The purpose of the requirements in this chapter is to provide for appropriate landscaping and screening that will:
(a) protect residential and all other environments from adverse effects, such as noise, odors and dust, of more intensive adjacent uses;
(b) protect users of parking areas from excessive wind, glare, and temperature extremes;
(c) mitigate the adverse effects on public streets and adjacent properties of noise, blowing dust and debris, water runoff, and glare from motor vehicle headlights and parking area lighting;
(d) discourage unsafe access to and circulation within off-street parking areas;
(e) contribute to improved community appearance and property values and preserve and enhance the mature "established" character of City neighborhoods;
(f) preserve privacy in residential areas next to non-residential uses and discourage trespass thereupon;
(g) provide trees that improve the urban environment by cooling the air and land, reducing carbon dioxide in the air, and producing oxygen; and
(h) compensate for the inability in an older, densely developed city like Cleveland to buffer incompatible uses by use of wide yards and open spaces.
(Ord. No. 3077-A-89. Passed 6-17-91, eff. 7-27-91)
(a) Transition Strip. A Transition Strip is a landscaped screening strip of an intensity specified in the table contained in Section 352.09 located along the length of all lot lines that abut an adjacent lot having zoning of a different intensity.
(b) Frontage Strip. A Frontage Strip is a landscaped screening strip located along the length of front and corner side lot lines in actual front or corner side yards that accommodate parking or other areas specified in the table contained in Section 352.10 requiring screening from public streets.
(c) Island Strip. An Island Strip is a landscaped area located within an off-street parking area as required by the table contained in Section 352.10 to guide traffic circulation, reduce glare and temperature extremes, and improve the appearance of the parking area.
(d) Screen Barrier. A Screen Barrier is a fence, wall, or evergreen landscape screening concealing uses specified in the table contained in Section 352.10 from view from the ground floor level adjoining properties and from the street.
(Ord. No. 3077-A-89. Passed 6-17-91, eff. 7-27-91)
(a) Transition Strips. Any use located on a lot having a rear or interior side lot line abutting or across a court or alley right-of-way from a zoning district with a lower index number as provided in the table contained in Section 352.08 shall install a Transition Strip along such lot line as required by the table contained in Section 352.09.
(b) Other. Frontage Strips, Island Strips, and Screen Barriers shall be required as provided in the table contained in Section 352.10.
(c) Uses Approved By BOZA. Because certain uses require approval by the Board of Zoning Appeals under this chapter because of their potential to create land use conflicts, in order to reduce such conflicts such uses may be required by the Board to provide landscaping or screening that exceeds the requirements herein.
(d) Exceptions.
(1) Screening on Abutting Lot. No screening shall be required along a lot line if screening meeting all other requirements therefor exists along such lot line on the abutting lot or lots. If such existing screening is lawfully discontinued, screening on the subject lot meeting the requirements herein shall be installed within sixty (60) days of the discontinuation.
(2) Below-grade Areas. The height of a Frontage Strip or Screen Barrier along a lot line which adjoins a below-grade parking or loading area may be reduced by an amount which reflects the difference in grade between the parking or loading area and the area along the lot line. Specifically, such difference in grade shall be determined by comparing the highest point of the finished grade of the parking or loading area and the average grade of the strip of lot area within four (4) feet of the lot line.
(3) Shared Driveway. No screening shall be required along that portion of a lot line along which there is a driveway or vehicular circulation aisle that is shared with an abutting lot.
(4) Building Walls. A building wall meeting the requirements herein shall qualify as wall screening under the table contained in Section 352.11 if its location along the lot line is legally nonconforming or is permitted under yard and setback requirements of this chapter.
(5) Temporary Uses. A temporary use shall not be subject to the provisions of this chapter if it has been issued a permit by the Commissioner of Building and Housing limiting its duration to two hundred seventy (270) days or less, or such a permit and no more than one renewal thereof for no more than ninety (90) additional days. Temporary "for hire" parking lots, however, shall be subject to the applicable requirements contained in Chapter 457 of the Codified Ordinances.
