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Kansas City Landscaping and Screening Zoning Requirements for Overlay Districts

Development in Kansas City’s Commercial Development Guidelines Overlay District must comply with a set of landscaping rules laid out in this section. Those rules include providing street trees in a specified way, other vegetation screening buildings from roadways, and maintaining required vegetation to prescribed standards.

Link:

  • Unified Code of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas § 27-577.

Policy Details:

Locale: Kansas City, Kansas [Midwest]
Climate zone: Zone 4A: Mixed Humid
Jurisdiction: Municipality [>150K]
Smart Surface(s): Trees, Green Stormwater Infrastructure
Policy Type(s): City Code, Zoning

Citation:

Unified Code of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas § 27-577.

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