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A. At the time of development of anv subdivision orovidina less than 35 oercent open soace. no oerson shall destrov. damage. kill or remove anv heritaae or soecimen tree without orior oermission from the County in the form of a condition of subdivision olat aooroval authorized bv the County. The tree orotection reauired under this section shall aoplv on Iv to subdivision infrastructure and imorovements such as roads. and shall not aoolv to the develooment of Individualiots followina aooroval of the subdivision olat. B. All subdivisions and site imorovements subiect to this section shall be oriented in a manner that allows for oreservation of the areatest number of heritage and specimen trees. as determined bv the County. ' C. Heritaae trees inciude: 1. Anv Chamoion BiC) Tree desianated bv the NC Division of Forest Resources. 2. Anv tree that would measure 80% of the ooints of a tree on the North Carolina Bia Trees List. D. Soecimen trees include anv large hardwood fe.a. oak. ooolar. maple. etc.) or softwood f e.a. pine soecies) in good or better condition with a DBH of 24 inches or areater. and smaller understorY trees fe.a. doawoods. redbuds. sourwoods. oersimmons. etc.) in aood or better condition with a DBH of 10" or areater. E. Where a tree matchina the definition of heritaae or soecimen tree above suffers from decav. cavities. rot. a broken too. leaning. an unbalanced crown. a historY of breakaC)e or other unhealthv characteristic. the County mav determine it is not subiect to this Section. F. Heritaae and soecimen trees mav be removed. orovided the removal is orooerlv mitiaated. Such trees shall be shown on the aporoved preliminarv olat. and their removal shall be aporoved bv the County orior to commencement of anv aradina or construction. 1. Reoiacement trees must be similar to the tvoe of tree removed: deciduous trees must be reolaced with deciduous trees. and everC)reen trees must be reolaced with evergreen trees. 2. Mitioation mav be achieved bv the establishment and maintenance of reolacement trees at a 1:1 ratio for specimen trees and a 1.5:1 ratio for heritaC)e trees. aoolied to the combined DBH of existing orotected trees to be removed. For examole. a 26-inch ' deciduous heritaae tree must be replaced with at least 39 combined calioer inches of deciduous reolacement trees. Reolacement trees shall have a minimum calioer of 2-V2 . inches. 3. Credit toward reolacement trees mav also be orovided for existina aroups of undisturbed trees whose trunks lie within 50 feet of a oreserved heritaae or soecimen tree. provided thev are at least 6 inches DBH. Such credit shall be calculaed based on the combined inches DBH for the additional trees prooosed to be oreserved. 4. Reolacement trees must be located to ensure that mature canooies shall not interfere with the health of existina trees or interfere with the health of other newlv planted trees once thev have reached maturitv. -3- E -I( b)