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City staff outlines plan to assess and enforce commercial landscape requirements
Summary
City staff told the Highland Village City Council at an April work session that an arborist-led review of commercial landscaping is under way, with code enforcement cases opened where approved plans differ from site conditions; staff said limitations include locating older approved plans and limited enforcement resources.
At an April work session, city staff presented a plan to identify and bring commercial properties into compliance with Highland Village’s landscape requirements.
The presentation, led by a city staff member identified in the meeting as Mr. Christen with Streets and Codes Manager Don Strange assisting, said staff are using a licensed arborist to compare current site conditions to approved landscape plans and then route findings to code enforcement for possible action. “Document, document, document,” Mr. Christen told council when describing the evidence-gathering approach.
Staff reported initial findings from research and field work: roughly 131 commercial water meters appear in the corridor areas (FM 407 and FM 2499), and about 80 platted commercial lots. Many older commercial sites predate planned-development (PD) approvals with detailed, council-approved landscape plans, so staff are compiling PD plans where available and handing one property at a time to an arborist for a condition assessment.
The arborist produces side-by-side comparisons of the approved plan and existing conditions; staff then determine whether a code violation…
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