(a) Parking Lot Islands.
(1) Large, unbroken expanses of parking lot shall be avoided. Large lots should be separated into a series of smaller interconnected lots separated by peninsulas or islands. No individual landscape area shall be smaller than 350 square feet.
(2) For each 100 square feet, or fraction thereof, of parking area, a minimum total of five (5) square feet of landscaped area shall be provided.
(3) Parking areas should contain a minimum of one deciduous canopy tree for every ten (10) parking spaces.
(4) Trees used in parking lot islands shall have a clear trunk of at least five (5) feet above the ground, and the remaining areas shall be landscaped with shrubs, or ground cover, not to exceed two feet in height.
(b) Buffering. Parking lots shall be screened from primary streets, residential areas, and open space by a three and five-tenths (3.5) foot minimum height evergreen hedge or masonry wall, or combination of wall and plantings.
(Ord. 08-2022. Passed 5-4-22.)