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Business Districts <br /> <br />All landscaping areas required under this section shall <br />include underm'ound irrigation systems. <br /> <br />0. Exceptions include landscape areas' that are left in a <br /> natural state. <br /> <br />Parking Lot Landscaping. All' parking lots are required to provide <br />internal oversto~ tree plantings in an effort to shade parking surfaces <br />and provide visual relief. Plantings are required at the. following <br />mini~num 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 m-oupings. -' <br /> <br />1 tree per every, 10 parking sPaces. <br /> <br />Eve13, overstorv tree planth~g shall be provided with a planting <br />area of 162 square feet. <br /> <br />Acceptable ~ound cover materials include sod. mulch,.and other <br />natural ,o-round cover. Landscaping rock and plastic <br />underlayment is not allowed. <br /> <br />All parking lot plantinz areas shall include under~ound <br />irrigation systems. <br /> <br />2. Buffer~'ards. This section are intended to be minimum requirements <br /> <br />to achieve screening between differint uses with varied intensities and <br />impacts that are not always complementary when adiacent to one <br /> <br />another. When a buffeD'ard is required under this section, the yard <br />space and planti..n.g requirements are not to be reduced for other <br />purposes such as future parking.and driveways, building expansions, or <br />other activities that are not in keeping with the purposes of buffering <br />and screeninz. . <br /> <br />Buffer~ards are intended to provide additional screening 9f <br />businesses that are adjancent to residential areas. The followinz <br />table details the width of the bufferyard alonz the common <br />adjacent property line. An additional increase of landscape <br />plantings would be required in the bufferyard, That increase is <br />expressed h~ the table below'as a percenta2e of the total required <br />-sit~ landscaping. <br /> <br />9-20 March '03 Draft <br /> <br />181 <br /> <br /> <br />