CONSTRUCTION: Any manmade change, other than maintenance of existing structures, paved areas or utilities, to improved or unimproved real estate, including, without limitation, the construction or installation of new, or enlargement of existing structures, streets or utilities; dredging, filling, drilling, mining, grading, paving or excavating operations; demolition; and open storage of materials.
EXISTING LANDSCAPE SURVEY: Applicants shall be required to submit a survey of all existing landscape plants and materials including trees, shrubs, sod area, mulched area, and landscape structures.
A. Trees shall be identified by species and include dbh measurements (diameter 41/2 feet above ground level).
B. Shrubs and perennial plantings shall be identified by species and location. Dimensions of sodded areas shall be identified on the survey.
C. Dimensions of mulched areas and description of mulch material shall be included.
D. Landscape structures shall be identified by existing materials and location.
FRONT PERIMETER: Shall include all perimeter encompassed in subsection 10-15-3-5F7c(2) of this chapter.
LANDSCAPING: The existing and/or proposed features of real estate which are intended to enhance and/or buffer a development, including, but not limited to, trees, shrubs, lawns, rocks, berming, waterways and fences.
NOXIOUS PLANT: Any plant that is so identified in the codes and ordinances of the city of Countryside.
PARKWAY: The area of land located between the back of curb to the property line.
PERIMETER LANDSCAPING: Landscaping provided along the street and exterior boundaries of a site.
PERSON: An individual, heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, and also includes a firm, partnership or corporation, its or their successors or assigns, or the agent of any of the aforesaid.
PROPERTY OWNER: Owner of real property within the city of Countryside. Includes the owner of an easement.
RECOMMENDED SPECIES: Plant species, including shade trees, evergreen trees, ornamental/small trees, large deciduous shrubs, large evergreen shrubs, small deciduous shrubs, small evergreen shrubs, and ground cover and vines as indicated in section 10-15-3-6, table 1, of this chapter.
REMOVE(D) OR REMOVAL: The physical removal or effective removal through cutting, chopping, sawing, damaging, topping, poisoning, or other direct or indirect action intended to result in the death of a tree. It shall not mean normal pruning or trimming of a tree.
RESPONSIBLE PARTY: Except as otherwise specified herein, the owner or owner's designated agent shall be responsible for the maintenance of buildings, structures and premises. Any person, including the lessee, who may reasonably be considered to have any control over any portion of any matter regulated by this code and other codes by reference shall be considered to be a responsible person or an additional responsible person for the purposes of this code.
STREET: The entire width of a public way or right of way when any part thereof is open to the use of the public, as a matter of right, for purposes of vehicular and pedestrian traffic.
TREE: A self-supporting woody plant, together with its root system, having a well defined stem or trunk or a multistemmed trunk system, a more or less well defined crown, and a mature height of at least eight feet (8') tall.
TURF GRASS: Areas of mown ground cover grasses primarily consisting of bluegrass, fescue and rye grass.
WEEDS: Grasses, annual plants and vegetation, other than trees or shrubs provided; however this term shall not include cultivated flowers and gardens. (Ord. 06-12-0, 3-22-2006)