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Wake County Unified Development Code
16-1
Article 16. Landscaping and Tree Protection
16-10
Landscaping and Bufferyards
16-10-1 Off-Street Parking Area Landscaping
(A) Perimeter Landscaping
(1)
The parking lot perimeter landscaping requirements of this section apply to all off-
street parking lots and vehicular use areas containing 10 or more parking spaces or an
area of 3,000 square feet or more. “Vehicular use areas” include drive
-though lanes,
travel lanes, and other areas upon which vehicles traverse the lot as a function of the
primary use.
(2)
The parking lot perimeter landscaping standards of this section do not apply where a
lot to be used for the erection of a place of worship was purchased by a religious
organization for that purpose and the purchase thereof is evidenced by a deed to the
religious organization or the trustee or other proper officers thereof in their
representative capacity and filed for registration in the Office of the Register of
Deeds of Wake County on or prior to August 15, 1950.
(3)
Parking and vehicular use areas must be screened from view of adjacent properties
and public rights-of-way by a solid evergreen hedge a minimum of 3 feet in height.
At least one canopy tree must be planted for each 40 linear feet of parking lot
perimeter.
(B) Interior Landscaping
(1)
The interior parking lot landscaping requirements of this section apply to all off-
street parking lots containing 10 or more parking spaces except those expressly
exempted under Sec. 16-10-1(A)(2), above. Interior landscaping must consist of the
following:
(a)
terminal landscape islands at the end of each row of parking spaces, and either;
i.
interior landscape islands within each row of parking; or
ii.
a landscape divider median between abutting rows of parking spaces.
Each terminal and interior landscape island must be at least 180 square
feet in size and be planted with a minimum of 1 canopy tree, as well as
shrubs, and ground cover. Double islands within a double row of parking
(typically the area of 2 abutting parking spaces combined into a single
parking lot island) must be planted with 2 canopy trees, shrubs, and
ground cover.