HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 834 - Spelling Out City's Intention to Share in Cost of Removal of Certain Diseased Trees Within City For General Health & Welfare - 04/23/1974 CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION NO , 834
RESOLUTION SPELLING OUT THE CITY' S INTENTION TO SHARE IN
THE COST OF REMOVAL OF CERTAIN DUTCH ELM AND OAK WILT
DISEASED TREES WITHIN THE CITY FOR THE GENERAL HEALTH AND WELFARE
WHEREAS , the City of Eden Prairie in Ordinance No . 186 relating to the control
and prevention of tree diseases has determined that the health of trees within municipal
` limits is threatened by certain tree diseases and that the loss of trees growing upon
public and private property will substantially depreciate the value of property within
the City and impair the safety, good order, general welfare and convenience of the
public;
WHEREAS , the cost for removal of diseased trees within the City can be of sub-
stantial financial burden on the individual property owner;
WHEREAS , it is in the general interest and benefit of the City that the removal of
these trees be accomplished as quickly as is possible;
WHEREAS , the City in its 1974 Operating Budget did appropriate approximately
$2 , 050 . CO for the purpose of the removal of diseased trees from private property within
I the City, said diseased trees to be determined by an inspection conducted by the City
staff and samples taken by the staff to be tested by the Minnesota Department of
Agriculture, consistent with the best known technical expertise in determining and
verifying tree diseases .
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED as follows:
1 . Upon positive verification of tree disease under the provisions of Ordinance No. 186 ,
the City shall advise the land owner to remove said tree within seven (7) days from
the date of notice .
2 . If the owner fails to take appropriate corrective action within seven days , the City
shall order it done by having the owner sign a Consent to Removal of Diseased Trees
and a Waiver of Hearing and Consent to Special Assessment of Cost of Removal of
Diseased Tree forms.
3 . The cost of "taking down" of the tree shall be billed to the property owner and will
be receivable in cash within thirty (30) days from the date of billing, or will be
assessed against the property pursuant to Minnesota Statutes 429 . 061 . In either
event, if the owner takes down the tree himself or the City orders it done under the
provisions of this resolution, the City will pick up the trees at the nearest public
road and dispose of the material in an approved manner, provided that said
material is cut into pieces no longer than four (4) feet in length . The pick-up and
disposal of diseased trees shall be done at no charge to the land owner.
ADOPTED BY THE EDEN PRAIRIE CITY COUN LL THIS 23rd LAY,OF April 1974 .
Mayor David W. Osterholt
ATTEST:
SEAL
Clerk Joh D . Frane
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