(A) Entry features of future commercial and industrial development sites shall be landscaped in the first phase of construction.
(B) In multi-family and nonresidential uses in the agricultural, single-family and 2-family districts, the required front and street side yards shall be entirely landscaped except for necessary and provided walkways and driveways.
(C) In the commercial and industrial development, a minimum of 30 feet of any yard adjacent to a street shall be entirely landscaped, except for required walkways and access driveways.
(D) Where multi-family, commercial, office or industrial uses are adjacent to or separated by an alley or lesser separation from any residential development or district, the trees shall be planted at 20 feet on center, with every other tree being a minimum 24-inch box size.
(E) Where a commercial, office or industrial user of over 50,000 square feet building area is located adjacent to a residence or residential district, the landscape buffer described in § 150.138(C), shall be increased to ten feet (adjacent to that user), with two rows of trees along the interior side of the required wall. Each tree shall be a minimum 15-gallon size spaced 20 feet on center, staggered for maximum effect in buffering the two uses.
(F) Trees shall be required along all street frontages according to the following criteria:
(1) A minimum of one tree shall be planted for every 25 feet of lineal street frontage;
(2) The trees selected shall be compatible with the overall site and landscape plan, as well as adjacent sites; and
(3) All trees shall be planted and staked in accordance with the Standard Tree Planting Detail located below.
(G) All developments that back or side onto a street and which have a six foot high screening wall constructed on the property line shall install within the street right-of-way contiguous with the property, three water conserving variety shrubs and one water conserving variety tree for every 30 feet of the reverse street frontage. All trees and shrubs shall be provided with an automatic drip or soaker irrigation system. Ground cover shall be one-fourth inch minus decomposed golden granite without plastic liners. A pre-emergent herbicide shall be applied to the ground prior to and after the placement of natural surface materials (decomposed granite, river run rock and the like) in any landscaped area to prevent weed growth. The foregoing requirement shall apply in lieu of the street frontage landscape improvements required in this section.
(Prior Code, Ch. 4, Art. IV, § 4-209) (Ord. 432-06, passed 6-19-2006)