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§ 349.05 Location of Required Space
   (a)   The required accessory off-street parking facility shall be located on the same lot as the use for which it is provided or on a lot within four hundred (400) feet of the nearest boundary of the lot upon which the use is located measured by a straight line between the two (2) points; or, the Off-Street Parking Committee may determine that the building or use in question is served adequately by a Municipal or private parking facility. All such parking spaces shall be located behind the setback building line. No such parking space shall be located within ten (10) feet of any wall of a residential building or structure if such wall contains a ground floor opening designed to provide light or ventilation for such building or structure.
   (b)   The separate lot upon which such accessory parking facilities are provided shall be in the same ownership or control as the building or use to which the parking facilities are accessory.
   (c)   No required accessory off-street parking space shall be occupied by a pay telephone or any other structure.
(Ord. No. 1989-01. Passed 10-22-01, eff. 11-1-01 without the signature of the Mayor)
§ 349.06 Mixed Use Facilities
   Accessory off-street parking spaces required of two (2) or more uses located on the same lot or parcel may be combined and used jointly by such uses, provided that the parking spaces provided shall be equal to the total number of accessory off-street parking spaces required by all such uses. Where a use is accessory to the main use and is not primarily intended to serve additional patrons or employees, or generate additional traffic, no additional off-street parking spaces need be provided for such accessory use.
(Ord. No. 1236-A-67. Passed 6-28-71, eff. 7-2-71)
§ 349.07 Access and Maintenance of Off-Street Parking Spaces
   (a)   Accessory off-street parking spaces, driveways and maneuvering areas shall be properly graded for drainage so that all water is drained within the lot providing such parking spaces, surfaced with concrete, asphaltic concrete, asphalt or other surfacing materials approved by the Director of Building and Housing, maintained in good condition and free of debris and trash.
   (b)   Accessory off-street parking spaces shall be provided with wheel or bumper guards that are so located that no part of a parked vehicle will extend beyond such parking space.
   (c)   The driveway used to provide accessibility to accessory off-street parking spaces shall be so located and arranged to minimize traffic congestion. Therefore:
      (1)   Only one (1) such driveway shall be permitted for each one hundred (100) feet of frontage of the lot providing such parking spaces;
      (2)   No driveway shall be so located that there would be less than fifteen (15) feet between the point of tangency of the driveway apron radius and the outside crosswalk line at the intersection when such driveway is on the approach side of an intersection. In such cases as the driveway is on the leaving side of the intersection, the requirement shall be five (5) feet between the outside crosswalk line and the point of tangency of the driveway apron radius;
      (3)   The maximum width of such driveway shall be thirty (30) feet measured at right angles to the angle of the driveway entrance. Such driveway shall have an apron radius at the curb of not less than six (6) feet or a curb cut of not more than sixty (60) feet and shall provide a means for motor vehicles to enter and leave the parking facilities without obstructing traffic.
(Ord. No. 1767-07. Passed 4-21-08, eff. 4-28-08)
§ 349.08 Screening of Off-Street Parking Spaces
   Where five (5) or more accessory off-street parking spaces are provided, and are located on a lot that is adjacent to a Residence District or that adjoins a building containing dwelling units, such parking spaces shall be screened from all adjoining lots in the Residence District or a building containing dwelling units, by an opaque wall, a uniformly painted fence of fire-resistant material or a strip of land at least four (4) feet wide and densely planted with shrubs that form a dense screen year-round. Such wall, fence or shrubs shall be at least three (3) feet, but not more than six (6) feet six (6) inches in height. However, such wall, fence or shrubs located within twenty-five (25) feet of the intersection of two (2) or more streets or the intersection of an access driveway and a street, shall have a maximum height of three (3) feet and a minimum height of two (2) feet.
   The required screening shall be maintained in good condition at all times.
   No signs shall be permitted to be attached to or hung from the required screening.
(Ord. No. 1236-A-67. Passed 6-28-71, eff. 7-2-71)
§ 349.09 Lighting for Off-Street Parking Spaces
   Where lighting is provided for accessory off-street parking spaces, it shall be constructed and arranged so as to prevent the direct emission of light upon adjoining lots or the public streets.
(Ord. No. 1236-A-67. Passed 6-28-71, eff. 7-2-71)
§ 349.10 Planned Institutional Development Area
   (a)   The off-street parking requirements set forth in subsection (c) hereof shall apply to any one or combination of educational, religious, medical or eleemosynary institutions for which a comprehensive plan for the development, redevelopment or rehabilitation of existing or proposed facilities encompassed within a contiguous area has been approved by the Planning Commission as provided in subsection (b) hereof.
