Portland City Code ch. 14 (Land Use Code)

Citation: Portland City Code ch. 14 (Land Use Code)
Jurisdiction: Portland (municipal)
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9. In order to maintain a buffer strip of within the Shoreland Overlay Zone,
vegetation when the removal of storm including the buffer area.
damaged or hazard trees results in the 12. Legally existing nonconforming cleared
creation of cleared openings exceeding openings may be maintained but shall not
250 square feet, these openings shall be be enlarged, except as allowed by this
replanted with native tree species in article.
accordance with Subsection 11.4.3(D) 13. Fields and other cleared openings which
unless existing new tree growth is present. have reverted to primarily shrubs, trees, or
10. In order to maintain the vegetation in the other woody vegetation shall be regulated
shoreline buffer, clearing or removal of under the provisions of this subsection.
vegetation for allowed activities, including B. Exemptions to clearing and vegetation
associated construction and related removal requirements.
equipment operation, within or outside the 1. The clearing and removal of vegetation
shoreline buffer, must comply with the standards of Subsection 11.4.3(A) shall not
requirements of Subsection 11.4.3(A)5. apply in the following zones: EWPZ, WCZ,
11. Selective cutting of not more than 40% of WPDZ, B-3, B-5, B-6, I-L (on peninsula), and
the volume of trees four inches or more in I-M (on peninsula), except that the
diameter, measured at four and one half following standards do apply:
feet above ground level, shall be allowed a. Within a strip extending 75 inland
within any ten-year period at distances from the normal high water line, there
greater than 75 feet, horizontal distance, shall be no cleared opening or
from the normal high-water line of any openings, except for approved
river, stream, or tributary stream, or the construction, and a well-distributed
upland edge of