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17.53.030 Applicability.

        A.    This chapter applies to the following projects for which the city issues an administrative plan review or discretionary permit after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter:

        1.     A project for an industrial, commercial, institutional, or multifamily use or a subdivision, any of which propose a new or altered landscape area, including public agency projects.

        2.     A project for a single-family residential use proposing a new or altered landscape area of five hundred (500) square feet or more; in the case of a project associated with an existing single-family residence, the new or altered landscape area is subject to this chapter when the landscape area is two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet or more.

        B.     The following projects shall be exempt from the requirements of this chapter:

        1.     A single-family residence being rebuilt pursuant to a planning verification or administrative plan review following destruction or damage due to a natural disaster except that such residences shall not be exempt from Section 17.53.090(C);

        2.     A registered local, state or federal historic site;

        3.     An ecological restoration project that does not require a permanent irrigation system;

        4.     A mined land reclamation project that does not require a permanent irrigation system;

        5.     A botanical garden or arboretum that is open to the public;

        6.     A cemetery, except that a new or altered cemetery shall meet the irrigation requirements of Section 17.53.090(B). (Ord. 461 ยง 4, 2020)