Sec. 32-95(j)

Other

• Drainage and irrigation required

  Landscaped areas in parking lots shall provide drainage and irrigation that ensures full drainage to the storm drainage system.

• Head-to-head parking grass strip width5 ft

  Head-to-head parking shall provide a five-foot grass strip with curb.

• Head-to-head parking tree spacing50 ft

  The grass strip may be counted as part of the landscaped areas and shall have one tree every 50 feet containing at least one overstory tree, and ten shrubs, per 50 linear feet, and a minimum of 70 percent living ground cover, sod, and/or annual or perennial color in the landscape strip surface area.

• Minimum landscape island area200 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.

  Each landscaped island shall be at least 200 square feet in area with a minimum width of ten feet.

• Minimum landscape island width10 ft

  Each landscaped island shall be at least 200 square feet in area with a minimum width of ten feet.

• Landscape island planting requirements

  There shall be at least one overstory tree, ten low shrubs and a minimum of 60 percent living ground cover, sod, and/or annual or perennial color in each landscaped island.

• Maximum shrub heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. in landscape island3 ft

  Shrubs, sod and/or living ground cover shall not exceed three feet in height.

• Landscape island spacing10 spaces

  Landscape islands shall be located no farther apart than every ten parking spaces and at the terminus of all rows of parking.

• Perimeter landscape strip shrub spacing5 ft

  The perimeter landscape strip shall be planted with a single row of overstory trees of a species appropriate for buffers and spaced every 40 linear feet of landscape strip, and evergreen shrubs spaced every five linear feet of landscape strip.

• Perimeter landscape strip tree spacing40 ft

  The perimeter landscape strip shall be planted with a single row of overstory trees of a species appropriate for buffers and spaced every 40 linear feet of landscape strip, and evergreen shrubs spaced every five linear feet of landscape strip.

• Perimeter landscape strip width5 ft

  The perimeter of a surface parking lot shall provide a five-foot wide landscape strip where such parking lot abuts side or rear property lines.

• Screening required for vehicle areas

  Plantings which meet the standards for screening as approved by the zoning administrator will be required to screen vehicle accommodation areas other than those serving single-family and duplex dwellings from an adjacent residential district or use.

• Tree preservation reduction allowed3 in

  The minimum number of spaces required may be reduced where the zoning administrator has determined that the reductions are necessary to preserve a healthy tree or trees with a three-inch or greater diameter from being damaged or removed and where the site plan provides for the retention for said tree or trees.

• Vehicle separation strip width10 ft

  Vehicles shall be separated from sidewalks, driveways, and streets in public rights-of-way by wheel bumpers and by a strip of land at least ten feet wide, reserved as open space, and planted in grass containing at least one understory or overstory tree, as appropriate, and ten shrubs per 50 linear feet, and a minimum of 80 percent living ground cover, sod, and/or annual or perennial color in the landscape strip surface area.

• Wheel bumper distance from tree48 in

  Wheel bumpers shall be placed a minimum of 48 inches from the nearest tree trunk.