Santa Fe Landscape and Site Design Requirements for Interior Parking Lots

This rule is established within the Development and Design Standards, Landscape and Site Design to designate the Landscape requirements for Interior Parking Lots: (a)The purpose of interior planting requirements in parking lots is to provide visual relief from large expanses of cars and pavement, provide shade to reduce heat and glare , help direct traffic flow and reduce and control stormwater runoff.(b)When forty or more off-street parking spaces are provided, interior lot landscaping shall be provided.(c)No single parking area shall exceed one hundred twenty spaces unless divided into two or more subareas by an internal landscaped street or landscaped pedestrian way that is a minimum ten (10) feet wide.(d)A minimum of ten (10) square feet of permeable landscaped area shall be provided per parking space. A minimum of one deciduous tree shall be planted per ninety (90) square feet of landscaped area.(e)Traffic islands shall have a minimum dimension of six (6) feet and contain a minimum of ninety (90) square feet of permeable surface, exclusive of curbing, and shall be distributed throughout the lot . As a component of a stormwater management plan, traffic islands may be combined to facilitate water harvesting and these combined islands shall be distributed within each subarea.(f)No more than twenty cars shall be parked in a row without a planting island adjacent to the length of the parking space having a minimum area of ninety (90) square feet, and including at least one tree.