Leesburg, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 12.3.2.C

Extracted standards

9 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Landscaping & trees

  • Lands under active commercial production or management of agricultural, horticultural or forest crops; landfills and quarries;

  • Exclusion from tree canopy for farmland

    Farmland or areas devoid of woody material;

  • Exclusion from tree canopy for floodplains

    Floodplains and preserved wetlands;

  • Exclusion from tree canopy for lakes and retention ponds

    Lakes and retention ponds, based on the normal water surface elevation, and swimming pools.

  • Exclusion from tree canopy for law enforcement agencies

    Law Enforcement Agencies.

  • Exclusion from tree canopy for playing fields

    Playing fields and other non-wooded recreation areas;

  • Exclusion from tree canopy for right-of-way

    Dedicated right-of-way-streets; and

  • Exclusion from tree canopy for school sites

    Dedicated school sites;

  • Exclusion from tree canopy for utility easements25 ft

    Major utility distribution easements of twenty-five (25) feet or more in width;

From the ordinance

An exclusion from the minimum tree canopy requirement is permitted for areas comprised of the following features which shall be identified and shown on the subdivision plat or site plan:
Sec. 12.3.2.C