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Peachtree City planners debate strict native-plant standards, ask staff to return options
Summary
Peachtree City Planning Commission reviewed a draft amendment to Article 11 that would require native plants for regulated landscapes, sparking debate over numeric standards (75% vs. 60%), special-purpose garden carve-outs and city exemptions; staff will return revised options and a public hearing is required before any vote.
Peachtree City planners spent the bulk of their Dec. 15 meeting reviewing a draft text amendment to Article 11 of the land development ordinance that would encourage or require use of native plants in commercial, institutional and city projects while exempting residential yards.
Kenneth Hamner, the drafter who presented the proposal, said the measure aims "to encourage requiring native plants, to reduce long term maintenance costs associated with water, chemicals, replacement plants, etc., and then also improving just our ecological resilience." The draft would require 100% native plantings for certain buffers, stormwater facilities and city projects and at least 75% native…
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