A. Purpose: The Downtown Parking District approximates an area that historically has been the village's downtown and includes the area around village hall. Generally, the Downtown Parking District (DPD) is occupied with older commercial and residential buildings on small lots. The DPD allows for an area-wide approach to solving the parking demands of the downtown area. Lowering the conventional parking requirements for the DPD is intended to encourage the preservation of older buildings, create a pedestrian-friendly environment, and ensure robust economic activity for commercial establishments in the area.
B. Standards:
1. Exemption From Parking Requirements: Small residential and business land uses within the DPD are exempt from the minimum parking requirements of this title. Large commercial or office development with a gross floor area of ten thousand (10,000) square feet or more will have to provide the village with a parking plan, and it will be subject to village board review and approval.
2. Inclusion Of On-Street Parking: If parking is required of a particular use in the DPD, all on-street parking spaces within six hundred feet (600') of proposed use and any parking spaces within municipal parking lots within six hundred feet (600') may be included in the calculation for the required number of off-street parking spaces. Such distances shall be measured from the customer entrance to the commercial use to the parking spaces.
3. Maximum Off-Street Parking Limits: Commercial establishments within the DPD shall not provide several off-street parking spaces that is greater than one hundred percent (100%) of the parking requirement for that establishment's land use found in the table in section 10-12-6
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4. Other Parking Arrangements: Shared parking and collective parking arrangements are permissible and encouraged.
5. Administrative Adjustment: The director of community development may grant administrative adjustment of parking requirements for noncommercial and non-residential land uses within the DPD. In order to approve such an administrative adjustment, the director of community development must find that:
a. Based on evidence provided by the property owner, parking demand for the property can be met with available on- and off-street parking in the immediate vicinity; and
b. An administrative adjustment of the parking requirements will have minimal adverse effects on other nearby land uses and surrounding neighborhoods; and
c. Strict adherence to the parking requirements of section 10-12-6
would cause undue hardship for the property owner. (Ord. 19-12-43, 1-13-2020)