(a) Parking lots shall meet design standards for parking spaces and vehicular use areas and shall be designed for best use (most parking spaces) of Parking and Vehicular Use Areas following the design standards in the current edition of Land Architectural Graphic Standards, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
(b) The design for parking spaces and vehicular use areas shall be approved by the City Engineer pursuant to Section 1107.10 hereof.
(c) Screening for Perimeter Areas and Street Frontages. Greenspace areas shall include screening with a minimum height of three feet. Depending upon the existing conditions, screening may be achieved by landscaping, grade changes, berms, or woodland preservation that provide visual separation. Screening by shrubs or other similar vegetation shall be maintained at a minimum height of three feet and shall be planted in sufficient density to provide a continuous screen at maturity.
(d) Distribution of Interior Areas. Interior greenspace areas shall be dispersed so as to define aisles and break up the expanse of paving and limit unbroken rows of parking spaces to a maximum of 100 feet. Except for vacant areas, each interior greenspace area shall be no less than 4 feet in width and 100 square feet in area.
(e) Wheel Chocks and Curbing. Greenspace areas abutting parking spaces shall be protected from vehicular encroachment by wheel chocks or curbing.
(f) Plantings. All plantings made pursuant to the requirements of this chapter shall be made in compliance with the terms and conditions of the Tree Commission’s Planting Specifications.
(g) Exemption. New and used car lots whether for sale or lease shall be exempt from the frontage screening requirements of this chapter, but not the lawnstrip restoration requirements of this chapter.
(h) Historic Districts. Parking lots in Historic Districts shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter except for the lawnstrip restoration and street frontage requirements.
(Ord. 257(08-09). Passed 11-5-09.)