(6) Downtown. No Transition Strip or Screen Barrier shall be required in the Central Business District as defined in Section 325.12 except as a condition to a use requiring either approval under this chapter by the Board of Zoning Appeals or design review approval under Chapter 341 (the Public Land Protective District) or under Chapter 161 (the Landmarks District). Frontage Strips and Island Strips shall be required in the Central Business District, except as otherwise provided herein.
(7) Built-up Lots. The Commissioner of Building and Housing shall waive the requirement for installation of any Strip or Screen Barrier, or reduce any of the required dimensions thereof, for a new use on any developed lot where it has been determined by the Director of the City Planning Commission that:
A. there is insufficient space to allow its installation; or
B. the Strip or Barrier could not be installed without creating either a violation of any provision of this chapter or a greater degree of nonconformity therewith; or
C. installation would impede essential access onto or within the lot.
No waiver shall be granted if a reduction in dimensions of the Strip or Barrier would allow its installation, and any such reduction shall be the minimum needed to permit the installation, as determined by the Director of the City Planning Commission.
(8) Access Ways. Transition Strips and Frontage Strips shall not be required along the width of access ways. Width of access ways shall not be counted for purposes of spacing requirements in the table contained in Section 352.11.
(9) Lots Without Water Supply. On any lot on which access to City water for irrigation required for landscaping is unavailable or impractical in the judgment of the Director of the City Planning Commission (such as may be the case with a parking lot not associated with a building), the Director may approve exceptions as provided herein.
A. In lieu of the trees and shrubs required by the table contained in Section 352.11:
1. Where feasible in his or her judgment, the Director may approve installation on the lot of drought-resistant xeriscape varieties generally equivalent in number and dimensions to the installations required by the table.
2. Otherwise, the Director may approve waiving the requirement for shrubs and in lieu of the requirement for trees may approve installation of street trees in the public right-of-way abutting the lot. Such street trees shall meet the requirements of the table for trees and shall be approved by the Division of Urban Forestry of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Properties.
B. In lieu of living ground cover in a landscaped strip required as set forth in the table contained in Section 352.11 and division (c) of Section 352.05, the Director may approve exclusive use of non-living materials, such as barks, stones or sand, in an ornamental arrangement but not artificial plants or artificial turf. If in his or her judgment use of non-living materials is impractical, the Director may approve waiving the requirement for the landscaped strip.
(10) Alleys. No Frontage Strip shall be required abutting any alley or court, as defined in Section 309.09, except as may be required in Chapter 457 of the Codified Ordinances.
(11) Vision Clearance Triangle. Notwithstanding any other provision herein, no part of any wall, fence, hedge, berm, or other opaque landscaping or screening obstruction, except for tree trunks and open fences (as defined herein), shall project between 2.5 feet and 8 feet above grade within any vision clearance triangle.
The vision clearance triangle shall be the area formed by the right-of-way lines of two streets or a street and a railroad, or the right-of-way line of a street and the edge of the pavement of a driveway, between their at-grade intersection and points 25 feet therefrom along each line, or 10 feet in the case of a driveway, and a straight line connecting those two points. The restrictions for vision clearance triangles shall not apply with regard to driveways on lots in one-family or two-family zoning districts.
(12) Parking Districts. No Transition Strip shall be required abutting a Parking District, as defined by the provisions of Chapter 339 of the Codified Ordinances. On a lot used for accessory parking in a Parking District, abutting any Residence District a Medium Intensity Transition Strip shall be required. On a lot in a Parking District developed in another use, the required Transition Strip shall be as determined by the table contained in Section 352.09.
(13) Other. Other exceptions may be approved by the Board of Zoning Appeals under provisions for variances in Chapter 329.
