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Ordinance as Approved by BOCC <br />include preserving, planting, and maintaining a <br />variety of native vegetation (also dead trees and <br />snags); installing structures conducive for <br />nesting such as bird houses or bat boxes <br />designed and located for various species; or <br />creating wetlands; <br />(3) Conservation easements or other acceptable <br />means such as dedication to a public agency, or <br />conservancy or a homeowner's association are <br />required to protect wetlands and other habitats <br />while insuring proper long-term maintenance; <br />and <br />(4) Provide barriers or fencing, and signage at the <br />edge of habitat buffers to prohibit vehicular and <br />pedestrian access. Limited access may be <br />allowed if proposed in a sensitive manner for <br />environmental education purposes. <br />d) Landscaping and Buffers <br />1) Protection of Existing Vegetation <br />(a) Existing vegetation shall be preserved as <br />indicated on the approved landscape plan <br />in accordance with the provisions of <br />Article 12.2 of the Zoning Ordinance; <br />(b) Tree protection measures shall be <br />installed and maintained between all <br />areas of disturbance and trees to be <br />retained as shown on the approved <br />landscape plan. A detail of the tree <br />protection barrier proposed shall be <br />included as part of the landscape plan <br />submitted with the application; <br />(c) Corridors connecting habitats identified <br />in the biological inventory shall be <br />preserved along streams, buffers, or other <br />wooded areas. If destroyed during <br />construction, such connections shall be <br />restored using appropriate plant <br />materials; <br />