Too green? Some officials apparently think so

Officals in one Indiana town are concerned over what they believe is too much landscaping.

They're asking that proposed landscaping requirements be loosened so that developers and landscapers don't take their projects elsewhere, the Madison Courier newspaper in Madison, Ind., reports.

As it stands, a proposal for trees every 35 feet in new subdivisions is too much.

"In 30 years we’d be living in a forest," says Darrell Henderson, a member of the city's planning commission.

Details of the landscaping requirements, according to the newspaper, include:

*For street yard landscaping, five large street trees at $250 each would cost $1,250

*Buffer and screening landscaping, for commercial developments, would require 15 large shrubs at $40 each, a total of $600

*For parking areas, interior parking area landscaping would require four large deciduous trees at $250 each, a cost of $1,000. A frontage screen across from a residential area would consist of 20 evergreen shrubs at $30 each, a cost of $600.