Port Hueneme--The City Council approved a resolution updating the City-Wide Landscape Design Guidelines during its Monday, December 18 meeting.
THE new guidelines involved a significant effort to better the City’s future position, and approving it with a resolution gives it flexibility to make future changes.
Community Development Director Tony Stewart presented the guidelines, which took about a year to deliver, and said the City designed landscape guidelines in 1993 with a tropical seaside village design.
The design had coral trees, wood signs, and little green posts holding up the signs scattered around lights.
“Since that time, new water-efficient laws have been enacted by the State, and the landscaping within many of the homeowners’ associations, as well as throughout the City, including our properties, has become overgrown and in need of replacement,” he said.
He said the City’s landscape committee met 11 times and held public workshops in English and Spanish to get public input on the Committee’s ideas and recommendations.
Stewart noted that the City of Port Hueneme didn’t have a landscape ordinance but had standards scattered through the existing municipal code.
“The updated landscape ordinance contains specific landscape standards where landscaping is required and general planting standards, updates,…
