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vi. Sodding and Ground Cover. All areas not other wise improved <br /> in accordance with approved site plans shall be sodded. <br /> <br />vii. Irrigation. <br /> <br />All landscaping areas required under this section shall <br />include underground irrigation systems. <br /> <br />Exceptions include landscape areas that are left in a <br />natural state. <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />Parking Lot Landscaping. All parking lots are required to provide <br />internal overstory tree plantings in an effort to shade parking surfaces <br />and provide visual relief. Plantings are required at the following <br />minimum schedule. The planting schedule is established to provide an <br />acceptable number of plantings that may be planted in regular <br />symmetrical patterns or irregular clusters or groupings. <br /> <br />i. 1 tree per every 10 parking spaces. <br /> <br />ii. Every_ overstory tree planting shall be provided with a planting <br /> area of 162 square feet. <br /> <br />111. <br /> <br />Acceptable ground cover materials include sod, mulch, and other <br />natural ground cover. Landscaping rock and plastic <br />underlayment is not allowed. <br /> <br />iv. All parking lot planting areas shall include underground <br /> irrigation systems. <br /> <br />Buffer'yards. This section are intended to be minimum requirements <br />to achieve screening between differing uses with varied intensities and <br />impacts that are not always complementary_ when adjacent to one <br />another. When a buffe~ard is required under this section, the yard <br />space and planting requirements are not to be reduced for other <br />purposes such as future parking and driveways, building expansions, or <br />other activities that are not in keeping with the purposes of buffering <br />and screening.. <br /> <br />i. Bufferyards are intended to provide additional screening of <br /> <br />businesses that are adjancent to residential areas. The following <br />table details the width of the bufferyard along the common <br />adjacent property, line. An additional increase of landscape <br />plantings would be required in the bufferyard. That increase is <br />expressed in the table below as a percentage of the total required <br />site landscaping. <br /> <br />Business Districts 9-20 March '03 Draft <br /> <br /> <br />