Zoning Dictionary

Category: Landscaping/Planting

Arbor

A detached or attached archway or bower, not fully enclosed on the sides, intended for the use of supporting vines or climbing plants and/or for architectural interest.

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Berm

A raised form of earth to provide screening or to improve the aesthetic character. A mound of earth.

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Conservation Planting

Conservation planting is planting principally for: soil and water conservation; waste water disposal or purification; landscape preservation or enhancement; preservation for particular historic or archaeological value; and conservation for scientific or ecological value. It includes planting trees and tending trees but excludes growing trees for timber production.

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Contiguous Vegetation

Vegetation with a continuous or near continuous canopy, or sub canopy or ground cover and any adjacent individual plants or groups of plants that connect to the continuous area in terms of species, structure or ecological gradient. It does not include vegetation planted as a crop, garden or pasture or the understorey in forests.

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Dead Wood Removal

The alteration or removal of dead trees, dead wood and dead vegetation provided that it does not involve the trimming, alteration or partial or complete removal of any other live protected trees or vegetation and is carried out in accordance with the currently accepted arboricultural practice.

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Defendable Space – Bushfire

An area of land around a building where vegetation is modified and managed to reduce the effects of flame contact and radiant heat associated with bushfire.

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Defendable Space (woodland fire related)

An area of land around a building where vegetation is modified and managed to reduce the effects of flame contact and radiant heat associated with bushfire/wildfire.

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Emergency Tree Works

The alteration or removal of any tree or vegetation immediately necessary to avoid any actual and imminent threat to the safety of persons or damage to property or to maintain or restore utility services.

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Firefighting, Defensible Space

In firefighting and prevention, a 30-foot area of non-combustible surfaces separating urban and wild land areas.

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Garden or Tool Shed

An accessory structure designed to store tools, lawn and garden care or maintenance equipment or materials, and which is not designed to contain any habitable space.

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