The following parking and loading criteria are intended to minimize street congestion and traffic hazards, to provide safe, convenient access to business, public services and places of public assembly, and to visually improve parking area appearances:
A. Off Street Parking Required; Ingress And Egress: At the time of construction of any structure, or at the time any such structure or use of land is enlarged or increased in capacity, there shall be provided off street parking, including adequate provisions for safe ingress and egress.
B. Existing Use Changed To New Use: Whenever the existing use of a building or structure shall hereafter be changed to a new use, parking or loading facilities shall be provided as required for such new use.
C. Existing Buildings Not Deemed Nonconforming Due To Off Street Parking: No lawfully existing building shall be deemed nonconforming solely due to the lack of required parking or loading facilities; provided, that space being used for off street parking or loading on the effective date hereof is not further reduced in area of capacity.
D. Fractional Number For Calculated Number Of Spaces: When the calculation of the required number of spaces called for herein results in a fractional number, fractions equal to or greater than one-half (1/2) shall be adjusted to the next highest whole number of spaces.
E. Uses Not Listed In Chapter: Parking space requirements for a specific use not listed in this chapter shall be based on a use with similar traffic generating characteristics.
F. Minimum Width And Length: All off street parking areas shall have a minimum width of ten feet (10') and a minimum length of twenty feet (20') per space.
G. Wheel Restraints: All off street parking areas shall be provided with a substantial wheel restraint to prevent cars from encroaching upon abutting private and public property.
H. Symbols And Signs: Parking spaces, access lanes, and handicapped areas should be marked with symbols and signs that comply with the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
I. All Weather Surface: Every open off street parking area having more than four (4) required parking spaces shall be all weather surfaced, including access driveways.
J. Parking Facilities For Several Buildings: Off street parking facilities for several buildings, structures or uses, or for mixed uses, may be provided collectively if the total number of spaces so located together shall not be less than the sum of the separate requirements for each of the buildings or uses.
K. Illumination Of Parking Areas: Lights to illuminate off street parking areas shall be shielded and directed away from residential properties and highways, and such parking areas shall be effectively screened from any adjoining side property in a residential zone by a wall, solid fence, or hedge of a minimum height of six feet (6') or with an approved buffer area.
L. Parking Spaces Upon Same Premises As Dwellings: Required parking spaces for dwellings shall be upon the same premises as the dwelling, and no parking space shall be located in any public right-of-way.
M. Handicap Accessible Parking: In addition to required parking as defined in this section, hard surface handicapped parking spaces shall be provided in all parking lots in a ratio as determined by chapter 1106 of the International Building Code (IBC), as amended, and shall be one and one-half (11/2) times as wide as a regular parking area.
N. Stormwater: All parking lot facilities shall be designed and constructed to ensure that all surface waters will drain into an approved stormwater retention or removal system and shall minimize the discharge of any pollutants into surface water drainage by including oil, grease, or silt traps.
O. Commercial And Industrial Development: Commercial and industrial development shall meet the following:
1. Access roads to parking spaces for commercial and manufacturing uses shall not be less than twelve feet (12') wide if the traffic pattern is one-way and twenty four feet (24') wide if the traffic pattern is two-way.
2. Maneuvering space shall be adequate for entry and exit from parking spaces within the parking lot and not within the public right-of-way.
3. Retail and service uses that conduct business while customers remain in their vehicles shall provide a circulation pattern that separates drive-through traffic from stopover customers. Separation may be paint striped lanes or any other approved type of separation barrier from the point of access to the stacking area. Separation lanes shall be a minimum of ten feet (10') in width.
4. Stacking area shall accommodate a minimum of four (4) cars per drive through window. A separation shall be provided between cars waiting and other on site traffic.
P. Loading: Any structure for a commercial or industrial use having a gross floor area of five thousand (5,000) or greater square feet shall be required to provide and maintain at least one off street loading space. One additional off street loading space shall be required for every subsequent twenty thousand (20,000) square feet of gross floor space. Each loading space shall be not less than fourteen feet (14') in width and forty feet (40') in length and shall have a minimum of fourteen feet (14') of vertical clearance.
Q. Spaces For Maximum Number Of Vehicles Anticipated: Parking spaces shall be provided for the maximum number of vehicles anticipated for all applicable types of uses or occupancies on the property at any one time. (Ord. 2012-08, 10-9-2012, eff. 10-26-2012)