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<br />(2) <br /> <br />Types of plants and materials. Trees, Grass, ground cover, flowering and non- <br />flowering plants, shrubs, and trees, wood, timber, stone, fountains, and ponds <br />may be used for required landscaping. <br /> <br />a. Trees shall be minimum of two-inch caliper and shall be live oak, red oak, <br />cedar elm, bald cypress, silver maple, pine, palm, or other trees of similar <br />quality as per City's recommended native/protected trees and plants list. <br />Yaupon, crepe myrtle, and other similar trees shall not be a minimum of three- <br />inch caliper but minimum of six feet in height at the time of planting. <br />b. Shrubs or hedgerow plants shall be no less than five gallons in size and spaced <br />no more than three feet on center. <br />c. Combination of trees and shrubs in a required landscape area should form a <br />continual evergreen hedge or row. <br /> <br />(3) Maintenance. Required landscaping must be maintained by the property owner <br />and/or occupant. Vehicles should not encroach upon perimeter landscape areas or <br />planters. Wheel stops must be provided to ensure no overhang or damage to <br />landscape area. <br /> <br />(4) Irrigation. A programmable automatic irrigation system shall be provided to all <br />landscaped areas. Water conservation or overflow prevention devices shall be <br />used in accordance with applicable City requirements. <br /> <br />(d) Landscaping/screening for shipping container facilities. <br /> <br />(1) The property owner or tenant shall provide a natural screening. This will be <br />accomplished in one of three ways. <br /> <br />a. Leave in place existing trees, vegetation, underbrush, etc. to provide a <br />thorough, continuous and effective opaque visual screening of the <br />shipping container development. <br /> <br />b. Construct earthen berms with a combination of trees, shrubs, and ground <br />cover that after three years will be at least 20 feet in height and creates a <br />continuous visual screen. <br /> <br />c. Develop a screening plan that would be approved by the city that includes <br />a combination of trees, shrubs, and ground cover that after three years will <br />be at least 20 feet in height and creates a continuous visual screen. <br /> <br />(2) The property owner or tenant will provide screening along the frontage of the site <br />and along the side yards for a distance of 50 feet. In the advent that the site is <br />adjacent to a commercial or residential use, the screening shall be required for the <br />entire length of the adjacent yard area. <br /> <br />(3) All required screening shall be adjusted away from overhead power lines to allow <br />for full maturity of the trees without unnecessary trimming or topping of the trees. <br />(Ord. No. 1501-X, 9 5, 12-16-96; Ord. No. 1501-II, 9 8, 3-27- <br />