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I Commissioner Bird talked about the possibility of giving a bonus of some kind for having more landscaping along the front street in commercial areas to screen parking from the road. Staff discussed perimeter requirements, and Director Keating noted that there is a parking space reduction incentive for having bigger trees. Planner DeBlois advised that we are increasing the amount of landscaped area within the parking areas from 5% to 100, and a fairly big change is the addition of irrigation requirements, which he felt is not an unreasonable requirement. He also brought up the question of whether a landscape architect should be required to sign off on any size project. Chairman Eggert believed the P&Z was against that. She questioned if anyone has yet found a moisture sensing device that works, and Planner DeBlois noted that is not a requirement, but just an option to get points. Commissioner Bowman inquired about "trickle" irrigation, and Planner DeBlois explained that is what we referred to as "low volume" irrigation. Commissioner Bird continued to stress the importance of "front yard" landscaping to make our commercial corridors more attractive and felt incentives should be offered. Attorney Collins noted there were comments at the workshops about the timing when a landscape plane or an irrigation plan is required. He believed the consensus was that the landscape plan should be submitted at the time the site plan was submitted and the irrigation plan submitted prior to site plan release. He next referred to Page 4, Paragraph 3 (a) where it refers to trees having to have a height of 15' and noted that he did not understand why (when grown in Indian River County) is included there parenthetically. ` Planner DeBlois explained that he just meant something that will grow at the same rate in this county as it does in the more northern counties. He felt that could be deleted. 41 SObF 6' U rF%Ili, l AUO 0 9 1990