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Woodfin staff outline draft landscape ordinance adding street-tree, buffer and open-space standards
Summary
Town staff described a draft landscape ordinance that would require street trees, vehicular-use-area landscaping, a 20-foot vegetated buffer next to residential zoning, incentives for tree preservation and a 15% open-space requirement for residential subdivisions.
Town staff presented a draft landscape ordinance during the May 14 Parks and Greenway Advisory Committee meeting that would add new landscaping and open-space requirements to Woodfin’s development code.
The ordinance would require street trees for new development with road frontage, vehicular use area (VUA) landscaping at a rate of one required tree per 1,500 square feet of vehicular use area, and a 20-foot vegetated buffer between residential and nonresidential zoning where developments abut neighborhoods.
The presenter said the draft includes tree-spacing and maturity-size standards, exemptions for very small projects, and incentives for tree preservation. Small projects (for…
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