(Ord. No. 3077-A-89. Passed 6-17-91, eff. 7-27-91)
(a) For any use required to provide any Transition Strip, Frontage Strip, or Island Strip, a Landscape Plan shall be filed with an application for:
(1) rezoning (map amendment); or
(2) any use requiring approval by the Board of Zoning Appeals; or
(3) any variance from landscaping or screening requirements; or
(4) Building Permit or Certificate of Occupancy.
The requirement for submission of a landscape plan shall be deferred in any instance in which the specific use of the premises, and therefore the parking, loading, or other requirements on which the requirements herein are based, are not yet determined, such as in the case of an industrial subdivision the future uses within which are not yet known.
(b) The Landscape Plan shall conform to the requirements of the table contained in Section 352.12.
(c) No Landscape Plan shall be required for uses required to provide only a Screen Barrier as provided in the table contained in Section 352.10. The application shall, however, describe the dimensions, materials, color, and location of the Screen Barrier.
(Ord. No. 3077-A-89. Passed 6-17-91, eff. 7-27-91)
(a) Permitted Forms of Screening. Screening required in item 2 of the table contained in Section 352.11 and the Screen Barrier required in the table contained in Section 352.10 may take the form of:
(1) a landscaped earthen berm;
(2) a concrete or masonry wall;
(3) a wood, wrought iron, tubular steel, or similar decorative fence as approved by the Director of the City Planning Commission as compatible with the character of the area in which the fence is to be placed;
(4) a compact hedge or other live evergreen vegetative barrier; or
(5) a combination thereof.
Fences and walls used to meet screening requirements shall display a finished face toward adjacent streets and properties.
(b) Types of Landscaping Materials. As determined by the Commissioner of Parks and Urban Forestry or in accordance with standards promulgated by said Commissioner, all varieties of living landscape materials used shall be:
(1) healthy, hardy, and drought-resistant consistent with the availability of water for artificial irrigation; and
(2) suitable for the climate and environmental influences on the site, such as exposure to sun, wind, water, heat, automobile exhaust fumes, and road salt; and
(3) compatible with the slope of the site, with existing vegetation to be preserved and with utility lines above or below ground level; and
(4) not prone to cause a nuisance within the public right of way as a result of dropping fruit or debris other than leaves. Where vulnerable to damage, materials shall be protected from pedestrian or vehicular traffic by grates, pavers or other measures.
(c) Ground Cover In Landscaped Strips. Grass or other ground cover shall be planted over all landscaped strips including earthen faces of berms, except in areas planted in flowers, shrubs, or trees, so as to present a finished appearance and reasonably complete coverage within three months after planting.
Non-living landscaping materials such as sand, stones, rocks, or barks may be substituted for living cover over a maximum of thirty percent (30%) of the landscaped area. No artificial plants or turf shall be used.
(d) Preservation of Landscaping.
(1) Credit Toward Requirements. The Commissioner of Building and Housing shall credit healthy trees or shrubs existing on a site prior to development and proposed to be preserved toward the requirements of the table contained in Section 352.11.
Except as provided herein for bonus credits, each preserved tree or shrub meeting the applicable requirements of the table contained in Section 352.11 shall reduce by one the number of new trees or shrubs required.
(2) Bonus Credit for Larger Trees. Larger preserved trees shall reduce the number of new trees required in the table contained in Section 352.11 as follows:
| Trunk Caliper of Existing Tree to be Preserved* |
Reduction in Number of New Trees Required | |
| 8 - 16 inches | 2 trees | |
| Over 16 inches | 3 trees | |
| *Measured 4.5 feet above grade at base. | ||
(e) Tree Protection During Construction. An applicant claiming a credit for preservation of existing trees and shrubs under division (d) of Section 352.05 shall file with the Commissioner of Parks and Urban Forestry a written statement certifying that all trees and shrubs are currently healthy and that the requirements of division (e) of Section 352.05 will be adhered to with respect to the trees for which the credit is claimed.
