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<br />Subsection 9.20.01 (B-1 General Business District) Subd. 5 (Standards) n. (Landscaping) <br /> <br />~l. Sodding and Ground Cover. All areas not other wise'improved in ac~ordance <br />with approved site plans shall be finished with sodde€l up to the edge of improved <br />streets. Any alternative to the sod requirement shall require.City Council approval. <br /> <br />~. Irrigation. <br /> <br />(a) All landscaping areas required under this section shall include <br />underground irrigation systems. <br /> <br />(b) Exceptions include landscape natural areas that are left undisturbed.-ffi <br />a nut'..lral state. ,. <br /> <br />45. Parking Lot Landscaping. , All parking lots are required to provide internal <br />overstory tree plantings in an effort to shade parking surfaces and provide visual <br />relief. Plantings are required at the following minimum schedule. The planting <br />schedule is established to provide an acceptable number of plantings that may be <br />planted in regular symmetrical pattetns or irregular clusters or groupings. <br /> <br />(a) 1 tree per every 10 parking spaces. <br /> <br />(b) Every overstory tree planting shall be provided with a planting area of <br />162 square feet. <br /> <br />(c) Acceptable ground cover materials inClude sod, inulch, and other natural <br />ground cover.. Landscaping rock and plastic underlayment is not <br />allowed. <br /> <br />(d) All parking lot planting areas' shall include underground irrigation <br />systems. <br /> <br />~. Bufferyards. This section are intended to be minimum requirements to achieve <br />screening between differing uses with varied intensities and impacts that are not <br />always complementary when adjacent to one another. When a bufferyard is <br />required under this section, theyard space and planting requirements are not to be <br />reduced for other purposes such as future parking and driveways, building <br />expansions, or other aCtivities that are I}ot in keeping with the purposes of <br />buffering and screening. <br /> <br />(a) Bufferyards are intended to provide additional screening of <br />businesses that are adjacent to residential areas. the following table ' <br />details the width of the bufferyard along the common adjacent <br />property line. An additional increase of landscape plantings would be <br />required in the, bufferyard. That lncrease is expressed in the table <br />below as a percentage of the total required site landscaping. . <br /> <br />~~O~ <br /> <br /> <br />33 <br />