(A) Landscaping Required: Landscaping is required in peripheral buffer yards, street buffer yards, for on lot landscaping, in off street parking areas, and in areas where vegetative mitigation is required. The area and length of each, as required herein, must be measured in order to determine the amount of landscaping required.
(B) Exemptions And Modifications: All developments must meet the provisions of this section except as specifically exempted below.
(1) Residential development on existing lots of record in the E, SE, S, R-1, R-2, and R-3 Districts as of the effective date of this chapter (February 27, 2017).
(2) Additions to existing buildings (principal and/or accessory) where the total floor area is not increased more than 10% of the existing total floor area.
(3) Additions to buildings (principal and/or accessory) that increase their overall building area from 10% to 50% must conform to the landscaping standards specified in this § 159-7.700 to the maximum extent possible. All off street parking areas and buffer yards must conform to the landscaping requirements of this § 159-7.700. If insufficient dimensions exist on site, in order to achieve a sufficient level of landscaping, the standards set forth in this section may be reduced by up to 30% by the Village.
(4) Areas located within floodplains, floodways, flood lands, and wetlands are exempt from the landscaping requirements set forth in this § 159-7.700.
(C) Buffer Yards To Ameliorate Nuisances Between Certain Adjacent Zoning Districts: A buffer yard is a combination of a setback and a visual buffer or barrier, and is a yard or area together with the planting and/or landscape structure required thereon. The amount of land, the type of planting, and the amount of planting specified for each buffer yard requirement of this chapter are designed to ameliorate nuisances between certain adjacent zoning districts. Buffer yards are also designed to ensure a desired character along public streets and roads.
(D) Buffer Yards Required To Separate Different Zoning Districts: Buffer yards will be required to separate different zoning districts from each other. Buffer yards function to eliminate or minimize potential nuisances such as dirt, litter, noise, glare of lights, signs, and unsightly buildings or parking areas, or to provide spacing to reduce adverse impacts of noise, odor, or danger from fires or explosions.
(E) Special Landscaping, Streetscape, And Buffer Yards For R-4 District:
(1) Landscaping must be integrated into building arrangements, topography, off street parking, and buffer yard requirements on lots in the R-4 District. Landscaping must include trees, bushes, shrubs, ground cover, perennials, annuals, plant sculpture, area, and the use of building and paving materials in an imaginative manner.
(2) Buffer yards must be located around the perimeter of the site to minimize the offsite impacts of headlight glare, noise, light from structures and open areas and the movement of people and vehicles. Buffer yards may consist of fencing, evergreens, shrubs, bushes, deciduous trees, or combinations thereof to achieve the intent of the R-4 District.
(Ord. 17-2-2065, passed 2-27-2017)