Fayetteville will be a greener city if changes to the city's zoning ordinances are adopted Monday.

Council will consider a laundry list of changes during its work session tonight at 7 p.m. and its business meeting Monday at 7 p.m., both at City Hall.

Among proposed changes to the ordinance is an increase in the amount of green space required for commercial developments. Currently, 75 percent of the development can be impervious (paved) surfaces, with 25 percent green space. If adopted, the new ordinance will require a 60-40 split.

The historic Main Street district would be exempted, though, because most of the building lots in that area are too small to conform.

Another new section to the ordinance is likely to engender some controversy. One provision prohibits parking commercial vehicles in residential areas overnight.

City planner Jahnee Prince said she is recommending that council strike that part of the proposed ordinance, which was adapted from existing laws in other communities. "If we approve that, then the city should provide parking lots for commercial vehicles for people who are self-employed," she said.

The provision would apply to commercial vehicles with more than four wheels.

Included in the same proposed section are limits on the number of vehicles that can be parked overnight on a residential lot.

A four-bedroom home could have no more than six vehicles.

It's a way of preventing over-occupancy of homes, said Prince.

A new corridor ordinance governing state highways and Jimmy Mayfield Boulevard would require planted buffers along the highways, more space between driveways and other touches designed to create a more parklike appearance, Prince said. Modeled after a similar ordinance in Beaufort County, S.C., the law also includes architectural and lighting requirements.

Also included in the proposed changes are myriad clarifications and editing changes, said Prince.

Council also will discuss annexation and rezoning for a medical professional park on Ga. Highway 54 near Fayette Community Hospital. Being developed by Hayes Development Corp., the project will include a two-story medical office building and a bank site.