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(a) All landscaping areas required under this section shall include <br /> underground irrigation systems. <br /> <br />(b) Exceptions include landscape areas that are left in a natural state. <br /> <br />Parking Lot Landscaping. All parking lots are required to provide internal <br />overstory tree plantings in an effort to shade parking surfaces and provide visual <br />relief. Plantings are required at the following minimum schedule. The planting <br />schedule is established to provide an acceptable number of plantings that may be <br />planted in regular 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 of <br /> 162 square feet. <br /> <br />(c) <br /> <br />Acceptable ground cover materials include sod, mulch, and other natural <br />ground cover. Landscaping rock and plastic underlayment is not <br />allowed. <br /> <br />(d) All parking lot planting areas shall include underground irrigation <br /> systems. <br /> <br />Bufferyards. This section are intended to be minimum requirements to achieve <br />screening between differing uses with varied intensities and impacts that are not <br />always complementary when adjacent to one another. When a bufferyard is <br />required under this section, the yard space and planting requirements are not to be <br />reduced for other purposes such as future parking and driveways, building <br />expansions, or other activities that are not in keeping with the purposes of <br />buffering and screening. <br /> <br />(a) Bufferyards are intended to provide additional screening of businesses <br /> that are adjacent to residential areas. The following table details the <br /> width of the bufferyard along the common adjacent property line. An <br /> additional increase of landscape plantings would be required in the <br /> bufferyard. That increase is expressed in the table below as a <br /> percentage of the total required site landscaping. <br /> <br /> Existing Adjacent Development <br /> R-1 R-2 R-3 <br /> <br />B-1 40ft 30ft 20ft <br />Bufferyard width 25% 20% 20% <br />% Increase in plantings <br />required <br />B-2 50ft 40ft 30ft <br />Bufferyard width 30% 25% 20% <br />% Increase in plantings <br />required <br /> <br />3 <br /> <br /> <br />