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vi. Sodding and Ground Cover. All areas not other wise improved <br /> <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 under~m'ound irrigation systems. <br /> <br />Exceptions include landscape areas that are left in a <br />natural state. <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 />sw~ametrical patterns or irregular clusters or groupings. <br /> <br />i. 1 tree per every 10 parking spaces. <br /> <br />ii. Every overstor¥ 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, m~d other <br />natural ~round cover. Landscaping rock and plastic <br />underlayment is not allowed. <br /> <br />iv. All parking lot pl.m~ting areas shall include underground <br /> irrigation systems. <br /> <br />3. Bufferyards. This section are intended to be minimum requirements <br /> <br />to achieve screening between differing uses with varied intensities and <br />impacts that are not always complementary when adiacent to one <br />another. When a buffervard 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 /> businesses that are adiancent to residential areas. The following <br /> <br />table details the width of the bufferyard along the common <br /> <br />adjacent prope~_' line. An additional increase of landscape <br />plantings ~vould be required in the bufferyard. That increase is <br /> <br />expressed in the table below as a perceutage of the total required <br />site landscaph~g. . <br /> <br />Business Districts <br /> <br />9-20 March '03 Draft <br /> <br />-365- <br /> <br /> <br />