional form, size, age or shape for its species, including but not limited to those included on New Jersey's Big Tree List, or database, published and coordinated by the New Jersey Forest Service, or having a champion tree point total (girth in inches plus height in feet, plus one quarter of average crown spread in feet) within 10% of the point total of a tree of the same species listed in New Jersey's Big Tree List, published in "New Jersey's Big Trees," by the New Jersey Forest Service. STRUCTURE — A combination of materials to form a construction for occupancy, use or ornamentation, whether installed on, above or below the surface of a parcel of land, Deleted: INVASIVE VINE—Non- native vine that will climb up the tree and cause damage to the tree.¶ ¶ Deleted: ¶ Deleted: PRUNING—Pruning is the selective removal of branches or limbs of a tree. …¶ ¶ Deleted: ¶