a. Purpose. Off-street parking and loading spaces for every use in the Town of Dyer is required in accordance with the standards established in this Section to reduce the visual impact of large residential and nonresidential parking areas, to minimize the adverse effects of off-street parking on adjacent properties, and to ensure the proper design of parking areas in the Town.
(b) General Requirements.
(1) No parking lot may be constructed or reconstructed unless and until a Certificate of Zoning Compliance is issued. Applications for a certificate must be submitted with two (2) copies of plans for the development and construction of the parking lot.
(2) Shared Parking. Shared parking arrangements are strongly encouraged. In the event that two (2) or more businesses select to share parking lots in an effort to meet these parking requirements and reduce impervious surfaces in the community the following standards apply.
a. Each business must provide at least seventy-five percent (75%) of its required parking spaces on its own lot.
b. Upon providing proof of a written agreement to share parking spaces on adjacent parking lots or parking lots within one thousand (1,000') feet of the property of a given building in keeping with Section 10-132(d)(2), each business may be credited with one-half (1/2) of the parking spaces on the adjacent lot to meet its total parking spaces requirement.
(3) Car-Share Facilities. Spaces within parking lots and structures may include designated parking spaces for car-share facilities. Spaces reserved for car-share facilities may count toward minimum parking requirements of this ordinance at the discretion of the Town.
(c) Off-Street Parking Requirements. The following table of parking requirements for various uses applies to all new developments. If a use is not listed on the following table, the Zoning Administrator may apply the closest use that appears on the table. Allocation of said parking areas must be indicated on the plans required for obtaining a Certificate of Zoning Compliance.
(d) Location of Off-Street Parking Spaces.
(1) Required off-street parking spaces accessory to residential dwellings must be on the same lot as the use served.
(2) Off-street parking for other than residential uses must be either on the same lot or within one thousand (1,000') feet of the property on which the building it is intended to serve is located, measured from the nearest point of the property on which the building it is intended to serve is located to the nearest point of the off-street parking lot.
(3) Required off-street parking spaces accessory to nonresidential districts must be within one thousand (1,000') feet of the use served, except for spaces accessory to overnight accommodations, which must be within three hundred (300') feet of the use served.
(4) No parking spaces accessory to a use in a nonresidential district may be in a residential district, unless a special use permit is obtained from the Town.
(5) Where these regulations allow shared parking between uses on different lots, all such off-street parking areas must be no more than five hundred (500') feet from the use they are intended to serve.
(6) One (1) recreational vehicle or utility or haul trailer may be parked in a driveway, provided it is at least five (5) feet from a side, rear, or front lot line, and not less than ten (10') feet from an adjoining residential building.
(7) Except as otherwise provided herein, no commercial vehicle (e.g. truck) which either has a weight in excess of eight thousand (8,000) pounds, including vehicle or maximum load, or which exceeds twenty-one (21') feet in length, eight (8') feet in width or nine (9') feet in height may be parked on either streets or alleys. However, commercial vehicles may be parked for a reasonable period of time necessary to pick up or deliver property, or necessary to install or assemble such delivered property or to prepare such property for loading and removal. Overnight parking of such vehicles is not to be permitted in any setback.
(e) Design Standards.
(1) Each required parking space must cover a rectangle at least nine (9') feet wide and eighteen (18') feet long as measured from the back of curb, as illustrated in Figure 1.
(2) The minimum required eighteen (18') foot length must be greater where a wall or fence is at the end of the parking space. The minimum required length may be up to two (2') feet less if a strip of ground at least two (2') feet wide exists at the end of the space and a curb prevents a vehicle from driving onto the strip or hitting any fence or wall at the edge of the parking area.
(3) Each required parking space must have direct and unrestricted access to an aisle. The minimum width of said aisle is set out in Figure 1.
(4) The vertical clearance of each enclosed off-street parking space must be a minimum of seven (7') feet.
(5) Adequate ingress to the parking lot and adequate access to parking spaces by maneuvering lanes are required. Adequacy of ingress and egress is subject to receive review and approval of the Town Engineer or other officers as designated by the Plan Commission.
(6) All open off-street automobile parking areas and all off-street loading areas, except one (1) and two (2) family residential and mobile home residential areas, either created or redesigned and rebuilt after the adoption of this ordinance must be improved with an eight (8") inch stone base, a two (2") inch paved surface, as a minimum, marked with appropriate stripes and lines to indicate parking stalls and circulation ways.
(7) All open off-street automobile parking and drives being used for one (1) to four (4) family dwellings either created or redesigned and rebuilt after the adoption of this ordinance must be improved with paved concrete, asphalt paving, or paving brick.
(8) Adjacent parking lots must have vehicular and pedestrian connections.
