(a) Floor Area. For the purposes of this section, "floor area" in offices, merchandising and service types of uses shall mean the area used for service to the public and exclude areas used principally for nonpublic purposes such as storage, incidental repair, processing, show windows, rest rooms and dressing rooms. In measurement for parking space, fractions of required floor area over one-half shall require one parking space.
(Ord. 22-1972. Passed 8-1-72.)
(b) Parking Space Size. Off-street accessory parking areas shall comply with the following minimum requirements for length and width of parking spaces.
(1) Parallel parking spaces shall have a length of twenty-three feet and a width of ten feet.
(2) Ninety, sixty and forty-five degree parking spaces shall have a length of eighteen feet and a width of nine feet.
All parking space requirements shall be exclusive of access drives and aisles. All parking area dimensions shall conform with the parking details figure in the Appendix.
(Ord. 23-87. Passed 5-19-87.)
(c) Parking Area Design. Such parking areas shall be of usable shape, improved with bituminous, concrete or equivalent surfacing, and so graded and drained as to dispose of all surface water accumulation within the area, in accordance with the requirements of the City Engineer. All lighting used to illuminate such parking areas shall be so arranged as to direct the light away from adjoining premises or streets and no open light sources such as the stringing of lights bulbs shall be permitted. Wheel guards, including bumper guards as may be necessary, shall be provided in connection with any off-street parking area of five cars or more, and shall be constructed so as to confine the storm water surface drainage to the premises; to contain the cars on sloping surfaces; and to prevent bumper overhang.
(Ord. 22-1972. Passed 8-1-72.)
(d) Entrances and Exits. Access drives shall be located to minimize traffic congestion. At street intersection corners, the edge of the drive approach shall be at least twenty feet from the center of the curve as measured along the face of curb or edge of roadway. There shall not be more than two drive approaches to any one street. Drive approaches shall have a minimum width of ten feet at back of walk or right-of-way line, and a maximum width of forty feet at the curb or edge of roadway. All drive approaches shall be of concrete and shall conform to the drive approach detail shown in the Appendix.
(Ord. 23-88. Passed 7-5-88.)
(e) Yard Restrictions. Off-street parking facilities shall not occupy any part of any required front or side yard in all R district areas, but where open may be included as part of a required open space for a rear yard. In all B and I district areas, open off-street parking facilities may be located in the required front yard provided that at least a ten foot wide landscaped strip is located between the parking area and the street right-of-way line. In all B and I district areas, open off- street parking facilities may occupy the required rear yard.
(f) Locating. The parking spaces required for dwelling units shall be located on the lot and parking spaces required for other uses shall be located on the lot or within 500 feet of the main use measured along lines of public access to the property but shall not be allowed in residential districts except as provided in subsection (h) hereof.
(g) Joint Use. Parking spaces already provided to meet off-street parking requirements for places of public assembly, commercial and industrial establishments, lying within 500 feet of a church measured along lines of public access, and that are not normally used between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on Sundays and are made available for other parking, may be used to meet not more than seventy-five percent (75%) of the off-street parking requirements of a church.
Parking spaces already provided to meet off-street parking requirements for business and industrial establishments lying within 500 feet of a place of public assembly along lines of public access, that are not normally in use between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and midnight and are made available for other parking may be used to meet not more than fifty percent (50%) of the total requirements of parking space.
(h) Parking Lots in Residential Districts. The Planning Commission may issue a conditional zoning certificate for parking lots in residential districts subject to this chapter, Chapter 1145, and the following conditions:
(1) The parking lot shall be accessory to and for the use in connection with one or more permitted or conditionally permissible uses in an adjoining business or industrial district.
(2) Such parking lot shall abut at least fifty feet, either directly or across an alley or street in the district in which the use for which the parking is provided, permitted or conditionally permissible.
(3) Such parking lot shall be used solely for the parking of passenger vehicles and no commercial repair work or service of any kind shall be conducted on such parking lot.
(4) No sign of any kind, other than those designating entrance, exits and conditions of use shall be maintained on such parking lot.
(5) Entrances and exits shall be at least twenty feet distance from any adjacent property located in any residential district.
(6) Such parking lot shall be efficiently screened on each side by a fence of acceptable design, wall or compact hedge. Such fence, wall or hedge shall be not less than four feet in height and no solid portion shall be more than six feet in height and shall be maintained in good condition.
The planting strip for hedges shall be no less than three feet in width. At least one water outlet shall be provided not more than fifty feet from the lot for maintenance of plant materials. The space between such fence, wall or hedge and the side lot line of adjoining premises in any residential district shall be landscaped with grass, hardy shrubs or evergreen ground cover and maintained in good condition.
(7) The Planning Commission may modify the foregoing requirements in specific cases where desirable or warranted, owing to unusual topography, physical conditions and the use and character of adjacent properties. The Planning Commission may also impose such additional requirements as it may deem necessary in view of the aforesaid considerations.
(Ord. 22-1972. Passed 8-1-72.)