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EVERETT 2044 <br />DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS <br /> <br /> <br />6/17/2025 <br />DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS <br />Page 257 <br />b. Provide a solid wood fence or masonry wall, or combinatfon of wood and masonry, 1 <br />six feet in height and located along the property line. 2 <br />c. Other treatments that meet the intent of the standards as approved by the planning 3 <br />director. 4 <br />Figure 35-1: Side Yard Optfons 5 <br /> 6 <br />D. Type IV: Soil Stabilizing Vegetatfon/Landscaping. Type IV landscaping is intended to provide soil 7 <br />stability, prevent erosion and prevent sedimentatfon to off-site propertfes and improvements. Type IV 8 <br />landscaping shall consist of lawn, other living ground cover, shrubs and trees with a root structure which 9 <br />stabilizes soil where necessary to prevent erosion and sedimentatfon. Type IV landscaping may include 10 <br />other organic and/or inorganic soil-stabilizing materials such as rockeries, retaining walls or other similar 11 <br />slope and soil stabilizatfon devices. A minimum of sixty percent of the required front setback frontfng a 12 <br />public street and a required street side setback shall be landscaped exclusive of any type of impervious 13 <br />surface or gravel or any other similar material. If a permitted driveway or off-street parking area is within 14 <br />the setback, the required landscaped area can be reduced to forty percent. Landscaping shall consist 15 <br />primarily of grass or other living ground cover, shrubs, and/or trees. 16 <br />19.35.055, PLANT SPECIFICATION. 17 <br />Unless otherwise specified, the following standards shall apply to all areas which are required to be 18 <br />landscaped by this chapter: 19 <br />A. Trees. Trees to be planted under overhead electric power lines shall be species recommended in 20 <br />Snohomish County PUD No. l’s Tree Book, Puget Sound Energy’s Energy Landscaping or an alternatfve 21 <br />approved by the planning director. If the species planted is expected to be less than twenty feet high at 22 <br />maturity, the planning director may require that additfonal trees be planted. Trees that do not meet 23 <br />these standards, such as palm trees and Thuja occidentalis “emerald green,” may only be permitted for a 24 <br />portfon of the landscaping through the modificatfon process in EMC 19.35.190 when the proposal 25 <br />includes equal or better design quality, and increases the number of trees provided. 26 <br />The planning director may modify the size of street trees required by this tftle when trees must be 27 <br />located in aboveground planters due to the locatfon of underground utflitfes or other underground 28 <br />features. 29