Landscape Buffer Site Plan Review

1. SITE PLAN REVIEW – BUFFER PLANTING

2. GOALS & OBJECTIVES
GOAL:
The master plan complies with the MEOPD buffer and setback
requirements with the specific intent of screening the
development from Long Pond Road.
OBJECTIVES:
•Visual impact analysis + mitigation
Use of earthwork and strategic vegetation to buffer potential visual

impacts
combined approach of using transplanted material from the site and
A
new nursery stock
a solution that will mature into a naturalized border
Create

3. Long Pond Road
Buffer planting location

4. EXISTING TREES
Existing species include:
White Pine, Pinus strobus
Red Pine, Pinus resinosa
Pitch Pine, Pinus rigida
Black Oak, Quercus velutina
Northern Red Oak, Quercus rubra
Bur Oak, Quercus macrocarpa
Swamp White Oak, Quercus bicolor
High Bush Blueberry Vaccinium corymbosum
Low Bush Blueberry, Vaccinium angustifolium
Grey Birch, Betula nigra
Sweetfern, Comptonia peregrina

5. TRANSPLANTING STRATEGY
Transplant existing trees with greatest chance of survival
Identify standard characteristics

Inventory trees with these qualities
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Take proactive measures (root pruning, fertilization) to limit
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impacts of transplant operations on the trees

6. Plant materials
Existing pitch pines to be transplanted

7. Plant materials
Existing trees to be transplanted

8. Installing transplants
Examples of tree spading

9. Installing transplants
Examples of craning trees

10. Plant materials
Existing low growth to be transplanted

11. Plant materials
Incorporation of new nursery stock

12. Plant materials

13. Plant materials
Incorporation of new nursery stock used
in masses throughout understory

14. Plant materials
Incorporation of smaller evergreen trees to
encourage successional growth

15. Plant materials
Transplant smaller existing plant materials
to encourage successional growth

16. Example of a 3:1 slope

17. Example of a 3:1 slope

18. SITE PLAN REVIEW – BUFFER PLANTING

19. PROPOSED LANDSCAPE BUFFER PLANTING
Aerial Photo along Long Pond Road

20. PROPOSED LANDSCAPE BUFFER PLANTING
Site plan Overlay

21. PROPOSED LANDSCAPE BUFFER PLANTING
Site plan Overlay with buildings

22. PROPOSED LANDSCAPE BUFFER PLANTING
Site plan, buildings and graded berm

23. PROPOSED LANDSCAPE BUFFER PLANTING
Illustrative Planting Plan

24. CROSS SECTIONS OF BUFFER PLANTING
After installation
6-10 years matured

25. CROSS SECTIONS OF BUFFER PLANTING
After installation
6-10 yrs Matured

26. CROSS SECTIONS OF BUFFER PLANTING
After installation
6-10 yrs Matured

30. SEEDLING PLANTINGS & SLOPE STABILIZATION

31. NATURAL BORDERS

32. PLANT MATERIALS
Evergreen Trees – 70%
White Pine, Pinus strobus
Red Pine, Pinus resinosa
Pitch Pine, Pinus rigida
Deciduous Trees – 30%
 Black Oak, Quercus velutina
 Northern Red Oak, Quercus rubra
 Bur Oak, Quercus macrocarpa
 Swamp White Oak, Quercus bicolor
Understory Planting
High Bush Blueberry Vaccinium corymbosum
Low Bush Blueberry, Vaccinium angustifolium
American Holly, Ilex opaca
Grey Birch, Betula nigra
Sweetfern, Comptonia peregrina
Northern Bayberry, Morella pensylvatica
Fescue Grasses

33. PITCH PINE
GREY BIRCH
MOUNTAIN LAUREL
BLACK OAK
SERVICEBERRY

34. HIGHBUSH BLUEBERRY
RED PINE
NORTHERN BAYBERRY
PIN OAK
COMMON BEARBERRY
FESCUE
NORTHERN RED OAK

36. Long Pond Road View