The number of on-site parking spaces required for the establishment of a building or use must be provided and thereafter maintained at the ratios set forth below. For uses not listed, the required number of spaces will be determined by the Director based on most similar listed use or a parking demand study. A parking demand study must include, at a minimum, information specifying the number of employees, customers, visitors, clients, shifts, deliveries, parking spaces, or other criteria established by the Director. The Director may refer any decision regarding uses not listed to the planning commission for review. Unless stated otherwise, parking must be based on net floor area as defined in this code. Accessible parking spaces must be provided and comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), title III and California Code of Regulations (CCR), California Access Code, title 24.
A. Automobile Spaces Required:
Use | Number Of Parking Spaces Required | ||
Use | Number Of Parking Spaces Required | ||
Commercial: | |||
Animal care: | |||
Animal boarding, kennels | 1 space for each 300 square feet of office/retail area, plus 1 space per 1,000 square feet of storage and animal area including outdoor play area | ||
Animal daycare and training (no overnight stay) | 1 space for each 300 square feet of office/retail area, plus 1 space per 1,000 square feet of storage and animal area, including outdoor area | ||
Veterinary hospital | 1 space for each 300 square feet | ||
Fitness centers, gyms, health clubs | 1 space for each 150 square feet | ||
Hotels, motels, auto courts, bed and breakfast inns, motor lodges, and tourist courts | 1 space for each of the first 100 rooms, or sleeping units; 3/4 space for each of the next 100 rooms, or sleeping units; and ½ space for each room above 200 rooms, or sleeping units | ||
Landscape nurseries | 1 space for each 300 square feet of interior floor area, plus 1 space for each 1,000 square feet of exterior storage and display area | ||
Medical/dental offices and clinics | 1 space for each 200 square feet | ||
General offices (including up to 500 square feet of accessory eating establishments) | 1 space for each 300 square feet for the first 25,000 square feet 1 space for each 350 square feet for the second 25,000 square feet 1 space for each 400 square feet for the area in excess of 50,000 square feet | ||
Retail sales | |||
Retail services: | |||
Business and consumer support services | |||
Financial institutions | |||
Personal services | |||
Motion picture/television studio/sound stages (indoor) | 1 space for each 500 square feet for the first 25,000 square feet 1 space for each 1,000 square feet for the area in excess of 25,000 square feet | ||
Eating and drinking establishments: | |||
Cafes: | |||
Which equal 20 percent or less of the gross floor area of a multi-tenant shopping center, office development or the commercial portion of a mixed use development | 1 space for each 300 square feet | ||
Any portion of a café or any cumulative floor area of multiple cafes which exceed 20 percent of a multi-tenant shopping center, office development, or the commercial portion of a mixed use development | 1 space for each 75 square feet, including outdoor areas if outdoor dining area exceeds 200 square feet | ||
Fast food and drive-through restaurants, bars, and cocktail lounges | 1 space for each 75 square foot area, including outdoor dining areas. (Parking for outdoor dining areas is required only for the portion that exceeds 200 square feet or 20 percent of the indoor dining area, whichever is less.) Minimum of 3 spaces regardless of size | ||
Food to go uses | 1 space for each 300 square feet, with a minimum of 3 spaces | ||
Full service restaurants | 1 space for each 75 square feet of dining area, including outdoor dining areas (parking for outdoor dining areas is required only for the portion that exceeds 200 square feet or 20 percent of the indoor dining area, whichever is less), and 1 space for each 250 square feet of nondining areas. Minimum of 3 spaces regardless of size | ||
Group care: | |||
Daycare (adult) | 1 for every 7 adults, plus 1 space for each employee and faculty member | ||
Daycare (children) | 1 space for each 1 classroom, plus 1 space for each employee and faculty member | ||
Emergency shelters | 1 space per employee on duty, with a minimum of 3 employee parking spaces, provided the number of spaces does not exceed the minimum spaces required for similar uses if the same size in the M-1 Zone. | ||
Hospitals | 11/2 spaces for each bed | ||
Senior communities, rest homes, convalescent homes | 1 space for each 2 beds | ||
Industrial uses: | |||
Data centers | 1 space for each 3,500 square feet | ||
Heavy industrial: | |||
Extraction of raw materials and refining | 1 space for each 500 square feet for the first 50,000 square feet 1 space for each 1,000 square feet for the area in excess of 50,000 square feet | ||
Factories | |||
Generating stations | |||
Heavy manufacturing | |||
Light industrial: | |||
High and medium bay labs | 1 space for each 500 square feet for the first 50,000 square feet 1 space for each 1,000 square feet for the area in excess of 50,000 square feet | ||
Light assembly and processing | |||
Light manufacturing | |||
Research and development (includes office with on site testing facilities) | |||
Wholesaling | 1 space for each 300 square feet of office and/or showroom area, plus parking as required for storage/warehouse areas | ||
Ministorage, personal storage | 5 spaces minimum, plus 1 space per 50 storage units or 5,000 square feet | ||
Warehousing and storage related uses: | |||
Freight forwarding | 1 space for each 1,000 square feet for the first 20,000 square feet 1 space for each 2,000 square feet for the second 20,000 square feet 1 space for each 4,000 square feet for the area in excess of 40,000 square feet | ||
General storage | |||
Transfer, trucking yards or terminals | |||
Warehouses and storage buildings | |||
Warehousing and distribution | |||
Public assembly: | |||
Assembly hall: | |||
With fixed seats | 1 space for every 4 seats | ||
