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ITEM:  PROPOSED ORDINANCE - Landscape Maintenance Guaranty

Consider for recommendation to the Board of Commissioners authorizing the Township Secretary to advertise notice of intent to adopt an ordinance and hold a public hearing on May 17, 2017 to amend the Code of the Township of Lower Merion, Chapter 101, Natural Features Conservation, §101-11,  Site Maintenance and Guaranty, To provide that landscape improvements required for commercial, institutional, townhouse and/or multi-family residential subdivisions and land developments shall be perpetually maintained and guaranteed by a covenant running with the land; To provide that landscape improvements required for all other projects must be guaranteed for a period of eighteen months; To provide for inspection of landscape improvements by the Township Arborist; and To provide minimum fines and penalties for the failure to replace landscape materials as required by the Township Arborist. 

 

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