[Added 2-6-2007 by Ord. No. 07-01]
The purpose of this article is to indicate the
minimum requirements for the landscaping of street frontages, highway
buffer yards, paved areas, building foundations; and landscaped buffer
yards; for screening of outdoor trash areas and other outdoor storage;
and for the preservation and restoration of woodland areas.
A.
Applicability. Any use for which site plan review is required under § 305-94, or for which a variance is required, shall provide landscaping in accordance with the regulations of this section. A landscape plan prepared by an individual experienced in landscape design in accordance with this section shall be submitted as part of all applications for site plan review under § 305-94. In the event that a proposed addition, or last in a series of additions, would bring the total building size to 133% or greater than the original building size, all quantitative landscaping standards in this section shall be met in full. In other instances, the quantitative landscaping standards shall be met to the extent determined practical by the Planning Commission.
B.
Required landscape plan. All proposed landscape plantings,
berm elevations, and screening structures to be located on the subject
property shall be depicted as to their location, type, and size at
time of planting and maturity.
C.
Landscape planting requirements. Landscaping living plants shall be provided based on the following requirements for street frontages, paved areas, building foundations, buffer yards, and general yard areas. These requirements are additive to each other and any other landscaping or screening requirements in this chapter. Credit for existing landscape plantings that are retained and protected with the development of this site shall be allowed. The point system is described in greater detail in Subsection D.
(1)
Streets and highways.
(a)
Street frontages. One large deciduous tree shall
be planted for each 50 feet of property line along a public street
right-of-way and private streets. Said trees shall be planted in the
public terrace equidistant from the curb and the normal sidewalk line
or on the private site within 10 feet of the property line adjoining
the public right-of-way, at the discretion of the Village.
(b)
Lots backing onto state and county highways.
For all lots backing onto state and county highways, landscape buffer
yards shall be provided on private property and shall meet the following
requirements:
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Types of Plants Required
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Minimum Quantity of Each Plant
Type Required Per 100 Feet of Buffer Yard Length
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Minimum Required Buffer Yard
Width
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Minimum Structure Type
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Canopy/shade trees
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1.7
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15
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2- to 3-foot berm, undulating
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Trees/small deciduous and evergreen
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3.4
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Shrubs
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13.6
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(2)
Paved areas. One large deciduous tree and 60 points
of additional landscaping shall be planted for each 1,500 square feet
of paving. Paving is defined as all hard-surfaced areas within the
ground plane, including but not limited to parking stalls, driveways,
trash enclosure pads, loading docks, sidewalks, plazas and patios.
Plants required in this section shall be installed within landscaped
islands within the paved area or within 15 feet of the edges of the
paved area.
paved area
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(3)
Building foundations. 150 points of landscaping shall
be planted for each 100 lineal feet of exterior building wall. Plants
required by this section must be installed within 20 feet of the building
foundation and should not include large deciduous trees.
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(4)
Landscaped buffer yards. There shall be provided and
maintained a permanent buffer yard screen planting along any boundary
of a nonresidential zoning district which adjoins any residential
district or use. The plantings shall be designed to provide an all-season
screen, with an opacity of at least 60% at maturity (80% for outdoor
storage facilities). Buffer yard landscaping shall have a minimum
height of three feet at time of planting and shall be of such size
when planted as to reach the necessary screening height within three
years of planting. The use of berming or an opaque fence constructed
of materials compatible with the building on the site may be approved
by the Plan Commission in addition to or in lieu of landscaping. The
location of buffer yard plantings shall be within 25 feet of the property
line, except where necessary to avoid utility easements.
(5)
General yard areas. Two hundred additional points
of landscaping shall be planted for each 5,000 square feet of total
lot, site or parcel area. Landscaping required by this standard should
be placed where appropriate on the site but generally in those areas
not covered by other provisions of this section. At least 50% of the
general yard landscaping should be located in street yards.
