A.5.9 - Tree Crown Cleaning.

Crown cleaning is a series of pruning cuts that remove hazardous, declining, and/or dead branches, leaving more dominant ones intact that show good development in desired directions.

a.

Crown cleaning can be performed on trees of any age but is most common on medium-aged and mature trees that have had minimal maintenance.

b.

Since crown cleaning involves the removal of limbs that may have diseases, to avoid the spread of disease, pruning tools should be disinfected between each pruning cut.

(Ord. No. 4492, § 9, 6-21-2016)