Zoning Text Amendment - Sec. 123-6 - Required Landscape Bond 
Replacing Landscape Bond Requirement with a Landscape Maintenance Agreement;
Sec.123-7- Enforcement
Inspections and Violation of Landscape Maintenance

The existing site plan review and approval process requires the property owner to provide security through a landscape bond as a means to ensure that all approved landscaping is installed and maintained after approval. This methodology places additional costs on property owners. The City, through code enforcement provisions, is able to inspect and require that all approved landscaping is maintained, protected and replaced as required.

The Landscape Maintenance agreement shall be attached to the approved Landscape Plan and shall note that all approved landscaping shall be installed, irrigated, and maintained in perpetuity in accordance with section 123-37, in order that it continues to present a healthy, neat, and orderly appearance free of refuse and debris, in conformity with the following requirements:

a.    Vegetation required by this article shall be replaced with equivalent or better vegetation if it is not living. All trees for which credit is awarded and which subsequently die shall be replaced by the same or greater number of living trees according to the standards established in this article.

b.    Maintenance shall include sufficient weeding, watering, fertilizing, pruning, mowing, edging, mulching and other horticultural practices to ensure that the landscaping continues to maintain a healthy, neat, and orderly appearance.

The landscape maintenance agreement for required landscaping shall be approved by the Planning Department prior to issuance of a certificate of occupancy (CO).

 

Approve the replacement of the Landscape Bond with a Landscape Maintenace Agreement.

Approve with Modifications.

or

Disapprove

Kev Freeman, Planning Director.

Technical Review Committee. (September 21, 2023).