Chapter 7.12
TREES AND HEDGES
Sections:
7.12.010 Parking strips – Trees allowed, enumerated.
7.12.020 Parking strips – Hedges prohibited.
7.12.030 Parking strips – Tree planting rules.
7.12.040 Planting violations – Penalty.
7.12.050 Obstructive or infected vegetation declared nuisance – Abatement.
7.12.010 Parking strips – Trees allowed, enumerated.
No tree or trees other than of the following varieties shall be planted or allowed to grow in any parking strip: Cork bark elm, American elm, Siberian elm, Norway maple, schwedleri maple, horse chestnut, mountain ash, scarlet oak, tulip tree, white birch and globe locust. (Ord. 874, 1931; Ord. 427 § 1, 1913)
7.12.020 Parking strips – Hedges prohibited.
No hedge shall be planted or grown in any outside parking strip. (Ord. 427 § 2, 1913)
7.12.030 Parking strips – Tree planting rules.
No tree or trees shall be planted or allowed to grow in any parking strip which is less than five feet in width measured from the face of the curb to the near edge of the cement sidewalk, nor shall any tree or trees be planted or allowed to grow in a parking strip lying between a cement walk and a property line, within a distance of two and one-half feet from the near edge of the cement walk or the face of a curb. Where parking strips are greater in width than five feet, no tree or trees shall be planted or allowed to grow therein nearer to the walk or face of curb than one-half the width of the parking strip. (Ord. 427 § 3, 1913)
7.12.040 Planting violations – Penalty.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to plant, grow, or permit to be grown any tree or trees of any variety except as herein mentioned or in any manner other than herein provided, and it shall be unlawful to grow any hedge in outside parking strips, and any person violating the provisions of this section shall be subject to WCC Title 16. The presence of a tree or trees of any other variety than as herein specified or growing in a parking strip in any other manner than herein provided shall be prima facie proof of the violation of this section on the part of the owner or occupant of the abutting property. (Ord. 2014-02 § 2; Ord. 2010-08 § 9; Ord. 427 § 4, 1913)
7.12.050 Obstructive or infected vegetation declared nuisance – Abatement.
Trees, plants, shrubs or vegetation or parts thereof which so overhang any sidewalk or street or alley, or which are growing thereon or upon any street right-of-way in such manner as to obstruct or impair the free and full use of any such sidewalk or street or alley by the public are declared to be public nuisances. Any vegetation, including trees, plants, shrubs, or parts thereof, infected with aphids, elm leaf beetle, San Jose scale, cottony scale, lecanium scale, tent caterpillars, leaf roller larvae, codling moth, and peach leaf twig borer, which overhangs any sidewalk or street or alley, or which is growing thereon or upon any street right-of-way is declared to be a public nuisance. It is the duty of the owner, occupant or tenant of any property within the city of Wenatchee wherein or whereupon any such nuisance exists to abate the nuisance by destroying, removing or trimming the growth which overhangs any sidewalk or street or alley or public right-of-way. It is the duty of the owner, tenant or occupant of any property wherein or whereupon any vegetation infested with aphids, elm leaf beetle, San Jose scale, cottony scale, lecanium scale, tent caterpillars, leaf roller larvae, codling moth, and peach leaf twig borer which overhangs any sidewalk or street or alley, or which is growing thereon or upon any street right-of-way, to abate such nuisance by disinfestation or by destruction or removal of such vegetation. (Ord. 2010-08 § 11; Ord. 1862 § 2, 1965. Formerly 7.12.060)
7.12.060 Violations.
Every person charged with a violation of this chapter shall be subject to WCC Title 16. (Ord. 2014-02 § 2; Ord. 2010-08 § 12; Ord. 1862 § 7, 1965. Formerly 7.12.100)