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<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 of plantings 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 area <br />of 162 square feet. <br /> <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 /> <br />d. All parking lot planting areas shall include underground irrigation <br />systems. <br /> <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 /> <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 /> <br /> Existing Adjacent Development <br />c.."O R-1 R-2 R-3 <br />o ~ B-1 <br />;... l:I.l <br />p., 0 Bufferyard width 40ft 30ft 20ft <br /> <br />-191- <br />