New Kent County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 98-1061
Extracted standards
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Landscaping & trees
- Protection of heritage, memorial, specimen, and significant trees
In no case shall any viable heritage, memorial, specimen or significant tree be removed from any buffer area or landscape preservation easement except to accommodate necessary entrances or utility service to the site which cannot be relocated in an appropriate manner or where such preservation would create or perpetuate demonstrable public health, safety, or welfare hazards.
Other
- Preservation of existing vegetation preferred
In all cases, the preservation of naturally existing, healthy, landscape plants (especially trees) and the naturally occurring topography in which those plants are living is preferred to planting new or similar landscape materials after development.
From the ordinance
In no case shall any viable heritage, memorial, specimen or significant tree be removed from any buffer area or landscape preservation easement except to accommodate necessary entrances or utility service to the site which cannot be relocated in an appropriate manner or where such preservation would create or perpetuate demonstrable public health, safety, or welfare hazards.