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1 221909v1 ORDINANCE NO. 2022-007 CITY OF ARDEN HILLS RAMSEY COUNTY, MINNESOTA AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 13, ZONING CODE, SECTION 1325 OF THE ARDEN HILLS CITY CODE THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARDEN HILLS, MINNESOTA, ORDAINS: SECTION 1. Chapter 13 - Zoning Code, Section 1325 – General Regulations 1325.05 Design Standards, Subd. 1; is hereby amended by deleting strikethrough language and adding the underlined language as follows: 1325.05 Design Standards. Subd. 1 Landscaping. A. Purpose and Findings. The City declares that it is desirable and essential to the health, safety, welfare, and aesthetics of the City to protect certain existing plants and trees, to require new and additional plants and trees, to prohibit the planting of certain species, to require the maintenance of plants and trees as set forth in this subdivision, and that appropriate and unified landscaping is essential to meet the community objectives established in the Comprehensive Plan. B. Scope. The provisions of this subdivision shall apply only to privately owned property. Property within public rights-of-way shall be maintained in accordance with Chapter 7 of the City Code. C. General Landscaping Requirements 1. Minimum Requirements. In all districts, all developed uses shall provide and maintain a landscaped area according to the minimum requirements in Section 1320.06, the district requirements chart. 2. All land area not occupied by marshes, ponds, wetlands, buildings, parking, driveways, sidewalks, or other hard surface shall be sodded, seeded, mulched or landscaped with appropriate perennials, shrubbery and/or trees. 3. Landscaped Area Along Streets. In all districts all developed uses shall provide and maintain a landscaped area along streets. This area shall be kept clear of all structures, storage, and off-street parking. Except for driveways, the area shall extend along the entire frontage of the lot and along both streets in the case of a corner lot.