Delaware Code Title 17. Highways § 211. Planting standards

(1) To promote transplant survival;

(2) In compliance with federal law and regulation;

(3) In compliance with any Department of Transportation design specifications relating to obstructions in the right-of-way, and the distance that landscape improvements must be planted from the travel lanes of the roadway for safety purposes and corresponding to any policies related to context sensitive design;

(4) In compliance with the Department of Transportation's landscape and reforestation policies developed in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control or other such public or private agencies as the Department of Transportation may deem appropriate;  and

(5) To be maintainable with resources available to the Department at the time of planting, to include any permanent agreements entered into relating to maintenance.

(1) Screen, while maintaining transportation safety standards, at least 50 percent of the frontage of industrial properties and the back sides of nonagricultural, commercial properties;

(2) Use an appropriate combination of trees, shrubs, groundcovers, and grass or sod, both within median areas and along all roads, for aesthetic and screen purposes;  and

(3) Select from upper, medium and lower canopy trees, both within median areas and along all roads where space is safely available, that: