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CITY OF PARIS COMPREHENSIVE PLAN <br />Appendix D- Strip Commercial Design Guidelines <br />- unified development image and character; <br />- parkway treatment; <br />- identifiable entrances; <br />- visual dominance of parking area; and <br />- existing mature trees. <br />Guidelines: <br />• Landscaped planting plan of the entire project should be submitted with site plan review. <br />• Approximately 15°Io of the area between the main building face and the front property <br />lines should be of a permeable landscaped surface. (Secondary buildings located <br />between the main building and the front property line should not be included in the area <br />calculation.) <br />• Landscape areas should generally consist of a combination of trees, shrubs and ground <br />cover. <br />• Use landscape areas for transition and integration between pad sites and surrounding land <br />uses. <br />• Minimum 4" caliper trees are recommended. <br />• Artificial plants are prohibited. <br />• Preserve existing mature trees where possible. <br />• Special landscape treatment should be employed to highlight and identify entrances. <br />• Landscape areas should be regularly spaced in parking lots to break up massiveness of <br />pavement. Minimum one tree per ten parking places. <br />• Mechanical irrigation systems are typically required to ensure maintenance of plant <br />materials. <br />• Landscaping should be used in conjunction with screening walls when multi-story <br />buildings abut an adjacent property where topography lessens the effect of a wall alone. <br />Where a building exceeds 15 feet in height, 4" caliper trees shall be required, spaced <br />every 30 feet along the wall or spaced every 50 feet apart if an irrigation system is <br />provided. <br />s:\vazss\wrcvNaI mTon i-oi.a~ 111 BWK <br />