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Applicants must submit a proposed landscape plan and budget. As a general rule, Applicants are required to spend no less than four percent of total project construction costs or $15,000 per acre on landscape improvements. Earth work, Lighting, Site Utilities and Bike paths are not intended to be included in the costs of landscaping. 2. The landscape plan as required for review by the Committee must be prepared by a qualified Landscape Professional. 3. Landscaping in accordance with the approved plan must be implemented and completed within one hundred twenty (120) days, weather permitting, after building occupancy. 4. All parking lots shall be landscaped as follows: a. Provide landscaped islands in parking lot interiors per the requirements of the Vehicular Circulation and Parking Guidelines. The setback space between public streets and parking lots shall be fully landscaped. Where possible, berming shall be provided in order to screen parked cars. Berms shall conform to the Committee's requirements. Where berms are not possible due to space limitations, the parking shall be screened through the use of coniferous trees and /or appropriate shrub plantings or screen walls. 5. A minimum of fifty percent (50 %) of the space between the public street and parking lots of buildings shall be planted in irrigated lawn with the lawn on the street side of the landscaped area, in order to preserve a visually continuous lawn planting along public streets. This lawn planting may be interrupted with shrub beds at entry points and in key accent areas as appropriate. 6. All Plant Materials installed shall be of minimum size at the time of planting, as follows: a. Shade trees b. Coniferous trees c. Ornamental trees d. Shrubs 3 inch caliper 6 feet height 2 inch caliper 3 feet height or 1 gallon 7. All areas not paved or built upon, but disturbed during the construction period must be landscaped with trees and irrigated lawn or planted with native grasses and ground covers. Large uninterrupted areas of gravel or bare soil is prohibited. 11 Blackthorn Corporate Park - Development Guidelines 2123112 draft