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City of Florence Building Department -
Landscaping
Purpose:
The Landscaping Regulations, as adopted by the
City of Florence, are designed to improve the
appearance of commercial structures and
off-street parking areas, and to promote the
City of Florence as an attractive trade and
service center by requiring the implementation
and preservation of trees and shrubs. It also
provides protection of certain adjoining
properties from the noise, glare, overall visual
impact and other distractions originating from
off-street parking areas.
Regulations:
Please click on the link for "Zoning
Ordinance". Then click on Section VI.
Off-Street Parking and Off-Street Truck Loading
and then scroll down to (c) for "Off-Street
Parking and Maneuvering Area Landscaping
Requirements" for the regulations in their
entirety.
Generally speaking,
the Landscape Ordinance requires six (6) percent
of a site to be landscaped. Frontage
landscaping must be provided with one tree and
six shrubs for every 40 linear feet of lot
frontage. The number of parking spaces
determines whether or not perimeter landscaping
is required. Depending upon how adjoining
properties are zoned, frontage landscaping is
usually all that is required for those sites
within industrial zones.
Landscaped Buffer areas,
consisting of a solid unbroken visual screen,
eight (8) feet high within two years of
planting, must be implemented when developments
adjoin certain zones, such as residential. The
actual depth of the buffer is determined by
whether or not perimeter landscaping is
required.
The landscaper or landscaping
company actually performing the work must have a
City of Florence Landscaping License, for which
a Landscape Certification from the Alabama
Department of Agriculture is required. For more
information please call the Plant Protection and
Pesticide Division of the Alabama Department of
Agriculture at 334-240-7243.
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