11.50.020 Owner's duty with reference to clearance areas.
It shall be the duty of every owner, and every owner shall perform or cause to be performed such acts as may be necessary to remove or destroy:
(1) all trees, plants, shrubs, or vegetation, or parts thereof, whether growing or dead, which overhang when not ladden with snow or ice into a sidewalk clearance area or in the case of new construction a pedestrian clearance area. Provided, however, that trees and their replacements planted in sidewalk clearance areas located in Local Improvement District No. 183 need not be removed or destroyed, but the limbs and leaves thereof shall not grow into a sidewalk clearance area.
(2) all vegetation whether growing or dead on the surface of a sidewalk clearance area which is growing or has grown and accumulated thereon in such a manner as to obstruct the free and full use of the sidewalk clearance area or the pedestrian clearance area by the public.
(3) on property on which there is new construction all vegetation whether growing or dead on the surface of a pedestrian clearance area which is growing or has grown and accumulated thereon in such a manner as to obstruct the free and full use of the pedestrian clearance area by the public. Lawn grasses growing on the surface of a pedestrian clearance area need not be removed or destroyed unless they are growing or accumulating thereon in such a manner as to obstruct the free and full use of the pedestrian clearance area by the public.
Provided, however, that the provisions of subsections (1), (2), and (3) of this Section are supplemental and additional to any requirements set forth in 11.48.010 (pertaining to the planting or transplanting of any tree, bush, or shrub within the right-of-way of any public street), and 17.35.020(3) (pertaining to vision clearance areas at intersections).
(4) The duty set forth in subsections (1), (2), and (3) of this Section is not intended to be a duty imposed by this Section 11.50.020 which would have the effect of regulating fences, utility poles, postal drop boxes, fire hydrants, traffic regulatory and other signs, and other structures in a sidewalk clearance area or a pedestrian clearance area although they may be regulated by other provisions of law applicable thereto. (Ord. 87-39 §2, 1987).