17.30.060 Hard surface coverage.
Hard surface coverage in an RB-2 district shall be limited as follows:
A. Fifty-five percent hard surface coverage is permitted outright.
B. Seventy percent hard surface coverage is conditionally allowed, subject to the following:
1. For every one percent increase in hard surface coverage, an additional 0.5 feet of buffer shall be provided between the use and adjacent single-family residential use or zone;
2. Increased buffering shall consist of one of the following:
a. Undisturbed native vegetation which meets the definition of a dense vegetative screen,
b. Appropriate landscape vegetation consisting of a mixture of coniferous and broadleaf evergreen species with minimum planting height of six feet and capable of providing a dense vegetative screen within three years of planting,
c. As an alternative to paragraph b of this subdivision, the opaque portion of the screen may consist of a weather-resistant wood fence of six feet in height, constructed along the property line.
C. Buffer vegetation shall be maintained for the life of the project. Dead, diseased or dying vegetation may be removed; provided, that replanting of vegetation of a like or similar species in size and area coverage shall be accomplished within six months from removal. (Ord. 1347 § 32, 2016; Ord. 554 § 1F, 1989).