(A) Landscape areas shall be provided within all vehicular use areas to break up large impervious areas and allow for a greater distribution of tree canopy coverage. Dimensional requirements have been established to ensure that interior landscape areas serve the intended goals and provide enough ground area to support required plant material, interior landscape areas shall not be required for enclosed VUAs that are secured from access by a fence, wall, or similar barrier at least three in width and one-half feet in height and used for storage, loading docks, or their associated maneuvering areas, or for loading, unloading, and storage areas in an industrial zone PD (industrial uses), C-M, M-1, M-2, M-3, PEC, and EZ-1 or in loading dock and truck maneuvering areas in commercial and office zones.
(B) ILA shall be provided that in total area equals or exceeds the applicable minimum percentage of the vehicular use area, as specified in the following table:
VUA Size | ILA Area |
Under 6,00 square feet or containing < 10 parking spaces | 0% |
6,000 - 12,000 square feet or up to 20 parking space - If in a traditional or downtown form district | 5% (2.5%) |
12,000 - 30,000 square feet or up to 100 parking spaces - If in a traditional or downtown form district | 7.5% (5%) |
Over 30,000 square feet or 100 parking spaces | 7.5% |
(C) Any landscape area surrounded by or projecting into a vehicular use area can be used to meet interior landscape area requirements; provided they are no less than 133 square feet in area and no less than eight feet in either dimension. Smaller interior landscape areas are not prohibited, but will not count toward interior landscape area requirements.
(D) The maximum distance between interior landscape areas shall apply as follows:
(1) VUAs under 12,000 square feet or less than 20 parking spaces: no maximum; and
(2) VUAs of 12,000 square feet or over or 20 or more parking spaces: 120 feet.
(E) The maximum distance shall be determined by measuring both:
(1) Radially from the closest perimeter landscaping area curb edge; and
(2) Lineally in each row of parking spaces from the closest curb edge of each ILA.
(LDC § 10.2.11)