Legal Documents of Sweetwater

Carefully designed landscaping can preserve, improve, and enhance the aesthetic character of the built environment. The purpose and intent of this section is to promote the health, safety, and general welfare of the public by fostering the city's attractiveness as a place in which to live and work, by raising the level of citizen and business expectations about the quality of the community's visual environment, and by promoting qualities in the environment that improve the city's economic well-being. Additionally, well chosen landscaping can improve the compatibility between different land uses, can reduce erosion, can improve stormwater quality, can reduce stormwater runoff, can promote native wildlife, and can reduce summer temperatures in parking lots. (as added by Ord. #832, Jan. 2009, and replaced by Ord. #935, Jan. 2016)