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With members of the LASN team headed to Chicago for the ASLA Show & Expo, we?EUR??,,????'?????< Since 1991, Chicago has required developers to include landscaping in their building plans to beautify property and screen perimeters of parking lots, loading docks and other vehicular use areas. Parkway plantings are required in the construction of any principal building or any addition to a building, if the new construction exceeds 1,500 square feet.
Since 1991, Chicago has required developers to include landscaping in their building plans to beautify property and screen perimeters of parking lots, loading docks and other vehicular use areas.
Parkway plantings are required in the construction of any principal building or any addition to a building, if the new construction exceeds 1,500 square feet.
Landscaping is required on any repair or rehabilitation work of a principal building if the expense of the work exceeds 50 percent of the structure?EUR??,,????'?????< Landscaping is required when constructing any parking area with five or more spaces, and repair or expansion of existing parking areas if the number of spaces are being increased by more than 25 percent. Exemptions to the Chicago Landscape Ordinance are residences of three living units or less; repairs necessitated from fire damage or any other calamity; and accessory structures such as garages and fences. Screening landscaping is not required for parking lots, loading docks or other vehicular use areas smaller than 1,200 square feet; interior landscaping is not required for these vehicular use areas if smaller than 3,000 square feet. Planting standards are maintained by the Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation?EUR??,,????'?????< Royal Pain The royal palm (Roystonea) is a single-stemmed palm with pinnate leaves and comprises 10 species native to Central and South America, the Caribbean and Florida. These palms, with their smooth, sculpted trunks, are particularly common along Biscayne Blvd. in Miami. The Florida variety can grow to 80 feet. Photo: Miller Legg (see ''The Median is the Message'' in the Aug. 2009 issue or at www.landscapearchitect.com/research/article/12299.) When is a royal palm a pain? When it interferes with power lines, of course. In Cape Coral, Fla., residents have been prohibited, and rightly so it would seem, from planting royal plams in the right of way near power lines. Just to get your bearings, Cape Coral, pop. 167,917, is the largest city in Southwest Florida, right on the Gulf of Mexico and is said to have more miles of canals than any city on earth! But, back to the royal palms. The Cape Coral Planning and Zoning Commission voted 5-2 in mid-Aug. 2009 to allow royal palms back in the city. The debate lasted a reported five hours! The new landscape ordinance, which according to the local media has been a work in progress for more than five years, will allow the trees on the same side as the power lines as long as the center of the trees are 10 feet from the power lines. The ordinance now goes before Cape Coral City Council for final approval.
Landscaping is required when constructing any parking area with five or more spaces, and repair or expansion of existing parking areas if the number of spaces are being increased by more than 25 percent.
Exemptions to the Chicago Landscape Ordinance are residences of three living units or less; repairs necessitated from fire damage or any other calamity; and accessory structures such as garages and fences. Screening landscaping is not required for parking lots, loading docks or other vehicular use areas smaller than 1,200 square feet; interior landscaping is not required for these vehicular use areas if smaller than 3,000 square feet.
Planting standards are maintained by the Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation?EUR??,,????'?????<
When is a royal palm a pain? When it interferes with power lines, of course. In Cape Coral, Fla., residents have been prohibited, and rightly so it would seem, from planting royal plams in the right of way near power lines. Just to get your bearings, Cape Coral, pop. 167,917, is the largest city in Southwest Florida, right on the Gulf of Mexico and is said to have more miles of canals than any city on earth! But, back to the royal palms. The Cape Coral Planning and Zoning Commission voted 5-2 in mid-Aug. 2009 to allow royal palms back in the city. The debate lasted a reported five hours! The new landscape ordinance, which according to the local media has been a work in progress for more than five years, will allow the trees on the same side as the power lines as long as the center of the trees are 10 feet from the power lines. The ordinance now goes before Cape Coral City Council for final approval.
When is a royal palm a pain? When it interferes with power lines, of course.
In Cape Coral, Fla., residents have been prohibited, and rightly so it would seem, from planting royal plams in the right of way near power lines.
Just to get your bearings, Cape Coral, pop. 167,917, is the largest city in Southwest Florida, right on the Gulf of Mexico and is said to have more miles of canals than any city on earth!
But, back to the royal palms. The Cape Coral Planning and Zoning Commission voted 5-2 in mid-Aug. 2009 to allow royal palms back in the city. The debate lasted a reported five hours! The new landscape ordinance, which according to the local media has been a work in progress for more than five years, will allow the trees on the same side as the power lines as long as the center of the trees are 10 feet from the power lines.
The ordinance now goes before Cape Coral City Council for final approval.
Francisco Uviña, University of New Mexico
Hardscape Oasis in Litchfield Park
Ash Nochian, Ph.D. Landscape Architect
November 12th, 2025
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