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 Port Angeles
 Code of Ordinances
 Title 17. ZONING
 Chapter 17.20. CO - COMMERCIAL, OFFICE

  § 17.20.230. Design and landscaping.

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  • A.

    All outdoor storage areas, except for City mechanized refuse collection system containers, shall be screened from public rights-of-way and abutting property by a vision-obscuring fence six feet in height.

    B.

    All lighting on the site shall be so directed as to reflect away from adjoining property and public rights-of-way.

    C.

    A five-foot sidewalk accompanied by a minimum five-foot landscape strip shall be required within the right-of-way adjacent to the front property line as well as adjoining arterial corridors.

    D.

    The side yard abutting a residentially zoned lot shall be landscaped in a manner that is complementary or similar to residential landscaping. In other words, such landscaping shall be complementary or similar to shrubs of three-foot to six-foot mature height interspersed with evergreen and/or deciduous and/or ornamental trees. Five feet of the rear yard setback area abutting a residentially zoned lot shall be landscaped in a similar manner.

    E.

    The unused space resulting from the design of parking space arrangements or accessory structures which is over 24 square feet shall be landscaped.

    F.

    All landscaping shall comply with the vision clearance requirements of section 17.94.090 PAMC.

    G.

    All nonresidential structures shall be designed to be compatible with the residential environment.

    H.

    All required parking areas shall include tree landscaping of at least two trees, for each group of six or fewer parking spaces with a minimum of two trees, exclusive of any required perimeter landscaping. Vegetation within LID facilities may be used to meet landscaping requirements. The trees shall be of a type approved by the City, and be at least two-inch caliper at time of planting, and placed in a minimum planting area of 100 square feet. Trees shall attain a minimum height of at least 20 feet at maturity. Alternatively, landscaping plans with functionally compatible planters and equivalent vegetative cover may be submitted for approval by the Director of Community and Economic Development as mitigation for this requirement when site constraints deem necessary. Refer to 15.20.070.B.6 and 15.20.080.A.4 PAMC for appropriate pruning and vegetation management techniques.

    I.

    Parking areas shall have interspersed landscaped islands. Islands with vegetation within LID facilities may be used to meet landscaping requirements. Underground parking and parking included in a parking structure are excluded from this requirement.

    J.

    All parking lots shall be screened by three-foot to six-foot vision obscuring fence or vegetation on the sides adjacent to residentially zoned property.

(Ord. 3572 § 8, 12/20/2016; Ord. 3272, 2/16/2007; Ord. 3180 § 1 (part), 12/17/2004; Ord. 2742 § 1, 1/29/1993; Ord. 2666 § 4, 1/17/1992; Ord. 2109 § 9, 12/7/1980)