(A) Residential and institutional uses. The minimum number of off-street parking spaces by type of use shall be determined in accordance with the Residential and Institutional Parking Space Requirements Table below.
Residential and Institutional Parking Space Requirements | |
Use | Minimum Number of Parking Spaces Per Unit of Measurement |
Residential and Institutional Parking Space Requirements | |
Use | Minimum Number of Parking Spaces Per Unit of Measurement |
Institutional Uses | |
Churches and similar places of worship | One space for each three seats or six feet of pews in the main unit of worship |
Hospitals | Two for each one inpatient bed, plus four spaces per each 1,000 square feet of usable floor area dedicated to administrative offices, pharmacies, medical clinics and similar uses |
Private and parochial elementary and junior high schools | One space for each teacher, employee or administrator |
Private and parochial senior high schools | One space for each teacher, employee or administrator, and one space for each ten students |
Residential Uses | |
Single-family residential uses | Two spaces per dwelling unit |
Two family and multiple family residential uses | Efficiency, studio, and one-bedroom units: 1.1 parking spaces per dwelling unit |
Two-bedroom units: 1.4 parking spaces per dwelling unit | |
Units with more than two bedrooms: 1.8 parking spaces per dwelling unit | |
(1) No person shall park a vehicle, as defined in § 79 of the state’s Vehicle Code (Public Act 300 of 1949, being M.C.L.A. §§ 257.1 to 257.923), in the front yard of any residential lot except on an improved driveway. For purposes of this section, IMPROVED DRIVEWAY shall mean a driveway constructed of concrete, asphalt or a permeable surface approved by the Director of Public Works. No improved driveway shall occupy more than 40% of the front yard.
(2) The following requirements shall apply to all parking areas located within residential zones, except for parking spaces that service one- and two-family dwellings.
(a) Parking areas shall conform to the front yard setback requirements of the residential zone in which it is located; provided, where a setback line has been established by existing residential buildings occupying 50% or more of the frontage within the same block, such established setback shall apply.
(b) Parking areas shall have a minimum side yard greenbelt of ten feet on any side that is adjacent to property in single-family residential districts. All required front and side yards shall be planted and landscaped and properly maintained to screen the adjoining properties. These parking areas shall be enclosed by a fence or wall six feet in height sufficient to screen the parking lot from adjoining residential areas.
(c) Parking areas shall be used solely for the parking of passenger automobiles and other vehicles of less than 7,000 pounds gross vehicle weight. No commercial repair work or services or storage of any kind shall be conducted on such parking lot.
(d) No sign, other than entrance, exit and condition of use signs shall be maintained; all signs shall conform to the provisions of Chapter 81, Signs, of the city code.
(e) Where the parking lot access adjoins a commercial zone, access shall be from the street on which the commercial zoned property has frontage, wherever practical, and shall be at least 20 feet from any adjacent property line in a R-1 District and five feet from any adjacent property in a R-2 District.
(B) Business uses. Except as otherwise modified or exempted in § 5.78, uses in the C-1 Commercial District shall comply with the parking space requirements in the C-1 District Parking Space Requirements Table below.
C-1 District Parking Space Requirements | |
Use | Required Parking Spaces |
C-1 District Parking Space Requirements | |
Use | Required Parking Spaces |
Banks | One space for each 200 square feet of usable floor area, including employee work space |
Beauty parlor or barber shop | Two spaces for each beauty or barber shop chair |
Dry cleaners, laundries and drop-off stations | One space for each 500 square feet of usable floor area |
Furniture and appliance, household equipment, repair shops, showroom of a decorator or similar trade | One space for each 800 square feet of usable floor area. For floor area used in processing, one additional space shall be provided for each two processing employees |
Health and fitness clubs, dance studios or other similar uses | One space for each 200 square feet of usable floor area, plus one space per employee, plus two spaces for each indoor tennis or racquetball court |
Offices for business, professional or service uses, except medical | One space for each 330 square feet of usable floor area |
Offices for doctors, dentists or similar medical professions | One space for each 200 square feet of usable floor area |
Permitted residential uses | One and one-half spaces per dwelling unit |
Personal and business service establishments except as otherwise specified in this table | One space for each 300 square feet of usable floor area |
Restaurants | One space for each 100 square feet of usable floor area |
Retail stores except as otherwise specified in this table | One space for each 300 square feet of usable floor area |
Supermarkets/grocery stores/convenience stores and other retail food sales | One space for each 250 square feet of usable floor area |
(1) Every parcel of land used as a community or private parking area in the C-1 zone shall be developed and maintained in accordance with the following requirements.
(a) Off-street parking areas shall be effectively screened on any side adjoining or facing a residential zone district or institutional use by a solid, uniformly painted fence or wall not less than four nor more than six feet in height, maintained in good condition; provided, where the adjacent owners agree in writing, a screening of hedge or other natural landscaping may be substituted for the required fence or wall. Fences or hedges adjacent to parking spaces shall be protected from vehicles by curbs or wheel stops.
(b) All off-street parking areas and loading areas shall be surfaced and maintained with an approved asphalt, bituminous or Portland cement binder pavement, to provide a durable and dustless surface and shall be graded and drained to dispose of all surface water. Permeable surface materials may satisfy this requirement, if approved by the Director of Public Works.
1. Surface water from any off-street parking or loading area of 1,000 square feet or more must be disposed of through an underground drainage system. The underground system must include such catch basins, manholes, storm sewer connection and other structures necessary to properly dispose of surface water. In the event that a public storm sewer system is not available for connection, then plans for disposal of storm water shall be approved by the Director of City Services. No off-street parking or loading area drainage system may be connected to a sanitary sewer system.
2. Off-street parking and loading areas shall be enclosed by fences, walls or barriers necessary to ensure that motor vehicles may not enter or exit at points other than those expressly provided for that purpose and that motor vehicles using the parking area or loading area may not encroach on adjacent public rights-of-way or private property.
3. Lighting provided for off-street parking or loading areas shall be arranged to reflect away from the adjoining residence buildings or streets.
(2) Application for the approval of construction or paving of parking or loading areas shall be made in accordance with the requirements of Article X, Site Plan Review.
(Ord. effective 11-29-2013; Ord. effective 5-13-2022)