​The administrator shall approve a permit for issuance for the removal of any protected tree if the administrator finds one or more of the following conditions is present:

• ​Trees which pose a safety hazard to pedestrian or vehicular traffic or threaten to cause disruption to public utility services.​​
• ​​Trees which pose a safety hazard to existing buildings or structures.
  
• Trees which prevent reasonable access to a lot or parcel so long as the proposed access point complies with all other county regulations.
• Diseased trees which are a hazard to people, buildings or other improvements on a lot or parcel or to other trees.
• Trees so weakened by age, storm, fire or other injury as to, in the opinion of the administrator, jeopardize the life and limb of persons or cause a hazard to property.
• Trees which prevent the lawful development of a lot or parcel or the physical use thereof.
• The administrator may require that a tree protected by this article be relocated on the same lot or parcel in lieu of removal.