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York County adopts tighter landscape and greenbelt standards, encourages native plants
Summary
On Feb. 18 the York County Board of Supervisors adopted ordinance 25‑4, revising the zoning code’s landscaping, transitional‑buffer and greenbelt rules to require professional plans in many commercial cases, rebalance planting ratios for better screening, and promote native plants.
The York County Board of Supervisors adopted proposed ordinance 25‑4 on Feb. 18, amending the county zoning code to update landscaping standards, transitional buffers and greenbelt regulations.
Planning staff told the board the ordinance is a reorganization and modernization of lengthy code language and highlighted several substantive changes: (1) in many instances commercial and industrial site plans must be prepared by a qualified professional (landscape architect, Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional, certified…
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