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Existing Adjacent Development <br />Proposed <br />Development <br />R -1 <br />R -2 <br />R -3 <br />B -1 <br />Bufferyard width <br />% Increase in plantings <br />required <br />40ft <br />30ft <br />20ft <br />25% <br />20% <br />20% <br />B -2 <br />Bufferyard width <br />% Increase in plantings <br />required <br />50 ft <br />40 ft <br />30 ft <br />30% <br />25% <br />20% <br />c. Acceptable ground cover materials include sod, mulch, and other <br />natural ground cover. Landscaping rock and plastic underlayment <br />is not allowed. <br />d. All parking lot planting areas shall include underground irrigation <br />systems. <br />6. Bufferyards. This section are 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 <br />another. When a bufferyard is required under this section, the yard <br />space and planting requirements are not to be reduced for other purposes <br />such as future parking and driveways, building expansions, or other <br />activities that are not in keeping with the purposes of buffering and <br />screening. <br />a. Bufferyards are intended to provide additional screening of <br />businesses that are adjacent to residential areas. The following <br />table details the width of the bufferyard along the common <br />adjacent property line. An additional increase of landscape <br />plantings would be required in the bufferyard. That increase is <br />expressed in the table below as a percentage of the total required <br />site landscaping. <br />b. 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 <br />provisions found in Section 9.11.17. When a fence is used for <br />screening purposes, the bufferyard planting requirements may be <br />reduced by 10 percent from the stated minimum requirement. <br />q. Off - Street Loading: One off - street loading dock/berth shall be provided for <br />the first 10,000 square feet of floor area and one additional dock/berth for <br />each additional 25,000 square feet of floor area. Such loading berth/dock shall- • <br />be located in the rear or side wall of building. <br />—307— <br />