To: Charlie Cazier
From: Kathryn Thurston, Associate Planner; 910-341-3249
CC: File;
Date: 10/6/14
Re: Figments Cottage Landscape Plan Comments
The following is a list of comments for review from planning regarding the project. Please provide your corrections as listed below. Additional review will be required once all the needed documents have been provided. Items or documents not provided on initial submission will be subject to further review. Please contact me for any further questions.
Landscape Plan Comments:
· Please show proposed landscaping in required streetyard.
· For purposes of determining if the landscape plan meets the shading requirements of this section, each canopy tree of the type described in this section shall be presumed to shade a circular area of seven hundred and seven (707) square feet (based on having a canopy radius of fifteen (15) feet with the trunk of the tree as the center). When smaller shade trees are planted, each tree shall be presumed to shade a circular area of three hundred and fourteen (314) square feet (based on having a canopy radius of ten (10) feet). Perimeter trees shall be given credit for that portion of the circumference that intersects the parking area.
· Using this standard, twenty (20) percent of the parking facility area must have canopy coverage. For existing trees, credit shall be given for the actual canopy overhanging the parking facility. The trees counted toward meeting the shading requirement shall be indicated and calculations shall be shown on the site plan.
o Please show parking area shading.
· All single planting islands measuring twelve (12) feet by eighteen (18) feet or having the equivalent square footage shall have at least one (1) tree. All planting islands shall have additional ground cover or shrubbery from the approved plantings list to cover the entire landscaped island, subject to a walkway allowance. At least seventy-five (75) percent of the trees required hereunder shall be of a large shade/canopy species as defined in the approved plantings list that have or will have at maturity a DBH of at least twelve (12) inches.
o Please show landscaping in planting island closest to the building.
· Sec. 18-462 (d) (4): Show note on plan stating that prior to any clearing, grading, or construction activity, tree protection fencing will be installed around protected trees or groves of trees. And no construction workers, tools, materials or vehicles are permitted within the tree protection fencing.
FIGMENTS COTTAGE [Plan Review# 3]
TECHNICAL STANDARDS – ACCESS (driveway, sidewalk, sight distance):
1. Please show proposed plantings for the street yard on the landscaping plan.
2. Show the location of proposed business signs for the project, in relation to the street yard and Sight Distance Triangles.
Please let me know if you have any questions or if I can be of further assistance as this development moves through the review process.