(1) Mechanical and Chemical Injury. Because mechanical injuries to trees intended to be preserved can be caused by soil compaction, unnecessary cutting of roots, fire, collisions with heavy equipment, carelessness with tools, and girdling with guy wires, and chemical injury caused by solvents, thinners, paints, oils, and other materials, protective barriers are required as described herein.
A. Enclosure of Drip Line Area. A fence, roping, flagging, or other protective barrier shall enclose the area within the drip line or lines, and any exposed roots outside of such line or lines, of each tree or group of trees proposed for preservation. Such barrier shall be visible enough to be seen easily by equipment operators.
Removal of brush and weeds within this barrier shall be performed with hand tools only. To avoid chemical damage to trees, equipment shall not be cleaned within the barrier.
No equipment materials, fill, or debris shall be stored within the barrier except as may be necessary for a reasonable time if no other storage area is available.
B. Bark Protection. Trunks of trees to be preserved that surround the immediate building site and border access roads shall be wrapped with sections of snow fence or boards wired together.
No nails or spikes shall be driven into trees to be preserved, nor shall such trees be used for signs, fencing, roping, or cables.
(2) Grade Changes. Because changing the grade of the land surrounding a tree can impair the ability of its roots to obtain necessary amounts of air, water, and land minerals, protective measures shall be taken as specified in this division.
A. Raising of Grade. Before the grade of the land around a tree to be preserved is raised by land filling, the party undertaking the grading shall:
1. install an aeration system consisting of a dry well around the trunk together with a layer of gravel and stone and a system of drain tiles over the root system at the level of the original grade. Such system shall be configured to provide, in the judgment of the Commissioner of Parks and Urban Forestry, adequate air and water circulation and drainage of water away from the trunk; or
2. if an aeration system is impractical or financially infeasible, take other measures approved by the Commissioner of Parks and Urban Forestry to protect the tree.
B. Exemption. Fills are exempt from the requirements of this division if they:
1. are 6 inches or less in depth; and
2. consist only of porous, loamy, or gravelly soil high in organic matter; and
3. do not contain clay, marl, or other heavy, impervious fills of any depth.
C. Lowering of Grade. To protect trees intended to be preserved from removal of or damage to feeder roots or changes to the water table, the area within the drip line shall be separated from the lowered grade by either terracing or, for grade differences of less than 2 feet, construction of a dry retaining wall.
(3) Excavations
A. Location. Excavations for utility pipelines shall be routed within the drip line of a tree to be preserved only if in the judgment of the Commissioner of Parks and Urban Forestry:
1. no other route for the lines bypassing the root area is practical; and
2. tunneling under the roots with a power-driven soil augur is impractical or financially infeasible in relation to the value of the tree.
B. Root Protection. Parties excavating within the root area shall:
1. minimize the number of roots cut, especially of large main roots; and
2. cleanly cut with proper tools such roots as must be cut and retrim them after excavation; and
3. paint cuts of roots of 1/4-inch diameter or larger with a wound dressing like orange shellac or asphalt-based paint; and
4. backfill the trench as soon after excavation as possible to minimize the time roots are exposed to the air; and
5. leave no pockets of air when back filling; and
6. mix peat moss with fill soil to promote new growth.
(4) Damage Mitigation. Where, despite the foregoing provisions, significant damage has been done to the roots, the tree shall be fertilized and excess branches that cannot be supported by the remaining undamaged roots shall be pruned.
Tree limbs damaged during construction shall be sawed off flush to the trunk.
(5) Removal of Barriers. Protective fences and barriers around trees shall be removed only as the final stage of post-construction cleanup.
(f) Berming. Berms used for screening shall be a minimum of 2 feet high at all points. The interior face of a berm may be retained by a wall, terrace, or other means acceptable to the Commissioner of Building and Housing in lieu of taking the form of an earthen slope.
All earthen berm faces on which ground cover is not yet completely established shall be protected from erosion by a mulch and/or an erosion control net.
Slopes for earthen faces shall not exceed thirty-three percent (33%) if covered with grass and fifty percent (50%) if covered with other vegetative cover.
