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established to provide an acceptable number of' plantings that <br />may be planted in reeular symmetrical patterns or irregular <br />cktsters or groupings. <br /> <br />i. 1 tree per every 10 parking spaces. <br /> <br />ii. Every overstory tree planting shall be provided with a <br /> t~l. anting area of 162 square feet. <br /> <br />IlL <br /> <br />Acceptable .,~ound cover materials include sod, mulch, and <br />other natural ground cover. Landscaping rock axed plastic <br />u..nderlayment is not allowed. <br /> <br />iv. All parking lot planting areas shall include underground <br /> irrigation s ,vstems. <br /> <br />4. Bufferyards. This section are intended to be minimmn <br /> <br />requirements to achieve screening between differimz uses with <br />varied intensities and impacts that m'e not always complementary <br />when adjacent to one another. When a bufferyard is required <br /> <br />under this section, the yard space' and planting requirements are <br />not to be reduced for other purposes such as future parking and <br />driveways, building expansions, or other activities that are not in <br />keeping with the purposes of buffering and screening. <br /> <br />i. Buffervards are intended to provide additional screening of <br /> businesses that are adiancent to residential areas. The <br /> <br />following table details the width of the buffervm'd along the <br />common adiacent property tine. An additional increase of <br />landscape planti.ngs would be required in the buffer,/ard. <br />That increase .is expressed in the table below as a <br />p..ercentage of the' total required site landscaping. <br /> <br /> Existing Adjacent Development <br />B-I R-1 R-2 R-3 <br />Buffervard width 40ft 30ft 20ft <br />% Increase in plantings 25% ] 20% I 20% <br />required <br /> <br />B2 <br />Bufferfard w{d+~, ~ ~ <br /> <br /> As an altelmative method for screening, i~nces that <br /> <br />9-180 <br /> <br />191 <br /> <br /> <br />