Landscaping and screening rules for parking lots and loading areas

spaces. (a) To provide shade in open parking lots and minimize visibility of paved surfaces, parking lots with more than twelve parking stalls shall provide one canopy form tree with a minimum of two-inch caliper for every twelve parking stalls or major fraction thereof and having a planting area or tree well no less than thirty square feet in area. If wheel stops are provided, continuous planting areas with low groundcover centered at the corner of parking stalls may be located within the three-foot overhang space of parking stalls. Hedges and other landscape elements, including planter boxes over six inches in height, are not permitted within the overhang space of the parking stalls. Trees shall be sited so as to evenly distribute shade throughout the parking lot. (b) Parking lots of five or more spaces shall be screened from adjoining lots in RS, RD, RM, RCX or RA districts by walls, continuous screening hedges, or earth berms a minimum off forty-two inches high on the abutting property line. (c) All loading spaces shall be screened from adjoining lots in RS, RD, RM, RCX or RA districts by a wall six feet in height. (d) Xeriscape and native Hawaiian plant species shall be encouraged. (e) All landscaping shall be maintained by the property owner. (1996, ord 96-160, sec 2; ratified April 6, 1999.)25-4-59.3 Division 6. Nonconforming Uses and Buildings.