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ridor Protection District provisions require a minimum The New Orleans overlay zoning requirements for the
<br /> 25-foot natural landscape buffer along the perimeter of Interstate 10 and 510 corridors establish a minimum
<br /> adjacent street rights-of-way. No structures, fences, walls, 15-foot landscape buffer along service road perimeters.
<br /> • or parking spaces are permitted within this open space.
<br /> When construction or clearing activities have disturbed One 12-foot-tall, two-inch caliper tree (acceptable species
<br /> are spelled out) must be planted for every 25 feet of road-
<br /> landscaping and vegetation within the buffer area, addi- way frontage along the project site. The remainder of the
<br /> tional planting is required at the rate of two plants per buffer area can include grass, trees, shrubs, and other
<br /> 30 square feet of area. At least one-half of the required landscape features. Buffer and screening standards for
<br /> plants must be a minimum of four-feet tall at the time "vehicular use areas," which include parking lots, load-
<br /> of planting, and trees must comprise at least 10 percent ing areas, service drives, and all other areas subject to
<br /> of the total plant material. vehicle traffic, are much more rigorous. A vegetative
<br /> Besides providing a visual buffer between the roadway buffer, masonry wall, or earthen berm, with a height of
<br /> and its often harsh and unappealing surroundings, land- between 36 and 54 inches, must be installed between all
<br /> scaping and screening techniques can also lend a sense of vehicular use areas and abutting public rights-of-way.
<br /> identity and unity to project sites. When employed effec- Landscape buffer strips are also required as a means of
<br /> tively, landscape features can greatly increase motorists' delineating the boundaries of vehicular use areas asso-
<br /> ability to determine where one project ends and another ciated with individual developments.
<br /> begins. By delineating the edge of a project and its criti- The New Orleans urban corridor ordinance also estab-
<br /> cally important element—the driveway—landscaping lishes landscaping requirements for the interior of all
<br /> actually serves to increase a project's visibility and hence vehicular use areas that exceed 5,000 square feet in size.
<br /> its viability in the competitive setting of the corridor. The corridor zoning provisions require landscaping of at
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