(A) After December 1, 2015, and consistent with Executive Order No. B-29-15, this chapter shall apply to all of the following landscape projects:
(1) New development projects with an aggregate landscape area equal to or greater than 500 square feet requiring a building or landscape permit, plan check or site plan review.
(2) Rehabilitated landscape projects with an aggregate landscape area equal to or greater than 2,500 square feet requiring a building or landscape permit, plan check or site plan review.
(3) Existing landscapes limited to §§ 10.196.088, 10.196.089, and 10.196.090.
(4) Cemeteries. Recognizing the special landscape management needs of cemeteries, new and rehabilitated cemeteries are limited to §§ 10.196.061, 10.196.081, and 10.196.082; and existing cemeteries are limited to §§ 10.196.088, 10.196.089, and 10.196.090.
(B) Any project with an aggregate landscape area of 2,500 square feet or less may comply with the performance requirements of this chapter or conform to the prescriptive measures contained in § 10.196.060(A).
(C) For projects using treated or untreated graywater or rainwater captured on site, any lot or parcel within the project that has less than 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 § 10.196.060(A)(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) Plant collections, as part of botanical gardens and arboretums open to the public.
(Ord. 18-01, passed 2-6-2018; Ord. 15-11, passed 12-15-2015; Ord. 10-24, passed 12-21-2010)