(g) Curbing. All landscaped strips located in or abutting parking areas shall be separated on all sides from the parking surface by curbing consisting of concrete, stone, brick, asphalt, or other material approved by the Commissioner of Building and Housing as having comparable appearance and durability. Curbing shall be in good condition upon installation.
(h) Other. Other requirements shall be as specified in the table contained in Section 352.11.
(Ord. No. 3077-A-89. Passed 6-17-91, eff. 7-27-91)
(a) Assurance of Installation. Before issuing any Certificate of Occupancy for any application to which the provisions of this chapter apply, the Commissioner of Building and Housing shall determine that either:
(1) landscaping and screening required hereunder have been fully installed; or
(2) if seasonal or weather conditions or other factors preclude such installation at the time of application, that financial sureties have been submitted to guarantee installation within nine (9) months of the date of issuance of the certificate.
Financial sureties shall be in the form of a performance bond, letter of credit, cash or property escrow, or other form approved by the Commissioner of Building and Housing. They shall be in the amount of one hundred ten percent (110%) of the estimated cost of the materials and their installation based on figures approved by the Commissioner of Urban Forestry.
(b) Installation Procedures. All living landscaping materials shall be installed in conformance with the most current procedures established by the American Association of Nurserymen or its successor organization. A permanently-installed underground irrigation system shall be provided for a required landscape area if it is determined by the Commissioner of Parks and Urban Forestry that such irrigation is required for proper maintenance of the type of landscape materials proposed for installation.
(c) Maintenance and Replacement. The owner, occupant, tenant, and agent of each, if any, shall be jointly and severally responsible for the maintenance, repair, and replacement of all landscaping, screening, and curbing required under this chapter so as to preserve at least the same quantity, quality, and screening effectiveness as initially installed.
A preserved existing tree to which a bonus credit was applied that dies or is destroyed shall be replaced by either:
(1) a replacement tree of equal or greater caliper; or
(2) the trees required by the table contained in Section 352.11 without the bonus credit.
All living and non-living landscaping, including fences, walls, and ornamental lighting, shall be maintained in a good condition at all times so as to present a healthy, neat, and orderly appearance and shall be kept free from refuse and debris.
Any unhealthy or dead vegetation shall be replaced with healthy living plantings no later than the end of the next applicable planting season.
(d) Removal. Installed landscaping and screening may not be removed except temporarily for replacement or maintenance unless the zoning of an abutting parcel is changed to a district that does not require a Transition Strip or unless any other condition that mandates landscaping or screening hereunder no longer applies to the property.
(Ord. No. 3077-A-89. Passed 6-17-91, eff. 7-27-91)
No other portion of this Code, and no other ordinance, regulation, or redevelopment agreement, is intended to be repealed or abrogated by this chapter.
(a) More Restrictive Requirement Applies. If any other part of this or any other City ordinance, or any other law, regulation, Community Development Plan approved pursuant to Section 317.02, redevelopment agreement, or any kind of private agreement, covenant, or easement applying within the City, establishes a requirement different from that established in this chapter, the provision that is the more restrictive or that imposes the higher standard shall govern.
(b) Nonconformities
(1) Nonconformities May Continue. A use lawfully existing immediately before the effective date of this chapter or any amendment thereto that does not conform to all applicable requirements hereof, may continue without such conformance without time limit except as provided herein.
(2) When Board Determination Required. Notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter 359, on or after such effective date a determination by the Board of Zoning Appeals as provided herein shall be required prior to the issuance of a Building Permit or Certificate of Occupancy for any such use, or any alteration thereof, for either of the following:
A. Change of Use. Any change from one use to another, as determined by the Commissioner of Building and Housing, whether or not a period of vacancy has intervened.
Such determination shall be guided by factors such as whether uses are named separately in the Use District regulations of Chapter 335 and 345, whether uses are subject to different requirements for parking under the Off-Street Parking and Loading chapter thereof, or other reasonable factors judged appropriate by the Commissioner.
