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island, and here they lessened the requirement for the number of varieties, but did stipulate the trees would-be salt tolerant and indigenous to barrier island conditions. Planner Challacombe then highlighted proposed changes, noting that the old ordinance had a blanket number of trees on site, but did not specifically locate them. The result was that some developers would put all the trees in a corner in a grouping and none in the parking lot area. Another inequity was that it required the same amount of trees for commercial or industrial sites as for multi -family residential. In the proposed ordinance 50 of the parking lot is to be landscaped and within every 300 sq. ft. of that, you will have a tree in the parking lot itself. In the non -vehicular open space, a graduated effect was used - a greater number of trees was required in residential sites than in industrial sites, which obviously would take up more impervious surface and require more retention. They also excluded retention ponds and lakes from that non -vehicular open space requirement. Because of our requirements with storm water management, staff did not feel it was fair to penalize the applicant twice. Commissioner Bowman asked if there is anything in the proposed ordinance that will prevent us from having another Luria's Plaza with a barren parking lot, and Planning Director Keating believed that one thing that will help is that the interior landscaping is to be located so that it divides and breaks up the expanse of parking. Commissioner Wodtke noted that basically this ordinance would be triggered at the request for a site plan, and he was concerned that the Planning & Zoning Commission is the Board which will hear any appeal of the landscape requirements since they are the same Board which will be approving the site plan. 30 AUG 1 1984 BooK 57 F" E835