Portland City Code ch. 14 (Land Use Code)

Citation: Portland City Code ch. 14 (Land Use Code)
Jurisdiction: Portland (municipal)
Source: Official source
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vegetation if a forested canopy is not iv. Any plot containing the required
present as measured from the outer points may have vegetation
limits of the tree or shrub crown. removed down to the minimum
Notwithstanding this limitation, a points required or as otherwise
single footpath not to exceed six feet allowed by this ordinance.
in width as measured between tree v. Where conditions permit, no
trunks and/or shrub stems is allowed more than 50% of the points on
for accessing the shoreline provided any 25-foot by 50-foot
that a cleared line of sight to the rectangular area may consist of
water through the buffer strip is not trees greater than 12 inches in
created. diameter.
b. Selective cutting of trees within the 6. For the purposes of this subsection, “other
buffer strip is allowed provided that a natural vegetation” is defined as retaining
well distributed stand of trees and existing vegetation under three feet in
other vegetation is maintained. For height and other ground cover and
the purposes of this subsection, a retaining at least five saplings less than two
“well-distributed stand of trees” inches in diameter at four and one half feet
adjacent to a water body, tributary above ground level for each 25-foot by 50-
stream or wetland shall be defined as foot rectangular area. If five saplings do
maintaining a minimum rating score of not exist, no woody stems less than two
16 or more in any 25-foot by 50-foot inches in diameter can be removed until
rectangle area as determined by the five saplings have been recruited into the
rating system in Table 11-A. The plot. Notwithstanding the above
following shall govern in applying the provisions, no more than 40% of the total
point system in Table 11-A: volume of trees four inches or more in
i. The 25-foot by 50-foot