Required off-street parking for specified uses shall be used only by vehicles of employees, customers, and residents of the activity served.
(A) Location. Off-street parking, as required by this chapter, shall be located as follows:
(1) Single-family dwellings: on the same lot with the dwelling they are required to serve;
(2) Multi-family dwellings: on the same lot with the dwelling they are required to serve;
(3) Hospitals, sanitariums, apartments, rooming and boarding houses, fraternity and sorority houses: within 100 feet of the use they are required to serve; and
(4) Commercial and industrial zones: within 300 of the use they are required to serve.
(B) Accessibility. Off-site parking areas must be accessible by a public street or alley.
(C) Ownership. Off-site parking areas shall be owned or leased by the owner or lessee of the building being served by such parking.
(D) Recorded land covenant. Off-site parking areas shall have a recorded land covenant requiring such land to be maintained as a parking lot so long as the building and/or use served is in operation or another suitable parking area is established to the satisfaction of the Zoning Officer.
(E) Size of parking spaces. Off-street parking spaces shall be at least nine feet wide and 18 feet if measured from a curb on the inside edge of the stall or 20 feet if measured from a painted line on the inside edge of the stall, exclusive of access drives, yards, or ramps. Such spaces shall have a vertical clearance of at least seven feet.
(F) Parking areas. Parking areas of three to ten spaces shall be arranged according to one of the four designs shown in Figure 7 below. Where more than ten off-street parking spaces are required, the parking area shall be designed by a licensed landscape architect or registered engineer.
(G) Plan of proposed facility. A plan of the proposed off-street parking facility shall be submitted along with the application for a land use permit for the building the off-street parking is required to serve. Said plan shall clearly indicate curb cuts, lighting, landscaping, construction details, fencing, and other features which may be required by the Zoning Officer. (See Figure 7 below.)
Figure 7: Parking Area Design for Three to Ten Spaces
(H) Handicapped parking. Accessible (handicapped) parked spaces, 12.5 feet wide, and 20 feet long shall be provided according to the table below. Handicapped parking spaces shall be clearly identified with a sign bearing the international handicapped accessible symbol and marked “reserved for handicapped.”
Total Spaces in Lot | Minimum Number of Accessible Spaces |
4 - 25 | 1 |
26 - 50 | 2 |
51 - 75 | 3 |
76 - 100 | 4 |
>100 | 2% of total |
(I) Multi-family residential developments. Off-street parking areas serving multi-family residential developments of more than ten units, commercial, industrial, or institutional uses must comply with the following provisions:
(1) Grading and drainage. Parking areas shall be graded and drainage facilities installed to remove or retain surface runoff in a manner that does not adversely affect adjacent properties, public streets, or surface waters.
(2) Surfacing. Parking areas shall be surfaced with gravel or equivalent material three-fourths to eleven-halves. Parking areas containing 20 or more spaces shall be surfaced with asphalt, concrete, or other hard surface.
(3) Screening. Where an off-street parking area abuts a residential use or zoning district, the parking areas shall be effectively screened at the property line(s) by an acceptably designed sight-obscuring wall, fence, or planting screen.
(4) Striping. Stalls in paved parking areas shall be marked with painted lines not less than four inches wide.
(5) Landscaping. Any use having more than 3,500 square feet of required permanent parking shall have 5% of the gross parking area landscaped with suitable trees and/or shrubs having a low profile. Such landscaping shall be in place before occupancy of the building or use being served.
(J) Lighting. Lighting used to illuminate a parking area shall be arranged in such a manner that it will not be a hazard to passing motorists or constitute a nuisance of any kind. Where said parking area is within 150 feet of any property classified as residential by this chapter, and where the parking area is directly visible by the residents within 150 feet, illuminating devices shall be shaded in a manner that would direct the light away from the residential property.
(K) Measurement of distance. Where a distance is specified, such distance shall be measured by a straight line from the nearest point of the building the parking area is required to serve.
(2015 Code, § 11-20-2) (Ord. 454, passed 6-19-2000) Penalty, see § 154.999