9-1     The city, county, and special districts shall publicly advocate and coordinate activities relating to beautification and landscaping throughout the community. Unless otherwise agreed, each agency shall be responsible for improving the appearance of its own properties.

9-2    Community appearance shall continue to be a major concern and the subject of a major effort in the area. Major natural features, such as rock outcrops or stands of trees, should be preserved as a community asset as the area develops.

9-3    The city will use advisory committees, public workshops, and other measures, to identify those characteristics that give the community its individual identity and preserve and expand those characteristics as growth occurs.

9-4    Sign regulations should limit the size, location, and number of signs in residential, mixed-use, commercial, institutional and industrial areas and have amortization provisions to remove non-conforming signs within a reasonable period of time.

9-5    Special design and landscaping requirements shall be established along streets that include, but not be limited to Highway 20 West; Highway 97 and 3rd Street; Greenwood Avenue and Highway 20 East; Franklin Avenue; Riverside Avenue opposite Drake Park; Newport Avenue; Galveston Avenue from the river to 14th Street; Century Drive to the Deschutes National Forest boundary; Reed Market Road; NE 27th Street from Reed Market Road to Butler Market Road; and Mt. Washington Drive.

9-6    The city will develop landscape designs for arterial and collector street medians that include hardscape and/or waterwise designs with native plantings and arterial and collector planter/buffer strips that include hardscape with tree wells or waterwise designs with native plantings, trees or other vegetation.

9-7    Special design consideration shall be given to development on hillside areas visible from developed areas, and from Highway 20 and the Parkway within the Bend area.

9-8    The city values design review for all development in the community with the exception of single-unit houses and duplexes.

9-9    The city shall seek opportunities to relocate existing overhead utility lines underground in all parts of the community, and especially along the commercial corridors.

9-10    The city shall develop an Urban Forestry Plan which shall include: