A. Promote the environmental and community benefits of a healthy, diverse, and well-managed urban forest;

B. Visually enhance the community image through new landscaping improvements and/or retention of existing vegetation for industrial, commercial, community use, and multifamily residential development;

C. Provide flexible requirements that encourage and allow for creativity in landscape design;

D. Promote the use of existing vegetation and retention of trees, woodlands, habitat, and urban forest, where appropriate;

E. Encourage the use of native plants to improve plant establishment, survival, and vitality;

F. Soften the appearance and break up the visual impact of paved parking areas and surfaces;

G. Separate, screen, and buffer adjacent incompatible land uses through the use of landscape plantings, fencing, and other appropriate landscape architectural features;

H. Reduce noise, dust pollution, and glare;

I. Provide for erosion control, runoff reduction, and pollutant mitigation;

J. Preserve air and water quality;

K. Eliminate or reduce the need for irrigation by providing landscaping that is well-suited to the environment and climate; and

L. Ensure that landscaping design is consistent with accepted crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) principles. (Ord. 22-03 § 4, 2022; Ord. 17-18(AM) § 2, 2017)