On regulated development sites in Hendersonville, the Site Plan and Design Review Checklist requires a Tree Replacement Plan alongside the Tree Survey, and the City's landscape standards require that at least 75 percent of trees planted to satisfy required landscape areas be native species. Replacement trees must meet minimum size standards (deciduous shade trees ≥ 2.5-inch caliper; evergreen trees ≥ 6 feet in height). Required street trees are planted at the rate of one tree for every 35 linear feet of property abutting a street.
Hendersonville's Site Plan and Design Review Checklist explicitly requires that a Tree Replacement Plan be submitted as part of the development application, that Tree Protection Fencing be shown on the grading sheet, and that the site's tree resources be documented via a Tree Survey. The City's landscape standards require deciduous shade trees to be a minimum of 2.5-inch caliper and evergreen trees to be a minimum of 6 feet in height at planting. Street trees are required 'at the rate of one tree for every 35 linear feet of property abutting a street.' At least 75 percent of trees planted to satisfy required landscape areas must be native species. Planting beds must have a minimum width of five (5) feet, and parking lot perimeter shrub beds must have a minimum width of seven (7) feet. Each tree shall have a minimum topsoil depth of 24 inches over a 25-square-foot area, or a minimum of 50 cubic feet of topsoil. Trees and light poles must be separated by at least 14 feet. The Planning Department publishes templates supporting these standards: Tree Planting Detail, Tree Planting Drainage, Tree Planting Island, Tree Staking, Root Barrier Detail, and Tree Selection Notes. There is no City tree-bank-fund payment-in-lieu published in current City materials — on-site replacement is the operative compliance path. Trees on USACE Old Hickory Lake shoreline lands are governed by separate federal vegetation-management rules.
Failure to install required replacement plantings, failure to maintain replacement trees through their establishment period, or installation of plantings that do not meet the 75% native standard or minimum caliper/height standards is a landscape-standards violation enforced by the Planning Department through development-approval compliance — potentially holding up final certificate of occupancy on the development site until replacements are installed and accepted.
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