Sec. 14-71. - Native plants and plant diversity requirements.

All new plantings by the city on city-owned property must: (1)

New plantings must be designed to contain at least 50 percent native plant species except when the city determines that the situation demands flexibility for memorialization, aesthetic, geographic, survivability, or other substantial reasons.

(2)

New plantings in city parks must have a minimum of 75 percent native plants.

(3)

A minimum of 50 percent of street trees planted by the city each year shall be native species, with a goal of increasing this percentage in subsequent years.

(4)

Diversity in plant species shall be reflected in landscape designs with no one plant species making up more than ten percent of the overall planting design except where the situation demands flexibility for substantial reasons.

(5)

The city shall make a continued effort to include native plants in areas that often contain non-native plants such as community vegetable gardens, flower beds, lawns, athletic fields, holiday displays, or seasonal decorations.

(Ch. 843, § I, 6-7-22)