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<br />1. All landscaping areas required under this section shall include <br />underground irrigation systems. <br /> <br />2. 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 <br />area of 162 square feet. <br /> <br />c. Acceptable ground cover materials include sod, mulch, and other <br />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. Bufferyards are greenspace areas intended to provide <br />additional screening of businesses that are adjacent to residential areas. <br />The following table details the width of the bufferyard along the <br />common 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 site <br />landscaping. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> R-l R-2 R-3 B-1 B-2 <br />E-2 <br />Bufferyard 60 feet 60 feet 60 feet 35 feet 35 feet <br />width <br />% Increase 30% 30% 30% 20% 20% <br />In plantings <br />re uired <br /> <br />I <br />, <br />e. Off-Street Loading: All off-street loading dock/berth areas shall be a ~inimum of <br />50 feet in length and there shall be at least one dock/berth for the first 1 p,OOO <br />square feet of floor area and one additional berth/dock for each additiorlal 25,000 <br />I <br />square feet of floor area. I <br /> <br />Ordinance #09-06 <br />Page 18 of 29 <br />