17.145.090 Required landscaping for off-street parking or other vehicular use areas adjacent to public rights-of-way.
On the site of a building providing an off-street parking area or other vehicular use area, where such area will not be entirely screened visually by an intervening building or structure from any abutting right-of-way, there shall be provided landscaping between such area and such right-of-way, as follows:
(1) A strip of land at least five feet in width, located between the abutting right-of-way and the off-street parking areas or other vehicular use area, which is exposed to an abutting right-of-way, shall be landscaped. Such landscaping shall include one tree for each 30 lineal feet or fraction thereof. Such trees shall be located between the abutting right-of-way and off-street parking or other vehicular use area and shall be installed in a planting area of at least 25 square feet, with one dimension being at least five feet. In addition, a hedge at least two feet in height shall be placed along the perimeter of such landscaped strip. The remainder of the required landscaped areas shall be planted with grass, ground cover, or other landscape treatment, excluding paving, except for necessary accessways.
(2) All property abutting a right-of-way that is at least five feet wide, other than the required landscaped strip lying between the right-of-way and off-street parking or other vehicular use areas, shall be landscaped with, at a minimum, grass or other ground cover.
(3) Necessary accessways for pedestrians and motor vehicles from the public right-of-way through all such landscaping shall be permitted to service the parking or other vehicular use area. Such accessways, however, may not be subtracted from the lineal dimension used to determine the number of trees required. (Ord. 1110 § 3, 2002; Ord. 1027, 1998; Ord. 929 Ch. 10(K)(3)(g), 1995. Formerly 17.145.100).