A minimum 15-foot landscape buffer shall be provided by the developer/property owner abutting the designated roadway right-of-way lines at the time of development order or permit approval.
(A) The developer/property owner shall be responsible for the purchase, installation, maintenance and irrigation of all required landscaping.
(B) This area shall be planted with live oaks, of four-inch diameter at breast height (dbh) at planting, along a line ten feet back from the right-of-way line. The trees shall be planted every 40 feet and staggered so as to be midway between the live oaks planted in the adjacent right-of-way. A minimum of four understory trees per 100 feet of frontage or fraction thereof shall be planted in and about access points and intersections as shown on Appendix, Figure C.
(C) No existing dedicated or reserved public or private right-of-way shall be included in calculation of the buffer width.
(D) The corridor buffer area shall not include storm water retention areas.
(E) If parking abuts the buffer, a continuous shrub hedge shall be arranged or planted so that a height of three feet will be attained within one year of planting so as to screen a minimum of 75% of the parking area, to that height, as viewed from the right-of-way.
(F) Existing vegetation shall be used where possible to meet these requirements.
(Ord. 421, passed 3-16-89) Penalty, see § 10.99