Hereafter no building shall be erected or altered and no land used unless there be provided adequate off-street parking space or spaces for the needs of tenants, personnel and patrons together with means of ingress or egress. The area indicated as the “General Business District” on the official zoning map is exempt from all off-street parking space requirements.
(a) General Provisions.
(1) Residential off-street parking spaces shall consist of a parking strip, driveway, garage, or combination thereof and shall be located on the premises they are intended to serve, and subject to the provisions of Section 1137.05
. Accessory Buildings.
(2) Any area once designated as required off-street parking shall never be changed to any other use unless and until equal facilities are provided elsewhere.
(3) Off-street parking existing at the effective date of this Ordinance in connection with the operation of an existing building or use shall not be reduced to an amount less than hereinafter required for a similar new building or new use.
(4) Two or more buildings or uses may collectively provide the required off- street parking in which case the required number of parking spaces shall not be less than the sum of the requirements for the several individual uses computed separately.
(5) In the instance of dual function of off-street parking spaces where operating hours of buildings do not overlap, the Board of Appeals may grant an exception.
(6) The storage or sale of merchandise or the repair of vehicles is prohibited.
(7) For those uses not specifically mentioned, the requirements for off-street parking facilities shall be in accord with a use which the Board of Appeals considers as being similar in type.
(8) Ingress and egress: A suitable means of ingress or egress for vehicles to premises used for parking shall be provided, and shall open directly from and to a public street, alley or highway.
(9) Fencing, wheel stops, or other physical barriers shall be provided for all boundaries of the parking area except at points of ingress and egress to prevent encroachment of vehicles.
(10) Pavement: All parking lots shall be surfaced with a hard or semi-hard dust free surface in conformance to the standards of the Service Department.
(11) Screening: When a parking lot abuts a residential zone, there shall be permanently maintained along such boundary, screening as provided in Section 1137.15
.
(12) Plot plan to be filed: Prior to constructing an accessory parking lot, the owner or person in charge of the land to be used for parking shall submit a plot plan to the Enforcement Officer or Clerk who will submit same to the Planning Commission for their consideration and recommendation. Such plot plan shall show the boundaries of the property, location of adjacent houses, parking spaces, circulation patterns, drainage plan and construction plan for boundary walls and planting plan.
(b) Amount of Off-street Parking Space Required: The amount of required off-street parking spaces for new uses or buildings, additions thereto, and additions to existing buildings, shall be determined in accordance with the following minimum parking provisions: Provided that no parking area shall project into a required front yard in any residential district or be permitted between the curb line and property line in any district.
(1) One-family dwelling: Two spaces for each family unit plan one space for each two roomers. One of which may project into the required front yard.
(2) Two-family dwelling: Two parking spaces for each family, plus one space for each two roomers.
(3) Multiple family: Two parking spaces per dwelling unit plus one space per each employee.
(4) Apartment hotel: One space per apartment, plus one for each employee.
(5) Hotel or motel: One space per unit, plus one for each employee.
(6) Churches: One parking space for each three seats in the main auditorium.
(7) Hospitals: One for each two beds, plus one for each staff doctor, plus one for each two full-time employees on shift, including nurses.
(8) Sanitariums, convalescent homes or children’s homes: One for each two beds, plus one for each two employees.
(9) Elementary and junior and senior high schools: One parking space for each employee, plus one parking space for each 80 square feet in the main auditorium, not containing fixed seats, or one space for six fixed seats in the main auditorium whichever is greater.
(10) Libraries, museums, or art galleries: One for each 600 square feet of floor area, plus one for each four employees.
(11) Post office: One for each 500 square feet of floor area, plus one for each three employees.
(12) Bowling alleys: Five parking spaces for each alley.
(13) Sports arenas, auditoriums, theaters, assembly halls, other than in schools: One parking space for each four persons allowed by the Fire Code up to 1000 seats, plus one parking space for each three persons allowed by the Fire Code over 1000 seats, plus one for each two employees.
(14) Professional offices, medical clinics: One parking space for each 150 square feet of floor area. Provided that professional offices when used as a home occupation shall provide one parking space for each 100 square feet, or major fraction thereof, of office area in addition to that required for the residing family or families.
(15) Office buildings: One parking space for each 200 square feet of gross floor area excluding any floor space used for parking.
(16) Banks, dry cleaning, laundries, and similar service business: One parking space for each 250 square feet of floor area.
(17) Drive-in banks with inside customer service: Five for each teller, window, plus one for each employee; without inside customer service, one space for each employee.
(18) Auto service station: Four spaces.
(19) Automobile sales and service garage: One parking space for each 200 square feet of floor area in the main display room.
(20) Used car lot: One space for each 1500 square feet of lot area.
(21) Barber shops and beauty parlors: One for each chair, plus one for each employee.
(22) Drive-in eating establishments: One parking space for each 60 square feet of floor area, but not less than 20 spaces.
(23) Furniture and appliances, household equipment, decorator, electrician, shoe repair: One parking space for each 800 square feet of floor area plus one space for each two employees.
(24) Laundromats: One space for each two washing machines.
(25) Mortuaries or funeral homes: One parking space for each fifty square feet of floor area in the slumber rooms, parlors or individual funeral service rooms.
(26) Restaurant, with only inside service or tavern: One parking space for each four seats, plus one space for each two employees.
(27) Retail stores: (Including rental service stores.) One parking space for each 200 square feet of gross floor area; excepting self-service or supermarket which shall provide one parking space for each 100 square feet of gross floor area.
(28) Contractors yard or plant storage yard: One space for each three employees.
(29) Warehouses, wholesale stores: One parking space for each 800 square feet of floor area.
(30) Manufacturing plants or research laboratories: One space for each one and one-half employees per largest work shift.
(c) In the case of a use not specifically mentioned, the requirements for off-street parking shall be the same as for a similar use specifically mentioned. Similarity to be determined by enforcing officer.
(Ord. 0-9-71. Passed 12-23-71.)