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do <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />All parking lot planting areas shall include underground irrigation <br />systems. <br /> <br />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 />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 <br />required site landscaping. <br /> <br /> Existing Adjacent Development <br /> R-1 R-2 R-3 <br /> B-1 <br />Bufferyard width 40ft 30ft 20ft <br />% Increase in plantings 25% 20% 20% <br />required <br />B-2 <br />Bufferyard width 50 ft 40 ft 30 ft <br />% Increase in plantings 30% 25% 20% <br />required <br /> <br />As an alternative me hod 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 provisions <br />found in Section 9.11.17. When a fence is used for screening <br />purposes, the bufferyard planting requirements may be reduced by 10 <br />percent from the stated minimum requirement. <br /> <br />4. Off-Street Loading: One off-street loading dock/berth shall be provided <br />for the first 10,000 square feet of floor area and one additional dock/berth <br />for each additional 25,000 square feet of floor area. Such loading berth/dock <br />shall be located in the rear or side wall of building. <br /> <br />Subsection 9.20.23 B-3 Highway Business District is renumbered, re-titled and amended to read <br />as follows: <br /> <br />7 <br /> <br /> <br />