This ordinance amends Title 12, "Streets, Sidewalks and Storm Sewers" of the Bloomington Municipal Code and comes forth at the request of city staff. The ordinance makes the following changes: • Replaces references to the city's transportation and traffic engineer with city engineer; • Capitalizes department names (i.e. Department of Public Works), board and commission names (i.e. Board of Public Works), and legal document names (i.e. Comprehensive Plan, Transportation Plan, etc.); • Removes references to "his or her" and replaces it with "their"; • Removes references to the "Thoroughfare Plan" and its associated effective dates and replaces them with references to the "Transportation Plan" and its associated effective dates; • Makes various other updates, including grammatical and typographical corrections; and • Revises BMC Chapter 12.24 (Trees and Flora) to add or amend standards for appropriate tree protection, update terminology, and add relevant definitions. Note: At the February 14, 2024 Regular Session, the Council adopted Amendment OJ to the ordinance, which replaced a reference to the transportation or traffic engineer with a reference to the city engineer and made a minor grammatical correction.

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