(A) Newly established industrial uses adjacent or backing on residential or business districts, or newly established business use adjacent or backing on residential districts, or newly established multi-family uses adjacent or backing on single-family uses shall provide and continuously maintain on that property line a dense hedge, tree row or other similar landscape device suitable to visually screen the differing types of adjacent uses from one another. Failure to maintain landscaped buffers or screening shall be considered a violation of this chapter.
(B) (1) Plant materials for landscaped screening shall be of general type and size at the time of planting as follows.
(2) Where landscape screening is required, a plan shall be provided at the time of submission of the zoning permit indicating the type, size, location and spacing of plant materials to form the landscape screen:
(a) Evergreen trees. Juniper, fir, spruce, pine, Douglas fir. At time of planting, evergreen trees shall be a minimum of five feet in height with 20-foot spacing;
(b) Narrow evergreen trees. Columnar Hinoki cypress, pyramidal red cedar, pyramidal white pine, Douglas arborvitae, columnar, juniper, Swiss stone pine, Hatfield or Hicks yews, columnar giant, arborvitae. At time of planting, narrow evergreens shall be a minimum of three feet in height with six-foot spacing;
(c) Small trees. Flowering crab, redbud, hornbeam, magnolia, dogwood, hawthorn, hop hornbeam. At time of planting, small trees shall be a minimum of four feet in height with ten-foot spacing;
(d) Large deciduous shrubs. Honeysuckle, mock-orange, lilac, cotoneaster, euonymus, viburnum, forsythia, rose of Sharon, privet, sumac. At time of planting, large deciduous shrubs shall be a minimum of five feet in height with five-foot spacing; and
(e) Large deciduous trees. Oak, hackberry, planetree (sycamore), ginkgo, linden, hard maple, birch, beech, honeylocust. At time of planting, large deciduous trees shall be a minimum of eight feet in height with 30-foot spacing.
(2009 Code, § 40-3-8) (Ord. 15-08, passed 8-31-2015)