§ 72-837. Area tree protection requirements.

Fifteen percent of the square footage of any development shall be designated for the protection of trees. The area required to protect specimen trees may be included to satisfy this requirement. This required area may be constituted as one or more subareas within the development. Said area may include any landscape buffer or other landscape buffer or other landscape areas required by article II, Volusia County Zoning Ordinance, as amended, on a development. Such designated areas shall contain sufficient land area to comply with minimum tree protection standards to adequately protect the trees contained within the areas. A minimum of 50 percent of the required minimum number of trees as provided in section 72-838 of this division shall consist of existing trees within said area. The county forester may provide for a waiver or modification of this requirement if the development contains an insufficient amount of existing trees to meet this requirement or if the county forester determines that modification of this requirement is warranted by specific on-site conditions.

(Ord. No. 02-13, § I, 7-18-02; Ord. No. 2008-25, § III, 12-4-08)