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• (d) On-site detention design is intended to restrict post development runoff to no more than the calculated predevelopment runoff. For new or redevelopment sites the design storm shall be the ten year storm. The director of planning or the planning commission may waive or modify the above requirements on the basis of sound engineering practices. Section 31-196. Landscaping. All nonresidential uses, including parking lots and vehicular display areas, where front yard is provided shall have at least fifty percent of the street frontage landscaped with trees and other varieties of plant material at least 12" in height. Such planting area shall have a minimum width depth of five feet. The planning commission may allow a deviation from these requirements, if in its judgment such deviation is consistent with the intent of this article and beneficial to the proposed development. Section 31-200. Required sidewalks, curbs and gutters. • For the protection of pedestrians and to control drainage problems, sidewalks, curbs and gutters shall be required on all site plans along all public rights-of-way unless specifically exempted by the planning commission or the director of planning on the basis of the criteria for sidewalk construction set forth in the comprehensive plan of the city. Section 31-201. Automatic car washes. The following standards shall be followed in development of site plans for automatic car wahses or buildings using production line methods with a chain conveyor or, blower, steam cleaning device, or other mechanical device requiring continuous movement of cars into the wash rack. (a) . . . (b) . . . (d) . . . (e) . . . (f) Vacuuming facilities may be outside the car wash building but shall not be in the required front yard. (g) The building or vacuuming facilities shall not be lean than one hundred feet sufficiently buffered from any residential district or use. (h) 7