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(a) Required landscaping may be placed wholly or partially in utility or other easements providing all requirements can be fulfilled and the holder of the easements grants approval. Trees placed under overhead utility wires must be from Group B, in Section 1145.12.
(b) In no case, however, shall landscaping and bufferyards be established so as to block the sight distance at street or drive intersections. Ground cover and trees with at least eight (8) feet of limbless trunk shall be permitted within the sight distance triangle. In the case of a City street intersection, the sight triangle shall consist of the area between points twenty (20) feet along both intersecting streets from their respective edge of pavements.
(Ord. 2017. Passed 1-26-17.)
When… | Is Proposed to Abut… | A Minimum Bufferyard of… | Plant Material 1 |
Any multi-family, attached single-family, or two family dwelling use in a residential zoning districts or any use in the DT Zoning district | A detached single family use | 10' side or rear yard is required with… | Either: 1 tree (A) every 25 lineal feet + a 6' evergreen hedge OR 6' wall, brick faced on both sides and 8" thick with a top coarse to be row lock, and 1 tree every 25-35 lineal feet OR A double row, staggered planting of evergreen trees (C) every 15 lineal feet OR A 40' wide, 6' tall earthen berm |
Any use in the BAS, BAN, SP district, or any non-residential use in a PUD Zoning district | A detached single family use | 50' side and/or rear yard is required with… | |
Any multi-family, attached single-family, or two family dwelling use in a residential zoning districts or any use in the DT Zoning district 2 | The public right-of-way, public or private street | 10' shall be landscaped with… | Either: 1 tree (A) every 25-35 lineal feet and shrubs (D or E) planted every 3 lineal feet (1 tree minimum) OR 1 tree (B) every 20-30 lineal feet + shrubs (D or E) planted every 3 lineal feet (1 tree minimum) |
Any use in the BAS, BAN, or SP district | The public right-of- way, public or private street | 20' shall be landscaped with… | Either: 1 tree (A) every 20-30 lineal feet + shrubs (D or E) planted every 3 lineal feet (1 tree minimum) OR 1 tree (B) every 15-25 lineal feet + shrubs (D or E) planted every 3 lineal feet (1 tree minimum) |
1 The width of any driveways or intersecting streets may be excluded from the overall bufferyard length calculation. 2 Any use in the DT Zoning district that is designed to front the public right-of-way is exempt from the applicable bufferyard requirements. Such uses are encouraged to have some landscape elements, if possible, to soften the building and increase the attractiveness of the streetscape, but they shall not be required to install the full bufferyard requirements set forth in this Section. | |||
Figure 1145-1: Graphic illustrates example bufferyard planting between a
single family neighborhood and an office development.
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 | Figure 1145-2: The Bufferyard Requirements in Section 1145.07 identify options for achieving the desired screening between uses. The three images to the left illustrate three of these otions. |
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(Ord. 2017. Passed 1-26-17.)
In the absence of paving for walks or dives, foundation plantings shall be planted and maintained along all front and side exterior walls of all buildings at the ratio of one twenty-four (24) inch spread evergreen shrub every five (5) lineal feet of exterior wall.
(Ord. 2017. Passed 1-26-17.)
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