The following table establishes the minimum numbers of parking spaces required for the uses indicated. GFA = “gross floor area.”
Residential Uses | Minimum Number of Spaces |
Residential Uses | Minimum Number of Spaces |
Dwelling, 1-family | 2 per dwelling unit |
Dwelling, 2-family | 2 per dwelling unit |
Dwelling, townhome | 2 per dwelling unit |
Dwelling, multi-family | 1.5 per dwelling unit |
Boarding house or rooming house | 1 per 2 guest rooms, plus 1 for owner/manager |
Assisted living facility | 1 per 3 rooms, plus 2 per 1,000 GFA of offices |
Fraternities, sororities, dorms | 1 per 5 members, 1 per manager |
Office Uses | Minimum Number of Spaces |
Medical clinic | 1 per 200 sq. ft. GFA for buildings less than 5,000 sq. ft. GFA |
Office-business | 1 per 250 sq. ft. GFA |
Retail and Service Uses | Minimum Number of Spaces |
Retail and Service Uses | Minimum Number of Spaces |
Agricultural sales and services | 3 spaces per 1,000 sq. ft. GFA, plus 1 space per 1,000 sq. ft. of outdoor sales area |
Banks and financial institutions | 1 per 250 sq. ft. GFA, plus 3 stacking spaces per service line |
Barber shops, beauty salons, or massage | 2 per chair/bed, plus 1 per employee |
Bed and breakfast | 1 space per sleeping room, plus 2 spaces for permanent residents |
Dry cleaners | 2 spaces per 1,000 sq. ft. GFA, plus 2 stacking spaces per service line |
Funeral parlors | 15 spaces for each area where a funeral or wake may take place, 1 space per employee, plus 1 space per vehicle owned, leased, or rented |
Furniture, appliance, household store | 1 per 1,000 sq. ft. GFA |
Grocery store | 4 per 1,000 sq. ft. GFA |
Hotels and motels | 1 per guest room, plus 1 per 800 sq. ft. GFA of public meeting area |
Kennel | 1 per 400 sq. ft. GFA (no fewer than 4 spaces) |
Laundromat | 1 per 2 washing machines |
Liquor store | 1 per 300 sq. ft. GFA |
Home improvement store/lumber yards | 3 per 1,000 sq. ft. GFA, plus 1 per 3,000 sq. ft. of outdoor sales area |
Motor vehicle sales | 1 per 300 sq. ft. GFA |
Restaurant (no drive-through) | 12 per 1,000 sq. ft. GFA |
Restaurant (with drive-through) | 10 per 1,000 sq. ft. GFA, plus 5 stacking spaces |
Restaurant (with live entertainment) | 13 per 1,000 sq. ft. GFA |
Retail stores | 1 per 250 sq. ft. GFA, plus 3 stacking spaces per service line |
Wholesale establishment | 1 per 500 sq. ft. GFA |
Automotive/Service Uses | Minimum Number of Spaces |
Car wash (manual) | 1 per bay, plus 3 stacking spaces (per bay) |
Carwash (automatic) | 1 per employee, plus 5 stacking spaces per washing bay |
Oil change shop | 3 per service bay, plus 3 stacking spaces per bay |
Repair | 2 per repair bay, 1 per 1,000 sq. ft. GFA dedicated to office and/or retail space, plus 1 per vehicle owned, leased, or rented |
Gas station | 3 per 1,000 sq. ft. GFA dedicated to retail sales |
Religious/Institutional Uses | Minimum Number of Spaces |
Religious/Institutional Uses | Minimum Number of Spaces |
Cemetery | 1 per 250 sq. ft. GFA of office and/or chapel space |
Colleges, universities, professional schools | 1 per employee, plus 1 per 4 students |
Church or synagogue | 1 per 4 seats or 1 per 90 lineal inches seating capacity in main chapel or auditorium based on design capacity |
Elementary school | 1 per faculty member and fulltime employee, plus 1 per 2 classrooms |
High school | 1 per fulltime employee, plus 1 per 7 students |
Hospitals | 1 per 2 beds |
Library | 1 per 500 sq. ft. GFA |
Meeting halls | 1 per 4 seats |
Police or fire station | 1.5 per employee |
Post office | 1 per 250 sq. ft. GFA, plus 1 per 3 employees |
Trade school | 1 per 2 students, plus 1 per 2 employees |
Recreation/Civic Uses | Minimum Number of Spaces |
Recreation/Civic Uses | Minimum Number of Spaces |
Art gallery | 1 per 500 sq. ft. GFA |
Auditoriums | 1 per 4 seats or 1 per 50 sq. ft. GFA where there is no fixed seating |
Ball fields | 20 per playing field |
Bowling alleys | 4 per alley |
Community center | 1 per 250 sq. ft. GFA, plus 1 per employee |
Drive-in theater | 10% of vehicle capacity |
Fitness, recreational gym, or athletic club | 1 per 250 sq. ft. GFA |
Golf course | 3 per hole |
Private club or lodges | 10% of person capacity |
Stadiums, arenas, halls | 25% of person capacity |
Skating rink | 5 per 1,000 sq. ft. GFA |
Swimming pool, public or private | 1.5 per 1,000 sq. ft. of pool surface area |
Theaters (indoor) | 1 per 5 seats |
Industrial Uses | Minimum Number of Spaces |
Light industrial | 1 per 1,000 sq. ft. GFA |
Research and development facility | 1 per 500 sq. ft. GFA |
Self-storage facility | 1 per 250 sq. ft. GFA dedicated to office space, 1 per employee, plus 1 per 50 storage units |
Warehouses | 1 per 2,000 sq. ft. GFA |
Transportation/Utility Uses | Minimum Number of Spaces |
Airports and aircraft landing fields | 1 per 2 employees, plus 1 per 4 seating accommodations for waiting passengers |
Electrical central station, power and steam generating plants | 1 per employee |
Public utilities (water filtration plants, water pumping stations, water reservoir, sewage treatment, land fill, telephone exchanges, electric substations, and similar uses | 1 per employee |
Radio and television stations and towers | 1 per employee |
Transportation terminal | 1 per employee, plus spaces required to satisfy projected peak parking needs |
(Ord. 2015-08, § 13.06, passed 6-23-2015)