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Where commercially zoned, industrially zoned, multi-family zoned, or Manufactured Home zoned project, adjoins other residentially zoned property, prior to the issuance of a building permit, a screening barrier will be erected by the developer of the commercial, industrial, multi-family, or Manufactured Home property which separates the adjoining yard, and adequately screens the residential uses from any noise, sight, sound, odor, or other noxious offense which might be related by the commercial, industrial, multi-family, or Manufactured Home property use.

The following three basic types of screens are hereby established and are used as the basis for screening requirements.

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Type A, Opaque Screening. A screen that is opaque from the ground to a height of at least 6 feet, with intermittent visual obstructions from the opaque portion to a height of at least 16 feet. The screening intended to include all visual contact between uses and to create a strong impression of special separation.

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Type B, Semi-Opaque Screening. A screen that is opaque from the ground to a height of six feet, within intermittent visual obstructions from above the opaque portion to a height of at least 16 feet. The semi- opaque screen is intended to partially block visual contact between uses and to create a strong impression of the separation of spaces.

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Type C, Broken Screen. A screen composed of intermittent visual obstructions from the ground to a height of 16 feet. The broken screen is intended to create the impression of a separation of spaces without necessarily eliminating visual contact between the spaces.

When undeveloped land is subdivided and undeveloped lots only are sold, the subdivider shall not be required to install any screening. Screening shall be required, if at all, only when the lots are developed, and the responsibility for installing such screening shall be determined in accordance with the other requirements of Part I of this article.

Along both sides of all newly created streets that are constructed in accordance with the public street standards set forth in Subdivision Regulations for Clarksdale, the developer shall either plant or retain sufficient trees so that between the paved portion of the street and a line running parallel to and 50 feet from the center line of the street, there is for every 30 feet of street frontage at least an average of one deciduous tree that has or will have when fully mature a trunk at least 12 inches in diameter.

Every development shall retain all existing trees 18 inches in diameter or more unless the retention of such trees would unreasonably burden the development.

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No excavation or other subsurface disturbance may be undertaken within the drip line of any tree 18 inches in diameter or more, and no impervious surface (including, but not limited to, paving or buildings) may be located within 122 feet (measured from the center of the trunk) of any tree 18 inches in diameter or more unless compliance with this section would unreasonably burden the development. For purposes of this section, a drip line is defined as a perimeter formed by the points farthest away from the trunk of a tree where precipitation falling from the branches of that tree lands on the ground.

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The retention or protection of trees 18 inches in diameter or more unreasonably burdens a development, the desired location of improvements on a lot or the proposed activities on a lot would have to be substantially altered and such alteration would work an unreasonable hardship upon the developer.

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If space that would otherwise be devoted to parking cannot be so used because of the requirements, and, as a result, the parking requirements set forth cannot be satisfied, the number of required spaces may be reduced by the number of spaces "lost" because of the up to a maximum of 15 percent of the required spaces.

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Vehicle accommodation areas must be shaded by deciduous trees (either retained or planted by the developer) that have or will have when fully mature a trunk at least 12 inches in diameter, when trees are planted by the developer to satisfy the requirements of this section. Trees shall be two and one half inched in caliper at planting.

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Each tree of the type described above shall be presumed to shade a circular area having a radius of 15 feet with the trunk of the tree as the center, and there must be sufficient trees so that, using this standard, 20 percent of the vehicle accommodation area will be shaded;

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No paving may be placed within 12 feet (measured from the center of the trunk) of any tree retained to comply with this section and new trees planted to comply with this section shall be located so that they are surrounded by at least 200 square feet of unpaved area;

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Vehicle accommodation areas shall be laid out and detailed to prevent vehicles from striking trees. Vehicles will be presumed to have a body overhang of three feet, six inches.