13-13-7: PARKING LOT LANDSCAPING:

   A.   Landscaping is required within automobile parking areas that have fourteen (14) parking spaces or more to break up large expanses of pavement, to provide relief from reflected glare and heat, and to guide vehicular and pedestrian traffic.

   B.   Materials and Installation:

      1.   Irrigation: All landscaped areas in parking lots that contain any plants or trees shall be irrigated. Irrigation design shall follow the requirements of the application checklist.

      2.   Interior Parking Lot Landscaping:

         a.   Shade trees shall be provided at no less than one tree per seven (7) parking spaces (i.e., seventy (70) spaces divided by seven (7) equals ten (10) trees).

         b.   Within landscaped areas, plants shall be of sufficient number and spacing to provide fifty percent (50%) surface coverage at maturity, not including tree canopies.

         c.   Interior parking lot landscaping shall be evenly dispersed throughout the parking lot. Planting that is required along the perimeter of a parking lot or adjacent to buildings shall not be considered as part of the interior parking lot landscaping.

      3.    Perimeter Parking Lot Landscape Areas: Where a parking lot is located within a required, front, side, or rear yard or within twenty feet (20') of a property line, landscaping shall be provided around the perimeter of the parking lot. The perimeter landscaping planting area shall be a minimum of eight feet (8') wide and shall be designed, contained, planted and irrigated according to this chapter and the application checklist.

      4.    Landscaped Areas: The minimum interior dimensions of any landscaped area or planting median shall be eight feet (8') wide. Each landscaped area shall be protected by concrete vertical curbs. Curbs may be designed to allow stormwater to enter the landscaped area. Where such curbs serve as a wheel stop for parking spaces, thirty six inches (36") shall be provided in the planting area between the curb stop and the tree locations. Other low growing plants, mulch, gravel, or ornamental concrete shall be placed in this tree exclusion area. (Ord. 21-10, 6-9-2021)