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ORDINANCE NS-2193 1. Main Street - Phase !. The Main Street parkway area designated in Phase I will incorporate a formal row of street trees planted in a three foot square planter within the standard city sidewalk and parkway of 10 feet as measured from the face of curb. The installed street trees will continue throughout the entire length of the project. An additional area of landscape, inside the property line, will contribute to create a consistent urban landscape image. This area, varying in size from 15' minimum to 95 feet maximum, of large sculptural ground cover berms with trees planted in formal alternating patterns will provide a beautiful green buffer from the adjacent traffic and creates a pleasant, pedestrian scaled transition for the office tower employees and visitors. A large evergreen hedge occurring along the total length of the Main Street site functions as a visual screen from the required on grade parking lot. A very special sculptural garden with large informal canopy trees will become the major focus during Phase I. Turf will be consistently used as the ground plane landscape treatment along the northwest frontage. At the corner of Main Street and Owens Drive, a large sculptural groundcover berm with formal, alternating arrangement of trees becomes the strong landscape transitional element. A continuation of the same landscape vocabulary occurs around the corner of Owens Drive. Suggested minimum elements of this streetscape area are as follows: (a) Street Tree: Arecastrum romanzoffianum - Queen Palm. size: 15' tall (brown trunk height). spacing: Planted at 30' on-center when not prevented by traffic sitelines, BCR and ECR setbacks, light standards and fire hydrant clearances or underground utility lines, i.e. lighting, gas, electrical, water, sewer, etc. (b) Perimeter Backdrop Tree: Gleditsia triacanthos inermis - Skyline Honey Locust. Size: 36" box. Spacing: 30' on-center spacing. 23