Perimeter screening shall effectively conceal parking areas and interior driveways from adjoining property (along side lot lines) with the selective use of plant, mounding, or fence material for visual separation for all commercial districts. A planting strip at least five feet in width shall be located along the perimeter of a parking area (along side lot lines). Within this landscaped strip there shall be two deciduous shade trees per 100 linear feet (or fraction thereof) of perimeter parking area. There shall also be a solid hedge, or informal planting of shrubs (evergreen or deciduous) at least six feet tall which will provide fifty percent (50%) opacity within two years of planting. Whenever a lot that is zoned commercial or industrial abuts a lot that is zoned residential, the minimum planting strip width shall be increased to fifteen feet and landscaped with earthen mounding and plant material as previously described.
(Ord. 99-46. Passed 11-1-99.)