Landscaped areas shall be provided in order to create attractive transition areas between properties; to minimize the impact of air, water and noise pollution; to provide shade and reduce glare, to minimize the visual impact of solid waste receptacles and other on-site storage areas; to aid in directing pedestrian and vehicular movement; and, to maintain and enhance the natural vegetation and plantings, ground forms, water features, rock groupings and all other open space areas. It is the further purpose and intent of this article to require adequate protection for contiguous property against undesirable effects from the creation and operation of parking or loading areas and to protect and preserve the appearance and character of the surrounding neighborhoods and of the city through the screening effects and aesthetic qualities of such landscaping.

Every site development plan for an undeveloped parcel, or parcel proposed to be developed, every site development plan for a site which is proposed for a change in use or which is proposed to be expanded or enlarged, and every site development plan proposing the construction or improvement of a parking and/or loading area shall comply with the regulations contained in this article. A concept landscape plan shall be submitted with the preliminary site development plan application for concurrent review by the city. A final landscape plan shall be submitted with the final site development plan. The procedures and requirements contained in this article are in addition to the procedures and requirements contained in other articles of the zoning ordinance which shall remain applicable to the parcel for which the application is filed. In case of conflict between the provisions of other articles of the zoning ordinance with provisions of this article, the more restrictive requirement shall control unless the context clearly shows otherwise.

A concept landscape plan shall be submitted with the application for preliminary site development plan approval. The review and approval of the concept landscape plan will occur concurrently with the review and approval of the other elements of the preliminary site development plan.

Concept landscape plans shall be prepared by an architect or landscape architect registered in the State of Missouri and shall be approved by the city plan commission. The commission shall review the proposed landscaping to ascertain that the concept landscape plan will promote and facilitate the objectives of this section. Plans shall be drawn to an accurate scale, and shall include those items outlined below in section 19.4. This required concept landscape plan shall be incorporated and made part of the preliminary site development plan submitted in accordance with other zoning district requirements.

Every concept landscape plan submitted to the city for review shall be based on the design standards in section 19.6 and include:

(a)

The location of all existing trees over six (6) inches in caliper size if deciduous or over six (6) feet in height if coniferous (evergreens) and an indication of all such trees to be removed and all to remain;

(b)

A drawing to scale indicating plant material to be provided or preserved by the plan including the size, location, and type of trees, shrubs, and ground covers as well as related site improvements such as walls, berms, fences, street furniture, water features, and walkways.

The final landscape plan shall include all items included in the concept landscape plan as approved by the city plan commission, shall clearly meet or exceed all of the design standards outlined in section 19.6, shall be prepared by an architect or landscape architect registered in the State of Missouri, and shall be included with the final site development plan. The final landscape plan shall be drawn to an accurate scale, and shall show the layout of parking and loading areas, entrances and exits, drainage provisions, lighting provisions, surfacing, curb barriers. The final landscape plan shall also show the location and type of landscaping, including a plant material schedule listing common and botanical names, quantities, size, spacing and method of planting of each of the plant material specified.

A concept landscape plan shall be prepared based on the design standards included in this section although the detail of such plan may be limited to convey basic design concepts. A final landscape plan shall be prepared and submitted with the final site development plan for all applicable developments as outlined in section 19.2. The final landscape plan shall be prepared in accordance with the approved site development plan and concept landscape plan and meet the following design standards.

(a)

Street/landscape trees shall be clearly delineated on the final landscape plan. The street/landscape trees shall be deciduous hardwood trees, not less than three-inch caliper size measured six (6) inches above the ground with a clear trunk of at least six (6) feet. The street/landscape trees may include existing trees, new trees or a combination thereof provided that there is one street/landscape tree for every forty (40) lineal feet, or part thereof, of street frontage and such street trees shall be located on the subject property at least eight (8) feet but not more than twelve (12) feet from the back of the curb, unless additional setback is necessary to accommodate planned road widening, overhead utility lines, or some other condition identified by the director of public works.

Street/landscape trees may include any of the following species:

1.

Hedge Maple (Acer campestre)

2.

Paperbark Maple (Acer griseum)

3.

Red Maple (Acer rubrum)

4.

Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum)

5.

River Birch "Heritage" (Betula nigra "Heritage")

6.

Shellbark Hickory (Carya laciniosa)

7.

Shagbark Hickory (Carya ovata)

8.

Hackberry (Celtus occidentalis)

9.

Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis)

10.

Chinese Fringetree (Chioanthus retusus)

11.

Yellowwood (Cladrastis kentuckea)

12.

Roughleaf Dogwood (Cornus drummondii)

13.

Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida)

14.

Kousa Dogwood (Cornus kousa)

15.

Corneliancherry Dogwood (Cornus mas)

16.

Grey Dogwood (Cornus racemosa)

17.

Hazelnut (Corylus americana)

18.

Smoketree (Cotinus coggygria)

19.

Cockspur Hawthorn (Crataegus crusgalli "inermis")

20.

Washington Hawthorn (Crataegus phaenpyrum)

21.

European Beach (Fagus sylvatica)

22.

White Ash (Fraxinus americana)

23.

Marshall's Seedless Ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica "Marshalls")

24.

Summit Green Ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica "Summit")

25.

Princeton Sentry Ginko (Ginko biloba)

26.

Moraine Honey Locust (Gleditsia triacanthos "Moraine")

27.

Skyline Honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos inermis "Skycole")

28.

Kentucky Coffeetree (Gymnnocladius dioicus)

29.

Deciduous Holly (Ilex decidua)

30.

Black Walnut (Juglans nigra)

31.

Eastern Redcedar (Juniperus virginiana)

32.

Tulip-poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)

33.

Saucer Magnolia (Magnolia soulangeana)

34.

Star Magnolia "Royal Star" (Magnolia stellata "Royal Star")

35.

Blackgum (Nyssa sylvatica)

36.

Ironwood (Ostrya Virginiana)

37.

Sourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum)

38.

Royal Paulownia (Paulownia tomentosa)

39.

Norway Spruce (Picea abies)

40.

Colorado Spruce (Picea pungens)

41.

Shortleaf Pine (Pinus echinata)

42.

London Plane Tree (Plantanus x acerifolia)

43.

White Oak (Quercus alba)

44.

Swamp White Oak (Quercus bicolor)

45.

Overcup Oak (Quercus lyrata)

46.

Bur Oak (Quercus macrocarpa)

47.

Pin Oak (Quercus palustris)

48.

Willow Oak (Quercus phellos)

49.

Red Oak (Quercus rubra)

50.

Shumard Oak (Quercus shumardii)

51.

Black Oak (Quercus velutina)

52.

Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia)

53.

Japanese Pagoda Tree (Sophora japonica)

54.

Ivory Silk Japanese Tree Lilac (Syringa reticulata)

55.

Baldcypress (Taxodium distichum)

56.

Redmond Linden (Tilia americana "Redmond")

57.

Little Leaf Linden (Tilia cordata)

58.

Silver Linden (Tilia tomentosa)

59.

Lacebark Elm (Ulmus parvifolia)

60.

Japanese Zelkova (Zelkova serrata)

The city may approve street/landscape trees not included in this list if the proposed trees are appropriate to the site.

(b)

When off-street parking or loading areas are located adjacent to a residential district or to any lot upon which there is a dwelling as a permitted use, there shall be provided along the lot line a continuous opaque screen to a height adequate to prevent the direct light from automobile headlights being cast on adjacent residential units but with a minimum height of six (6) feet and not more than eight (8) feet except that the height of such opaque screen shall not exceed three and one-half (3½) feet within fifteen (15) feet of a public right-of-way. The opaque screen may consist of a wall, fence, landscaped earth berm, planted vegetation, or existing vegetation, or any combination thereof which maintains a completely opaque screen. The opaque portion of the screen must be opaque in all seasons of the year.

(c)

In addition to any landscaped front, rear or side yard areas required by this or any other articles in this appendix, there shall be minimum of twelve (12) square feet of interior landscaped area for each three hundred fifty (350) square feet of paved area. The calculation shall include parking spaces and driving aisles. Where practical, the landscaping shall be in more than one location so as to minimize the apparent size of parking areas.

Each interior landscaped area, provided in accordance with the preceding paragraph, shall be raised and curbed and shall have a minimum area of fifty (50) square feet and a minimum width of three (3) feet measured from the back of the curb(s). Each separate interior landscaped location shall include at least one (1) deciduous shade tree of a type and size required herein.

(d)

For each parking row there shall be a minimum of two (2) deciduous shade trees for every one hundred fifty (150) linear feet.

(e)

The plan commission may waive the requirement for interior landscaped locations in parking lots required by paragraph (c) in the instance of a planned unit development which occupies a site in excess of three (3) acres, provided that additional landscaping elsewhere on the site is created in compensation for that which otherwise would be located in required interior landscaped location in parking lots.

(f)

All trees shall be properly planted and staked. The number of trees shall be determined by the application of the above mentioned landscaped standards; provided however, that in no instance shall there be less than two (2) trees in conjunction with the development of any parking facility or lot.

