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4. Irrigation. edge of improved streets. Any alternative to the sod requirement shall require City Council approval. All landscaping areas required under this section shall include underground irrigation systems. . Exceptions include natural areas that are left undisturbed. 5. Parking Lot Landscaping. All parking lots are required to provide internal overstory tree plantings in an effort to shade parking surfaces and provide visual relief. Plantings are required at the following minimum schedule. The planting schedule is established to provide an acceptable number of plantings that may be planted in regular symmetrical patterns or irregular clusters or groupings. (a) 1 tree per every 10 parking spaces. (b) Every overstory tree planting shall be provided with a planting area of 162 square feet. (c) Acceptable ground cover materials include sod, mulch, and other natural ground cover. Landscaping rock and plastic underlayment is not allowed. (d) All parking lot planting areas shall include underground irrigation systems. 6. Bufferyards. This section is intended to be minimum requirements to achieve screening between differing uses with varied intensities and impacts that are not always complementary when adjacent to one another. When a bufferyard is required under this section, the yard space and planting requirements are not to be reduced for other purposes such as future parking and driveways, building expansions, or other activities that are not in keeping with the purposes of buffering and screening. (a) Bufferyards are intended to provide additional screening of businesses that are adjacent to residential areas. The following table details the width of the bufferyard 'along the common adjacent property line. An additional increase of landscape plantings would be required in the bufferyard. That increase is expressed in the table below as a percentage of the total required site landscaping.