§ 30-15.7. Parking lot landscape.

(a)

Parking Lot Landscape Requirements. Perimeter landscape is required for all parking lots of four (4) or more spaces and shall be established along the edge of the parking lot that abuts private property and the public right-of-way, excluding alleys. Interior parking lot landscape is required for those lots of twenty (20) or more spaces. Nothing in this Article prevents the applicant's voluntary installation of additional interior parking lot landscape, so long as parking space requirements and parking lot design requirements are complied with.

(b)

Existing Parking Lots.

(1)

For existing parking lots that currently do not comply with the required parking lot landscape, landscape must be installed when:

(A)

A new principal building is constructed.

(B)

Over fifty percent (50%) of the total area of an existing parking lot is reconstructed. Resealing or re-striping of an existing parking lot, which does not entail paving or resurfacing by replacement of the asphalt or concrete, is not subject to this requirement.

(C)

When an existing parking lot under ten thousand (10,000) square feet in area is expanded by fifty percent (50%) or more in total surface area.

(D)

When an existing parking lot over ten thousand (10,000) square feet in area is expanded by twenty-five percent (25%) or more in total surface area.

(2)

When an existing parking lot is required by Paragraph (1) above to provide landscape, which would result in creating a parking area that no longer conforms to the parking regulations of this Ordinance, such existing parking lot is not required to install all or a portion of the required landscape. The applicant is required to show that landscape cannot be accommodated on the site. If only certain requirements are able to be accommodated on the site, those elements are required. The Zoning Administrator must make the determination that all or a portion of required landscape does not have to be installed.

(Code 1993, § 20-15.7; Ord. No. 2015-O-13, 4-14-2015)