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Board hears overview of county landscape ordinance; staff outlines flexibility and enforcement limits
Summary
Planning staff reviewed the county's landscape ordinance, its history, flexibility in design and constraints on amending proffers or SUP conditions. Supervisors discussed maintenance costs, practical implementation and tree programs for canopy preservation.
James City County planning staff gave the Board of Supervisors an overview of the county’s landscape ordinance, its origin in past comprehensive plans and the mechanisms available to modify or enforce landscaping requirements attached to approved site plans and special use permits.
Planning staff Paul Holt told the board the county’s landscape requirements date to the 1975 comprehensive plan and that the current ordinance — in place in some form for roughly 35 years — sets minimum plant sizes, required mixes of overstory and understory trees, screening standards…
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