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Council broadens landscaping options to allow rock mulch beyond limited zones
Summary
The council voted to adopt a text amendment that gives property owners broader flexibility to use rock mulch in front-yard and parking-lot planters citywide (except where overlays prohibit it), responding to developer requests and questions about maintenance and erosion control.
The Ames City Council on Oct. 14 voted to broaden city landscaping standards to permit rock mulch more widely in front-yard and parking-lot planter areas, adopting alternative 2 from staff’s options. Staff presented the issue after the ISU Research Park requested the change because a newly built site experienced erosion that rock mitigated.
Staff told council that the code had previously allowed rock mulch only in limited contexts (foundation planters…
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