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<br />3. For every 3S feet of public road frontage, 1 overstory tree <br />shall be planted on the private property, adjacent to the <br />public road right-of-way. <br /> <br />2. Topsoil. All exposed. ground areas of a site not occupied by building, <br />parking or storage, excluding natural areas that are left undisturbed, shall <br />be covered with four (4) inches of topsoil, as defined in Section 9.02. <br /> <br />3. Sodding and Qround 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 />1. All landscaping areas required under this section shall <br />include underground irrigation systems. <br /> <br />2. . Exceptions include natural areas that are left undisturbed. <br /> <br />S. Parking Lot Landscaping. All parking lots are required to provide <br />internal overstory tree plantings in an effort to shade parking surfaces <br />and provide visual relief. Plantings are required at the following <br />minimum schedule. The planting schedule is established to provide an <br />acceptable number of plantings that may be planted in regular <br />symmetrical patterns or 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 /> <br />85 <br />