(a) Shade Trees. All parcels located in Village manufacturing districts shall provide a minimum of one parkway shade tree for every fifty feet of street frontage or fraction thereof.
(b) Buffering. Manufacturing districts shall provide a minimum thirty-five foot buffering strip between adjacent developments, railways, arterial streets and parking lots to reduce the negative impacts of or on the surrounding landuses. This buffer may be achieved using a variety of arrangements, including parallel, serpentine, or broken planting rows, landscape berms, or any combination thereof.
Buffering materials shall be designed to provide a year-round screen of at least four feet in height in three growing seasons. Landscape berms shall be a minimum of three feet in width and not exceed a fifty percent slope. Openings in buffering materials shall be provided along dedicated easements and rights of way and to provide access for emergency vehicles where necessary.
(c) Ground Cover. (Same as business districts)
(1) New development. All new manufacturing development shall be required to sod the front and side yard areas of the lot prior to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy. The rear yard shall be seeded and/or hydro-seeded so as to produce complete coverage during the next growing season.
(d) Parking Lot Landscaping. (Same as business districts)
(1) Location. (Same as business districts)
(2) Plant type. (Same as business districts)
(e) Paving Materials. (Same as business districts)
(f) Privacy Walls and Fences. (Same as business districts)
(g) Street Furniture/Ornamentation. (Same as business districts)
Design (Same as business districts)
(Ord. 940. Passed 4-14-97; Ord. 1143. Passed 6-23-03.)