Section 6.03 Landscape Plan
Along with the improvement plans, a landscape plan prepared and stamped by an Arizona-registered landscape architect shall be submitted for all common areas, street rights-of-way landscape areas, entry areas, any nonlotted disturbed areas and any other areas to be maintained by the Town or property owner’s association. The plan shall identify existing and proposed trees, cacti, shrubs, and ground covers; natural features such as rock outcroppings; and other landscaping elements located in areas to be landscaped or revegetated. The plan shall show where they are or will be located and planting and construction details. Where existing plantings are to be retained, the applicant shall include in the plans proposed methods of protecting them during construction. The temporary or permanent automatic irrigation system and a description of the methods by which the vegetation will be established shall also be shown on the landscape plan.
Landscaped/revegetated areas shall be categorized into one of three different types, depending on the extent to which the landscaping is intended to resemble the naturally occurring undisturbed landscaping adjacent to the landscaped/revegetated area.
A. "Fully-abutting" areas are those landscaped or revegetated areas, such as a disturbed area that is proposed to look as if no disturbance activity has occurred, where natural undisturbed areas abut one or both sides of a revegetated area. "Fully-abutting" landscape/revegetation standards shall be utilized in all areas where pre-existing contours can be reestablished and merged into undisturbed contours on all sides of the revegetated area. Utility line development within otherwise undisturbed areas shall be landscaped/revegetated utilizing the "fully-abutting" techniques and methods described in Section 605.
B. "Partially-abutting" areas are those landscaped or revegetated areas, such as a disturbed area that is proposed to look as if no disturbance activity has occurred, where natural undisturbed areas abut one side of a revegetated area. "Partially-abutting" landscape or revegetation standards shall be utilized in all areas where pre-existing contours can be reestablished and merged into undisturbed contours on one side of the revegetated area. Disturbed areas where roadways or developed lots have been developed adjacent to natural undisturbed areas shall be landscape/revegetated utilizing the "partially-abutting" techniques and methods described in Section 605.
C. "Nonabutting" areas are those landscaped or revegetated areas that are not intended to fully resemble the preexisting natural undisturbed landscaping of the site. "Nonabutting" landscape or revegetation standards may be utilized in site. "Nonabutting" landscape or revegetation standards may be utilized in disturbed areas where the area does not abut natural undisturbed vegetation is impossible of extremely impractical or where pre-existing contours cannot be reestablished due to other constraints shall be landscaped/revegetated utilizing the "nonabutting" techniques and methods described in Section 605.
D. Plans shall provide irrigation plans for efficient low water volume irrigation systems that follow manufacturer’s specifications and meet all related Town Codes and ordinance, including installation specifications for distribution systems, flow rates, backflow prevention, pressure regulation and filtration.