Tallahassee Environmental standards and landscaping for Downtown Overlay Regulating Plan and Multi-Modal Transportation District

This rule requires that environmental standards and landscaping within the Downtown Overlay and Transects T3, T4 and T5 shall be those identified as follows and all development shall adhere to the procedural and development requirements therein: (a)Review and Inspections. Refer to Section 5-51 through 5-65 of the Tallahassee Land Development Code.(b)Conservation and preservation features. Refer to Section 5-81 through 5-82 of the Tallahassee Land Development Code, including Downtown Overlay exemption from all significant and severe grade regulations.(c)Tree protection. Refer to Section 5-83 of the Tallahassee Land Development Code for tree protection provisions relating to patriarch and exceptional specimen trees and for tree mitigation including any on-site tree debits and credits.(d)On-site green space and fee in-lieu. Refer to Section 5-85(d)(4) of the Tallahassee Land Development Code, for minimum urban forest and landscape, and fee-in-lieu mitigation provisions.(e)Landscape standards. Refer to Sections 5-83, 5-85, 10-283.3, 10-284.3, and 10-285, Tables 3 and 4, of the Tallahassee Land Development Code, for street trees, landscaping and vegetative buffers.(f)Streetscreen For Parking.(1)Parking lots shall be masked from the public right-of-way by a liner building or streetscreen. The streetscreen shall include vegetative or structural elements, such as shade trees, shrubs or groundcover, knee walls, decorative fencing, or the preserved walls of former buildings consistent with Section 5-85, and shall include one tree (min. 2-3 inch caliper shade tree), not to conflict with overhead utilities or sight distance triangle, for each 20 linear feet of parking lot, loading area, or drive aisles along the frontage. Along the public right-of-way, the streetscreen shall maintain a minimum of 50 percent transparency, thereby preserving natural surveillance. Shrubs or groundcover shall be spaced between and 6 feet on center.(2)Streetscreens shall have full openings no larger than necessary to allow automobile and pedestrian access.(g)Stormwater. Refer to Section 5-86 of the Tallahassee Land Development Code, for stormwater provisions.