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5) a provision granting the Planning and Development Director <br />discretion in allowing interior trees within parking areas <br />to be placed along the parking lot perimeter; <br />6) removal of wording which limits the ordinance to only new <br />construction or enlargement; <br />7) sight distance requirements. <br />RECOMMENDATION: <br />Staff recommends that the Board of County Commissioners approve <br />the proposed landscape ordinance. <br />Planner Challacombe noted that it is the intent of the <br />proposed changes to make the ordinance more standard and <br />equitable in its application. <br />Chairman Scurlock and Board members expressed concern <br />about having some provision in the ordinance to make certain <br />that the required plantings continue to exist as this <br />concerns not only aesthetics, but in some cases, erosion <br />control. <br />Planning Director Keating reported that the ordinance <br />requires that the landscaping be maintained. Staff does not <br />go out and check this on a regular basis, however, but does <br />act on it if it is brought to their attention that the <br />required landscaping is not in place. <br />Assistant County Attorney Paull quoted a provision that <br />calls for "maintenance in a good condition so as to present <br />a healthy, neat and orderly appearance, kept free from <br />refuse and debris." He felt possibly we could improve on <br />that by specifying the same number of plants required by the <br />site plan, and noted there is also a provision that <br />addresses irrigation. <br />Planner Challacombe informed the Board that this is one <br />item staff was extremely concerned with. The old ordinance <br />only required an adequate irrigation system, and staff felt <br />there had to be a certain spacing for the irrigation system <br />to provide adequate water; they did not want to get down to <br />specifying type, however. <br />W-1 <br />AUG 1 1984 BOOK Q -i7 ��,c83 <br />