A. The amount of off street parking space required for uses, building, or additions and/or changes in intensity of use thereto shall be determined according to the following requirements, and the space so required shall be stated in the application for a zoning and building permit and shall be reserved for that use. Where more than one use is located in the same building, each individual use shall be in accordance with the off-street parking requirements of this section of the chapter.
Types of Uses | Required Number of Parking Spaces |
Types of Uses | Required Number of Parking Spaces |
Airport, railroad passenger stations and bus terminals | One parking space per each four seating accommodations for waiting passengers, plus one parking space per each two employees on shift of largest employment |
Automobile serve stations (gas stations, filling stations) | One space for each gas pump island, plus two spaces for each working bay, plus one parking space for each employee on largest shift |
Beauty parlors or barber shops | Two parking spaces per barber or beauty shop operator |
Bowling establishments | Five parking spaces for each lane; plus one space for each two employees on shift of largest employment |
Car wash | One parking space for each employee, plus one space per owner or manager and reservoir space equal to five times the capacity of car wash |
City or county government offices | One parking space for each 300 square feet of gross floor area |
Commercial or trade schools | One parking space for each two students based on design capacity of school, plus one parking space for each employee |
Dance halls, pool and billiard halls, and exhibition halls without fixed seats | One parking space for each four persons based on design capacity, plus one space for each two employees on shift of largest employment |
Dormitories, fraternities, sorority houses, and other group housing | One parking space per each two residents, plus one parking space per owner or operator; plus one parking space per employee; or one parking space for each two seats for membership meetings, whichever is greater, based on design capacity |
Dwellings: One-family | Two parking spaces |
Two-family | Four parking spaces, with individual access for each dwelling unit, or a joint access in which no parking is permitted on the access drive. |
Dwellings: (A) Multi-family (Am. Ord. 920.20, passed 5-7-85) | One and one-half parking spaces for every one or two bedroom dwelling unit and two parking spaces for ever dwelling unit with three or more bedrooms |
(B) Multi-family designed for occupancy by elderly persons, only | One parking space for every two dwelling units |
Establishments for sale and consumption on the premises of alcoholic beverages, food, and refreshments, or for take home food services | One parking space per each: (1) 30 square feet of gross floor area in a drive-in restaurant; (2) 140 square feet of gross floor area in a carry-out restaurant; (3) 65 square feet of gross floor area or two seating accommodations, based on maximum seating capacity, whichever is greater in a combination restaurant; (4) Three seating accommodations, based on maximum seating capacity in a sit-down restaurant; plus one parking space per each two employees on shift of largest employment in any type or restaurant |
Fire stations | One parking space per each person on duty on largest shift |
Hospitals | One parking space for each two beds, plus one space for each two employees, or staff members, including nurses, on the shift of largest employment, plus one parking space per doctor. |
Laundromats | One parking space for each four washing machines, plus one parking space for every two employees. |
Libraries, museums, and art galleries | One parking space per each four seats in rooms for public assembly or one parking space for each 50 square feet of gross floor area for use by the public, whichever is greater, plus one space for each two employees on shift of largest employment |
Medical offices or clinics | Five parking spaces per each practitioner; plus one parking space per each two employees, or one parking space per each 200 square feet of gross floor area in the building plus one parking space for each two employees, whichever is greater. |
Mortuaries or funeral homes | One parking space for each four seats in the main chapel or public assembly area based on maximum seating capacity, plus one parking space for each funeral vehicle and employee, or in the case of no fixed seats, one parking space for each 50 square feet of floor area in parlors or service rooms, or one parking space for each four persons, based on designed capacity of building, whichever is greater plus one parking space for each funeral vehicle and employee |
Offices for professional, business and financial, real estate and business purposes other than medical offices and/or clinics | Three parking spaces per 1000 square feet of gross leasable area |
Post offices | One parking space for each 300 square feet of gross floor area, plus one parking space for each two employees on the shift of the largest employment; plus one space for each vehicle operating from the premises |
Private clubs, boarding houses, and lodge halls | One parking space for each guest sleeping room, or one parking space per each four fixed seats in the main assembly area, whichever is greater, plus one parking space for each two employees, or in the case of no fixed seats, one parking space for each two employees. |
Retail and personal service stores | Three parking spaces per 1,000 square feet of gross leasable area |
Schools: Elementary, junior high and equivalent, private or parochial schools | One parking space per teacher and administrator or one space for each four seats in the auditorium, stadium, and other places of assembly or facilities available to the public based on maximum seating capacity, which is greater |
Schools: Senior high, trade and vocational ,colleges and universities, and equivalent private or parochial schools | Six spaces per each room to be used for instruction or administrative offices or one space for each four seats in the auditorium or stadium, and other places of assembly or facilities available to the public, based on maximum seating capacity, whichever is greater |
Shopping centers | Three parking spaces per 1,000 square feet of gross leasable area |
Stadium and sports arenas and other recreational facilities | One parking space for each four seats, based on a maximum seating capacity, plus one space for each two employees on shift of largest employment |
Theaters, auditoriums, churches, and places of assembly with fixed seats | One parking space for each four seats based on maximum seating capacity, plus one additional space for each two employees on shift of largest employment |
Tourist homes, cabins, motels or hotels, excluding areas used for meeting rooms and places of assembly | One parking space for each sleeping room or suite, plus on space per each two employees on shift of largest employment |
Industrial establishments, including manufacturing, research, and testing laboratories | Two parking spaces for each three employees, the total number of parking spaces being the total number of employees on any two consecutive shifts having the largest number of employees, based on design capacity, plus one parking space for each company vehicle operating from the premises |
Wholesale establishments, warehouses, and storage buildings | One parking space for each employee, plus one parking space for each company vehicle operating from the premises |
All other uses not listed herein | Based on study to be prepared by owner or operator; number of spaces to be required determined according to: (1) Type of use and estimated number of total trips generated during peak conditions (inbound and outbound); (2) Estimated parking duration per vehicle trip (turn-over rates); (3) Based on estimated number of trips generated and average parking duration per trip, calculate number of spaces required; (4) Estimated number of employees (one space to be provided for each two employees based on the shift of maximum employment) |
B. In areas served by regularly scheduled public transit during the operating hours of the type of use, the parking ratios may be adjusted as follows:
1. In NCD, CBD, and R-1JJ zones minimum off-street automobile parking ratios residential uses for may be reduced by up to fifty (50) percent as approved in the final site plan from the otherwise applicable standards for new construction or rehabilitation or reuse of existing structures located within six hundred (600) fee of a public transit stop.
2. In NCD and CBD zones minimum off-street automobile parking ratios for non-residential uses may be reduced by up to seventy-five (75%) percent as approved in the final site plan from the otherwise applicable standrds for new construction or rehabilitation or reuse of existing structures located within six hundred (600) fee of a public transit stop. Any reduction in minimum off-street automobile parking ratios in excess of fifty (50%) percent shall be approved only as a conditional use.
(Ord. 2017-6, passed 4-4-17)