(a) Screening shall be provided as required in this section for the following situations:
(1) To screen parking areas, circulation aisles, driveways and loading areas, as regulated in Section 1172.02(g);
(2) To screen storage areas; and
(3) To screen residential planned unit developments when fronting on arterials and freeways.
(b) Screening, as required in subsection (a) hereof, shall consist of one or more of the following:
(1) A ten-foot wide landscaped area planted with trees and/or shrubs a minimum of six feet high, which will act as an effective screen in both winter and summer seasons. Required yards and existing trees and shrubs shall be considered screening when meeting these requirements.
(2) A five to six-foot masonry wall and/or decorative wood fence; or
(3) Earth mounding planted with trees and/or shrubs. The combined height of mounding and plants shall be a minimum of six feet.
(c) The fifty-foot minimum landscaped buffer area adjacent to all perimeter boundary lines of a residential planned unit development which border a Single-Family District, and the thirty-foot minimum landscaped buffer area adjacent to all perimeter boundary lines which border any other district, shall be as regulated in the schedule set forth in Section 1162.03. Such landscaped buffer area may include any required front, side or rear yards required for individual dwellings. Such landscaped buffer areas may include, but shall not be limited to, grass cover, shrubs, trees, earth berms or mounds, as well as fences and walls, but do not have to meet the screening specifications of subsection (b) hereof. Nevertheless, such landscaped buffers that are adjacent to perimeter boundary lines shall be free of all accessory and main buildings, recreational facilities (except for sidewalks and walkways), off-street parking and loading areas and circulation driveways and aisles. Such landscaped buffers may be considered common open space.
(d) The selection, placement and construction of screening and landscaping materials shall be subject to the approval of the City Planning Commission. The Planning Commission may require additional screening and landscaping if determined to be necessary.
(Ord. 96-61. Passed 4-21-97.)