20.50.260

A. The following landscaping requirements shall apply for all sites in the industrial districts: 1. All setback areas, exclusive of permitted off-street parking areas and private egress, or circulation, shall be landscaped. 2. All landscaped areas shall be maintained in perpetuity, and all dead plant materials replaced with viable plant materials in conformance with an approved permit. 3. A ten-foot-wide landscape buffer and a seven-foot-high property line masonry wall is required when a driveway, service yard, loading area or parking lot is adjacent to residential uses. 4. Tree wells in a parking lot shall be a minimum forty square feet, with a minimum five-foot net dimension. 5. A four-foot-high parking screen is required when residential uses are located across the street. Attractive walls, dense landscaping or depressed parking are acceptable screening solutions. 6. All landscaped areas shall be designed and maintained in conformance with City Council Policy No. 6-29, entitled "City Council Policy on Post Construction Urban Runoff Management," as the same may be amended from time to time. B. Landscape guidelines are contained in the landscape and irrigation guidelines, adopted by the city council, October 1989, Revised March 1993, the general plan, as amended, the riparian corridor policy study, approved by the city council, May 17, 1997, the current Guidance Manual on Selection of Stormwater Quality Control Measures, prepared for the Department of Planning, Building, and Code Enforcement, and the current Post-Construction Urban Runoff Management Policy approved by the city council. (Ords. 26248, 26995, 29012.)