(A) Whenever in this chapter a greenbelt or planting is required, it shall be planted within six months from the date of issuance of a certificate of occupancy and shall thereafter be reasonably maintained with permanent plant materials to provide a screen to abutting properties. Suitable materials equal in characteristics to the plant materials listed with the spacing as required shall be provided.
(B) Plant material spacing.
(1) Plant materials shall not be placed closer than four feet from the fence line or property line.
(2) Where plant materials are placed in two or more rows planting shall be staggered in rows.
(3) Evergreen trees shall be planted not more than 30 feet on centers.
(4) Narrow evergreens shall be planted not more than six feet on centers.
(5) Deciduous trees shall be planted not more than 30 feet on centers.
(6) Tree-like shrubs shall be planted not more than ten feet on centers.
(7) Large deciduous shrubs shall be planted not more than four feet on centers.
(C) Suggested plant materials.
Plant Materials | Minimum Size |
Evergreen Juniper Hemlock Fir Pine Spruce Douglas-Fir | Five feet in height |
Narrow Evergreens Column Hinoki Cypress Blue Columnar Chinese Juniper Pyramidal Red-Cedar Swiss Stone Pine Pyramidal White Pine Irish Yew Douglas Arbor-Vitae | Three feet in height |
Tree Like Shrubs Flowering Crab Russian Olive Mountain-Ash Dogwood Redbud Rose of Sharon Hornbeam Hawthorn Magnolia | Four feet in height |
Large Deciduous Shrubs Honeysuckle Viburnum Mock-Orange Forsythia Lilac Ninebark Cotoneaster Hazelnut Euonymus Privet Buckthorn Sumac | Six feet in height |
Large Deciduous Trees Oaks Hard Maples Hackberry Plane tree (Sycamore) Birch Beech Ginkgo Honey locust Sweet-Gum Hop Hornbeam Linden | Eight feet in height |
(D) Trees not permitted.
(1) Box Elder.
(2) Soft Maple (Red-Silver)
(3) Elm
(4) Poplar
(5) Willow
(6) Horse Chestnut (nut bearing)
(7) Tree of Heaven
(8) Catalpa.
(`73 Code, 15.322, § 5.119) (Ord. eff. 8-1-67; Am. Ord. passed 1973)