12.18.100 Landscaping adjacent to buildings and refuse containers.
A. Landscaping shall be required around buildings to soften the visual impact of large expanses of walls as follows. Bioretention facilities are permitted within landscaping around buildings, provided such facilities are set back at least five feet from any structure:
1. Building walls less than 30 feet in height, Type IV landscaping at least five feet in width;
2. Building walls between 30 and 50 feet in height, Type III landscaping at least eight feet in width;
3. Building walls more than 50 feet in height, Type II landscaping at least 10 feet in width.
B. All garbage dumpsters and other refuse containers shall be obscured from view from adjacent streets and properties with a solid four-foot evergreen hedge or a fence or textured wall supplemented with plantings a minimum of three feet in width. (Ord. 2200 § 2 (Exh. B), 2016; Ord. 1904 § 1, 2003; Ord. 1815 § 1, 2000; Ord. 1629 § 1, 1996. Formerly 12.18.090).