(A) Purpose. In order to reduce congestion in public streets and highways and to provide increased safety for the general public, any and all structures erected after the enactment of this chapter shall be suited with parking, loading, and unloading facilities as required in this subchapter. Off-street parking facilities shall be screened from any Residence Zone with a suitable buffer or fence not less than four feet in height. No required front or side yard shall be used as a part of the off-street parking requirements. Where there may be more than one use in the same building or structure, the total off-street parking requirement shall be the sum of the requirements specified herein for each of the various uses.
(B) Definition. For the purpose of this chapter, a PARKING SPACE FOR ONE VEHICLE shall consist of not less than 180 square feet of area, exclusive of drives, aisles, and other necessary means of access, with free access from a public street or highway.
(C) Improvement. All land used for off-street parking, and all driveways thereto, shall be paved or surfaced in accordance with the most recent specifications of the city or county and shall be drained in a manner which shall meet the minimum required in such specifications. Any light used to illuminate land used for off-street parking or driveways thereto shall be installed and maintained so as to reflect the light away from any Residence Zone.
(D) Off-street loading and unloading. There shall be provided and maintained space for vehicles standing, loading, and unloading on the same premises with every building, structure, or part thereof hereafter erected, established, or enlarged and occupied by manufacturing, storage, warehouse, goods display, retail store, wholesale store, market, hotel, laundry, dry cleaning, and uses involving the receipt and distribution by vehicles of material or merchandise as follows: a 12-foot by 35-foot loading space with 14-foot height clearance for every 20,000 square feet or fraction thereof of floor area in excess of 6,000 square feet of floor area used for the above mentioned purposes, or for every 20,000 square feet or fraction thereof of land used. This requirement shall be separate and apart from any and all other off-street parking requirements.
(E) Off-street parking. The following off-street parking requirements shall be provided and maintained in conformity with the provisions of this chapter;
(1) Airport - One parking space for every two employees plus one parking space for every four seats;
(2) Apparel shop, dress shop, men’s clothing, children’s clothing - One parking space for each 125 square feet of floor area;
(3) Apartments - Two parking spaces for each dwelling unit;
(4) Apartment hotel, hotel, motel - One parking space for each sleeping room;
(5) Auditorium, gymnasium, theater - One parking space for each four seats based on the maximum seating capacity, including fixed and movable seats;
(6) Auto sales - One parking space for each 1,000 square feet used for retaining;
(7) Bakery, tavern - One parking space for each 125 square feet of floor area;
(8) Bank, industrial park - One parking space for each three employees;
(9) Barber shop, photography studio - One parking space for each 125 square feet of floor area;
(10) Beauty parlor - One parking space for each 125 square feet of floor area;
(11) Billiard room - One parking space for each 125 square feet of floor area;
(12) Bowling alley - Three parking spaces for each lane, plus one parking space for every six spectator seats;
(13) Boarding house, halfway house, dormitory, kindergarten - One parking space for each four occupants;
(14) Bus station - One parking space for each ten seats in waiting room, plus one parking space for each two employees of connected retail use;
(15) Cemetery - One parking space for each two employees;
(16) Clinic, professional office, doctor, attorney, dentist, accountant - One parking space for each two employees plus two parking spaces for each professional;
(17) Church, temple, lodge - One parking space for each six seats in main auditorium or one per each 125 square feet of floor area;
(18) Club house - One parking space for each two sleeping rooms;
(19) Cold storage - One parking space for each 125 square feet of floor area;
(20) Community center, library, museum, school - Parking spaces equal in number to 30% of the capacity of persons;
(21) Country Club - One parking space for each two employees plus three parking spaces for each golf hole;
(22) Convalescent or nursing home - One parking space for each eight beds, plus one parking space for each two employees;
(23) Dancing academy - One parking space for each 200 square feet of floor area;
(24) Department store, shopping center - One parking space for each 125 square feet of floor area;
(25) Delicatessen, restaurant, grocery, market, furniture store - One parking space for each 225 square feet of floor area;
(26) Dry cleaning, laundry - One parking space for each 125 square feet of floor area;
(27) Drugstore - One parking space for each 125 square feet of floor area;
(28) Dwelling, mobile home park - Two parking spaces for each dwelling unit;
(29) Two-family dwelling - Two parking spaces for each dwelling unit;
(30) Dwelling with roomers - Two parking spaces for each dwelling unit plus one parking space for each room rented to persons not members of the resident family;
(31) Fire stations, police stations, radio stations - One parking space for each two employees on shift; and
(32) Flower shop, funeral home, green house - One parking space for each 225 square feet of floor area.
(Ord. 1991-07, passed 1-7-1991) Penalty, see § 10.99