(g)

No landscaped hedge shall be less than two (2) feet in height, and two (2) feet in spread at time of installation; however, no hedge or wall or berm shall exceed three (3) feet in height within ten (10) feet of any driveway opening. The individual plants used in the development of such a hedge shall be placed so as to be not more than thirty (30) inches on center.

(h)

The use of earth sculpting or berms shall be encouraged, provided these are designed in an area of enough size so as to avoid erosion, drainage or maintenance problems and provided that berms shall be constructed with a grade not to exceed one (1) foot vertical to three (3) feet horizontal (3:1 slope) for lawn areas and 2:1 slope for planting beds containing shrubbery or ground cover unless a steeper slope is approved by the director of public works.

(i)

Interior planting bed area, which is used for the planting of trees, or which are used for landscaping treatment generally, may be treated with grass, hardwood bark mulch, other types of ground cover and/or open spaced pavers on a sand and gravel base located beneath and surrounding trees and shrubs.

(j)

All landscaping shall be permanently maintained in good condition with at least the same quality and quantity of landscaping as initially approved. In order to present a healthy, neat and orderly appearance, all landscaped areas, including interior parking lot islands, and grass areas shall be provided with adequate irrigation for the maintenance of grass, shrubs, ground covering and other landscaping. An underground irrigation system shall be installed, operated and maintained to meet the intent of this section. Such systems shall be required for all new developments. For sites proposing additions and/or expansions, an underground irrigation system shall be installed, operated and maintained to meet the intent of this section, where physically practical and reasonable, as determined by the plan commission.

(k)

All landscaped areas in parking areas or adjacent to parking or loading areas, or that can be encroached upon by a motor vehicle, shall be provided with an adequate, permanent curb as approved by the director of public works to restrict the destruction of the landscaped areas by vehicles. Adequate scuppers and/or weep holes shall be provided through the curbing to permit drainage.

(l)

A perimeter landscaped buffer area shall be provided and maintained at a width of not less than five (5) feet between a parking lot and the property lines of abutting property. Other, more restrictive standards for yards or buffering shall govern where required by this appendix.

(m)

All outdoor trash areas, dumpsters and similar devices shall be completely screened from view from any street or adjoining property. The screening may be walls and/or fencing that complements the primary building on the site.

(n)

Public utility facilities shall be adequately screened with landscaping, site proof fencing, decorative walls, or any combination thereof, and shall be subject to the review and approval of the architectural review board.

(o)

Landscape shrubs and ground covers may include any of the following species:

Landscape Shrubs

1.

Spirea (Spirea-all species)

2.

Compact Amur Maple (Acer ginnala "Bailey compact")

3.

Bottlebrush Buckeye (Aesculus parviflora)

4.

Downy Serviceberry (Amelancher canadensis)

5.

False Indigo (Amorpha fruticosa)

6.

Red Chokeberry (Aronia arbutifolia)

7.

Japanese Barberry (Berberis thunbergi)

8.

Sweetshrub (Calycanthus floridus)

9.

Siberian Peashrub (Caragana arborescens)

10.

Russian Peashrub (Caragana frutex)

11.

Blue Mist Shrub (Caryopteris clandonensis)

12.

Dwarf Hackberry (Celtis tenuifolia)

13.

Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)

14.

Japanese Flowering Quince (Chaenomeles japonica)

15.

Common Flowering Quince (Chaenomeles speciosa)

16.

Red-osier Dogwood (Cornus sericea [stolonifera])

17.

American Filbert/Hazelnut (Corylus americana)

18.

Burning Bush (Euonymus alatus)

19.

Greenstem Forsythia (Forsythia viridissima "Bronx")

20.

Sunrise/Meadowlark/No Sun (Forsythia x intermedia)

21.

Vernal Witch Hazel (Hamamelis vernalis)

22.

Eastern Witch Hazel (Hamamelis virginiana)

23.

Sea Buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides)

24.

"Annabelle" Snowball Hydrangea (Hydrangea arborescens)

25.

Pee Gee Hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata)

26.

Oakleaf Hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia)

27.

Japanese Holly (Ilex crenata)

28.

Inkberry (Ilex glabra)

29.

Winterberry (Ilex verticillata)

30.

Virginia Sweetspire (Itea virginica)

31.

Japanese Kerria (Kerria japonica)

32.

Round-headed Bush Clover (Lespedeza capitata)

33.

Slender Bush Clover (Lespedeza virginica)

34.

Japanese Privet (Ligustrum japonica)

35.

Vicary Golden Privet (Ligustrum x vicaryi)

36.

