A. Intent. Parking supply and demand in West Downtown Dearborn warrants standards that are tailored to the unique character and transportation choices in a downtown urban area. The convenience of multiple forms of alternate transportation, including the ability to traverse the area as a pedestrian, decrease the parking demand for many urban land uses.
B. Parking requirements.
1. The table below establishes the minimum parking requirements for specific uses within West Downtown:
Use | Parking spaces per 1,000 square feet |
Use | Parking spaces per 1,000 square feet |
Office | 3.0 |
Retail | 1.0 |
Restaurant | 9.0 |
Medical | 4.0 |
Community | .5 |
Fraternal Lodges | .5 |
Lodging | 1.0 |
Residential | 1.0 |
2. Parking requirement considerations:
(a) Shared parking: The parking requirement may be satisfied through shared parking with an adjacent owner who has excess parking. All uses must be located within 600 feet of the shared parking with a copy of an executed easement that provides for continued use and maintenance of the parking is filed with the Wayne County Register of Deeds and a copy is submitted to the City. Both the grantor and the grantee of the easement are required to comply with the parking requirements of this section.
(b) Mixed-use: In a mixed-use project, parking may be shared by the different uses therefore reduced as follows:
∙ A mixed-use project composed of residential and retail uses may reduce the total vehicle parking up to 30 percent of the total required parking.
∙ A mixed-use project composed of residential and office or institutional uses may reduce the total vehicle parking up to 40 percent of the total required parking.
∙ A mixed-use project composed of office or institutional uses and retail uses may reduce the total vehicle parking up to 20 percent of the total required parking.
The reduction in parking for mixed-use developments may be below the noted percentage but may not exceed. The Zoning Administrator or his/her designee, shall determine the reduction by taking into consideration the proposed land use, peak parking usage periods, and Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) parking generation rates manual.
(c) On-street parking: Public on-street parking that is located along the developments frontage shall be counted towards the number of spaces required for the commercial component, but not for the residential component, within the development.
(d) Reductions: Through site plan review, the Planning Commission may reduce the parking requirement when the applicant can demonstrate, based on supporting documentation provided by the applicant, the parking need for that particular use is less than required by this Ordinance or valet service to a satellite parking lot will be provided.
C. Parking exemption. The standards described above do not apply within the Public Parking Sector identified in blue in the map below. While no parking is specifically required for residential developments within the Public Parking Sector, new projects are encouraged to supply parking if feasible for their anticipated demand.
D. Parking lot screening.
1. For parking lots along public rights-of-way, the following screening shall be:
(a) Minimum 5-foot landscaped buffer zone
(b) Plantings: 8 Shrubs and 1 tree per 25 linear feet;
(c) Screen wall: Minimum 32" decorative screen wall, located behind the plantings, located 2 feet from rear edge of the buffer zone to protect from vehicle overhang.
(Ord. No. 19-1634, - -2019)