We expect them to represent corporations from irrigation, landscape lighting, site drainage, site construction, and horticulture industries as well as associations representing landscape architects, arborists, community planners, landscape contractors and building code organizations. Coalition members will be selected by interview and it is important that the members come from all parts of the country. Local Landscape Codes Communities do however draft local codes and local ordinances. We have been researching these since the mid 1980's and can provide the following observations. Local codes are often based upon other codes in nearby cities.
Local codes vary, no two communities share the same code.
Design components and technical standards vary widely. There are three main types of local landscape codes. They are tree management ordinances, post construction landscape ordinances, and land alteration codes. There are more local codes in the South, East Coast, and West Coast and considerably fewer in the West, Midwest, North and New England. The oldest contemporary code dates to 1967.