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Draft captions native-planting standards, street-tree coordination and parking‑lot screening
Summary
The code rewrite introduces street-fronting green-belt requirements, a woody vegetation quota for required open space, stricter parking‑lot landscaping, and a high-percentage native‑plant requirement; commissioners asked that the city expand noxious‑species lists and clarify replacement/maintenance obligations.
Article 5’s landscaping provisions were discussed at length. The draft introduces standards intended to improve tree canopy, increase native plantings and provide screening between incompatible uses.
What the draft would do - Frontage green belt: new buildings and expansions of 10 percent or greater in gross floor area would be required to provide a frontage green belt and street trees; the planning commission can waive the…
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