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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 50-25.2 GENERAL LANDSCAPING STANDARDS, 50-29 SUSTAINABILITY, AND 50-32 INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY MAINTENANCE.
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CITY PROPOSAL:
The city of Duluth does ordain:
Section 1. That Section 50-25.2 of the Duluth City Code, 1959, as amended, be amended as follows:
50-25.2 General landscaping standards.
A. Landscape plan required.
A landscape plan shall be submitted as a part of all development applications for those activities listed in Section 50-25.1.A, unless the land use supervisor determines that compliance with the provisions of Section 50-25 can be demonstrated without the use of a landscape plan. A landscape plan may be combined with other required application materials if compliance with Section 50-25 can be demonstrated in the combined materials;
B. Plant materials.
Plant materials shall be from the city's approved landscaping plant list as shown in the UDC application manual. All plant material shall be hardy to Northeast Minnesota, suitable for the site, free of disease and insects and conform to the American Standard for Nursery Stock of the American Nursery and Landscape Association;
C. Minimum living materials.
In all areas where landscaping is required, a minimum of 50 percent of the surface area shall be covered by living materials, rather than bark, gravel or other non-living materials;
D. Existing vegetation.
Existing vegetation shall be protected during construction through use of a fence around an area sufficient to protect the health of the vegetation, and shall be incorporated into the landscape plan wherever possible;
E. Vegetation grouping.
Landscaping shall generally incorporate large irregular groupings of the same species of shrub, avoiding rigid or repeated specimen planting except for boulevard trees, and shall introduce multiple varieties within one general area. Except for plantings used for screening, no one species of tree or shrub may make up more than 50 percent of the total amount of landscap...
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