Zoning Dictionary

Category: Landscaping/Planting

Vegetated Swale (Rain Garden)

A stormwater conveyance system routing stormwater flows through vegetated areas, a natural elongated depression or a constructed channel. A vegetated infiltration swale differs from a conventional drainage channel or ditch in that it is constructed specifically to promote infiltration.

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Windrow Composting

The process in which compostable material is placed in elongated piles or windrows which are mechanically turned or aerated to encourage decomposition and to reduce odors.

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Wooded Area

An area of contiguous wooded vegetation where trees are at a density of at least one six-inch or greater caliper tree per 325 square feet of land and where the branches and leaves form a contiguous canopy.

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Woodlot

A hardwood, softwood or mixed wooded area of more than one hectare, covered in trees to a density of 1) at least 1000 trees per hectare of all sizes; or 2) 750 trees per hectare measuring over 5 centimeters in diameter, or 3) 500 trees per hectare measuring over 12 centimeters in diameter, or 4 […]

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