15.92.020 Applicability.

   A.   This chapter applies 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, plan review, 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, plan review, or design review;

      3.   Existing landscapes as described in Section 15.92.220; and

      4.   Cemeteries. Recognizing the special landscape management needs of cemeteries, regulation of new and rehabilitated cemeteries is limited to Sections 15.92.080, 15.92.150, and 15.92.160; and regulation of existing cemeteries is limited to Section 15.92.220.

   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 this chapter or conform to the prescriptive measures contained in Appendix D.

   C.   For projects using treated or untreated graywater 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 graywater or through stored rainwater captured on site is subject only to Appendix D Section (5).

   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. 2015-0038 § 2)