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7 Cabarrus County Zoning Ordinance All trees and shrubs are to be planted in both a visually pleasing fashion and in such a way as to facilitate the creation of a visual screen. Generally, plantings should be spaced equidistant throughout the buffer with final design approval part of the overall site plan approval. A minimum of two types of trees and shrubs must be used to minimize the effects of disease and/or blight. Part III. LANDSCAPING REQUIREMENTS FOR NONRESIDENTIAL USES. Section 9-7. Parking lot landscaping requirements. •APPLICABILITY: All parking areas in excess of five spaces for all uses except parking areas for single family or two-family dwellings. •TYPES OF LANDSCAPING REQUIRED: -Two types are required within each parking area as follows: 1) Perimeter landscaping. Parking area perimeters which are adjacent either to public rights-of--way or residentially used property must landscape perimeters with minimum 8' wide strips of landscaping. Both trees and shrubs are required via the following formula: •Trees. Required at the rate of one canopy tree for every two hundred square feet of required planting area or one understory tree for every one hundred fifty square feet. •Shrubs. Shrubs are required in addition to trees and at a rate of one per every fifty square feet of planting area. 2) Interior landscaping. Landscaping within the interior of parking areas is important for aesthetics and also functional in that landscaping moderates heat, glare, wind and other climatic effects produced by paved areas. Accordingly, interior parking area space is to be landscaped as follows: a) Trees. Required at a rate of one per sixteen parking spaces. At least forty percent of required trees must be large maturing trees with a minimum caliper of 2 1/2" measured 6" above ground at the time of planting; small maturing trees must have a minimum caliper of 1 1/ 2" measured 6". Twenty-five 9-8 i 0 ii 0 rl i] C Attachment number 5 G-1 Page 243 of 320 '