Secondary and Cumulative Impacts Master Management Plan - 2014

Article 5: Development Standards Section 5.12. Landscaping 5.12.6. Street Trees in the Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) and Main Street (MS) Districts

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This requirement shall not apply to a building foundation constructed along or within one foot of the street right-of-way boundary, or along those parts of a building facade containing building entrances, driveways into garages or carports, or loading docks. Required shrubs shall be planted within five feet of the building foundation, or of any patio, terrace, or courtyard extending from the foundation. Required shrubs shall maintain a maximum on- center spacing of six feet, and be evenly- distributed along foundation walls. Required shrubs may be planted in the ground, within planters, or in decorative pots. (See Figure 5.12.5: Foundation plantings.)

C. Foundation Planting Standards

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Figure 5.12.5: Foundation plantings.

5.12.6. Street Trees in the Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) and Main Street (MS) Districts 450 A. Purpose 451 Street trees are intended to enhance the aesthetic and environmental benefits of the Town‘s urban streetscape environment by serving as a unifying element for urban street corridors, enhancing the appearance and livability of the Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) and Main Street (MS) Districts, and providing shading of streets and sidewalks. B. Applicability 452 Within the Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) District and the Main Street (MS) District, all new development shall provide street trees along the development‘s frontage with any public street, including alleys serving residential development. C. Location 453 Street trees shall be provided within a planting strip in the street right-of-way that is located between the roadway and the property line and is at least six feet wide. Where such a planting strip does not exist or is impractical to provide, the Planning Director and Town Engineer may allow street trees to be provided within tree pits that are at least 25 square feet in area and located adjacent to the back of the curb, or within an adjoining streetyard buffer or vehicle use area‘s perimeter landscaping strip on the development site.

D. Configuration

1. Street trees shall be shade trees of species and varieties appropriate to the intended functions of street trees and their location next to roadways and sidewalks. (See the list of appropriate street tree species and varieties listed in the administrative manual.) 454

450 The current Zoning Ordinance requires street trees only in the Town Center Main Street district (Part E. Art. IV, Sec. 3.3.C(iii)). This subsection caries forward those street tree standards with some modifications and additions. 451 This new subsection states the purpose served by requiring street trees. 452 This carries forward the current applicability of street tree requirements to the Main Street District and expands it to the TOD District. 453 This carries forward the current planting strip standards and adds provisions allowing alternative locations where a planting strip does not exists or is impractical to provide.

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