B. Expansion of Use. An expansion of any use required to provide landscaping or screening under the tables contained in Sections 352.09 and 352.10, respectively, exceeds both:
1. fifteen percent (15%) of the land area or floor area the use occupies; and
2. one thousand (1,000) square feet of such area.
(3) Criteria for Determination. The Board shall determine whether and to what degree the use shall comply with the requirements of this chapter as a condition of such Permit or Certificate.
The Board shall require full or partial compliance therewith if such compliance would not require:
A. acquisition of additional land; or
B. full or partial removal or relocation of a sound major structure or structures; or
C. creation of other circumstances that would produce undue hardship or practical difficulties.
Issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy for construction pursuant to an unexpired Building Permit issued before the effective date of this chapter shall not require action by the Board.
(4) Nonconforming Refuse Disposal Areas. Notwithstanding other provisions of this section, an accessory refuse disposal area which is a legal nonconforming use with respect to the screening requirements of this chapter shall be screened to meet all such requirements prior to issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy for any exterior construction of alterations to structures or pavement area on the subject property.
(c) Approval by the Director of the City Planning Commission. Where approval is required by the Director of the City Planning Commission, the Director may refer such decision for action by the City Planning Commission, if, in the opinion of the Director, the circumstances of a particular application do not provide sufficient guidance for an administrative decision.
(Ord. No. 3077-A-89. Passed 6-17-91, eff. 7-27-91)
| Index Number | Zoning District Type | |
| 0 | Limited One-, One- and Two-Family | |
| 2 | Limited Multi-Family and Multi-Family | |
| 3 | Institutional [a] | |
| 4 | Residence-Office | |
| 5 | Local Retail and University (College) Retail | |
| 6 | Shopping Center Retail and General Retail | |
| 7 | Residence-Industry and Semi-Industry | |
| 8 | General Industy | |
| 10 | Unrestricted Industry |
| Difference Between Index Numbers* | Screening Intensity Required In Transition Strip | |
| 0 | No Strip Required | |
| 2 | Light | |
| 3 | Medium | |
| 4-5 | Heavy | |
| 6 or more | Maximum** |
| Use | Frontage Strip | Island Strip [e] | Screen Barrier | |||
| 1. Open off-street parking spaces: | ||||||
| Over 10 spaces [c][d] | Medium [j] | — | — | |||
| Over 100 spaces [c] | Medium [j] | Light | — | |||
| 2. Open sales lots and service stations | Light | — | — | |||
| 3. Outdoor storage | — | — | [b] | |||
| 4. Open service and refuse disposal areas | — | — | [b] | |||
| 5. Electrical and mechanical equipment [f] | — | — | [b] | |||
| 6. Utility stations[g] | — | — | [b] | |||
| 7. Any open off-street loading space [h] | — | — | [b] | |||
| 8. Junk yard and auto wrecking yards | — | — | [b] | |||
| 9. Residential side yards abutting arterials [i] —: No requirement | heavy | — | — | |||
Light: Installation of Light intensity (see table in Section 352.11) is required.
Medium: Installation of Medium intensity (see table in Section 352.11) is required.
[a] Requirements herein shall not apply to single-family detached or attached, two-family, or townhouse dwellings except where parking, refuse disposal, or other uses are provided collectively for more than 2 dwellings.
[b] Installation is required of screening with seventy-five percent (75%) or greater opacity of sufficient height to conceal uses specified herein from view from the ground floor level on adjoining properties and from the street.
[c] Minimum Parking Lot Landscaping. Except in the Central Business District as defined in Section 325.12, a minimum of five percent (5%) of the parking area shall consist of landscaping. Any required Strip may be credited toward this requirement.
[d] Or a lot of any number of spaces with parking along over 50 feet of street frontage.
[e] Island Strips shall have a minimum area of 100 square feet each and shall be separated by no more than 20 parking spaces. Island Strips shall not be required for valet parking areas, as defined herein.
