10-6-3: APPLICABILITY:

   (A)   These regulations shall apply to all of the following projects:

      1.   New Development Projects: New development projects with an aggregate landscape area equal to or greater than five hundred (500) square feet requiring a building or landscape permit, plan check, site plan or other discretionary review;

      2.   Rehabilitated Landscape Projects: Rehabilitated landscape projects with an aggregate landscape area equal to or greater than two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet requiring a building or landscape permit, plan check, site plan or other discretionary review;

      3.   Existing Landscapes: Existing landscapes limited to subsection 10-6-15(A) of this chapter; and

      4.   Cemeteries: Recognizing the special landscape management needs of cemeteries, new and rehabilitated cemeteries are limited to subsections 10-6-5(E) and 10-6-9(B) of this chapter and section 10-6-10 of this chapter; and existing cemeteries are limited to section 10-6-15 of this chapter.

   (B)   Any project with an aggregate landscape area of two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet or less may comply with the performance requirements of these regulations or conform to the prescriptive measures contained in section 10-6-18, appendix D of this chapter.

   (C)   For projects using treated or untreated gray water or rainwater captured on site, any lot or parcel within the project that has less than two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet of landscape and meets the lot or parcel's landscape water requirement (estimated total water use) entirely with treated or untreated gray water or through stored rainwater captured on site is subject only to section 10-6-18, appendix D of this chapter.

   (D)   These regulations do not apply to:

      1.   Registered local, state or federal historical sites;

      2.   Ecological restoration projects that do not require a permanent irrigation system;

      3.   Mined land reclamation projects that do not require a permanent irrigation system;

      4.   Existing plant collections, as part of botanical gardens and arboretums open to the public;

      5.   Residential landscaping that does not include an irrigation system (e.g., xeriscape landscaping). (Ord. 1675, 11-24-2015)