17.17.050 City entrances landscaping and development standards.
The following standards will be required for new commercial, multi-family, industrial uses, including change of use, and parking lots of four (4) spaces or more on properties within the designated entrances to the City of Hood River.
For sites which do not conform to these requirements, an equal percentage of the site must be made to comply with these standards as the percentage of building or parking lot expansion, e.g., if building or parking lot area is to expand by twenty-five percent (25%), then twenty-five percent (25%) of the site must be brought up to the standards required by this ordinance.
A. Entrances.
1. West: Parcels fronting along Highway 30 between and including the intersection of 13th Street and Highway 30 to the intersection of Country Club Road and Highway 30.
2. South: Parcels fronting 12th Street from the northern intersection of Brookside Drive/Eliot Road and 12th Street to the southern intersection of Belmont Drive and 12th Street.
3. East: Parcels including the northern intersection of the Old Columbia River Highway and Highway 35 to and including the intersection of Front Street and State Avenue, excluding lands within the Urban Renewal District which have been addressed in this streetscape plan.
4. North: Parcels including the intersection of Oak Avenue and Second Street and along the 2nd Street extension to and including its intersection with Portway Avenue excluding lands within the Urban Renewal District which have been addressed in its streetscape plan.
B. Standards.
1. An average ten (10) foot wide landscaped area, at minimum, shall be planted along the perimeter of the parcel fronting the street right-of-way as part of the landscape requirement.
2. Street trees shall be placed at the rate of one tree for every thirty (30) feet of street frontage. Trees shall be evenly spaced with variations to the spacing permitted for specific site limitations such as driveway approaches.