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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015
LOCAL WEATHER
City breaks ground on landscape ordinance
BY JADE MCDOWELL
Online
Mayor David Drot-
zmann provided a rare
tie-breaking vote this week
directing city staff to start
the public hearing process
on a landscaping ordinance.
The ordinance, if ap-
proved, would set mini-
mum landscaping require-
ments for new development
on commercial, industrial
and multi-family residen-
tial land.
“We’re about the only
city in Oregon that doesn’t
have an ordinance for land-
scaping,” city planner Clint
Spencer said.
The ordinance requires
15 percent of multi-family
residential property, 3 per-
cent in the C-1 Commer-
cial Zone, 6 percent in the
C-2 Commercial Zone and
3 percent or 10,000 square
feet of industrial land to
be landscaped. It only ap-
The draft of the landscaping
ordinance is available online
at http://www.hermiston.
or.us/sites/hermiston.
or.us/files/File/PlanningD-
ept/20150403%20Draft%20
Landscape%20Ordinance.pdf
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landscaped lighting and
rock beds cannot make up
more than one third of the
landscaping credit.
“A lot of people have a
lot of gravel and very little
planting and are calling it
landscaping,” Spencer said.
Kathy Erz, a local busi-
ness owner, said she spends
an extra $40 to $50 a month
on her summer water bill
to water the landscaping at
one of her businesses, plus
$100 a month for someone
to weed and mow. She said
not everyone can afford
the upkeep or the original
planting and design costs.
“This is an unfunded
mandate against business-
es,” she said.
Diana Ables said she
doesn’t own any commer-
cial property, but would like
to, and some of the property
she has looked at isn’t land-
scaped at all, meaning she
would probably have to tear
up part of the parking lot.
plies to new development,
including renovations or a
change in business use, and
only to the section of land
actually being developed.
“It’s only the area you’re
actually moving dirt,”
Spencer said.
Under the ordinance,
developers would have to
get a landscaping permit
approved by the city, show-
ing that their plan follows
the ordinance’s guidelines.
Newly planted trees must
be taller than four feet, for
example, pathways lon-
ger than 30 feet must have
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“It makes it very
cost-prohibitive for us,” she
said.
Spencer said 3 percent
of a property isn’t as much
as it sounds — Fiesta Foods
has nine percent of its prop-
erty landscaped and still has
plenty of room for parking.
He said city staff have dis-
cretion in allowing for alter-
natives like window plant-
ers and decorative lighting
when a property’s slope or
location isn’t conducive to
much green space.
Councilwoman
Jack-
ie Myers, who sits on the
Community Enhancement
Committee that drafted the
ordinance, said the com-
mittee tried to leave the or-
dinance very open-ended,
allowing property owners
to do what works best for
their situation.
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“We did try to structure
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