Parking Lot Design Standards
90 DEGREE
DOUBLE PARKING ROW
DOUBLE PARKING ROW
60 DEGREE
DOUBLE PARKING ROW
DOUBLE PARKING ROW
45 DEGREE
DOUBLE PARKING ROW
DOUBLE PARKING ROW
(f) Accessible Parking Spaces. Except for single-family dwellings, the number of spaces required include the following requirements for parking spaces for handicapped persons established by I.C. 5-16-9-2, shown below in Table 1:
Table 1. Accessible Parking Requirements
Accessible Parking Requirements | |
Total Number of Of-Street Parking Spaces Provided | Required Number of Accessible Spaces |
Accessible Parking Requirements | |
Total Number of Of-Street Parking Spaces Provided | Required Number of Accessible Spaces |
1 - 25 | 1 |
26 - 50 | 2 |
51 - 75 | 3 |
76 - 100 | 4 |
101 - 150 | 5 |
151 - 200 | 6 |
201 - 300 | 7 |
301 - 400 | 8 |
401 - 500 | 9 |
501 - 1,000 | 2% of total number |
Over 1,000 | 20 plus 1 for each 100 over 1,000 |
(1) These requirements incorporate any future amendments to or recodification of the referenced statute.
(2) Off-street parking spaces for the handicapped must be designed as follows:
a. All spaces for the handicapped must have access to a curb-ramp or curb-cut when necessary to allow access to the building served, so that users will not be compelled to wheel behind parked vehicles, and be situated the shortest possible distance between the parking area and the entrance to the principal building it serves.
b. The total number of accessible parking spaces may be distributed among parking lots, if greater accessibility is achieved in consideration of such factors as anticipated usage, number and location of entrances and level of parking areas.
c. Each parking space for the handicapped must be at least sixteen (16') feet wide including an eight (8') foot wide access aisle, and adjacent parking spaces may not share a common access aisle. All access aisles must blend to a common level with an accessible route and be diagonally striped.
d. Parallel parking spaces for the handicapped must be either at the beginning or end of a block, or adjacent to alley entrances. Curbs adjacent to such spaces must be of a height that does not interfere with the opening and closing of motor vehicle doors.
e. No accessible parking spaces are required if only attendant or valet parking is provided and is available at all times that the facility is open for public use. If accessible at-grade parking is available, at least one (1) space for self-parking of a vehicle with sensitive specialized control devices is required.
f. Each parking space for the handicapped must be equipped with a sign the requirements of Sign R7-8, U.S. Department of Transportation Standard and I.C. 5-16-9, Signs must be vertically mounted on a post or a wall at the front center of the parking space, no more than five (5') feet horizontally from the front of the parking space, and set a minimum of four (4') feet from finished grade to the bottom of the sign.
(g) Bicycle Parking Standards. All nonresidential uses containing ten (10) or more automobile parking spaces must provide bicycle parking facilities at the rate of three (3) bicycle parking spaces for the first thirty (30) automobile parking spaces provided and one (1) additional bicycle parking space for every ten (10) additional automobile parking spaces provided, up to a maximum of thirty (30) bicycle parking spaces. Bicycle racks must be installed to support the frame of the bicycle and not just the wheel.
(h) Off-Street Loading Requirements.
(1) In any Commercial or Industrial District, sufficient space for the loading or unloading of vehicles must be provided on the lot in connection with any commercial or industrial use so that the public street is at all times free and unobstructed to the passage of vehicular and pedestrian traffic. The space must comply with the following requirements:
(2) Any loading space and any area required for maneuvering a vehicle into and out of the loading space must be entirely on the same lot as the use it serves. The unenclosed loading space may not be located on any public right-of-way or other lot and must be oriented away from the street fronting the lot.
(3) No loading space for vehicles over two (2) tons capacity may be closer than fifty (50') feet to any residential district, unless it is completely enclosed by either building walls or a uniformly painted solid fence or wall not less than six (6') feet high.
(4) No loading space or dock may be located within the required front setback. Completely enclosed loading spaces may face a public street, provided the garage door is kept closed except during loading and unloading operations. Vehicles waiting for loading or unloading may not park or be stored within the required front setback.
(5) Off-street loading spaces are permitted obstructions in rear setbacks, as long as they are not closer than fifty (50') feet from the nearest building or structure.
(6) Unless otherwise provided by these regulations, a required loading space must be at least twelve (12') feet wide by at least twenty-five (25') feet long, exclusive of aisles and maneuvering space, and have a vertical clearance of at least fourteen (14') feet.
(7) Loading spaces must be provided based on the floor area of the establishments they serve, as indicated in Table 2:
Table 2. Loading Requirements
Loading Requirements | |
GFA of Establishment (SF) | Required Number of Loading Spaces |
0 - 10,000 | 1 |
10,001 - 25,000 | 2 |
25,001 - 40,000 | 3 |
40,001 - 100,000 | 4 |
Over 100,000 | 5* |
* Plus one additional space for every 50,000 sq. ft. of floor area over 150,000.
(i) Parking Lot Landscaping.
(1) All open off-street parking in B-1, B-2, B-3 and I zoning districts may have no less than a ten foot (10') landscaped (green space) buffer between parking areas and any public right-of- way and not less than a fifteen foot (15') landscaped (green space) buffer between parking areas and any adjoining residential property. Driveways may not encroach into the required fifteen foot (15') landscaped (green space) buffer.
(Ord. No. 2007-33, 12-27-07; Am. Ord. No. 2021-30, § 1, 11-10-21)