(A) RS, R1, and R2. There are no specific landscaping requirements for individual lots or common areas. New subdivisions or planned unit developments, or the expansion of existing subdivisions or planned unit developments, shall include trees at a minimum spacing of one tree per lot, or one tree per 100 feet, whichever results in the greater number of trees, on each side of the roadway. These trees shall be located on city owned right-of-ways to the extent practical.
(B) R3, C1,C2, C3,C4 and C5.
(1) Sites with 500 feet of street frontage or less. The minimum landscaping requirement shall be: two square feet of landscaping per foot of street frontage, or 7.5% of the patron parking area(s), whichever is greater.
(2) Sites with more than 500 feet of street frontage. The minimum landscaping requirement shall be: two square feet of landscaping per foot of street frontage, and 7.5% of the patron parking area(s).
(C) I. The minimum landscaping requirement is one tree per 100 feet of street frontage, or an equivalent amount of other landscaping. Sites which border a different zoning classification shall also include one tree per 100 feet of property line bordering the other zoning, or an equivalent amount of other landscaping. This requirement does not apply to property lines bordering an unzoned agricultural area.
(D) C/D. See Chapter 159 (Zoning), §159.60(I).
(E) All zoning classifications. Landscaping requirements that are calculated based on street frontage are intended to be used along the street frontage. Landscaping requirements based on parking area(s) are intended to be spread throughout, and/or around, the parking area(s). However, this shall not be interpreted to limit creativity in the placement of landscaping areas nor to prevent the combining of the individual requirements into common areas.
(F) Landscaping requirements that are described as a number of "square feet of landscaping per foot of street frontage" are intended to describe the method for calculating the total landscaping area required. They are not intended to require that the landscaping to be spread continuously along the street frontage.
(Ord. 2011-5342, passed 12-20-2011)