(a) Internal Parking Lot Landscaping. Parking lots that contain 40 or more spaces shall provide interior parking lot landscaping in compliance with the following standards:
(1) A minimum of five percent of the parking lot area shall be planted as landscaped island areas, developed and distributed throughout the parking lot so as to provide visual and climatic relief from broad expanses of pavement.
(2) Each landscaped island shall be a minimum of ten feet in any horizontal dimension and shall provide at least one major shade tree with a clear trunk height of at least six feet and a minimum caliper of two inches. At least one tree is required for every landscaped island within a parking lot.
(3) Shrub plantings adjacent to a building along the perimeter of the parking lot, or in any part of a yard, shall not be counted as interior landscaping of the parking lot. For the purpose of this section the area of a parking lot shall be the total vehicular surface area including circulation aisles.
(4) Wheel stops, curbs or walkways shall be used to protect landscaped islands from vehicles.
(b) Additional Plantings along Public Streets. Whenever parking areas consisting of five spaces or more are located such that the parked cars will be visible from a public street, landscaping, in addition to the interior landscaping required in subsection (a) hereof, shall be planted and maintained between the street and the parking lot. Such landscaping shall be a minimum height of two and one-half feet, located adjacent to the parking lot and shall be placed to effectively obscure a minimum of 50 percent of the parking area.
(Ord. 2021-6. Passed 1-25-21.)