Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
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- Interior landscaping island frequency10 spaces
One (1) interior landscaping island shall be provided for every ten (10) parking spaces.
- Minimum interior island area200 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Each interior landscaping island must consist of a minimum of two hundred (200) square feet.
- Minimum interior island width8 ft
a minimum width of eight (8) feet
- Maximum distance from parking space to tree70 ft
No parking space shall be more than seventy (70) feet away from the trunk of a shade or canopy tree.
- Perimeter landscaping strip width5 ft
All parking lots shall include a landscaping strip along the entire perimeter of the parking lot of at least five (5) feet in width.
- Shrub spacing along perimeter25 ft
Three (3) large shrubs, which are of a type that are able to reach at least three (3) feet in height within three (3) years of planting, per twenty-five (25) feet of linear footage.
- Tree density in interior islands150 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. per tree
at least one (1) tree per 150 square feet of parking island area.
- Tree spacing along perimeter35 ft
One (1) canopy or understory tree per thirty-five (35) feet of linear footage.
From the ordinance
All parking lots shall include a landscaping strip along the entire perimeter of the parking lot of at least five (5) feet in width... One (1) canopy or understory tree per thirty-five (35) feet of linear footage; and Three (3) large shrubs... per twenty-five (25) feet... One (1) interior landscaping island shall be provided for every ten (10) parking spaces... minimum of two hundred (200) square feet, a minimum width of eight (8) feet, at least one (1) tree per 150 square feet... No parking space shall be more than seventy (70) feet away from the trunk of a shade or canopy tree.