(a) General Requirements.
(1) The off-street parking required by this chapter shall be provided in accordance with the following requirements.
A. One and two-family dwellings. The off-street parking facilities required for one and two-family dwellings should be located on the same lot or plot of ground as the building they are intended to serve, but shall not be considered a parking lot under the provisions of this chapter.
B. Multiple family. The off-street parking facilities for multi-family dwellings shall consist of a parking lot as defined elsewhere in this chapter. In no event shall any uncovered parking space in a multi-family district be located nearer than ten (10) feet to any main building.
C. Mobile home parks. The off-street parking required may be located on each site or in parking lots conveniently located and readily accessible to each site.
D. Other land uses. The off-street parking required may be located on each site or in parking lots conveniently located and readily accessible to each site. Such off-lot spaces shall be located only in districts in which similar off-street parking is permitted.
E. Control of off-site parking facilities. In cases where parking facilities are permitted on land other than the zoning lot on which the building or use served is located, such facilities shall be in the same possession as the zoning lot occupied by the building or use to which the parking facilities are accessory. Such possession may be either by deed or long-term lease, the term of said lease, to be determined by the Building Inspector; and such deed or lease shall be filed with the Brookville Municipal Clerk. The deed or lease shall require such owner or his or her heirs and assigns to maintain the required number of parking facilities for the duration of the use served or of the deed or lease, whichever shall terminate sooner.
(Ord. 1994-02. Passed 5-17-94; Ord. 2002-12. Passed 12-17-02.)
(2) Construction Requirements: All parking facilities in the City of Brookville including parking lots and driveways shall be constructed with pavement, asphalt or pavers. Gravel or other compacted material shall not be permitted for construction of parking lots and driveways, but gravel or other compacted material shall be permitted as a hard surface for parking of a recreational vehicle for storage as specified in Section 1159.05(d) of the Code of Ordinances. The parking facility shall be graded and drained so as to dispose of surface water which might accumulate within or upon such area, and shall be completely constructed prior to a Certificate of Occupancy being issued. No surface water from such parking area shall be permitted to drain into adjoining private property. Each parking facility must meet any other engineering standards deemed necessary by the Zoning Enforcement Officer. (Ord. 2010-02. Passed 4-20-10.)
(3) Parking lot plans. Plans for the development of any parking lot must be submitted to the Zoning Enforcement Officer, prepared at a scale of not less than fifty (50) feet equals one (1) inch and indicating existing and proposed grades, drainage, pipe sizes, dimensions of parking spaces, type of curbing, drive and aisle dimensions, lighting, adjacent main buildings, sidewalks, landscaping, surfacing and base materials to be used. The plans of the proposed parking lot layout shall be prepared in a presentable form by person or persons competent in such work and shall reflect conformance with the following provisions.
A. Required yards. Off-street parking spaces, open to the sky, may be located in any yard if the parking facility is located within a Commercial or Industrial Zone, except that when a required non-residential parking lot or parking area designed for ten or more vehicles is situated on a parcel which adjoins a residential district or a residential use, provisions stated in subsection (a)(3)B. hereof shall apply. (Ord. 1994-02. Passed 5-17-94; Ord. 2002-12. Passed 12-17-02.)
Parking facilities in commercial and industrial districts are encouraged to be located behind the front yard setback line whenever possible.
Enclosed buildings containing off-street parking shall be subject to applicable yard requirements of the zone in which located.
B. Screening and landscaping. All open vehicle parking areas containing more than ten (10) parking spaces shall be effectively screened on each side which adjoins or faces premises situated in any residential district, or institutional premises, by a fence or vegetative screening of acceptable design. Such fence shall be not less than four (4) feet or more than six (6) feet in height and shall be maintained in good condition without any advertising thereon. The space between such wall or fence and the lot line of the adjoining premises in any "R" District shall be landscaped with grass, hardy shrubs, or evergreen ground cover and maintained in good condition. In lieu of such wall or fence, a strip of land not less than ten (10) feet in width and planted and maintained with an evergreen hedge or dense planting of evergreen shrubs not less than four (4) feet in height may be substituted.
C. Access. All off-street parking facilities shall be designed with appropriate means of vehicular access to a street or alley in a manner which will least interfere with traffic movement.
