15.54.020: APPLICABILITY:

   A.   This chapter shall apply to all of the following landscape projects:

      1.   New construction projects with an aggregate landscape area equal to or greater than five hundred (500) square feet requiring a building or landscape permit, plan check or design review;

      2.   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, or design review;

      3.   Existing landscapes limited to sections 15.54.230, 15.54.240 and 15.54.250; and

      4.   Cemeteries. Recognizing the special landscape management needs of cemeteries, new and rehabilitated cemeteries are limited to sections 15.54.080, 15.54.150 and 15.54.160; and existing cemeteries are limited to sections 15.54.230, 15.54.240 and 15.54.250.

   B.   For local land use agencies working together to develop a regional water efficient landscape ordinance, the reporting requirements of the ordinance codified in this chapter became effective December 1, 2015, and the remainder of such ordinance as effective no later than February 1, 2016.

   C.   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 this chapter or conform to the prescriptive measures contained in section 15.54.310, Appendix D.

   D.   This chapter does 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; or

      4.   Existing plant collections, as part of botanical gardens and arboretums open to the public. (Ord. 2917, 2021: Ord. 2724 § 1, 2009)