(a) All areas within the required building and parking setback, excluding driveway openings, shall be landscaped with the following minimum plant materials.
(1) Three major shade trees shall be provided for every 100 linear feet of lot frontage or fraction thereof, not including drive entrances. Each tree, at the time of installation, shall have a clear trunk height of at least six (6) feet and a minimum caliper of two (2) inches.
(2) Twenty (20) shrubs shall be provided for every 100 linear feet of lot frontage or fraction thereof, not including drive entrances.
(3) All areas not devoted to trees and shrubs shall be planted with grass, ground cover or other live landscape treatment, excluding paving or gravel.
(4) Trees and shrubs may be aggregated appropriately.
(b) The following are exceptions to subsection (a) above:
(1) Lots devoted to single-family detached and two-family dwellings
(2) Whenever the building setback is five (5) feet or less, these requirements shall not apply. (Ord. 62-2023. Passed 1-16-24.)