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<br />Subsection 9.20.23 (E-2 Employment District) Subd. 5 (Standards) c. (Landscaping & Buffering) <br /> <br />percent coniferous. No more than 25% of the required plantings <br />shall consist of ornamental trees. <br /> <br />. 3. For every 35 feet of public road frontage, 1 overstory tree shall be <br />planted on the private property adjacent to the public road right of <br />way. <br /> <br />2. Topsoil. All exposed ground areas of a site not occupied by building. <br />parking or storage. excluding natural areas that are left undisturbed. shall <br />be covered with four (4) inches of topsoil. as defined in Section 9.02. <br /> <br />2-J.. Sodding and Ground Cover., All areas not other' wise improved in <br />accordance with approved site plans shall be finished with soddeG--llilJQ <br />the edge of improved streets. Any altern.ative to the sod requirement shall <br />require City Council approval. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />~. <br /> <br />Irrigation. <br /> <br />1. All landscaping areas required under this section shall iriclude <br />underground irrigation systems. <br /> <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />2. Exceptions include landscape liatural . areas that are left <br />undisturbed. in a natural state. <br /> <br />42. Parking Lot Landscaping; All parking lots are required to provide <br />internal overstory tree plantings in an effort to shade parking surfaces and <br />provide visual relief. Plantings are required at the following minimum <br />schedule. The planting schedule is established to provide an acceptable <br />number of plai1tings that may be planted in regular symmetrical patterns' or <br />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 <br />area of 162 square feet. . <br /> <br />c. Acceptable ground cover materials include sod, mulch, and other <br />natural ground cover.. Landscaping rock and plastic <br />underlayment is not allowed. <br /> <br />d. All parking lot planting areas shall include underground <br />irrigation systems. <br /> <br />~. . Bufferyards. Bufferyards are greenspace areas intended to provide <br />additional screening of businesses that are adjacent to residential areas. <br />The following table details the width of the bufferyard along the <br /> <br />43 . <br />