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<br /> <br />The planting or design must be approved and <br />shall be in harmony a residential neighborhood and provide <br />sufficient screening of the shopping center operations. <br />The landscape screening or fence shall be no less than feet <br />at the time of installation. Where a berm, wall, fence or <br />combination thereof is required for screening purposes for a <br />commercial use adjacent to a residential use, such berm, wall, <br />fence or combination thereof shall be setback from the residential <br />district boundary at least three times its height, and landscaped to <br />screen 50% of the surface of the berm, wall or fence at maturity of <br />the plant materials year round. <br /> <br />3. Special Requirements When Rear Yard Includes Loading Area: <br />Where a rear yard of a shopping center district includes the loading <br />and servicing area of a shopping center building and where such a <br />rear yard is adjacent or across the street from a residential district, <br />the building setback shall be one hundred twenty feet (120'), and <br />the buffer strip shall be sixty feet (60'). (Ord. 275, 5-12-59; amd. <br />1995 Code). <br /> <br />B. Floor Area Ratio: Ratio between floor area of building and lot area shall <br />not be greater than 0.5. <br /> <br />C. Lot Coverage: Not more than twenty five percent (25%) of the lot area <br />shall be occupied by buildings. <br /> <br />D. Building Height: Building height shall be limited to three (3) stories where <br />a basement is included as one of the three (3) stories. Where a basement is <br />not included, the building height shall be limited to two (2) stories. In no <br />event shall a building exceed thirty five feet (35') in height above grade <br />level. <br /> <br />E. Traffic: The site plan shall provide vehicular circulation routes away from <br />residential areas and avoid commercial vehicle ingress and egress from <br />local residential streets to commercial property sites. In the site plan <br />review and approval process, every reasonable effort must be made to <br />design the site circulation so that service vehicles over one ton capacity do <br />not use routes which bring vehicles between a building and a residential <br />district boundary. The site plan shall also provide pedestrian access routes <br />using walks or paths, including where practical, connections to adjacent <br />residential areas. <br /> <br />3 <br />