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<br />3. Sodding and Ground Cover. All areas not otherwise improved in <br />accordance with approved site plans shall be finished with sod up to the <br />edge of improved streets. Any alternative to the sod requirement shall <br />require City Council approval. <br /> <br />4. Irrigation. <br /> <br />a. All landscaping areas required under this section shall include <br />underground irrigation systems. <br /> <br />b. Exceptions include natural areas that are left undisturbed. <br /> <br />5. 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 ofplantings 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 <br />planting area of 162 square feet. <br /> <br />(c) Acceptable ground' cover materials include sod, mulch, and <br />other 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 />6. 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 />areas. 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 /> <br />-179- <br />