Land Use Ordinance - June 2008 - City of Vineland

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City of Vineland Land Use Ordinance Amendment Design Standards for Conservation of Forests and Trees CONSERVATION OF FORESTS AND TREES ARTICLE VII, Design Standards, is hereby amended to include the following design standards and regulations for the conservation of trees and forests in the City of Vineland. (New text is underlined.) Conservation of Forests and Trees. A. Statement of Purpose Forests and trees are important to the City’s identity and environmental health. Vineland’s forests are an important part of the City’s natural landscape and habitats and protect water and air quality, control flooding, and reduce stormwater runoff and erosion. Forests absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen into the atmosphere. Forests reduce greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon dioxide, and they help control global warming. The planting, maintenance, and protection of trees benefits the City’s environment. Planting or preserving trees can reduce energy demand in buildings and heating and cooling costs, and trees are beneficial for stormwater management, for controlling erosion, and for masking urban noise. Trees can mitigate the adverse impacts of the urban heat island effect. When planted in parking lots and streets, trees are effective in cooling and beautifying the urban and the suburban environment. The clear cutting of forests and the removal of trees to prepare a development site has substantially adverse environmental impacts including increased drainage control costs, increased soil erosion, increased buildup of atmospheric carbon, and increased dust. The purpose of these standards is to regulate and control indiscriminate and excessive cutting of trees and forests and preserve the maximum possible number of trees and forest area in the course of development of a site; to protect larger, older specimens of trees; and to provide a plan for replacement of trees. H:\VINE\00012\Plans\Ordinance Amendment Revised 05~28~08 ~ Design Standards.doc D-15
City of Vineland Land Use Ordinance Amendment Design Standards for Conservation of Forests and Trees B. Applicability. The standards set forth in this section shall apply to all applications for subdivision, site plan, conditional use, or use variance approval for sites greater than one acre in area and that have forest covering more than acre in area. An area or stand of trees shall be considered as forest or forest acreage where twenty percent (20%) or more of the trees covering an area greater than one quarter (1/4) acre have a diameter breast height (DBH) of six inches or greater or where there are one or more groves of mature trees, without regard to the minimum DBH, consisting of a substantial number of individual specimens. The DBH shall be measured from four (4) feet above grade. The goal of these requirements is to retain rather than replace forest acreage. In the following zone districts, developments that result in the removal of more than sixty-five percent (65%) of the forest acreage within the development shall mitigate for the loss of forest, and provide for the replacement of trees as set forth by these design standards: zones R-B-1, R-B- 2, R-P, I-1, I-B, I-2, I-3, I-4, B-1, B-2, B-3, B-4, MHP, IN-1, IN-2, MF, and P. In all other zone districts, any development which results in the removal of more than thirty percent (30%) of the forest acreage within the development shall mitigate for the loss of forest and provide for the replacement of trees as set forth by these design standards. No development shall cut or remove, or cause to be cut or removed, any tree with a diameter breast height (DBH) of six (6) inches or greater, unless the cutting or removal is accomplished in accordance with a site plan or subdivision approved in accordance with the provisions of this section. No tree with a DBH of six (6) inches or greater shall be cut or otherwise removed from any lands that are subject to a tree replacement plan except in accordance with a tree replacement plan approved as part of the subdivision or site plan application. All development design shall be arranged with particular attention to conserve any significant trees, which are defined to be the largest known individual trees of each species in New Jersey listed by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Forestry; and/or H:\VINE\00012\Plans\Ordinance Amendment Revised 05~28~08 ~ Design Standards.doc D-16
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