This rule sets landscape standards for parking areas in Hialeah: (a)Off-street parking areas shall be landscaped according to the latest edition of the Miami-Dade County Landscape Manual for off-street parking and other vehicular use areas, as modified and supplemented by the city landscape manual, except that in peripheral landscaped areas along a right-of-way or adjacent to a front yard, trees shall be located no farther apart than 45 feet on center with a minimum of two trees for each right-of-way frontage and except as provided in R-Z residential districts.(b)Landscaped areas shall have suitable irrigation systems installed and maintained to ensure survival and growth of the landscaping.(c)R-1, R-2 and R-4 residential districts or areas are exempted from landscaping requirements, unless such developments include common areas. Common areas are subject to landscaping requirements.(d)In the CBD central business district and C-R commercial-residential district, a three-foot-high masonry wall or hedge shall be provided to act as a visual screen from the right-of-way for parking lots and parking garages.
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Hialeah, Florida Code Sec. 98-2197.




