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5. Parking Lot Landscaping. All parking lots are required to provide internal <br />overstory tree plantings in an effort to shade parking surfaces and le ovi pl vi s ual <br />relief. Plantings are required at the following minimum <br />schedule is established to provide an acceptable number clusters p r ntingS that may be <br />planted in regular symmetrical patterns or irregular group <br />(a) 1 tree per every 10 parking spaces. <br />(b) Every overstory tree planting shall be provided with a planting area of <br />162 square feet. <br />(c) Acceptable ground cover materials include sod, mulch, and other natural <br />cover. Landscaping rock and plastic unde aym <br />allowed. <br />(d) All parking lot planting areas shall include underground irrigation <br />systems. <br />6. Bufferyards. This section are intended to be n entities andu that are not <br />screening between differing uses with varied <br />always complementary when adjacent to one another. When a bufferyard is <br />required under this section, the yard 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 not in keeping with the purposes of <br />buffering and screening. <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 />be <br />property line. An additional increase of landscape planed g the t <br />required in the bufferyard. That increase is exp <br />below as a percentage of the total required site landscaping. <br />13-1 <br />Bufferyard width <br />% Increase in plantings <br />required <br />B - 2 <br />Bufferyard width <br />%Increase in plantings <br />re s uired <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 />