Public and private off-street parking facilities and other vehicular use areas shall be landscaped in accordance with the following requirements.
(a) Frontage Along Public Streets.
(1) For parking lots up to 7,000 square feet and/or including less than twenty- five cars. The setback for off-street car parking facilities is determined by three development options as shown on Exhibit 'A-1' (Frontage Landscaping Requirements for Off-Street Surface Parking Lots). Option 'A' requires a 10'-0" minimum parking and/or drive aisle set-back with a continuous 3'-0" height evergreen hedge. Option 'B' requires a 20'-0" minimum parking and/or drive aisle set-back with a continuous 3' 0" height minimum earthen mound. In addition to these requirements of the zoning Code, one 2" minimum caliper large or medium class tree is to be planted for each 35 feet of frontage.
(2) For parking lots exceeding 7,000 square feet or twenty-five cars. The set- back for off-street car parking facilities is determined by three development options as shown on Exhibit 'A-2' (Frontage Landscaping Requirements for Off-Skeet Surface Parking Lots). Option 'A' requires a 15'-0" minimum parking lot and/or drive aisle set-back with a continuous 3'-0" height evergreen hedge. Option 'B' requires a 25'-0" minimum parking and/or drive aisle set-back with a continuous 3'-0" height minimum earthen mound. In addition to these requirements of the Zoning Code, one 3" minimum caliper large or medium class tree is to be planted for each 35 feet of frontage.
(3) For truck vehicular use areas and parking. The set-back for off-street truck parking facilities is as shown on Exhibit 'A-3' (Frontage Landscaping Requirements for Off-Street Surface Parking Lots). Truck parking, loading areas and drive aisles require a 45'-0" minimum parking and/or drive aisle set-back with a continuous 6'-0" height minimum earthen mound. In conjunction with this requirement three (3) staggered rows of 8'-0" height minimum evergreen trees at 20'-0" maximum spacing and two (2) 10'-0" height small class trees per each 100 lineal feet of frontage are to be planted.
(b) Rear and Side Yards Adjacent Compatible Use Districts. The set-back shall be 10'-0" minimum for car parking and/or drive aisles and 20'-0" minimum for truck parking and/or drive aisles, as shown in Exhibit 'B- l'. In addition to these requirements of the Zoning Code, one 2" minimum caliper large or medium class tree is to be planted for each 35 lineal feet of property line for all vehicular use areas. If evergreen trees are preferred in lieu of large or medium class trees, the evergreen trees are to be 6'-0" minimum height and one tree is to be planted for each 20 lineal feet of property line. Truck vehicular use areas are to have a 6'-0" height minimum evergreen tree planted for every 20 lineal feet of property line.
(c) Rear and Side Yards Adjacent Incompatible Use Districts. The set-back for off- street car and truck parking facilities is determined by two development options for cars and a specific requirement for trucks as shown in Exhibit 'B-2' (Side and Rear Yard Landscaping Requirement for Off-Street Parking Lots). Option 'A' for cars requires a 20'-0" minimum parking and/or drive aisle set-back with a continuous 6'-0" height wall. The wall shall be constructed of brick decorative cut block stone and shall be maintenance free as approved by the City. In addition to this requirement 8'-0" height evergreen trees at 20'-0" maximum spacing and two (2) 2" caliper minimum small class trees per each 100 lineal feet of property line are to be planted. Option 'B' for cars requires a 30'-0" minimum parking and/or drive aisle set-back with a continuous 4'-0" height minimum earthen mound. In addition to the mounding requirements a double staggered row of 8'-0" height minimum evergreen trees at 20'-0" maximum spacing and two (2) 2" caliper minimum small class trees per each 100 lineal feet of property line are to be planted. Truck vehicular areas require a 45'-0" minimum parking and/or drive aisle set-back with a continuous 6'-0" height minimum earthen mound. In addition to the mounding requirement three (3) staggered rows of 8'-0" height minimum evergreen trees at 20'-0" maximum spacing and two (2) 2" caliper minimum small class trees per each 100 lineal feet of property line are to be planted.
(d) Interior Vehicular Use Areas. Within interior vehicular use areas peninsulas, island, aisle end islands, and planting areas are to be constructed for landscape plantings as shown on Exhibit 'C' (Interior Landscaping Requirements for Off- Street Surface Parking Lots). Each peninsula, island, aisle end island, or planting area is to contain at least one (1) 2" minimum caliper small or medium class tree. Islands, peninsulas, aisle end islands, and planting areas are to be located at intervals not to exceed fifteen (15) parking spaces. All parking aisles are to be terminated with an end island or planting bed. Peninsulas, islands, and aisle end islands are to be minimum sizes of eight feet (8') in width and thirty-six feet (36') in length, or eight feet (8') in width and eighteen feet (18') in length, as shown on Exhibit 'C'.
(1) In order that there shall be safe access to parking spaces, eight feet (8') landscaped strips shall be arranged so as to divide parking corridors and to limit "cross tracing" through open parking spaces.
(2) To minimize traffic hazards, when an access way intersects a public right- of-way or when the property abuts the intersection of two or more rights- of-way, all landscaping shall provide unobstructed cross visibility at a level between three feet and six feet.
(3) Grass or other ground cover shall be planted on all portions of the interior planting area not occupied by other landscape material.
(4) The minimum distance from a tree to a vehicular use area shall be four feet measured from the face of the tree. Vehicles may overhang a landscaped area not more than two and one-half feet when parked head-in to a landscaped area in a marked parking space. The overhang distance may be counted as part of the required depth of each parking space.
(5) Airport facilities adjacent to commercial or residential areas must install landscaping as described in Exhibit 'B-2' (Option 2-Incompatible Land Use).
(Ord. 40-98. Passed 8-17-98.)