<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 42-139. - Landscaping, screening, and buffer requirements.</div>
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               (a)
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               <span class="ital">Intent:</span> Landscaping, screening, and buffer requirements are established to improve the appearance
               of travel trailer parks; to protect, preserve and promote the character and value
               of all properties; and to promote the public health, safety and welfare through the
               reduction of noise pollution, air pollution, storm water runoff, and glare.
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               Travel trailer parks shall have a buffer strip adjacent to the park boundaries not
               fronting on a street or road. The buffer strip shall consist of a planted strip of
               land at least five feet in width composed of indigenous deciduous and/or evergreen
               trees, spaced not more than ten feet apart, and not less than one row of indigenous
               dense shrubs, spaced not more than five feet apart, and being five feet or more in
               height after one growing season, which shall be planted and maintained in a healthy,
               growing condition by the property owner. Fencing may be required as a condition of
               the conditional use permit. Existing natural vegetation may be utilized for required
               buffers when it meets the specifications required. Buffers must be maintained for
               the term of the project.
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               (b)
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               All areas of the park that are disturbed shall be stabilized and maintained with an
               all weather material or seeded or planted with vegetation and maintained with a 98
               percent coverage to prevent on or off site erosion. A certificate of occupancy shall
               not be issued until the landscaping is completed as certified by an on-site inspection
               by the planning director unless a performance bond or other acceptable guarantee of
               improvements has been posted for 125 percent of the cost of the improvements.
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               (Ord. of 11-7-05, art. VIII)
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