Off-street parking and loading regulations in the CL zone are as follows:
(A) General.
(1) Vehicular off-street parking and loading facilities shall be provided on the same building site and immediately adjacent to the use or structure served, except as otherwise provided herein.
(2) In the event of conflict, the provisions of this chapter shall prevail over other provisions of this title.
(B) Standard facilities.
(1) Off-street parking and loading facilities shall be as set forth in Chapter 17.052 of this title.
(2) For any structure or use for which no specific requirements are set forth in this title under Chapter 17.052, the following facilities shall be provided:
(a) One parking space for each 200 square feet, or fraction thereof, of gross floor area occupied by, used for, or devoted to the entirety of the principal use to be served, including accessory uses; and
(b) One large off-street loading space for each 20,000 square feet or fraction thereof.
(C) Exceptions.
(1) For permitted principal uses. Upon approval of a variance therefor, the above standard facilities may be reduced, but only to the degree necessitated, warranted and required by the relevant and consequential facts of each case, when the reduction does not adversely affect the development or use of adjacent properties or public ways, and under the following conditions, circumstances or cases:
(a) Conditions of non-conformity which produce and cause exceptional or extreme hardship or excessive physical difficulty in providing the standard facilities;
(b) Physical conditions, including, but not limited to access, topography and shape, beyond immediate and reasonable remedy by the town, applicant or owner, separately or collectively, which restrict or limit the physical development or use of a building site;
(c) Strict compliance is in conflict with design review findings, criteria or recommendations which are found to be more essential to the common good or to the protection of adjoining properties and uses, public or private;
(d) Facilities and uses owned, operated or conducted by a governmental, public utility or similar public or semipublic entity or agency;
(e) Facilities or uses determined to be singular, unique, transient or intermittent; and
(f) A facility or use which is allowed by other provisions of this title to provide less parking facilities.
(2) For conditional uses. The requirements of division (B) above may be varied by the terms, provisions or conditions of the use permit approving a conditional use in accordance with the facts, findings and determinations governing the approval of the use permit as set forth in Chapter 17.032 and in conformity with design review requirements of Chapter 17.020 of this title.
(Prior Code, § 17.48.110) (Ord. 352, passed - -1973; Am. Ord. 522, passed - -1984; Am. Ord. 703, passed 3-2-2004)