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<br />I <br /> <br />" /' <br /> <br />40 <br /> <br />, Subsection 9.20.22 (B-2 Highway Business District) Subd. 5 (Standards) <br /> <br />,3.Q.. Bufferyards. This section is intended to 'be minimum requirements to <br />achieve screening between differing uses with varied intensities and <br />impacts that are not always complementary when adjacent to one another. <br />When a bufferyard .is required under this section, the yard space and <br />planting requirements are not to 'be reduced for other purposes such as <br />, future parking and driveways, building expansions, or other activities that <br />are not in keeping with the purposes of buffering and screening. <br /> <br />(a) Bufferyards are intended to provide additional <br />screening of businesses that are adjacent to residential <br />are~s. The following table details the width of the <br />bufferyard along the common adjacent property line. <br />An additional increase of landscape plantings would <br />be required in the, bufferyard. That increase is <br />expressed in the table below as a percentage of the <br />total required site landscaping. <br /> <br /> E~stine: Adiacent Development <br /> , R-l R-2 R-3 <br /> B-1 <br />.... Bufferyard width 40ft 30ft 20ft <br />'t:l S <br />~ S % Increase in plantings 25% 20% ' 20% <br />o l:l.. required <br />l:l..O <br />o~ B-2 <br />~ t <br />~ Bufferyard width 50 ft 40 ft 30 ft <br /> % Increase in plantings 30% 25% 20% <br /> required <br /> <br />As an alternative method for screening, fences that are 100 percent <br />opaque may be used to mitigate the impacts of businesses that are <br />adjacent to residential areas. Fences shall be subject to the provisions <br />found in Section 9.11.17. When a fence is used for screening <br />purposes, the bufferyard planting requirements may be reduced hy' 10 <br />percent from the stated minimum requirement. ' <br /> <br />r. Grading. <br /> <br />1. Finalslope grades shall not eKc6ed 3.5: 1 unless terracing of retaining '.valls is <br />approved. ' ' <br /> <br />2. Benning for parking lots and open space areas shall not exceed 3: 1. <br />