Botetourt County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 25-485

Extracted standards

4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Other

  • Interior canopy tree rate1 tree per 10 spaces

    in the minimum rate of one (1) canopy tree per ten (10) spaces

  • Maximum distance to tree80 ft

    no parking space is more than eighty (80) feet from a portion of the landscaped open space or parking island, and no more than eighty (80) feet from a canopy tree.

  • Parking areas and vehicular traffic circulation lanes shall be screened with either earthen berming to a minimum height of thirty (30) inches; berming shall not exceed a slope of two to one (2:1); or a continuous solid fence or wall four (4) to six (6) feet in height.

  • Peripheral landscaping strip width10 ft

    a landscaping strip at least ten (10) feet in width measured from the edge of pavement, shall be located between the parking lot and the abutting property lines

From the ordinance

Any parking lot, excepting single bay parking lots of twenty (20) spaces or less, shall be provided with landscaped open space along the perimeter of the parking area or areas, in the minimum rate of one (1) canopy tree per ten (10) spaces which shall be located such that no parking space is more than eighty (80) feet from a portion of the landscaped open space or parking island, and no more than eighty (80) feet from a canopy tree. Landscaped areas between parking areas and buildings shall not be considered as interior landscaping.
Sec. 25-485