(a) The Planning and Zoning Commission shall require planting and/or a fence or wall where necessary to protect residential districts adjacent to or across the street from a Community Office Business Overlay as provided in Chapter 1155. Such planting and/or fence or wall may extend into a front yard but shall not be planted or constructed within fifteen feet of the planned right of way.
(b) All yards not occupied by buildings or paving shall be landscaped or retained in a natural wooded state as approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission. Development plans shall indicate the type, height and size of all landscape materials.
(c) In a Community Office Business Overlay, not less than twenty-five percent (25%) of the entire lot area shall be landscaped.
(d) Within the parking areas not less than five percent (5%) of the area shall be permanently landscaped so as to interrupt paved areas. Such areas shall be not less than ten feet (10') in any dimension and shall be distributed throughout the parking areas so as to interrupt the paved area. This landscape requirement may be included in the total amount of landscaping required in subsection (c) hereof.
(e) All yards adjacent to public streets shall be landscaped. Rear or side yards adjacent to Chagrin Boulevard shall be landscaped and buffered as approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission to screen parking areas. (Ord. 2008-13. Passed 4-16-08.)