Hanover County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Section 26-265
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Mulched and stabilized planting beds
All newly installed landscaping shall be placed in mulched and stabilized planting beds of groups of three or more.
- Reduction for native or drought-resistant plants15 pct
The number of required trees and shrubs for buffers may be reduced fifteen percent (15%) when all the trees or shrubs used to satisfy a listed requirement are native or drought-resistant.
- Maximum individual species percentage in buffer30 pct
For buffers in which more than twenty (20) trees are required, no individual species shall exceed thirty percent (30%) of the total number of plants required within the buffer.
From the ordinance
Minimum standards for trees and shrubs used in buffers: ... no individual species shall exceed thirty percent (30%) ... reduction fifteen percent (15%) when native or drought-resistant.