In B-3 Districts, off-street parking shall be provided for all permitted principal uses as follows.
(A) (1) Off-street parking spaces for permitted principal uses shall be provided in quantities not less than as set forth in the following schedule:
Principal Use | Required Spaces |
Principal Use | Required Spaces |
Bowling alleys | 5 for each alley |
Church or other place of worship | 1 for each 5 seats in the main auditorium or assembly room |
Eating and drinking places | 1 for each 50 square feet of gross floor area plus |
Fraternal organizations, private clubs | 1 for each 5 seats in the main auditorium of assembly room; if eating and drinking are provided on site, then the requirement set forth above for such establishments would be applicable |
Furniture, floor coverings and wall coverings sales | 2 plus 1 for each 1,500 square feet of gross floor area over 1,000 square feet |
General retail sales (except furniture, floor covering, and wall coverings sales) | 1 for each 250 square feet of gross floor area plus 1 for each 2 employees |
Hotels and motels | 5 plus 1 for each guest room |
Indoor racquet sports facilities | 3 for each court |
Mortuaries | 1 for 100 square feet of floor area in slumber rooms, parlors or individual funeral service rooms |
Motor vehicle and recreational equipment sales | 1 for each 1,500 square feet of sales and display area |
Nursery stock, garden supplies and equipment and memorial and monument sales | 1 for each 1,500 square feet of sales and display area |
Other amusement or recreational services | 1 for each 300 square feet of gross floor area |
Personal services, custom work shop, laundry and laundromats, repair services | 1 for each 300 square feet of gross floor area |
Rental supplies, tools, appliances, furniture and party supplies | 1 for each 400 square feet of gross floor area |
Repair shops for motor vehicles and recreational equipment | 1 for each 500 square feet of gross floor area |
Skating rinks | 1 for each 250 square feet of gross floor area |
Theaters | 1 for each 5 seats |
Wholesale offices and showrooms | 1 for each 700 square feet of gross floor area |
(2) A building occupied by one use shall provide off-street parking spaces as required for that specific use.
(3) A building or a group of buildings occupied by two or more uses shall provide spaces for not less than the sum of the spaces required for each use.
(4) References to employees refer to the number of employees on duty during normal peak periods of business activity.
(B) Each permitted use shall be permitted one two-way access driveway or two one-way access driveways for each 75 feet of street and alley frontage of the lot occupied by that use. Such access driveways shall be at least ten feet, but not more than 18 feet, in width for each direction, and shall not be located less than 15 feet from the right-of-way line of an alley which intersects the same street or alley as the proposed access driveways, or less than 25 feet from the right-of-way line of a street which intersects the same street or alley as the proposed access driveways. No access driveway shall be located less than 15 feet from any other access driveway which intersects the same street or alley as the proposed access driveway.
(C) Off-street parking areas shall be so designed that all required parking spaces are accessible and that no parking or maneuvering incidental to parking shall be on any street, alley or sidewalk.
(D) Adequate area shall be provided on each lot for the accumulation of snow which is removed from the off-street parking areas located on that lot.
(E) If a lot is already built upon, the required off-street parking spaces for any new use built upon the same lot shall be provided only within the area remaining after all applicable yard, lot coverage, lot area and off-street parking requirements have been applied to the existing use and provided that this lot has not been designated for parking provided under division (G) below or otherwise restricted.
(F) The minimum setback for a parking garage or carport which faces a dedicated street, alley, lane or drive shall be 20 feet.
(G) All required off-street parking spaces shall be provided on the same lot as the use served, or on a contiguous lot under legal control by the same party operating the permitted use.
(Ord. 2052, passed 9-3-1998)