Ordinance 3618-18 - Laserfiche WebLink

1. Parking and Outdoor Storage/Sales Area Screening for Properties within the E-1 and Mixed-Use Overlay (MUO) Zones (see also street improvement requirements in Section 19.316.050). Parking area and permitted outdoor storage/sales area screening shall be provided between sidewalks and parking areas within the Evergreen Way zone and within the E-1 and MUO as follows: a. One of the following options shall be used: (1) Provide a five-foot-wide planting bed that incorporates a continuous low wall (two to three feet tall).The planting bed shall be on the street side of the wall and feature the following plantings: (A) A mix of deciduous and evergreen trees generally interspersed throughout the landscape strip and spaced to create a continuous canopy. (B) At least seventy percent deciduous trees. (C) Trees provided at one per thirty linear feet. (D) Shrubs provided at the rate of one per twenty square feet of landscape strip and spaced no more than eight feet apart on center. (E) Perennials. (F) Ground cover. (G) No plants included in the Snohomish County noxious weed list. (H) Maintain plantings to maintain eye level visibility between the street/sidewalk and parking area for safety.This means that shrubs and other low plantings should be maintained below three feet in height while trees (once they achieve taller heights) should generally be trimmed up to the eight-foot level. (See Figure 318.060-14.) The wall shall be constructed of brick, stone, decorative concrete or concrete block, or other permanent material that provides visual interest and helps to define the street edge as determined by the city. Pedestrian openings in the wall are encouraged where they would form a logical pedestrian connection between the public sidewalk and on-site walkways. Figure 316.060-14. Five-foot-wide planting bed with low wall ROW jj ‘1(c..; r" 7 r \s d `' • 12' 5' Parking Amendments 23 8/29/18