Off-street parking and loading facilities including entrances, exits, maneuvering areas, waiting areas, and parking and loading spaces shall be in accordance with the following standards and specifications.
(a) Parking Space Dimensions. Each off-street parking space, open or enclosed, shall be a minimum of nine feet by eighteen feet exclusive of access drives or aisles.
(b) Waiting Space Dimensions. Each off-street waiting space for a drive-thru or drive-in facility shall have an area not less than 160 square feet (measuring eight feet by twenty-two feet) exclusive of access drives and parking aisles.
(c) Circulation Aisles. The minimum width for a circulation aisle shall be:
(1) Twenty-six feet for ninety degree (90º) or perpendicular parking;
(2) Eighteen feet for sixty degree (60º) parking;
(3) Thirteen feet for forty-five degree (45º) parking.
(d) Paving. All parking areas and driveways for multi-family, business or industrial areas shall have a durable impervious surface of four inches of final thickness highway surface grade asphalt (closed pore) over a base of one to three-inch size stone, four inches depth; or six inches of final thickness highway surface grade asphalt, or six-inch thickness of concrete (six sack mix), over a base of compacted earth. Parking areas used exclusively for outdoor storage or vehicles in business or industrial areas, so long as the outdoor storage is otherwise permitted by the Codified Ordinances, may substitute a pervious surface, permeable pavement system, semi-pervious materials, such as permeable pavers, porous asphalt, porous concrete, grass-crete or gravel-crete shall permit natural percolation of water and be installed and maintained in accordance with industry and manufacturer's standards and the following:
(1) The manufacturer's specifications are applicable to the subject property's particular soil type and slope so that vehicles or storage are supported without rutting and to allow water percolation.
(2) Semi-pervious parking areas must allow storm water to percolate into the ground at a rate sufficient to accommodate the five-year, 24-hour storm event.
(3) The City will inspect the semi-pervious parking areas and the owner shall give access to the same as needed. If maintenance is required, the owner shall be required to submit to the City documentation of the removal of visible surface sediment accumulations, and/or test results of infiltration rate through the pervious concrete and sub-grade soils system. Any failure to maintain these surfaces shall be investigated, enforced and prosecuted in accordance with Chapter 1389 of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Eastlake.
(e) Drainage. All required spaces, together with driveways and other circulation aisles, shall have adequate provision for under drainage and for the disposal of storm water, so that water shall not flow onto adjoining property or adjacent sidewalks in a quantity or manner that would be detrimental thereto, or inconvenient to persons using the sidewalk.
(f) Curbs. A curb at least four inches high shall be installed and maintained along the perimeter of a parking or loading area in accordance with the following:
(1) When abutting a landscaped area;
(2) When located in the front yard;
(3) When a commercial or public parking lot is located adjacent to a residential district.
(g) Marking. The location of each parking space and the location and direction of movement along the driveways providing access thereto shall be indicated by painting upon the surface, by raised directional signs, or by markers or other similar measures placed in the surface material.
(i) Lighting. Parking lots or garages that are to be used during darkness shall have a system of floodlighting installed to provide an adequate standard of illumination over the entire parking lot. All floodlights shall be shielded so that a minimum glare will not extend to adjacent property.
(j) Maintenance. A parking lot or garage shall be maintained in a manner to keep it as free as practicable from dust, paper and other loose particles, and snow and ice shall be promptly removed by the operator. All adjacent sidewalks shall be kept free from dirt, ice, sleet and snow and in a safe condition for use by pedestrians. All signs, markers or any other methods used to indicate direction of traffic movement and location of parking spaces shall be maintained in a neat and legible condition.
Any walls, trees and shrubbery, as well as surfacing of the parking lot or garage, shall be maintained in good condition throughout its use for parking purposes. All exposed concrete walls shall be painted or finished.
(Ord. 2014-009. Passed 3-11-14; Ord. 2020-037. Passed 5-26-20.)