Article XXIII, Sec 21-230 through 21-238

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• Buffer required for nonresidential districts adjoining residential

  Where a lot in any business, commercial, industrial or planned development district ... is adjoining property in an RR-1 or residential district, a continuous buffer not less than the width specified in such table shall be provided

• Minimum internal landscaping percentage5 pct

  Not less than five (5) percent of the parking area shall be devoted to landscaped islands or other internal landscaping.

• Landscape plan required

  A landscape plan ... required for any use and for any development for which a site plan is required ... except single-family detached dwelling on an individual lot.

• Minimum landscaped island width9 ft

  Landscaped islands shall be not less than nine (9) feet in width

• Minimum tree caliper in landscaped island2.5 in

  Each landscaped island shall be planted with at least one (1) deciduous tree having a caliper of not less than two and one-half (2 1/2) inches at the time of planting.

• Landscaped setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. exception for corner parcels in B-2, M-1, PSC7.5 ft

  Exceptions to the required twenty (20) foot landscape setback shall be allowed if ... the minimum depth of the landscape setback is reduced to no less than seven and one-half (7.5) feet

• Landscaped setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. along streets20 ft

  A landscaped setback of not less than twenty (20) feet in depth ... shall be provided along all streets, except ... B-1 or B-1D districts and residential uses.

• Location of loading, trash and service areas

  Areas for loading and unloading commercial vehicles, facilities for trash collection and similar outside service areas shall not be located in any front yard in any district.

• Maximum parking spaces in a continuous row10 spaces

  not more than ten (10) parking spaces are situated in a single continuous row

• Maximum parking spaces in a row with 15-ft island15 spaces

  When landscaped islands of not less than fifteen (15) feet in width are provided, such islands may be located so that not more than fifteen (15) parking spaces are situated in a single continuous row.

• Location of outside storage

  In business, commercial, industrial and planned development districts, outside storage ... shall not be located in any minimum required front yard.

• Parking area landscaping applicability threshold4,500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.

  applicable to all off-street parking areas exceeding four thousand five hundred (4,500) square feet in area.

• Minimum peripheral landscaping width5 ft

  Landscaped areas of not less than five (5) feet in width shall be provided so as to separate off-street parking areas from abutting property

• ProhibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. fence materials

  No chain link, wire mesh, barbed wire or similar material shall be installed at any location visible from a street or adjoining property in an RR-1 or residential district

• Minimum screening heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.6 ft

  it shall be a continuous visual screen not less than six (6) feet in height

• Minimum shrubbery coverage of frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.50 pct

  At least 50% of the linear frontage ... shall include continuous vegetative shrubbery at full plant maturity and at a maximum of thirty (30) inches in height.

• Maximum shrubbery heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.2.5 ft

  at a maximum of thirty (30) inches in height

• Minimum street tree caliper2.5 in

  deciduous trees having a caliper of not less than two and one-half (2 1/2) inches at the time of planting

• Street tree rate50 ft per tree

  Street trees shall be provided at the rate of not less than one (1) tree for each fifty (50) linear feet ... of street frontage.

• Street tree rate in B-1, RIn, R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4, R-540 ft per tree

  In B-1, RIn, R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4, and R-5, this rate shall be not less than one (1) tree for each forty (40) linear feet