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June 16, 2022 <br />80 <br /> <br />12. The typical section of any paved parking lot shall be prepared to meet the following <br />minimum standards and the construction of parking lots shall conform to the material and <br />method specifications set forth in the most recent version of the City of Fargo’s Standard <br />Specifications for Construction of Public Utilities, as it presently exists or may hereafter be <br />amended. <br />a. Crushed aggregate based course with a minimum thickness of six (6) inches of <br />compacted gravel meeting the most recent version of the NDDOT Standard <br />Specifications for Road and Bridge Construction manual for Class 5 gravel. <br />b. Pavement shall consist of a minimum of five (5) inches of asphalt meeting the most <br />recent version of the NDDOT Standard Specifications for Road and Bridge <br />Construction manual for FAA42 or greater, and shall be placed in three (3) lifts. <br />13. Parking areas shall be suitably landscaped to provide shade, minimize noise, glare and other <br />nuisance characteristics as well as to enhance the environment and ecology of the site and <br />surrounding area. Large parking lots, containing more than fifty (50) spaces, shall be broken <br />down into sections, not to exceed fifty (50) spaces, separated from other sections by <br />landscaped dividing strips. The standards do not apply to areas used for storing vehicles or <br />equipment in conjunction with a sales or rental establishment. Landscaped beds shall be <br />provided on the perimeter of the parking lot and shall be a minimum of ten (10) feet wide <br />and the minimum planting area per tree shall be one hundred and forty-four (144) square <br />feet (see Figure 12. Off Street Parking Tree Placement on the following page). <br />a. Interior parking islands shall be a minimum of eighteen (18) feet wide and thirty-six <br />(36) feet long and the minimum planting area per tree shall be one hundred and <br />ninety-two (192) square feet (see Figure 13. Off Street Parking Tree Placement on <br />the following page). <br />b. Preferably, interior, and exterior landscaping areas will be designed below parking <br />lot grade as rain gardens/bioretention systems to treat and retain surface runoff <br />(see pages 84 and 85 Figure 14. Parking Lot Bioretention System Design With Under- <br />Drain and Figure 15. Parking Lot Bioretention System Design for examples). <br />Bioretention systems shall be designed using appropriate best management <br />practices (BMP’s) and/or the following: <br />i. Such rains gardens shall not create swampy and/or unmaintainable <br />conditions. <br />ii. Utilize filter strips or other appropriate BMP’s to filter and remove <br />suspended soils to ensure proper functioning and reduced clogging of the <br />bioretention system. <br />iii. Designed to pond six (6) to nine (9) inches above filter bed. <br />iv. Parking lot under-drain bioretention systems (see examples above) shall be <br />designed using applicable infiltration trench BMPs. <br />v. Parking lot infiltration bioretention systems (see examples above) shall be <br />designed using applicable infiltration basin BMPs. <br />c. Trees shall be planted so that each parking space is no more than fifty (50) feet from <br />a tree, measured on center. <br />d. The perimeter of parking lot shall be landscaped with hedgerow (continuous shrubs) <br />or six (6) shrubs per twenty-five (25) linear feet and interior parking islands shall be