22.46.060 Parking lot landscaping | Monroe Municipal Code

22.46.060 Parking lot landscaping.

1. Parking lot landscaping shall be dispersed throughout the parking lot in islands, buffers, and planter strips.

2. Curbing and step out areas shall not be used in calculating the minimum square footage or width requirements for parking lot landscaping.

3. Parking lots and structures shall be screened with landscaping buffers to the following standards:

a. Zero to one hundred spaces equals five feet in width;

b. Over one hundred spaces equals an average of ten feet in width with no dimension less than five feet.

4. Minimum landscape island width: five feet.

5. Maximum distance between parking stall and landscaped strip or island: fifty feet.

6. Trees shall be planted in vehicle use landscape areas at a minimum of one tree for each four parking stalls. No more than ten stalls between landscape islands. (Ord. 005/2019 § 10 (Exh. B))