(A) Parking lot landscaping design guidelines. All parking lots of ten or more spaces are subject to site plan review and a landscape plan as a condition of obtaining a building permit. Perimeter landscaping is required for all parking lots and shall be established along the edge of the parking lot that abuts the public right-of-way, excluding alleys. Interior parking lot landscaping is required for those lots of ten or more spaces. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent the applicant’s voluntary installation of additional interior parking lot landscaping, so long as parking space requirements and parking lot design requirements are complied with.
(B) Existing parking lots.
(1) For existing parking lots that currently do not comply with the required parking lot landscaping, such landscaping shall be provided when:
(a) A new principal building or building addition is constructed, or exterior remodeling of the principal building occurs.
(b) Over 50% of the total area of an existing parking lot is reconstructed. Resealing or re-striping of an existing parking lot, which does not entail paving or resurfacing by replacement of the asphalt or concrete, shall not be subject to this requirement.
(c) When an existing parking lot under 10,000 square feet in area is expanded by 50% or more in total surface area.
(d) When an existing parking lot over 10,000 square feet in area is expanded by 25% or more in total surface area.
(2) When an existing parking lot is required by division (B)(1) above to provide landscaping, which would result in creating a parking area that no longer conforms to the parking regulations of this subchapter and this Code, such existing parking lot shall not be required to install all or a portion of the required landscaping. The applicant shall be required to show that landscaping cannot be accommodated on the site. If only certain requirements are able to be accommodated on the site, those elements shall be required. The Zoning Administrator shall make the determination that all or a portion of required landscaping does not have to be installed.
(Ord. 929, passed 1-25-11; Ord. 1076, passed 1-23-18) Penalty, see § 153.999