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Objective: Buffer Parking Lots Objective: Landscape Parking Lot interiors <br /> Interior parking lot landscaping is essential to im- A narrow setback that includes overstory trees and ` <br /> prove the appearance of parking lots. Land- a low screen made of wood, concrete, brick, or <br /> scaped islands provide visual relief from large ex- ornamental iron railings can be very effective at <br /> panses of asphalt and automobiles,while shade screening views of the parking lot and maintaining ' <br /> trees add the vertical dimension that is often the street wall. � <br /> needed to maintain a pedestrian scale. <br /> If properly designed, parking lot islands can be <br /> landscaped cheaply and effectively.They should <br /> incorporate drought-and salt-tolerant trees that ' <br /> are indigenous to the area.The ground layer should <br /> consist of materials that will not be destroyed by <br /> the weight of snow piles,such as decorative mulch, <br /> or shrubs and perennials that may be sheared to <br /> the ground in late fall, Islands should be large <br /> enough and the soil uncompacted and treated <br /> to provide adequate habitat for trees and other <br /> plant materials. <br /> In the Heart of the City district, at least 10 percent <br /> IN �� a <br /> of the total land area within the parking and drive- <br /> way areas must be landscaped. Up to five per- The combination of railings and trees buffers parking lots I.. <br /> cent of this requirement may be credited from and dellneotes the pedestrian realm <br /> the landscaped areas provided within the build <br /> to line. <br /> µ FS. <br /> • Parking lot islands must measure at least 150 <br /> square feet in area and include at least one <br /> 2-1/2"caliper overstory tree. <br /> • One tree per 25 feet of parking lot frontage <br /> must be included in the perimeter landscape <br /> area. <br /> -• • �- • • - • C • • e- • • - • <br />