Ingress and egress to a parking lot lying in an area zoned for other than single family residential use shall not be across land zoned for single family residential use.
Each entrance and exit to and from any off-street parking lot located in an area zoned for other than single-family residential use shall be at least twenty-five (25) feet distant from adjacent property located in any single family residential district.
D. Lighting. All illumination for or on all such parking lots shall be deflected away from adjacent residential areas and shall be installed in such a manner as to allow the reduction of the amount of light in other than normal parking hours each day. The source of illumination in all parking lots abutting a residential area shall not be more than sixteen (16) feet above the parking lot surface.
E. Cleaning and maintenance. The parking facility shall be kept free from refuse and debris and in good structural condition through periodic maintenance by the owner or his agent, who shall also be responsible for snow removal.
F. Disabled vehicles. The parking of an unlicensed and disabled vehicle within any district for a period of more than two (2) weeks shall be prohibited, unless such vehicle is stored in an enclosed garage or other accessory building.
(b) Parking Space Requirements.
(1) Collective provision. Off-street parking facilities for separate uses may be provided collectively if the total number of spaces so provided is no less than the sum of the separate requirements governing location of accessory parking spaces in relation to the use served are adhered to. Further, no parking space or portion thereof shall serve as a required space for more than one (1) use unless otherwise authorized by the Planning Commission.
Parking spaces already provided to meet off-street parking requirements for places of public assembly, commercial or industrial establishments, lying within five hundred (500) feet of a church measured along lines of public access; and that are not normally used between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Sundays; and that are made available to the respective church for parking use, may be used to meet not more than seventy-five (75) percent of the off-street parking requirements of such church.
(2) Community Center District. Whenever possible in the Community Center District, off-street parking requirements of one or more commercial establishments may be met through the provision of the total number of required spaces in an off-street parking lot or structure located not more than 400 feet from all the establishments it is designed to serve.
(3) Parking restrictions. Off-street parking of vehicles shall be restricted by the following requirements:
A. Parking duration. Except when land is used as storage space in connection with the business of a repair or service garage, a twenty-four (24) hour time limit for parking in nonresidential off-street parking areas shall prevail, it being the purpose and intention of the foregoing that the requirement of maintaining vehicle storage or parking space is to provide for the public safety in keeping parked cars off the streets, but such requirement is not designed to or intended to provide, and it shall be unlawful to permit, the storage or prolonged parking on any such parking area in any such district wrecked or junked cars, or for creating a junk yard or a nuisance in such areas.
B. Restriction on parking on private property. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to park any motor vehicle on any private property, or use of said private property as parking space, without the express or implied consent, authorization, or ratification of holder, owner, occupant, lessee, agent, or trustee of such property. Complaint for the violation of this Section shall be made by the owner, holder, occupant, lessee, agent or trustee of such property.
C. After the effective date of this Ordinance, it shall be unlawful for the owner, tenant or lessee of any lot, parcel or tract of land in a Residential District or in the Residential area of any other District, to permit or allow the open storage or parking, either day or night, thereon of trucks, semi-trucks and trailers, mobile homes (exclusive of recreational vehicles), bulldozers, earth carriers, drag lines, cranes, steam shovels and/or any other equipment or machinery. It is provided, however, that the owner, tenant or lessee of a farm may openly store the machinery and equipment used on his farm; and it is further provided that equipment necessary to be parked overnight on a lot, parcel or tract of land during construction work thereon shall be excepted from this restriction.
