Land Use Ordinance - June 2008 - City of Vineland

City of Vineland
Land Use Ordinance Amendment
Design Standards for Community Design
Sidewalks shall only be permitted within the front buffer strip in the B-1 zone only. Front
buffer strips shall be provided in accordance with the following provisions:
(a) A twenty-five (25) foot landscape buffer shall be required along all public streets
classified as a major or minor arterial or a major or minor collector street. A fifteen (15)
landscape buffer shall be required along all other public streets. The landscape buffer
shall include canopy trees and groundcover and understory and shrubs and must follow
the standards provided herein.
(b) Not less than one canopy tree with a diameter breast height (DBH) at planting of
two and one half inches (2 1/2") shall be provided for every fifty feet (50') of street
frontage.
(c)
All planted shrub and groundcover areas shall achieve a hundred (100) percent
coverage of their planting area within one (1) year.
(d) The twenty-five (25)-foot buffer along public streets may include a berm ranging
in height from one (1) to two (2) feet, maintaining a two (2)-foot height for at least forty
(40) percent of the overall length. The course and base of the berm shall meander where
possible and have side slopes no greater than 4:1.
(e)
buffer.
Loading, service, or dumpsters areas or similar items shall not be placed in any
(f) Hedge, shrub and groundcover landscaped areas should be planted to achieve one
hundred (100) percent coverage of the planting area within one year of installation. All
continuous shrub hedges shall be installed at a minimum of twenty (24) inches in overall
height and maintained at a height of thirty six (36) inches to forty two (42) inches and
one hundred (100) percent opacity within one (1)year of planting. Determination of
spacing should be considered as follows.
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