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Town staff outlines draft landscape and open-space standards; steering process to continue
Summary
Town staff described draft landscape and open-space standards to the advisory committee, including street-tree, buffer, vehicular-use landscaping and open-space requirements; the subcommittee plans further testing, Planning Board review and a June council adoption target.
Town planning staff told the Parks and Greenways Advisory Committee that the town is drafting new landscape and open-space standards to better align the development code with the Woodfin Together comprehensive plan. Staff said this effort is a targeted code amendment that will move forward more quickly than the full comprehensive code update, which is expected to take 1416 months.
The draft standards the town is testing include:
- Street-tree requirements for road frontage and new streets, with trees placed within 20 feet of the pavement edge where feasible. - Buffer yards between residential and commercial zoning, with planting rates expressed as a number of trees and shrubs per 100 linear feet and a mix of…
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