§ 16-36.019. Minimum landscaping requirements for surface parking lots.

The requirements of City of Atlanta Code of Ordinances, chapter 158 vegetation, article II, tree protection, section 30, parking lot requirements shall apply to this district in addition to the street tree planting requirements, with additional requirements as follows:

1.

Said surface parking lot requirements shall apply to all lots regardless of size;

2.

Existing parking lots shall not be required to reduce the number of parking spaces by more than three percent as a result of implementing the following surface parking lot landscaping regulations:

a.

All parking bays shall be terminated with a landscape strip a minimum width of five feet and equal to the length of the parking bay.

b.

All required landscaped areas shall be planted with evergreen groundcover or shrubs with a maximum mature height of 30 inches; and

c.

All required landscaped buffer strips, regardless of length, shall have a minimum of one tree planted per 30 feet of length with a minimum caliper of two and one-half inches.

(Ord. No. 2007-09, § 1(Att. A), 2-28-07)