(A) Parking space access. All required off-street parking spaces shall be located in parking lots independently accessible from a street at all times.
(B) Location. All required off-street parking spaces shall be located within 300 feet of the use or development requiring such spaces. If the parking spaces are provided on a lot separate from the use it serves, a covenant, acceptable to the City Attorney, shall be recorded associating the parking spaces to the use or development so served.
(C) Parking located in required yard areas. Required off-street parking spaces shall not be located within any required front and/or street side yard area.
(D) Pedestrian and emergency access. Parking spaces shall not preclude direct and free access to stairways, walkways, elevators, pedestrian access ways or fire safety equipment. Such access shall maintain a minimum width of 44 inches, no part of which shall be within a parking space.
(E) City Engineer approval. To ensure that interference with traffic flow on adjacent streets and alleys will be minimal, the location and design of all entrances and exits to streets or alleys from off-street parking facilities shall be subject to approval by the City Engineer.
(Ord. 1346, passed 5-2-12)