§ 118-1525. Parking lot landscaping.

(a)

Parking lots shall be planted with canopy trees at a rate of one tree per ten spaces. Parking shall not extend more than 12 spaces without a tree island break.

(b)

At time of parking lot construction and planter installation, all planter islands shall be excavated to the full width of the parking planter island and through the full depth of compacted subgrade to remove all compacted material, all limerock or other material deleterious to plant health, and backfilled with clean planting fill.

(c)

Planting areas shall be provided equal to or greater than ten percent of the paved area within the project site, not including building square footage or retention ponds.

Parking Lot/Pedestrian Areas
Parking spaces	One canopy tree per ten parking spaces. No parking row shall extend more than 12 spaces without a tree island break.
Islands (widths)	200 s.f. planting area per tree, islands not less than eight feet wide.*
Total required % landscaped area (shrubs & groundcovers vs. sod)	40% of island planting area
Trees	2″ cal., 12′ ht. 30 gal. canopy tree
Other impervious	One canopy tree for each 50 linear feet of pedestrian walkway not associated with a required buffer or building frontage planting.
	One canopy tree for each 400 square feet of additional planting area
*"Diamond" or tree "cut-out" planter shall be permitted up to 25% of total required parking canopy trees.

 

(Ord. No. 03-30, § 2B(3.5), 9-17-03)