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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS <br />Eden Prairie requires plans to be prepared by a landscape <br />architect. White Bear Lake "expects" this on larger projects. <br />Minnetonka and Edina require landscape architects, or allows the <br />planner to determine if an alternate designer is acceptable and <br />qualified. Maplewood and Roseville merely require approval by <br />the City Council. Bloomington does not address this issue. <br />PARKING LOT LANDSCAPING <br />Eden Prairie utilizes a percentage system requiring 5 percent of <br />parking lot area to be landscaped islands. Roseville and <br />Bloomington each require 3 percent. Minnetonka and Edina each <br />require parking lot landscape trees at one per 15 spaces. <br />Maplewood requires a full landscaped median strip each three or <br />four parking bays, rather than individual islands. White Bear <br />Lake has requirements only for perimeter lot landscaping. <br />TREE REPLACEMENT <br />Minnetonka currently prohibits clear cutting and is currently <br />considering a tree replacement ordinance. Maplewood has a very <br />extensive tree preservation /replacement ordinance, some of which <br />is subjective. Maplewood requires replacement up to ten trees <br />per acre, plus that required for screening and unauthorized <br />damage. White Bear Lake has no replacement requirement. <br />Bloomington requires the placement of restrictive covenants <br />regarding tree preservation in some cases. Edina may allow a <br />reduction in the required new tree planting for tree preservation <br />plans. Edina's new tree requirements are very extensive. Eden <br />Prairie has the most extensive tree replacement requirements with <br />a variable scale of percentage replacement up to 100 percent <br />replacement of all trees removed. <br />This information is provided for your benefit in review. Each <br />City has a different package of requirements, based on policy <br />weighting for new development or redevelopment priorities, <br />preferences for preservation or new plantings, and staff time <br />necessary to review, analyze, and enforce the restrictions.. The <br />more subjective an ordinance is, the more Planning Commission and <br />Council time necessary to review, and the greater amount of staff <br />time necessary to follow up and enforce. <br />cc: Joel Hanson <br />Kathy Glanzer <br />Tom Sweeney <br />John Palacio <br />2 <br />Page 58 <br />