As used in this chapter:
(a) "Landscaping" means living materials, including, but not limited to, grass, ground covers, shrubs, vines, hedges, trees and nonliving durable material commonly used in landscape development.
(b) "Opacity" means the state of being impervious to rays of light measured by observation of any two square yard area lying between two feet and ten feet from the ground.
(c) "Screen" means plant material or other nonliving durable material, including, but not limited to, walls, berms or decorative wood fencing.
(d) "Shrub" means a self-supporting, deciduous and/or evergreen species, normally branched near the base, bushy and less than fifteen feet in height, as normally grown in Cuyahoga County.
(e) "Tree" means a self-supporting, woody, deciduous and/or evergreen plant with a well defined central stem, or a species of such plant that normally grows to a height of fifteen feet or more in Cuyahoga County.
(f) "Vine" means a plant that normally requires physical support to reach mature form.
(Ord. 1982-129. Passed 3-16-83.)