CHAPTER 9

OFF-STREET PARKING REQUIREMENTS

 

910      Off-Street Parking Requirements.

SECTION 910            OFF-STREET PARKING REQUIRMENTS

910.1  Duty to Provide and Maintain Off-Street Parking

The duty to provide and maintain the paved off-street parking spaces herein required shall be the joint and several responsibility of the operator and owner of the use and the operator and owner of the land on which, or the structure or structures in which, is located the use or uses for which off-street parking space is required to be provided and maintained.  Each parking space shall have minimum dimensions of nine (9) feet by twenty (20) feet plus adequate space for ingress and egress.  No land shall be used or occupied, no structure shall be designed, erected, altered, used, or occupied, and no use shall be operated unless the off-street parking space herein required is provided in at least the amount specified, and maintained in the manner herein set forth; provided, however, that where off-street parking space is not provided or maintained for land, structures, or uses actually used, occupied, and operated on the effective date of this ordinance it shall not be required under this ordinance.

910.2   Number of Off-Street Parking Spaces Required

Except where requirements are based on Gross Leasable Area (GLA), for requirements of non-residential uses, the parking requirements shall mean the total area available for regular customer service both inside and outside the establishments.  Storage areas, kitchen areas, and toilet facilities shall not be included in the calculations.

Off-street parking spaces for motor vehicles shall be provided in at least the amount shown in the following list. 

                        USE                                                     SPACES REQUIRED

DWELLINGS & LODGINGS

Single & two-family dwellings                           2 per dwelling unit                          Apartments & condominiums                                               1.8 per dwelling unit                      Boarding or rooming houses                                     1.8 per boarding or rooming unit    Fraternity or sorority houses                                     1 for each accommodation               Hotels or motels                                                          1.2 per each room                          Mobile homes (park or subdivision)                                    2 per mobile home

RETAIL TRADE

Department and variety stores                           1 per 200 square feet                    Food and drug stores                                                            1 per 200 square feet                  Furniture store, vehicle sales                                        1 per 500 square feet                       Liquor stores                                                             1 per 300 square feet                   Night club or tavern                                                           1 per 50 square feet                      Restaurants, drive-in and fast food                            1 per 100 square feet                   Restaurants (except above)                                        1 per 50 square feet                          Shopping Centers:                                                                                                              (a)            25,000 – 400,000 sq. ft.                                   4 per 1,000 square feet GLA            (b)            400,000 – 600,000 sq. ft.                            4.5 per 1,000 square feet GLA       (c)  over 600,000 sq. ft.                                          5 per 1,000 square feet GLA              Theaters                                                                    4 per 1,000 square feet,                                                                                                            plus 3 per 100 seats                    Various specialty shops                                               1 per 200 square feet                                      (antiques, gifts, jewelry, etc)                                                                                               Retail and commercial stores not listed                       1 per 200 square feet

SERVICES

Amusement establishments                                            1 per 600 square feet of site area  Automobile service stations                                       1 per 200 square feet                   Banks and financial institutions                                    1 per 300 square feet                      Barber and Beauty shops                                            1 per 200 square feet                   Bowling alleys                                                    1 per 200 square feet                   Churches                                                                   1 per 40 sq. ft. of sanctuary area   Funeral homes                                                                      1 per 40 sq. ft. of assembly area    Golf driving range                                                        1 per tee                                         Hospitals                                                                1 per bed                                     Medical or dental clinics/offices                                 1 per 150 square feet                     Nursing homes and care homes                                1 per 500 square feet                   Offices, business or professional                                 1 per 300 square feet                  Elementary and junior high schools                         1 per 800 square feet                         High schools                                                                    1 per 400 square feet                   Laundromats and dry cleaning                           1 per 200 square feet                Printing and publishing                                             1 per 400 square feet                Services not listed                                                        1 per 200 square feet

MANUFACTURING, STORAGE, AND WHOLESALE

Manufacturing                                                               1 per 800 square feet       Warehousing (mini storage)                                        1 per 8 rental units                      Warehousing                                                              1 per 2,000 square feet         Wholesale establishments                                           1 per 500 square feet

 

 

910.3   Residential Off-Street Parking Spaces

In a residential district, no unenclosed part of a front yard, side yard, or rear yard shall be used as a parking space for a motor vehicle, boat, trailer, or other vehicle of equivalent or larger size, except upon a hard-surfaced driveway.

910.4   Non-Residential Off-Street Parking Spaces

1.                  Plans - An applicant for a site plan must submit plans showing the off-street parking required by this ordinance.  These plans must show location, arrangement, and dimensions of the off-street parking, turning spaces, drives, aisles, and ingress and egress in a manner satisfactory for the safety and convenience of pedestrian, as well as vehicular, traffic.  A title block will accompany the plan showing: scale, date, north arrow, name and address of property owner, and name and address of the company preparing the parking and landscaping plan.

2.                  Size - Each space shall be at least nine (9) feet wide and twenty (20) feet long.

3.                  Access - Adequate access drives shall be provided for all parking spaces not abutting a public street or alley.  Ingress and egress driveways shall be no wider than thirty (30) feet for residential uses, and thirty-five (35) feet for commercial/industrial uses, exclusive of curb returns.

4.                  Screening – All commercial, industrial, and multi-family uses and all open off-street parking areas with more than five spaces that are located within twenty (20) feet of a common property line shall be screened from any adjoining residential lot by a solid and opaque ornamental fence, wall, dense evergreen hedge, berm, or effective equivalent or combination, having a height of not less than six (6) feet.  Such fence, wall, hedge, or effective equivalent shall be maintained in good condition.

5.                  Improvements – All off-street parking spaces and their access roads shall be paved with an all-weather surface of asphaltic concrete, Portland cement concrete or any equivalent material acceptable to the Community Development Department.  Except for parking areas provided for single-family and two-family units, suitable barriers or curbs shall be provided to protect public sidewalks.  Wheel or bumper guards shall be located so that no part of any vehicle shall extend beyond the parking area, intrude on pedestrian ways, or come in contact with walls, fences or planting.