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fit' <br />■f A ■ <br />Buffer areas v^ich have been broken or cultivated within the past ten (10) <br />consecutive years must be restored to a condition consistent with an <br />acceptable buffer area defined in Section 78-160S(b)(l), a restoration or <br />landscape plan must be submitted to the Planning Director, which <br />restoration shall include, replanting and maintaining according to each of <br />the following guidelines: <br />a. Buffer areas shall be planted with a seed mix containing one <br />hundred (100%) percent perennial native plant species, except for a <br />one-time planting of an annual nurse or cover crop such as oats or <br />rye. <br />b. The seed mix to be used shall consist of at least twelve (12) pounds <br />pure live seed (PLS) per acre of native prairie grass seed and five <br />(5) pounds PLS per acre of native forbs. Native prairie grass and <br />native forb mixes shall contain no fewer than four (4) and five (5) <br />species respectively. <br />c. The annual nurse or cover crop shall be applied at a rate of twenty <br />(20) pounds per acre. <br />d. Native shrubs and or trees may be substituted or used in addition to <br />forbs and grasses. Such shrubs may be bare root seedling and shall <br />be planted at a rate of sixty (60) plants per acre. Shrubs shall be <br />distributed so as to provide a natural appearance and shall not be <br />planted in rows. <br />e. <br />f. <br />g< <br />h. <br />i i <br />Native prairie grasses and forb^ <br />contractor. <br />1 be planted by a qualified <br />No fertilizer shall be used in establishing new buffer zones, except <br />on highly disturbed sites when deemed necessary to establish <br />accqitable buffer vegetation and then limited to amounts indicated <br />by an accredited soil testing laboratory. <br />All seeded areas shall be mulched inunediately with clean straw at <br />a rate of one and one half (1 % ) tons per acre. Mulch shall be <br />anchored with a disk or tackifier. <br />Buffer areas (both natural and created), shall be protected by silt <br />fence during construction and the fence shall remain in place until <br />the area crop is established, and at that time the fence shall be <br />removed. <br />‘Ha.. X <br />■wW <br />k-w , V.* f ' i