Landscaping in all commercial and residential parking lots shall be as follows.
(A) Parking lots shall be separated from street frontages and from abutting uses by planting areas.
(B) A minimum ten-foot wide landscape strip shall be provided between any parking lot designed or intended to accommodate seven cars or more and any lot frontage of the property on which the parking lot is located, unless the parking area is otherwise screened from the street by a building or other means.
(C) A minimum ten-foot wide landscape strip shall be provided between any vehicular loading area and any lot frontage of the property on which the loading area is located, unless the vehicular loading area is otherwise screened from the street by a building or other means.
(D) One deciduous shade tree shall be provided within the parking lot for every seven parking spaces, or portion thereof. Each tree shall be located within the parking lot in reasonable proximity to the spaces for which the tree was required. Trees provided to meet the minimum requirements of any landscape strip or buffer may not be counted toward this requirement.
(E) Tree planting areas shall be no less than eight feet in width and shall provide at least 100 square feet of planting area per tree. No tree shall be less than two and one-half feet from the edge of pavement or back of curb; if curbing is not provided around the tree planting area, curb stops shall be placed such that vehicles will not overhang the tree planting area.
(F) (1) A landscaping island shall be located at the end of every parking bay between the last parking space and an adjacent travel aisle or driveway.
(2) The island shall be no less than eight feet wide for at least one-half the length of the adjacent parking space. The island shall be planted in trees, shrubs, grass or ground cover except for those areas that are mulched.
(G) Landscaping islands and tree planting areas shall be well drained and contain suitable soil and natural irrigation characteristics for the planting materials they contain.
(Ord. 382, passed 7-8-2021)