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<br />. <br /> <br />to the ground, having foliage on the outermost portion of the branches <br />year-around. <br /> <br />DECIDUOUS OVERSTORY SHADE TREE: A woody plant which, at maturity, is thirty <br />(30) feet or more in height, with a single trunk unbranched for several <br />feet above the ground, having a defined crown, and which loses <br />leaves annually. <br /> <br />DECIDUOUS UNDERSTORY ORNAMENTAL TREE: A woody plant which, at maturity, is <br />less than thirty (30) feet in height, with a single trunk, unbranched for <br />several feet above the ground having a defined crown, and which <br />loses leaves annually. <br /> <br />GROUND COVER: Plants which are used for accents and/or soil stabilization and <br />are typically 24-inches or less in heiqht. <br /> <br />LANDSCAPE: Site amenities, including trees, shrubs, ground covers. flowers, <br />fencing. berms, retaining walls and other outdoor furnishings. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT: Heating, ventilation, exhaust, air conditioning, and <br />communication units integral to and located on top, beside, or <br />adjacent to a building. <br /> <br />2. Screeninq. All nonresidential principal and accessory uses, except business <br />signs, which are situatod within fifty (50) feet of a rosidontial district. shall bo <br />screenod from such district by a wall or fenco of not loss than oighty percont (gO'll <br />opacity and not loss than fivo (5) ner moro than sovon (7) foot in hoight abovo the <br />hoight of the residential property at tho district boundarf. Walls er fences of lesser <br />heights or planting screons ma't' bo pormittod by the Council if it finds that the <br />naturo or extGnt of the use being screened is such that a lesser degree of <br />screening .""i11 adequately promote and protect the use and enjoyment of the <br />propertios in tho adjacent residential district, or that screening of tho typo roquired <br />by this ordinance would interfere with tho provision of adequate amounts of light <br />and air to said properties. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Mechanical equipment located on the oxterior or roofs ef nonresidential uses must <br />also be scrOEJnod with material that is architecturally harmonious with <br />tho dosign of tho principal structuro. Plantings may bo used as a <br />roplacomont of othor material to scroen oxtoriorSCREENING: A barrier <br />which blocks all views from public roads and adiacent differina land <br />uses to off-street parkin a areas. loadina areas, service and utility areas. <br />and mechanical equipment. <br /> <br />Page 2 <br />