12.18.090 Parking lot landscaping | Bothell Municipal Code

12.18.090 Parking lot landscaping.

The following are minimum landscaping requirements relating to off-street parking areas for development other than single-family detached and two-family dwellings:

A. A five-foot-wide Type IV landscape strip around the outside perimeter of the parking area, except where required street frontage landscaping forms a portion of such perimeter.

B. If a parking lot contains at least 20 parking stalls, Type IV landscaping shall be installed as follows:

1. At least seven percent of the interior parking area shall be landscaped;

2. At least one interior landscape island for every 10 parking stalls shall be distributed throughout the parking lot;

3. At least one tree shall be provided in each landscape island peninsula;

4. A planting bed or landscape island peninsula shall be provided at the end of each parking row;

5. Landscaping shall not be installed so as to obstruct the view of or inhibit access to fire hydrants or other fire protection equipment;

6. All planting beds, landscape islands, and landscape peninsulas shall have a minimum dimension of five feet as measured from the interior of the curb;

7. LID BMPs such as bioretention facilities should be used within parking lot landscaping where feasible. Where bioretention facilities are located within parking lot landscaping, curb inlets shall be provided consistent with the city of Bothell design and construction development standards.

C. Use of parking lot area for outdoor dining facilities shall not result in a net loss of required landscaping. Removal of landscaping shall be avoided whenever possible. Any landscaping approved for removal shall be replaced in-kind elsewhere on-site as approved by the director.

(Ord. 2397 § 3, 2023; Ord. 2200 § 2 (Exh. B), 2016; Ord. 1904 § 1, 2003; Ord. 1815 § 1, 2000; Ord. 1629 § 1, 1996. Formerly 12.18.080).