Blackwell Apartments Landscaping

1. Remove all existing landscaping (including shrubs/bushes/small trees/backfill) 2. Install downspout drain lines at each downspout that doesn’t already have one. 3. Downspout drain lines must extend at least 10 feet away from building. Yard cap must be the pop up design. Downspouts must extend into the transition, not left above it. All parts above ground level to the bottom of the downspout must be painted white. (Example below) 4. Install paver border using charcoal gray edge brick 6x9. Fill with landscape fabric, landscape rock (2” Iowa Lake-less than 10% mixed) Rock should be no less than 3” thick and flush with porch height. Landscaping should be 30” away from building to go around entire apartment building. Curve to meet the front edge of porches. Add in plants that will be extremely low/no maintenance over the next several years, examples include: dwarf nandina Firepower, dwarf alberta spruce or variegated liriope. No shrub roses, annuals, trees, or hydrangeas.

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Exterior Improvements, Operation and Maintenance of Exterior Improvements, Irrigation, Planting Irrigation, Planting, Planting Preparation, Soil Preparation, Landscape Grading.