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ORDINANCE NO. NS-1721 PAGE TWENTY-SEVEN (g) screened from adjacent arterial streets and highways, and may include swimming pools, putting greens, court game facilities, and any other recreational-leisure facilities necessary to meet the requirements of resi- dents and their guests. Common recreational- leisure areas, with the exception of pedestrian accessways and paved recreational facilities, shall be landscaped with lawn, trees, shrubs, or other plant materials and shall be perma- nently maintained in a neat and orderly manner as a condition to use. Fountains, sculpture, planters and decorative screen-type walls, where an integral part of a landscaping scheme comprised primarily of plant materials, are permitted. Required recreational-leisure space shall in no case be used for parking automobiles or for commercial agriculture. (4) Fifty (50) per cent of required common recre- ational-leisure space for residential units may be included in the calculation of required yards and setbacks for commercial uses developed on the same site, providing the resulting spaces shall be part of an integrated whole contiguous with and convenient to the residential buildings served, shall be developed solely with plant and decorative materials, and shall not serve as primary commercial pedestrian routes or other- wise made unavailable for leisure purposes. Coverage. The maximum coverage by main residential buildings and accessory residential buildings shall not exceed fifty (50) per cent of the residential site area. If the site is in residential use only, the residential site area is the total site minus the area of all vehicular rights-of-way and of all accessways which exceed one hundred (100) feet in length. If the site is also in use for commercial purposes, demarcation of residential site areas shall be shown on submitted plans for the purpose of calculating coverage, and any open spaces, set- backs, parking areas, and vehicular ways used to satisfy development requirements for commercial uses shall not be included in calculating the coverage of residential buildings. Recreation-leisure fa- cilities shall not be counted as covered areas.