Landscape screening is required in all transition yards and other areas as follows:
1. A partial landscape screen is required where:
a. A nonresidential use or district abuts a nonresidential use or a nonresidential district if the adjacent lot is vacant.
b. A two-family or multi-family use abuts a non-single-family detached residential use or non-single-family detached residential district if the adjacent lot is vacant.
c. A use in a nonresidential district utilizes the fifty percent (50%) yard reduction by conditional use abuts a nonresidential district.
d. A non-single-family detached use that utilizes the twenty percent (20%) yard reduction for parking, circulation or loading abuts a non-single-family detached use or a non-single-family district if the adjacent lot is vacant.
e. A single-family detached zoning lot is granted a variation or conditional use, when abutting any nonresidential use or any nonresidential district if the adjacent lot is vacant.
f. There is a principal arterial office use. Screen around the structures on the property.
2. A full landscape screen is required where:
a. A nonresidential use or district abuts a residential use or any residential district if the adjacent lot is vacant.
b. A two-family or multifamily use abuts a family detached use or a single-family detached district if the adjacent lot is vacant.
c. A use in a nonresidential district that utilizes the fifty percent (50%) yard reduction by conditional use abuts a residential district.
d. A non-single-family detached use that utilizes the twenty percent (20%) yard reduction for parking, circulation or loading abuts a single-family detached use or a single-family detached district if the adjacent lot is vacant.
e. A single-family detached zoning lot is granted a variation or conditional use, when abutting any residential use or any residential district if the adjacent lot is vacant.
f. There is a principal arterial office use. Screen driveways, parking areas and outdoor trash containers on the property.
g. A yard reduction of up to twenty percent (20%) is utilized for parking, circulation or loading.
h. Parking lots of four (4) or more spaces are located less than forty feet (40') from a residential property or street right of way line.
i. Open off street loading areas are located less than forty feet (40') from a residential property or street right of way line.
j. Outdoor storage areas of goods, products, materials, supplies, machinery, equipment or commercial vehicles, other than sales yards, are located.
k. Outdoor trash containers are located.
l. Play area of private schools are adjacent to residential properties.
3. Planned use or conditional use developments with mixed uses shall provide the minimum required landscape yard between areas of differing uses as defined above.
4. Landscape Yards: Required landscaping may include fences, walls and berms in addition to plant materials. Determine the type and number of plants and other features required by the following:
a. Number Of Points Required for:
(1) A Partial Landscape Screen: Points required = the length of the landscape yard in linear feet multiplied by 5.
(2) A Full Landscape Screen: Points required = the length of the landscape yard in linear feet multiplied by 8.
b. Number Of Plants Required: Trees and shrubs have been given a point value as follows:
5. Plant Selection:
a. The proposed landscaping shall function so that maximum effective screening is provided. Both overhead and lower screening and buffering are required to meet the requirements.
b. Plant selection shall include a variety of plant types where possible.
c. Fences, walls and berms, where allowed, shall be used to increase effective screening. Trees and shrubs should be used on berms and in front of fences and walls.
d. Plant selection shall include evergreens for at least one-third (1/3) of the total required points in each landscape yard.
6. Solid Screening Fences Or Walls:
a. Solid screening fences or walls of at least six feet (6') in height, where allowed, may contribute up to fifty percent (50%) of the required landscape points for a full or partial landscape screen on non-single-family residential lots and up to one hundred percent (100%) of the required points on single-family residential lots.
Low shrubs: 10 points Tall shrubs: 15 points Columnar evergreens: 25 points Ornamental trees: 50 points Evergreen trees: 100 points Shade trees: 100 points
b. Screening fences or walls of less than six feet (6') in height but no less than four feet (4') in height, which are at least fifty percent (50%) open, where they are allowed, may contribute up to twenty five percent (25%) of the required landscape points for a partial or full screen.
7. Berms:
a. Berms are required in all front and corner side landscape yards for all non-single-family residential developments when adjacent to parking lots, storage and loading areas, except where in conflict with required drainage, detention/retention areas, wetland preservation and mitigation areas, tree preservation areas or vision clearance easements.
b. Continuous or staggered berms may contribute up to fifty percent (50%) of the total landscape points for that portion of a landscape yard. Berm heights of at least two and one-half feet (2.5') will receive credit based on the following:
(1) Berm height in feet x 10 = % of points credited (0.5' increments)
EXAMPLE: 100' Long Berm @ 2.5' high x 10 = 25% of points credited for that landscape yard.
(2) Berm heights of five feet (5') or more shall be credited a maximum of fifty percent (50%) of the points required for that portion of the landscape yard.
(3) When berms are used in combination with fencing for required screening, credit will be given for either the berm or the fence, but not for both.
8. Outdoor Storage Areas And Outdoor Trash Containers: Except for open sales lot, all outdoors storage areas of goods, products, materials, supplies, machinery,
equipment or commercial vehicles, and outdoor trash containers, shall be enclosed with a fence, masonry walls or landscape screen or any combination thereof, which shall result in a full landscape screen to a height of not less than six feet (6') above grade.