   (b)   Any such plan or amended plan as submitted to the Commission for its approval shall set forth in detail:
      (1)   The boundaries of the development area;
      (2)   The type and location of all existing and proposed principal land uses and buildings therein;
      (3)   The present and at least two (2) year projection of the number of employees, residents, visitors, enrollment, patients or other measures of persons likely to be accommodated in the development area;
      (4)   The present and at least two (2) year projection of the number of parking spaces owned or controlled by the party or parties to the plan jointly;
      (5)   Drawings showing present and two (2) year projection of the locations and general dimensions of all buildings, major pedestrian and vehicular circulation systems, parking facilities and major open areas; and
      (6)   Any proposal for the joint use and sharing of off-street parking facilities by parties to the plan, designating the location and capacity of the facilities to be shared and indicating the periods and extent of usage by each such party.
   Any plan or amended plan submitted to the Commission for its approval in accordance with the Charter which complies with the standards set forth in subsection (c) hereof shall be considered as having met the off-street parking requirements of the City. However, each such plan, when approved, shall be effective for at least a period of two (2) years, and a revised plan and current data in accordance with this subsection (b) shall he or she submitted to the Commission for reapproval in the same manner not later than sixty (60) days prior to the date of the expiration of the plan last approved by the Commission. So long as such an approved plan is in effect, and all subsequent construction or subsequent change of use of any building is substantially in accordance with the plan, the parties to such plan shall be deemed to be in compliance with all accessory off- street parking requirements of the zoning ordinances of the City.
   (c)   The Commission shall approve a development area parking plan that complies with the following standards:
Use
Required Off-Street Parking Spaces
Use
Required Off-Street Parking Spaces
Universities, colleges and other professional schools
   Faculty
1 for each 2
   Employees
1 for each 4
   Dormitories, single undergraduate students
1 for each 25
   Fraternities or sororities, single students
1 for each 8
   Single graduate student housing, including graduate fraternities and sororities
1 for each 2
   Married student housing
1 for each dwelling unit
   Commuting students
1 for each 4
   Part-time students
1 for each 5
   Visitors
1 for each 10 full-time faculty members, but not less than 20 spaces
Hospitals and sanitariums
   Medical staff (M.D.)
1 for each 3
   Other employees
1 for each 4
   Visitors, including in-patient, out-patient, emergency and ambulatory
1 for each 3 daily visitors computed on yearly averages, or 1 for each 4 beds, whichever is greater
Places of worship
1 for each 6 seats in the main sanctuary
Museums
   Staff
1 for each 4
   Visitors
1 for each 1,200 square feet of gross floor area
Institutions for children, the aged, and other medically oriented centers
1 for each 2 employees plus 1 for each 6 beds
Eleemosynary institutions and all other cultural organizations
1 for each 600 square feet of gross floor area.
 
   As used in this section, “gross floor area”, when applied to museums, eleemosynary institutions and all other cultural organizations, means such areas as are used or intended to be used by the public, including visitors, students and patrons, and excludes nonpublic areas such as may be used or intended to be used for staff, employees, storage, workshops, restrooms, toilets, utilities, management or maintenance. In applying such standards, the employment, enrollment, staff, visitors, buildings and other facilities specifically hereinabove listed of all parties to the plan, and only the parking spaces owned or controlled by one (1) or more of the parties to the plan, shall be taken into consideration. The plan may include such parking spaces owned or controlled by any party to the plan located in another contiguous municipality, provided the buildings and institutions of each such party located within such contiguous area in such other municipality are also included within the plan. In applying the above standards: all parties to the plan shall be considered as one (1) single unit; all parking spaces located within the planned area and owned or controlled by all parties to the plan shall be considered without the necessity of allocating any such spaces to any particular use, building or institution; consideration shall be given to shared use of parking spaces by the parties to the plan; all existing buildings of the parties to the plan located within the planned area shall be taken into account except when the required number of parking spaces for any institution in the plan has been determined by reference to enrollment, employees, staff, patients or visitors; and the Planning Commission shall also consider that it is the declared policy of the City to provide greater flexibility in the development of institutional lands through planned development, to locate such parking spaces to provide maximum convenience consistent with the need to protect pedestrian traffic and promote the efficient and safe movement of vehicular traffic, to recognize that an institutional parking space may accommodate more than one (1) vehicle during any given period of time, thus having a considerable rate of turnover, and to promote a more efficient allocation of land for buildings and open space by permitting the joint use of off-street parking spaces by all parties to such a plan.
(Ord. No. 1236-A-67. Passed 6-28-71, eff. 7-2-71)
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