[f] Equipment such as transformers or air conditioners in the open on the ground but protruding above grade, or on a roof and protruding above a roof or parapet line.
[g] Electric substations, telephone exchanges, telephone terminal boxes over 20 cubic feet, and similar utility uses, except in Industrial Districts.
[h] Any open off-street loading space shall have a minimum screen barrier height of 6 feet.
[i] Residential Side Yards Abutting Arterials. Required on lots in Single- and Two-Family and Attached Residential Districts having a corner side lot line abutting an arterial street prior to issuance of a Certificate of Zoning Compliance for construction of any new principal building thereupon.
[j] "for hire" parking lots shall comply with the visual screening requirements of Chapter 457 of the Codified Ordinances, where such requirements are more restrictive than the requirements of this chapter.
(Ord. No. 3077-A-89. Passed 6-17-91, eff. 7-27-91)
| Screening Intensity | ||||||||||
| Light | Medium | Heavy | Maximum | |||||||
| 1. | Landscaped Strip | |||||||||
| WIDTH in ft. [b] | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | ||||||
| 2. | Screening | |||||||||
| a. HEIGHT in feet [d][e] | — | 2.5 | 4 | 6 | ||||||
| b. Year-round OPACITY [f] | — | 50% | 75% | 75% | ||||||
| 3. | Trees | |||||||||
| a. SPACING in feet [a] | 50 | 40 | 30 | 20 | ||||||
| b. Evergreens: [g] HEIGHT in feet [c][d] | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | ||||||
| c. Deciduous: [g] CALIPER in inches [c][d] | 1.5 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | ||||||
| 4. | Shrubs | |||||||||
| a. SPACING in feet [a] | 20 | 16 | 12 | 10 | ||||||
| b. HEIGHT in feet [c][d] | 1.5 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | ||||||
All requirements 1 through 4 are mandatory; all figures are minimums.
[a] In linear feet of landscaped area. Spacing is mean average spacing: trees and shrubs are not required to be spaced uniformly. At least one tree shall be installed in each separate landscaped area.
[b] Except minimum width shall be 4 feet in the Central Business District, as defined in Section 325.12.
[c] At 1 foot above grade at base.
[d] At time of installation.
[e] Fence height as defined herein.
[f] By the end of the second growing season after installation, if a screen composed of landscaping is used.
[g] This requirement applies only if this type of tree is used.
[h] May be a fence, wall, berm, or landscape screening as provided in division (a) of Section 352.05.
(Ord. No. 3077-A-89. Passed 6-17-91, eff. 7-27-91)
In addition to other plans required under this chapter, three copies of a plan at a scale of 10 to 30 feet to the inch containing:
1. Basic Information
(a) Numeric and graphic scale, north arrow, and date of preparation;
(b) Name, address, and phone number of applicant and of preparer of the plan;
(c) Boundaries of the development and of each phase thereof;
(d) Lot lines and dimensions and areas of lots;
(e) A photograph taken within 30 days of the date of application of the site on which the landscaping is to be installed.
2. Existing Landscaping
(a) Existing wooded areas; and
(b) Existing isolated trees 4 inches or more in diameter at 1 foot above natural grade at the base of the tree.
3. Proposed Landscaping
(a) The following information about all proposed living and non-living landscaping materials, including materials to be preserved:
1. botanic and common names;
2. quantity and location;
3. height at installation and at maturity;
4. caliper at 1 foot above proposed grade.
(b) Proposed ground cover; types and boundaries.
(c) Proposed berming locations and contours at 1-foot intervals.
(d) Dimensions and descriptions, renderings, elevations, or photographs indicating the external appearance of proposed fences, walls, ornamental lighting and other non-landscaping elements.
(e) Measures to be taken to protect new and preserved trees during construction.
(f) Any other information the Commissioner of Building and Housing requires to determine compliance with this chapter.
(Ord. No. 3077-A-89. Passed 6-17-91, eff. 7-27-91)