(a) All buildings, structures and uses shall provide off-street parking and/or off-street loading facilities in accordance with the provisions specified in this chapter, and all applications required by the Zoning Ordinance shall include a plot plan drawn to scale showing the location and arrangements of any off-street parking and/or loading required by this chapter.
(b) The creation of an additional parking lot, the expansion of an existing parking lot, or the realignment of parking spaces when not in conjunction with any other activity shall also require a zoning certificate.
(c) No off-street parking area provided herein, except for areas provided in conjunction with one, two or three-family dwellings, shall be less than 1,050 square feet in area. Parking spaces located within a garage structure or on a driveway, but not including sidewalks, driving lanes and driveway aprons, may be computed as off-street parking spaces.
(d) All required off-street and loading areas shall be solely for the parking and loading and unloading of operable motor vehicles, of patrons, occupants or employees of such uses and are not to be used to store inoperative vehicles or for motor vehicle repair work or service of any kind, except for emergency repairs.
(e) Each required off-street parking or loading space shall open directly upon an aisle or driveway of such width and design as to provide safe and efficient means of vehicular access to such space. Such aisle or driveway shall not be used for the parking of other vehicles, except that the driveway of a single-family residence may be counted as one parking space.
(f) All required loading spaces and facilities shall be located off-street on the same or adjacent lot as the building or use being served, and may occupy all or part of any required side or rear yard area, except that no loading area shall be located closer than fifty feet to any lot in any R District unless wholly enclosed within a building.
(g) All open off-street areas shall be separated from public rights of way by a space of at least four feet in width, and a six inch high curb shall be provided on the parking lot side of the four foot width. All open off-street parking areas shall be separated from the principal building by a six inch curb so as to maintain unobstructed a three foot corridor between the building and parked vehicle.
(h) Required off-street loading space is not to be included as off-street parking space in computation of required off-street parking area. All off-street loading spaces shall be located totally outside of any street or alley right of way.
(Ord. 1985-40. Passed 8-6-85.)
(i) The parking of a recreational vehicle, boat trailer and/or boat, or travel trailer outside of a permitted park or campground, and in a residential area for not more than seven days within a thirty day time period is prohibited except when:
(1) Such vehicle is uninhabited and when any one of the following applies;
(2) Such vehicle is parked in the rear or side yard;
(3) Such vehicle is at least five feet from an adjoining property line.
(4) The recreational vehicle must be parked at least 10 feet from the inside edge of the sidewalk on a driveway or 15 feet from the edge of the roadway on a driveway.
(Ord. 1996-122. Passed 10-15-96.)