(a) Shade Trees. All parcels located in public and semi-public districts shall provide a minimum of one parkway shade tree for every fifty feet of street frontage or fraction thereof.
(b) Buffering. Where a P-1 district development abuts a more intensive land use, including residential, business, or manufacturing districts, parking lots, railways, or arterial streets, a minimum twenty-foot buffering strip shall be required to reduce the negative impacts of the adjacent development. 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 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. (Same as business districts)
(2) Existing development. (Same as business districts)
(d) Parking Lot Landscaping. A minimum of twenty percent of the interior parking area for nonresidential uses shall be reserved for landscape plantings, including, but not limited to, parking islands, hedges, berms, rocks, ground cover, and trees. One interior parking area shade tree shall be planted for every fifteen parking spaces. Interior shade tree requirements are in addition to the required number of street and parkway trees.
(1) Location. (Same as business districts)
(2) Plant type. (Same as business districts)
(e) Paving Materials. (Same as business districts)
(f) Privacy Walls/Fences. (Same as business districts)
(g) Street Furniture. (Same as business districts)
Design (Same as business districts)
(Ord. 940. Passed 4-14-97.)