There is hereby required on any construction requiring a building permit or grading, landscaping as follows:
A. Unpaved areas of the site shall have one or more of the following ground covers:
1. Seed or sod.
2. Wood chips or other permanent mulch materials retained by landscape timbers or other landscape borders.
3. Planted permanent ground cover (i.e., pachysandras, myrtle ivy).
B. Areas of the rights of way not paved for vehicular traffic shall have one or more of the following ground covers:
1. Seed or sod.
2. Wood chips or other permanent mulch materials retained by landscape timbers or other landscape borders.
3. Planted permanent ground cover (i.e., pachysandras, myrtle ivy).
4. Concrete paving brick or block designed to allow the growth of vegetation through it (i.e., "turfblock").
5. Colored concrete stenciled and finished so as to resemble brick paving.
Sites zoned for residential use are limited to the use of subsections B1 and B4 of this section only. Sites zoned for industrial or commercial use may use any or all of the above in combination in keeping with the style of nearby installations, if any. A landscape timber shall be used to separate the rights of way treatment from the roadway shoulder where no curb and gutter exists and in no case closer than eighteen inches (18") from the paved roadway edge.
Decorative rights of way treatments in the following areas shall match the style and type of materials designated by the village to maintain a continuity of appearance:
1. Irving Park Road, from Pine Lane to Division Street.
2. York Road, from Wood Street to Irving Park Road.
3. The area bounded by Green Street, Mason Street, Roosevelt Avenue and York Road.
C. Trees shall be planted within the right of way in conjunction with any of the above construction and shall be in accordance with the subdivision control ordinance of this village and title 8, chapter 10 of this code. (Ord. 84-2010, 11-9-2010)