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STAFF COMMENT: It is recommended there <br />be additional language specifying the type of <br />foliage required (i.e. shrubs, flowering plants, <br />etc.) <br />Staff requests review of the item/concern with <br />the applicant and BOCC members in order to <br />fashion final condition language that is mutually <br />agreeable to all parties. <br />b. Shade trees shall be provided at a ratio of one (1), <br />one and one half-inch (1.5”) minimum caliper tree for <br />every ten (10) car parking spaces; Caliper size is <br />measured at the time of planting. <br />c. All site plans shall demonstrate a minimum of sixty <br />percent (60%) of passenger parking spaces are within <br />seventy-five (75) feet of the center of a shade tree. If <br />not, additional landscaping shall be required. <br />d. The minimum tree planting area shall be 200 square <br />feet except where tree grates are provided. <br />e. Where trees are planted within tree grates, and <br />surface paving encroaches into the planting area, <br />then the minimum planting area shall be sixteen (16) <br />square feet in area by two (2) feet in depth. <br />f. Screening of parking areas along the perimeter <br />boundary of the project shall maintain a minimum tree <br />spacing of sixty (60) feet. <br />2. Building foundation: <br />a. Twenty percent (20%) of a building’s perimeter shall <br />be landscaped while maintaining the necessary <br />sidewalk area. <br />b. These areas may consist of lawn, planters, or shrub <br />areas so long as the shrub areas, that have to be <br />twenty-four inches (24”) minimum in width, comprise a <br />minimum of twenty percent (20%) of the total linear <br />dimension along the building’s perimeter <br />3. With respect to internal street landscaping, there shall be <br />one (1) tree at a one-inch (1”) caliper provided every one <br />hundred (100) feet; <br />4. All ground level HVAC, mechanical equipment cabinets, <br />solid waste containers, dumpsters, recycling bins, etc. shall <br />be screened from view through the use of landscaping, <br />walls, and or fencing in accordance with Section 6.8.9 of the <br />UDO. <br />538