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4. Outdoor storage areas and vehicle sales do not require interior landscaping; however, such sites shall still provide landscaping along street frontages and other lot lines as required by subsection A of this section and Table 35-1. C. Landscaping of the planting areas located in the interior of parking lots as required by subsection D of this section shall conform to the following standards: 1. Trees shall be canopy-type broadleaf deciduous trees or spreading evergreen trees. Trees must have a minimum spread of 10 feet and a minimum height of 20 feet at maturity. Trees that do not meet these standards, such as palm trees and Thuja occidentalis `emerald green,' may only be permitted for a portion of the landscaping through the modification process in subsection 35.070.A.5 when the proposal includes superior design quality, and increases the number of trees provided. Evergreen trees shall be a minimum of six feet high at time of planting. Deciduous trees must be a minimum of two and one half inch caliper. Up to fifty percent of the required trees within parking areas may be deciduous. Provided that if the required number of evergreen trees are added to interior lot line landscape areas, up to 100% of the trees interior to the parking areas may be deciduous. Said evergreen trees shall be in addition to those required along interior lot lines and planted within a minimum 10 foot wide landscaped area. 2. A mix of evergreen and deciduous shrubs and ground cover shall be provided in the required landscape areas. Ground cover shall be selected and planted so as to withstand foot traffic and provide ninety percent coverage within three years of planting. Shrubs and groundcovers shall meet the specifications in section 35.055. 3. Landscaping shall be dispersed throughout the parking area, rather than being concentrated in a small portion of the lot. No parking space shall be located more than eighty feet from an internal landscape area in the same row. Planting islands with at least one tree shall be provided at the end of each parking row. 4. Tree wells/islands should be a minimum of five feet by five feet or four feet by six feet excluding curbing, and the size of the tree wells/islands and curbing shall be shown on the landscape plan. If another size is proposed, the applicant shall provide documentation from a certified landscape architect concerning the viability of the size of the tree well for the growth characteristics of the subject tree. No tree shall be planted in a location where any part of a maneuvering or parked vehicle, including bumper overhang into landscaped areas, may pass within two feet of the tree. Landscape islands not containing trees may be narrower than five feet wide. 5. Trees shall be maintained in accordance with the standards established in Section 35.130. D. Except where a greater landscape width and more substantial landscape type is required by Table 35-1, where outdoor display areas and off-street parking facilities for office, commercial or industrial uses abut residential zones, it shall be separated therefrom by a ten- foot-wide landscape strip planted with Type I landscaping. The landscape requirement may be reduced to five feet in width and planted with Type II landscaping if a six-foot-high screening fence constructed of wood, masonry or a combination of wood and masonry are erected on the property line between the residential zone and the outdoor display area of off-street parking facility. E. Where off-street parking facilities for multiple-family uses are located adjacent to single- family zones (R-S, R-1, R-2, R-1(A), R-2(A) and A-1), they shall be separated therefrom by a fifteen-foot-wide strip landscaped to Type II standards. The landscape strip may be reduced to ten feet if a six-foot-high solid screening fence constructed of wood, masonry or combination of wood and masonry are erected on the property line between the multiple-family use and the single-family zone and Type I landscaping is provided. Separation between parking areas for 19