(4) Specific requirements. Off-street parking spaces shall be provided in accordance with the space requirements for respective types of land use as follows:
Use | Required No. of Parking Spaces | Per Each Unit of Measure as follows 1,2 |
1GFA - Gross Floor Plan | ||
2UFA - Usable Floor Plan | ||
Auto salesrooms, wholesale stores, machinery sales and other similar uses | 1 | Per each 1,000 square feet UFA, plus |
1 | Per each employee | |
Banks (other than drive-in banks), post offices | 1 | Per each 200 square feet UFA, plus |
1 | Per each one (1) employee | |
Barber shops | 2 | Per each barber |
Beauty shops | 3 | Per each beauty operator |
Business and professional | 1 | Per each 300 square feet GFA |
Carry out drive-in restaurant | 1 | Per each 200 square feet, GFA, plus |
1 | Per each two (2) employees, with a minimum total of 8 parking spaces | |
Churches | 1 | Per each three (3) seats based on maximum seating capacity in the main place of assembly herein |
Child care center, day nurseries, or nursery schools | 1 | Per each 400 square feet UFA, plus |
1 | Per each employee | |
Convenience type grocery stores | 4 | Minimum of 4 persons, plus |
1 | Per each 400 square feet of UFA | |
Dance halls, exhibition halls, pool halls, billiard parlors, and assembly halls without fixed seats | 1 | Per each two (2) persons allowed within the maximum occupancy load as established by local, county or state fire, health or building codes (or) |
1 | Per each 100 square feet (whichever is greater) UFA | |
Drive-in bank | 4 | Per each teller window |
Drive-in restaurants | 1 | Per each 50 square feet GFA, plus |
1 | Per each three (3) employees with a minimum total of 40 parking spaces | |
Drive-in restaurants - Fast food | 1 | Per each 125 square feet GFA, plus |
1 | Per each two (2) employees, with a minimum total of 25 parking spaces with off- street stacking space for eight (8) vehicles for each drive-in window, with such stacking space to be located behind the point where a drive-in order is placed. | |
Elementary and junior high schools, trade schools | 1 | Per each teacher, plus |
1 | Per each employee or administrator, plus requirements of the auditorium or assembly hall therein | |
Filling stations, automobile service stations | 2 | Per each service stall, plus |
1 | Per each employee, plus | |
1 | Per each service vehicle | |
Food stores | 1 | Per each 100 square feet of UFA |
Furniture, appliances, and household equipment, repair shops, hardware stores, and other similar uses | 1 | Per each 800 square feet of UFA, plus |
1 | Per each two (2) employees | |
High schools | 1 | Per each teacher, plus |
1 | Per each ten (10) students plus | |
1 | Per each employee or administrator, plus requirements of the auditorium or assembly hall therein | |
Housing Units: | ||
One, two and multi-family housing units | 2 | Per each housing unit |
Rooming houses | 1 | Per each two roomers or boarders based on the designated capacity of the building plans; two spaces for a resident manager or resident owner |
Housing for the elderly | .5 | Per each dwelling unit plus |
1 | Per each employee | |
Industrial or manufacturing establishments, research establishments | 1 | Per each 1 ½ employees computed on the basis of greatest number of persons employed at any one time, day or night, (or) |
1 | Per each 2,000 square feet UFA (whichever is greater) | |
Laundromats, coin-operated dry cleaning establishments | .5 | Per each washing or dry cleaning machines |
Medical clinic and dental clinic | 3 | Per each staff or visiting doctor, plus |
1 | Per each employee | |
Mobile Home site | 2 | Per each mobile home site |
Mortuary establishments, funeral homes, undertaking parlors | 1 | Per each fifty (50) square feet of parlor area |
Motels, hotels, tourist homes | 1 | Per each guest bedroom, plus |
1 | Per employees, plus amount required for accessory uses | |
Open air business (not otherwise provided for herein) | 1 | Per each 800 square feet of lot area used for said business |
Personal service establishment (not otherwise provided for herein) | 1 | Per each 300 square feet of UFA, plus |
1 | Per each two (2) employees | |
Private clubs and lodges | 1 | Per each three (3) individual members allowed within the maximum occupancy load as set by local, county, state, fire, health or building codes |
Private tennis club, swim club, golf club or other | 1 | Per each two (2) members or individuals, plus amount required for accessory uses |
Retail stores, except as otherwise specified herein | 1 | Per each 200 square feet of GFA, plus |
1 | Per each three (3) employees | |
Sanitariums, convalescent homes, nursing homes, childrens’ homes | 1 | Per each four (4) beds, plus |
1 | Per each staff doctor, plus | |
1 | Per each two (2) employees | |
Service garages, auto repair shops, collision or bump shops, and other similar uses | 1 | Per each 800 square feet UFA, plus |
1 | Per each two (2) employees computed on the basis of the maximum number of employees on duty at any one time, plus | |
2 | Per each stall or service area | |
Warehouses and storage buildings | 1 | Per each two (2) employees computed on the basis of the greatest number of persons employed at any one time day or night (or) |
1 | Per each 2,000 square feet (whichever is greater) GFA | |