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(6)
Other green areas. Green areas of the site not used
for landscape plantings shall be graded and seeded or sodded with
an acceptable maintainable lawn seed mix. Mulch of plantings or planting
beds is acceptable, provided that such mulching consists of organic
or natural materials. Mulches shall be installed so that they will
not erode, fall, be plowed or otherwise transported into walks, drives,
streets or other hard-surfaced portions of the site. Functional weed
barriers shall be installed in all areas to be mulched.
D.
Landscaping point credits. Credit for landscape plantings
will be granted based on the following schedule:
E.
Minimum landscaping size: At time of planting, plants
must be the following size.
(1)
Large deciduous tree: two-inch diameter at breast
height.
(2)
Small deciduous tree: one-and-one-half-inch diameter
breast height or five feet in height for clump varieties.
(3)
Evergreen tree: four feet in height.
(4)
Shrub: 18 inches in height.
(5)
Annual/perennial bed: minimum 20 contiguous square
feet in area.
F.
Installation. All landscaping shall be installed consistent
with industry-accepted standards and shall be guaranteed by the applicant
or the applicant's contractor for two years. Installation shall occur
prior to occupancy or commencement of operations, unless doing so
would result in unsatisfactory plant survival. In this case, landscaping
shall be installed within six months of occupancy or commencement
of operations, and the Village may require a performance guarantee,
such as a letter of credit, before a permit for building occupancy
is granted and until such landscaping is installed according to plan.
G.
Landscape maintenance. Landscaping required by this
subsection is intended to be a permanent site improvement. As such,
all landscaping shall be continually maintained in a live state. Maintenance
shall include periodic and timely watering, fertilizing, pruning and
any other such normally required horticulture activity necessary to
keep all landscaping in a healthy, safe and aesthetically pleasing
state. Recognizing that over time plants may mature and die or otherwise
expire because of natural or unnatural causes, maintenance shall include
the removal and replacement of dead or dying plants. Such replacement
shall occur within the same year in which a plant dies or in the spring
planting season of the following year.
H.
Location in utility easements. Planting in utility
easements is at the risk of the property owner. Any plants that must
be removed because of utility work within such easements shall be
replaced by the property owner at his or her cost.
I.
Required screening for trash areas.
(1)
All garbage cans, dumpsters, trash and recycling containers,
and other storage devices situated on any property shall be closed
containers with lids.
(2)
Where such containers are located outside a building,
they shall be completely concealed or screened from public view on
at least three sides by opaque fencing and gates at least six feet
in height, supplemented by screen landscaping. Such fence enclosure
shall be constructed of materials compatible with the materials on
the front building wall of the main building. Any existing screens
not meeting the height requirements need not be replaced solely as
a result of the height requirement. However, once the screening requires
substantial repair or replacement, it must conform with the height
requirement of this chapter.
(3)
All new outside trash dumpsters shall be placed upon
a dustless, all-weather hard surface such as concrete or asphalt.
(4)
Maintenance. Fencing and landscaping for storage areas
shall be maintained in good condition and kept litter-free. All garbage
cans, trash containers, and other garbage storage devices shall be
emptied and the contents properly disposed of not less than once every
seven days.
(5)
No portion of the lot shall be used for open or unenclosed
storage of trash or waste of any kind.
J.
Additional screening for outdoor storage areas. In cases where the nonresidential use includes areas dedicated to the outdoor storage of raw materials, finished and unfinished goods, industrial by-products and similar materials, and where the impact of such outdoor storage is deemed detrimental to the use and value of adjacent properties, the Plan Commission may require additional landscape plantings and/or screening structures for those areas in excess of those specified in Subsections A to I above.
[Amended 3-3-2020 by Ord. No. 20-03]
A.
Except as provided within § 305-18E(6), within a triangle formed by two intersecting public street right-of-way lines and a third line joining a point along each right-of-way line 15 feet from their intersection, and within a triangle formed by an intersecting public street and private driveway and a third line joining a point along each right-of-way or driveway pavement edge 10 feet from their intersection:
B.
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Editor's Note: Figure 305-1 is included as an attachment to this chapter.
