Off-street parking and loading requirements and regulations are established in order to achieve, among other things, the following purposes:
(a) To relieve congestion on streets to allow more fully the movement of vehicular traffic;
(b) To lessen vehicular movement in the vicinity of intensive pedestrian traffic and thereby promote safety and convenience;
(c) To protect adjoining residential neighborhoods from excessive non-residential on-street parking;
(d) To promote general convenience, welfare and prosperity of developments which depend upon off-street parking facilities;
(e) To provide regulations and standards for the development of accessory off-street parking and loading facilities in accordance with objectives of the Comprehensive Plan and codes of the City of Chardon;
(f) To provide off-street parking, stacking and loading facilities in proportion to the need created by each use; and,
(g) To provide for accommodation of vehicles in a functionally and aesthetically satisfactory manner and to minimize external effects on adjacent land uses.
(Ord. 2635. Passed 1-13-11.)