To provide reasonable requirements and standards for landscaping along public rights-of-way and within parking lots. The provisions of this chapter are intended to accomplish the following:
a.
To promote an attractive visual environment.
b.
To promote a transition between land uses.
c.
To encourage visual harmony between the landscape and the development.
e.
To reduce energy consumption in buildings by proper plant selection and placement and to decrease high summer temperatures by blocking heat and glare.
f.
To screen offensive or unattractive areas from public view.
g.
To enforce provisions of the State of California's Model Water Efficient Landscape ordinance.