A.
Applicability. All new development (including building
construction, other site improvements and/or site preparation), additions
to existing development (including building construction, other site
improvements and/or site preparation), certified survey maps, subdivision
plats, and condominium developments shall comply with the woodland
preservation standards set forth in this section.
(1)
Removal of existing mature woodlands other than those grown for commercial purposes from a property before any development approvals from the Village are sought shall not be allowed unless the property owner first obtains an occupancy permit under § 305-93 and meets the standards of this section for woodland preservation or mitigation. All woodlands required to be protected shall remain undisturbed and in a natural state except where mitigation is permitted in accord with requirements set forth in this section.
(2)
Existing woodlands, as applied to this article, shall
be based on the following sources:
(a)
The most recent aerial photographs (one inch
equals 400 feet) prepared by the Southwestern Wisconsin Regional Planning
Commission or Green County.
(b)
A field survey of trees compiled by a registered
land surveyor and identified by a landscape architect, forester, arborist,
or botanist with a professional degree in one of those fields.
(3)
The area of mature woodlands, in square feet or acres,
shall be measured and graphically delineated on the site plan and/or
application for occupancy permit.
B.
WOODLAND, MATURE
Definitions. For purposes of this article, the following
definitions shall apply:
An area or stand of trees with a total combined canopy of
at least one acre, with at least 50% of the trees having a diameter
at breast height of at least six inches. No area or stand of trees
specifically planted and grown for commercial purposes shall be considered
a mature woodland.
C.
Preservation standards. Sixty percent of the mature woodlands, as defined in Subsection B, shall be preserved, unless mitigation under this section is allowed.
D.
Mitigation approach. The Village of New Glarus recognizes that, under certain circumstances, property owners, subdividers, or developers may wish to preserve less than the minimum percentages of woodlands normally required to be preserved under Subsection C. The intent of this subsection is not to permit greater destruction of woodlands than is permitted under the requirements of this section for typical property or development. This section sets specific standards for use when the extent of tree-covered land on a site and the use of the regulations would create a hardship for the efficient development of the site, in the determination of the Plan Commission.
E.
Mitigation standards. The following methods, requirements,
standards and/or criteria shall be followed where mitigation is permitted:
(1)
Mitigation shall include the planting of two acres of new trees for every one acre of disturbed tree covered land for which mitigation is required, beyond the landscape planting standards included elsewhere in Article XVII.
(2)
On-site mitigation is preferred. The land upon which
the mitigation is to take place shall be protected with a deed restriction
and conservation easement as a permanent natural resource features
conservation easement. Any off-site mitigation shall take place within
the incorporated Village of New Glarus.
(3)
Woodlands may be mitigated under the following requirements
on a per-acre basis, except that the Plan Commission may approve different
sizes and types of plantings in mitigation areas where site conditions
or context warrant:
(4)
The species of plants to be used in the mitigation
of tree-covered land shall generally be similar to those destroyed.
Acceptable species for tree mitigation are as indicated in the following
table. No more than 80% of the total number of trees planted for mitigation
purposes shall be of any single species.
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Species Common Name
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Species Scientific Name
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Sugar Maple
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Acer saccharum
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Bitternut Hickory
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Carya cordiformis
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Hackberry (Sugarberry)
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Celtis occidentalis
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Butternut
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Juglans cinerea
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Black Walnut
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Juglans nigra
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Eastern Hophornbeam
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Ostrya virginiana
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Black Cherry
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Prunus serotina
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White Oak
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Quercus alba
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Red Oak
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Quercus borealis
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American Basswood
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Tilia americana
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American Elm
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Ulmus americana
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Slippery Elm
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Ulmus rubra
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A.
Permanent waivers. In the event that terrain or other
natural features are such that the erection of obscuring berms or
planting strips, walls or fences will not serve the intended purpose,
as determined by the Planning Commission, then no such screening,
fences or wall shall be required.
B.
Variance. Other modifications of this article may
be obtained by application for a variance.
