10-15-1 Purpose And Intent

This chapter provides standards for landscaping within the city. It is intended to ensure that the policies of the General Plan related to increasing the attractiveness of the city and enhancing neighborhood character includes appropriate landscaping. The city recognizes the aesthetic, ecological, and economic value of landscaping and requires its use to: A. Reduce the rate and volume of storm water runoff. B. Promote compatibility between land uses and create buffer areas by reducing the visual, noise, and lighting impacts from adjoining properties. C. Unify development within the districts, corridors, and neighborhood zones throughout the city. D. Promote the retention of existing vegetation and restore natural communities through re-establishment of native plants. E. Reduce the visual and audio impacts of automobile related infrastructure (parking lots, driveways and roads). F. Promote healthy outdoor recreational activities. G. Reduce greenhouse gases and the negative environmental impacts created from automobiles and development. H. Using the landscape to compliment the built environment and achieving the principals and goals set forth in the design guidelines. I. Promote water efficient landscaping that reduces the demand of the city's water resources.