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13-18-009-0001 Definitions
13-18-009-0001 Definitions
"Berm" refers to a mound of earth.
"Hardscape" includes walkways, sidewalks, plazas, site walls, retaining walls, garden walls, furniture, bus shelters, boulders, fountains, sculpture, and other nonplant materials used in landscaping.
"Landscape" refers collectively to the plants and hardscape in a prescribed area, and may include nonliving ground covers, grading, irrigation systems, and similar ancillary materials, processes, and systems.
"Landscaping" is sometimes used in lieu of the word "landscape," but can also mean the placement of landscape materials in a prescribed area in an organized and harmonious fashion.
"Median" refers to a nondriving surface within a street, between the two (2) curbs, generally along the flow of traffic and serving as a divider between opposing directions or movements.
"Mulch" is an inert or organic material placed around plants to prevent evaporation of moisture, freezing of roots, growth of weeds, and for aesthetic value.
"Noxious weeds" are specified by law or regulation to be particularly undesirable, destructive, and difficult to control.
"Parkway" refers to the area between the curb and the sidewalk or trail. Where there is no curb, the edge of pavement shall delineate the parkway. Where there is no sidewalk or trail, the parkway shall extend to the right-of-way boundary line.
"Plants" are living trees, shrubs, and ground covers.
"Right-of-way" refers to any property under the ownership and/or control of the City and used for public street, access, trail, or similar and related purposes.
"Soil solarization" is a nonchemical technique that utilizes the sun’s heat to kill weeds using clear plastic sealed over moist soils and allowing a few weeks for a few seed germination cycles.
"Street improvements" include new installations, renovations, replacements, or significant repairs to road surfaces, sidewalks, curbs and gutters, and similar hardscape elements within the right-of-way, but does not include maintenance work such as sealing or striping.
"Street trees" are trees planted within parkways or medians.
"Urban street trees" are trees in tree wells within narrow parkways or medians that other standards would require paving instead of landscaping.
"Weeds" are plants that are competitive, persistent, and pernicious or interfere with human activities and as a result are undesirable. (Ord. 2017-22, Rep&ReEn, 07/05/2017)