Part 3 — Site Plan Review
City of Andover Unified Development Manual

C. The SPRC may, at its discretion, temporarily or permanently waive the requirements for a landscape buffer between land uses if one of the following circumstances applies: 1. The adjacent residential land use may not need or benefit from such a landscape buffer. 2. The adjacent land use already has an adequate landscape buffer. 3. The future land use for the adjacent property is currently unknown, and the SPRC and the Applicant mutually agree that the requirements may be temporarily waived . a. The Applicant must submit one of the following to the SPRC, to ensure that the landscape buffer requirements will be met when a determination is made at the future review. (1) A letter of assurance or a covenant to run with the land. (2) A guarantee in the form of a corporate security bond, cashier's check escrow account, or other security. b. To determine the amount of the assurance required, the SPRC considers the length of time before a decision, the size and cost of the potential work involved, and the need to ensure that the requirement is met regardless of any change in ownership. 4. Even if a permanent landscape buffer is temporarily waived, the SPRC may require a temporary landscape buffer on all or part of a side or rear yard where a nonresidential land use is proposed for development adjacent to an existing single-family dwelling, creating a potential nuisance or hazard for the homeowner.
3.4.9 — Landscaping for Signs and Monuments A. Design monuments, signs, and their accessory landscaping as an integral architectural element of the building and site to which they principally relate, with good scale, harmonious colors, and attractive proportions. 1. Hold the number of graphic elements on a sign to the minimum needed to convey the sign's major message, and compose them in proportion to the sign face area. 2. Design each sign to be compatible with signs on adjoining premises, without competing unduly for attention. 3. Proprietary corporate logo and Identification signs must conform to the same standards as all other signs. B. Provide a landscaped planter bed with flowering plants, groundcovers, and shrubs around each sign base, sized as follows. 1. For signs with a surface area of 200 square feet or less, provide a landscaped planter bed at least 3 times the size of the sign's surface area. 2. For signs with a surface area of more than 200 square feet, provide a landscaped planter bed at least 2 times the size of the sign's surface area.
3.4.10 — Fences and Walls
A. Select materials and design fences and walls and to be compatible with the kind and intensity of land use, and with the architectural style of both the development and of adjacent properties. 1. Within a VISION TRIANGLE, no fence or wall can exceed 33 inches in height.

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