5-4-56-7   Off-Street Parking.
      (A)   Off-Street Parking Required. Permanent off-street parking spaces shall be provided at the time of the erection, enlargement, change in use, or increase in capacity of any building. The number of spaces required shall conform to the standards of this section. Each application for a building permit, zoning permit, or certificate of occupancy shall include a plan showing the space reserved for off-street parking and the means of ingress to and egress from such space. This information shall be in a format sufficient for the Code Enforcement Director to determine if the requirements of this section are met.
      (B) Travel or Camping Trailers. 
         (1)   Not more than one (1) travel or camping trailer for each family living on the premises shall be permitted on a lot in the R-7 Residential District.
         (2)   Travel or camping trailers are allowed to be parked or stored only in the rear yard and side yard on a lot in the R-7 Residential District.
         (3)   No travel or camping trailers shall be permitted to be parked within the front yard on a lot in the R-7 Residential District.
         (4)   Travel or camping trailers shall not be occupied temporarily or permanently while parked or stored in the R-7 Residential District.
      (C)   Commercial Vehicles.
         (1)   No commercial tractor trailers, farm vehicles, tankers or commercial buses (excluding church buses, school buses or Pee Dee Regional Transportation Authority buses) shall be permitted to be parked or stored in the R-7 Medium Density Residential District.
         (2)   Commercial tractors are allowed to be parked in the R-7 Residential District only at the principal residence of the driver and shall meet all minimum setback requirements in accordance with § 5-4-56-8.
         (3)   Parking of commercial tractors shall be limited to one (1) vehicle per principal residence of the driver. Idling of the engine of commercial tractors parked on residential premises shall not exceed five (5) minutes.
         (4)   It shall be prohibited for anyone to perform preventive maintenance on commercial tractors when parked on residential premises. (Exception: Minor emergency repairs such as battery replacement.)
(Am. Ord. 00-17, passed 7-10-2000; Am. Ord. 08-26, passed 11-10-2008)
      (D)   Accessibility. Parking areas shall meet the requirements of the South Carolina Board for Barrier-Free Design for accessibility to disabled persons in relation to parking spaces and sizes.
      (E)   Size of Parking Space. The parking space for each vehicle shall consist of a rectangular area having dimensions of not less than nine (9) feet wide by nineteen (19) feet long. In parking lots of more than ten (10) spaces, not more than twenty percent (20%) of the spaces may be designated for compact vehicles and may have dimensions of eight (8) feet wide by sixteen (16) feet long. Aisles for ingress and egress to parking spaces shall be at least twenty (20) feet in width for head-in lot arrangements and fifteen (15) feet in width for angled lot arrangements.
      (F)   Minimum Off-Street Parking Requirements. These standards are minimum; a developer should provide the number of spaces necessary to adequately accommodate parking for the planned use.
Bed and breakfast inn
Two (2) spaces for the owners, plus one (1) space for each room for rent
Boarding house
One (1) space for each room for rent
Church or place of worship
One (1) space for each four (4) seats in the sanctuary or assembly room
Day care facility
One (1) space for each adult attendant
Dwelling, single-family and two-family
Two (2) spaces for each dwelling unit
Dwelling, multi-family
One and one-half (1-1/2) spaces for each dwelling unit
Elementary school
One (1) space for each vehicle owned or operated by or for the school, plus two (2) spaces for each classroom and office
Group home
One (1) space for each resident advisor, plus one (1) space for each agency vehicle used to transport clients
Home occupation
One (1) space for each one hundred (100) square feet of space devoted to the home occupation, plus the normal residential requirement
Junior high or middle school
One (1) space for each vehicle owned or operated by or for the school, plus two (2) spaces for each classroom and office
Nursing, retirement home
One (1) space for each five (5) beds or rooms intended for patient use
Public or private club
One (1) space for each two hundred (200) square feet of gross floor space
Public utility building
One (1) space for each two hundred (200) square feet of floor area available to the public, plus one (1) space for each employee
Senior high school
One (1) space for each four (4) students, plus one (1) space for each faculty member and employee plus one (1) space for each vehicle owned and operated by or for the school, or one (1) space for each four (4) seats in the auditorium, whichever is larger
Stadium
One (1) space for each four (4) spectator seats
 
   (G)   Dump trucks.
      (1)   It shall be unlawful for the owner or operator of any dump truck to allow such vehicle to be stored or parked within the (R-7) Medium Density Residential District inside the corporate city limits of Dillon.
      (2)   "Dump Truck" means a commercial heavy-duty vehicle with a dump body and hydraulic system to include an open bed that is designed to transport sand, gravel, dirt, asphalt, demolition debris and similar loose materials to or from a work site and dump the load with an affixed powered hoist system.
      (3)   However, this section shall not apply to infrequent, short-term parking for conveying materials to premises where labor using materials is being performed, all only during the time such parking is actually necessary, is hereby accepted from this section.
(Am. Ord. 07-18, passed 9-10-2007; Am. Ord. 13-07, passed 10-14-2013; Am. Ord. 24-12, passed 8-12-2024)