Spice Bush (Lindera benzoin)

37.

Loisel Mockorange (Philadeiphus pubescens)

38.

Sweet Mockorange (Phidelphus coronaris)

39.

Ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius)

40.

Shrubby Cinquefoil (Potentilla fruticosa)

41.

Wild Plum (Prunus ssp.)

42.

Lalandi Firethorn (Pyracantha cocinea "Lalandi")

43.

Jetbead (Rhodotypos scandens)

44.

Aromatic Sumac (Rhus aromatica)

45.

Smooth Sumac (Rhus glabra)

46.

Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina)

47.

American Elder (Sambucus canadensis)

48.

Scarlet Elder (Sambucus pubens)

49.

Ural Falsespirea (Sorbaria sorbifolia)

50.

Coralberry (Symphoricarpos orbiculatus)

51.

Dwarf Korean Lilac (Syringa patula "Miss Kim")

52.

Common Lilac (Syringa vulgaris)

53.

Pacific Yew (Taxus brevifolia)

54.

Japanese Yew (Taxus cuspidata)

55.

Southern Arrowwood (Viburnum dentatum)

56.

Wayfaringtree (Virburnum lantana)

57.

Nannyberry (Virburnum lentago)

58.

European Cranberry Bush (Virburnum opulus)

59.

Doublefile Viburnum (Viburnum plicatum v. toment.)

60.

Blackhaw Viburnum (Viburnum prunifolium)

The city may approve landscape shrubs not included in this list if the proposed landscape shrubs are appropriate to the site.

Landscape Ground Covers

1.

Bishop's Weed (Aegopodium podigraria)

2.

Bugleweed (Ajuga reptans)

3.

Five-leaf Akebia (Akebia quinata)

4.

Porceline Vine (Ampelopsis brevipeducalata)

5.

Wormwood (Artemisia spp.)

6.

Wild Ginger (Asarum spp.)

7.

Purple Rock Cress (Aubrieta deltoidea)

8.

Siberian Bellflower (Campanula poscharskyana)

9.

Snow-in-Summer (Cerastium tomentosa)

10.

Plumbago (Ceratostigma plumbaginoides)

11.

Lily-of-the-Valley (Convallaria majalis)

12.

Bunchberry (Cornus canasensis)

13.

Crownvetch (Coronilla varia)

14.

Cotoneaster (Cotoneaster spp.)

15.

Wintercreeper (Euonymous fortunei)

16.

Cypress Spurge (Euphorbia cyparissias)

17.

Blue Fescue (Festuca ovina var. Glauca)

18.

Sweet Woodruff (Galium odoratum)

19.

Bigfoot Geranium (Geranium macrorrhizum)

20.

English Ivy (Hedra helix)

21.

Stella de Oro Day Lily (Hemerocallis "Stella de Oro")

22.

Plantain Lily (Hosta spp.)

23.

Houttuynia (Houttuynia cordata "Chameleon")

24.

Creeping Juniper (Juniperus horizontalis)

25.

Dwarf Juniper (Juniperus procumbens)

26.

Yellow Archangel (Lamiastrum galeobdolon)

27.

Spotted Dead Nettle (Lamium maculatum)

28.

Monkey grass (Liriope muscari)

29.

Creeping Lily-Turf (Liriope spicata)

30.

Bird's Foot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus)

31.

Creeping Jenny (Lysimachia nummularia)

32.

Missouri Primrose (Oenothera missouriensis)

33.

Mondo Grass (Ophipogon japonicus)

34.

Allegheny Spurge (Pachysandra procumbens)

35.

Japanese Spurge (Pachysandra terminalis)

36.

Ground Pink (Phlox subulata)

37.

Dwarf Fleeceflower (Polygonum reynoutria)

38.

Cinquefoil (Potentilla spp.)

39.

Creeping Buttercup (Ranunculus repens)

40.

Lavender Cotton (Santolina chamaecyparissus)

41.

Rock Soapwort (Saponaria ocymoides)

42.

Dwarf Spreading Bamboo (Sasa pygmaea)

43.

Stonecrop Sedum (Sedum spp.)

44.

Lambs Ear (Stachys byzantina)

45.

Large-Flowered Comfrey (Symphytum grandiflorum)

46.

Creeping Thyme (Thymus serpyllum)

47.

Foamflower (Tiarella cordifolia)

48.

Speedwell (Veronica repens)

49.

Common Periwinkle (Vinca major)

50.

Periwinkle (Vinca minor)

The city may approve landscape ground covers not included in this list if the proposed ground covers are appropriate to the site.