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Comments <br />52 <br />Was <br />0 <br />a <br />Chapter 4 discusses the role of local government in <br />encouraging the use of natural landscaping and describes a <br />range of regulatory approaches that help eliminate local weed <br />ordinances as a deterrent to natural landscaping. Appendix 6 <br />identifies sources of several municipal ordinances. See <br />website (below) for full text. <br />Good examples including the Madison "Permission Law," <br />modified local weed laws, and promotional natural <br />landscaping laws <br />This ordinance is a modified weed law that allows some <br />exceptions for native lawn (Sec. 11 -24). Homeowners may <br />seek approval of a land management plan to convert a portion <br />of their property to a native lawn in the rear yard. To obtain <br />approval, homeowners need support of >50% of their <br />neighbors and screen the plantings with fence and shrubbery. <br />The language describes an exception to the existing weed <br />ordinance, stating that "Native grasses and wildflowers <br />indigenous to Minnesota, planted and maintained on any <br />occupied lot or parcel of land as part of a garden or landscape <br />treatment are exempt from this article" (on weed prohibition). <br />Three new developments in Chanhassen have been required <br />by the City to use native plants in their landscaping. <br />The language in this ordinance adapts a local weed law by <br />adding a section on lawn maintenance that allows for certain <br />areas to remain in a natural state providing a more natural <br />character (Sec. 15 -7). This portion of the ordinance allows <br />for up to 35% of unmaintained/umnowed lawn. If native <br />vegetation is maintained as a garden, 100% of the yard could <br />be in native vegetation. <br />This is an example of a modified local weed law with <br />language that prohibits the uncontrolled growth of vegetation, <br />while permitting planned landscape designs that use a <br />diversity of plants, particularly those that use native <br />vegetation. <br />(312) 454 -0400; <br />http: / /www.epa.gov /glnpo /gr <br />eenacres /toolkit/index.html <br />http: / /www.epa.gov /glnpo /gr <br />eenacres / toolkit/index.html <br />Marc Shippee, City of <br />Blaine, (612) 785 -6178 <br />Jill Sinclair, City of <br />Chanhassen, (612) 937 -1900 <br />Steve Kernik, City of <br />Woodbury, (651) 714 -3533 <br />James Burks, City of Crystal, <br />(612) 531 -1162 <br />Q <br />z <br />Madison, WI Long <br />Grove, IL Ft. <br />Collins, CO <br />N <br />c <br />iii <br />Chanhassen, MN <br />Woodbury, MN <br />Crystal, MN <br />Natural Landscaping for Public Officials: A <br />Source Book. 1998. Northeastern Illinois Planning <br />Commission, Chicago. (Chapter 4: The "How To" <br />of Natural Landscaping (pp. 21 -37); Appendix 6: <br />Sample Local Ordinances (pp. 65 -67). <br />The John Marshal Law Review. 1993. Vol. 26(4). <br />City of Blaine, Chapter 11, Article II on Weeds and <br />Tall Grass. <br />Chanhassen City Code - Ord. No. 222, 1, 9- 26 -94, <br />Sec. 13 -24. <br />Woodbury City Ordinance No. 16 <br />An Ordinance Relating to Vegetation: Amending <br />Crystal City Code, Section 640. 1996. <br />cN <br />compiled by MnDNR - draft 5/25/00 <br />• <br />Useful Natural Rt <br />
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