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ii. Evmw. overstorv tree planting shall be provided with a planting <br /> area of 162 square feet. <br /> <br />in. <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 />ix,. AIl parking lot planting areas shall include undergound <br /> irrigation systems. <br /> <br />3. Buffem'ards. This section are intended to be minimum <br /> <br />requirements to achieve screening between differing uses with varied <br />intensities and impacts that are not always complementary when <br />adjacent to one another. When a bufferyard is requh'ed under this <br />sectiom the yard space and planting requirements are not to be reduced <br />for other purposes such as future parking and driveways, b. uilding <br />expansions, or other activities that are not in keeping with the. pm'poses <br />of buffering and screening. <br /> <br />Buffe~'ards are intended to provide additional screening, of <br />businesses that are adiancent to residential areas. The fbllowing <br />table details the width of the buffe~ard along the common <br />adjacent propert3,-' line. Au additional increase of landscape. <br />plantings would be required in the buffervard. That increase is <br />expressed in the table below as a percentage of the total required <br />site landscaping. <br /> <br /> Existing Adiacent Develo :)ment <br /> R-2 R-_23 <br /> <br />Bufferyard width 40ft 30~ 20~ <br />Increase in plantings required 25% 20% 20% <br />B-2 <br />Buffeuardwidth 50 h 40 ~ 30 ~ <br />Increase in plantings required 30% 25% 20~ <br /> <br />ii. <br /> <br />As an alternative method for screening, fences that are 100 <br />percent opaque may be used to mitigate the impacts of <br />businesses that are adjacent to residential areas. Fences shall be <br />subject to the provisions found in Section 9.11.17. When a fence <br /> <br />is used for screening purposes, the buffeq, ard planting <br />requirements may be reduced by 10 percent from the stated <br />minimum requirement. <br /> <br />............................................................................. o> fern <br /> <br />Business Districts <br /> <br />9-8 <br /> <br />March '03 Draft <br /> <br />-353- <br /> <br /> <br />