Without fixed seats | 1 space for every 35 square feet of floor area used for assembly purposes | ||
Recreational uses: | |||
Batting cages | 2 spaces for each cage | ||
Billiard parlors/pool halls - primary use (more than 2 tables) | 1 space for each 100 square feet | ||
Bowling alleys | 4 spaces for each lane, plus parking for other uses | ||
Residential uses: | |||
Accessory dwelling units | Refer to chapter 4, article E of this title | ||
Caretaker units | 1 space for each unit | ||
Live/work units | 2 spaces for each unit plus 1 space per 350 square feet of commercial/work area | ||
Lodging houses, rooming houses, and guesthouses | 1 space for each guestroom | ||
Multiple-family dwellings | 2 spaces per unit, plus 1 visitor space for every 3 units (3 - 5 units = 1 visitor space, 6 - 8 units = 2 visitor spaces, etc.) | ||
Single-family and two-family dwellings | 2 spaces for each unit and 1 additional space for dwelling units exceeding 3,500 square feet of gross floor area | ||
Schools - educational institutions: | |||
Preschool, elementary through junior high level | 1 space for each 1 classroom, plus 1 space for each employee and faculty member | ||
High school level | 7 spaces per classroom plus auditorium or stadium parking requirements | ||
Adult level, college, business and trade | 1 space for every 50 square feet of gross floor area or 1 space for every 3 fixed seats - whichever is greater; or, as modified by a parking demand study | ||
Vehicle related services1: | |||
Car washes: | |||
Automated, and/or accessory to service/gas station | 2 space minimum, plus queuing space for 3 vehicles ahead of each wash lane | ||
Full service | 10 spaces minimum or 1.5 spaces per 1,000 square feet, whichever is greater, plus 3 space queuing lane ahead of each wash lane | ||
Self-service | 1 space minimum per washing stall | ||
Service stations | 3 spaces minimum or 1 space per 300 square feet of office/retail area, whichever is greater | ||
Vehicle maintenance/repair, accessories installation, and body shops | 2 spaces for each service stall plus 2 spaces for office Additionally, a parking plan must be submitted for automobile service uses that include limited automobile sales. The plan must demonstrate that the area for the display of automobiles for sale will not encroach into required setbacks, parking spaces, driveways, drive aisles, vehicle back up areas, landscaping, and any other required use areas as required by this Code | ||
Note:
1. Repair bays, washing stalls, vacuum stalls, and fuel pump spaces do not count toward required parking.
B. Bicycle Spaces Required:
Use | Number Of Bicycle Spaces Required |
Single-family and two-family dwellings | None |
Multiple-family residential | 10 percent of the required vehicle parking spaces for projects with 6 or more units |
Nonresidential | Five percent of the required vehicle spaces with a minimum of 4 spaces and a maximum of 25 spaces |
The Director may approve adjustments to reduce the requirement for bicycle spaces as provided in Chapters 22 and 23 of this title.
C. Reductions in the Number of Required Parking Spaces:
1. For Single Uses:
a. The Director may approve an adjustment to the required number of parking spaces for any use up to a maximum of 20 percent or 20 parking spaces, whichever is less, based on the submittal of a parking demand study. The Director may refer any such request to the Planning Commission for review.
b. Parking studies submitted in conjunction with requests for reductions must include, at a minimum information specifying the number of employees, customers, visitors, clients, shifts, deliveries, parking spaces, or other criteria established by the Director.
2. For Joint/Shared Uses:
a. The Director may approve an adjustment to reduce the required number of parking spaces in any zone for uses that share parking facilities for a maximum of 20 percent or 20 parking spaces, whichever is less, based on the submittal of a parking demand study. The Director may refer any request for an adjustment from the required number of parking spaces to the Planning Commission for review.
b. Requests for shared and/or joint uses are subject to the following requirements:
(1) A parking study must be submitted by the applicant demonstrating that there will not exist substantial conflict in the peak hours of parking demand for the uses for which joint parking use is proposed;
(2) The number of parking stalls which may be credited against the requirements of the structures or uses involved must not exceed the number of stalls reasonably anticipated to be available during differing hours of operation; and
(3) A written agreement, in a form approved by the City Attorney, must be executed by all parties concerned assuring the continued availability of the number of stalls designed for joint use.
3. Sites with Transportation Systems Management Plans: The number of required parking spaces may be modified subject to approval of a transportation systems management plan submitted pursuant to the procedures and requirements of chapters 16 or 17.
4. Reductions for Disabilities Upgrades: When required solely as needed to upgrade existing parking facilities to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), title III and California Code of Regulations (CCR), California Access Code, title 24, the total number of parking spaces may be reduced at the discretion of the Director of Community Development.
D. Parking In-Lieu Fees: Notwithstanding any provision of this Code to the contrary, the City Council may designate certain areas within the City where, in lieu of providing the number of parking spaces required by this chapter or applicable specific plan, such requirement may be satisfied by paying a parking in-lieu fee in an amount set by City Council resolution. Designated parking in-lieu fee areas and the process for payment of parking in-lieu fees are described in chapter 33 of this title. (Ord. 1444, 8-3-2010; amd. Ord. 1551, 8-15-2017; Ord. 1574, 10-2-2018; Ord. 1620, 11-17-2020; Ord. 1629, 11-16-2021; Ord. 1639, 9-20-2022; Ord. 1648, 6-21-2023; Ord. 1654, 12-19-2023)