1136.01
Purpose.
1136.02
Performance standards.
1136.03
Scope.
1136.04
Plan submission requirements.
1136.05
Standards.
1136.06
Screening requirements.
1136.07
Table of screening requirements.
1136.08
Modification of screening and buffer zone requirements.
1136.09
Materials.
1136.10
Berms.
1136.11
Location of screening.
1136.12
Openings in walls, fences, and berms; construction standards for walls.
1136.13
Bumper stops, curbing or wheel chocks in parking spaces.
1136.14
Corner clearance visibility.
1136.15
Irrigation of vegetation.
1136.16
Performance guarantee.
1136.17
Waiver of requirements.
1136.18
Scope of plant material requirements.
1136.19
Plant material spacing.
1136.20
Suggested plant materials.
1136.21
Plant materials not permitted.
1136.22
Installation and maintenance.
These regulations are intended to:
(a) Minimize the transmission from one land use to another of nuisances associated with noise, dust, and glare.
(b) Minimize visual pollution that may otherwise occur within an urbanized area. Minimal screening provides an impression of separation of spaces, and more extensive screening can entirely shield the visual effects of an intense land use from a less intense land use.
(c) Establish a greater sense of privacy from visual or physical intrusion of intense land uses, the degree of privacy varying with the intensity of the screening.
(d) Safeguard the public health, safety, and welfare, and preserve the aesthetic qualities and enhance the community character.
Every development shall provide sufficient screening so that:
(a) Neighboring properties are shielded form adverse external effects of that development, regardless of whether it is separated by a right-of-way.
(b) It provides a transition zone between dissimilar land uses.
(a) Except where more stringent standards or procedures are specified in this Ordinance, the standards and procedures in this Chapter shall apply to all required screening and buffering areas.
(b) For those zoning districts listed in the screening table in Section 1136.07 and those specific districts listed in this Chapter, there shall be provided and maintained on the sides of the property abutting, adjacent to, or across the street from a residential district a screening/buffer zone as specified in this Chapter, unless otherwise waived or reduced by the Commission or official approving the site plan.
(c) For utility buildings, stations, and/or substations, screening shall be provided consisting of a six-foot-high wall, berm, or fence, except when all equipment is contained within a building or structure which is comparable in appearance to residential buildings in the surrounding area.
Whenever landscape, screening and/or a buffer zone are required in this chapter, a preliminary landscape/screening plan shall be submitted to the Administrative Official and a final plan approved by the Commission or other official approving the site plan. The plan shall be prepared and sealed by an architect, landscape architect or engineer, and shall contain the following:
(a) All applicable information required by this Ordinance for site plan review.
(b) All applicable information listed in this Chapter pertaining to plant materials.
(c) The location, general size, and type of existing vegetation to be retained.
(d) Existing and proposed grades.
(e) A planting schedule and plan providing the following information:
(i) The botanical and common name of each plant used.
(ii) The size of each plant to be used at the time of planting.
(iii) The quantity of each plant to be used.
(iv) Whether plants to be used are balled and burlapped, container grown or bare root.
(v) The spacing and location of all proposed trees, shrubs and ground cover. Ground cover is defined as low-growing woody shrubs, deciduous or evergreen plants, perennial plants and/or vines, such as cranberry, cotoneaster (Cotoneaster apiculata), blue rug juniper (Juniperus horizantaus "Wiltoni"), myrtle (Vinca minor), or Baltic ivy (Hedera helix "Baltica"). Grass, shredded bark, wood chips, other similar mulch or landscaping stones are also acceptable as ground cover for greenbelt areas.
(f) The percentage of landscaped area, excluding detention ponds, to be provided on site.
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