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ORDINANCE 2010- 008 C. Between full canopy trees and narrow canopy tree varieties (e.g. cypress and holly) not including magnolia: 20'. (b) Trees having an average mature crown spread less than fifteen (15) feet may be substituted by grouping the same so as to create the equivalent of a fifteen -foot crown spread. (c) Understory trees shall be species defined as medium or small trees having a mature crown spread of fifteen (15) feet or less. (d) Tree sizes: 1. Required canopy trees shall be a minimum of twelve (12) feet overall in height and two (2) inch diameter at 0.5 feet above grade with a minimum crown spread of six-� four and one-half (4.5) feet, at the time of planting, except as follows: a. minimufn ftwelve (12) feet over-all in height, minimum t„ (2) , eh d oto at 0.5 feet abeve grade, and six (6) feet mi i ad at the tifne e Planting. When palm eluster-s are used, the ten t -Afid ;Bve.1ve feet Hiiaimum shall be pfevided as eleaf weed, father- than an ever -all tree height. Unless otherwise specified in (3)(a) above, palms used toward canopy tree credit shall have a minimum clear trunk (ground to lowest frond, measured along the trunk) of ten (10) feet. Where an arrangement of such palms with varying heights between six (6) feet clear trunk and eighteen (18) feet clear trunk is proposed and the average clear trunk of the arrangement is ten (10) feet, each palm in the arrangement shall count as one 10' clear trunk palm for tree canopy requirement purposes. b Narrow, upright canopy tree species, such as varieties of cypress, holly, and magnolia, shall have a minimum spread of 3.5 feet at 3 feet above ground level. be. Where a building between twelve (12) feet and twenty-five (25) feet in height is proposed to be located within fifty (50) feet of a perimeter property line that separates the development_ proiect from an abutting residential use located outside the proiect, canopy trees within required buffers (Types A -C) located between the building and a site perimeter shall be a minimum of fifteen (15) feet in height with a three-inch diameter at 0.5 feet above grade at planting and a minimum six-foot spread. Where a building between twelve (12) feet and twenty-five (25) feet in height is proposed more than fifty (50) feet from a perimeter, the canopy tree height requirements of (d)1., above, shall apply to canopy trees within the buffer. ed. Where a building over twenty-five (25) feet in height is proposed to be located within seventy (70) feet of a perimeter property line that separates the development from an abutting residential use located outside the proiect, all canopy trees within required buffers (Types A -C) located between the Bold Underline: Additions to Ordinance 15 Strike 4oug : Deleted Text from Existing Ordinance F:\Community Development\Users\CurDev\ORDINANCE\20 1 0\20 10- Landscape 911, 926 and 927.RTF