Landscaping requirements are established to:
A. Promote the public health, safety and welfare of residents
by requiring that all developments landscape their land, including
parking areas.
B. Establish minimum landscaping standards and criteria
for all developments.
C. Minimize unnecessary clearing and disturbing of land
to ensure protection of natural, existing flora and replace native
flora that has been removed.
D. Reduce the effects of wind and air turbulence, heat,
noise and the glare of lighting.
E. Provide unpaved areas within developments and regulate
the amount of impervious surface to ensure the absorption of stormwater.
G. Provide shaded areas in developments.
H. Protect property values and character of neighborhoods.
I. Ensure that the development of new parking areas have
minimal visual effects on the neighborhood.
The provisions of this article shall apply to
all uses requiring site plan approval or special permit approval.
Nothing in this section shall limit the ability of an approving Board
to require more extensive landscaping, or specific types of vegetation,
or placement of landscaping.