HomeMy WebLinkAboutFINAL ORDINANCE NO. 81-15STATE OF MINNESOTA
COUNTY OF WASH NGTON
CITY OF LAKE ELMO
ORDINANCE NO. 81-15
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 401.240 B. 4. h. (2) OF THE
LAKE ELMO MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO LANDSCAPE STANDARDS.
The City Council ordains that Section 401.240 B. 4 h. (2) shall be amended in the Lake
Elmo Municipal Code to read as follows:
401.240 B. 4. h.
(1) Developer shall provide a landscape plan which shows how a subdivision will
assume a rural character through the placement of ponding, berms, trees, and tree
seedlings, shrubs, and shrub seedlings and native grasses.
(2) Developer shall plant a minimum of six (6) trees - one (1) inch caliper deciduous,
or coniferous trees - three (3) feet in height, per acre unless a lot within the
subdivision is determined by the Zoning Administrator to be naturally wooded
which would, at a minimum, consist of the caliper and height of trees required by
this Section.
(3) The Developer shall provide spaced or clustered plantings of one and one-half
(1-1/2) inch caliper deciduous trees at a rate of two (2) per 100 lineal feet on both
sides of the street, between 0' and 5' to the inside of the right-of-way for rural
sections and between 5' and 10' to the inside of the right-of-way for urban sections.
Four (4) foot conifers may be substituted.
EFFECTIVE DATE: This ordinance shall be effective the day following its publication.
ADOPTION: Passed by the City Council of the City of L e Elmo the day of June,
1995.
Wyn John, AAy6r
ATTEST:
Mary kueffiKei, Ci nistrator
Published in the Stillwater Gazette on the 14th day of June 1995.