A. Plan required: Applications for a building permit for new construction, additions, alterations, or changes in use shall include a site plan at an appropriate scale that clearly shows proposed site improvements relating to parking as required by this section. All plans shall show the location, arrangement and dimensions of off-street parking area(s), parking spaces, parking lanes, aisles/driveways, points of ingress and egress, walls, landscaping and barriers. Sidewalks, pedestrian ways, bicycle facilities and their access shall also be shown. The access or driveway locations, width and spacing as well as sight lines and distances, the arrangement of spaces, stall dimensions, surfacing, striping and lighting shall be in compliance with adopted Town standards.
B. All parking lots located within three hundred (300) feet of an improved Fairfield Town road shall be hard surfaced with asphalt or concrete. The material shall be approved by an engineer licensed by the State of Utah and be capable of handling anticipated size and weight of vehicles including Public Safety vehicles.
C. All parking lots located more than three hundred (300) feet from an improved Fairfield Town road must be improved to the same standards as the rural road.
D. Town Council, with the recommendation of the Planning Commission, may make variances to these standards based on the following circumstances:
1. Public Safety;
2. Traffic;
3. Consistency of surrounding use; and
4. Proposed use.
E. All storm water must be maintained on site. Parking lots and drive approaches may be required to be bordered with a curb and gutter.
F. Parking lots shall be designed to avoid backing onto a public street.
G. Except for approved on street parking, access to any parking space within a parking area shall be from a drive aisle and not directly from a public street.
H. Parking areas with more than one (1) aisle must be so arranged that a car need not enter the street to reach another aisle within the same parking area
I. Depending on circumstances, directional signs may be required to differentiate between entrance and exit access points to the street.
J. Parking lots shall be designed in groupings no larger than two hundred (200) spaces. Larger lots shall be divided by buildings, plazas, or significant landscaped areas oriented for pedestrian use.
K. Within Structures. The off street parking requirements may be furnished by providing spaces designed within the principle building or a parking structure. However, no building permit shall be used to convert said parking structures into a dwelling unit, living area, or other activity until other adequate provisions are made to comply with the required off street parking provisions of this section.
L. Circulation Between Bays. Parking areas shall be designed so that circulation between parking bays occurs within the designated parking lot and does not depend upon a public street or alley. Parking area designs which require backing into a public street are prohibited except one (1), two (2) or three (3) family dwellings.
M. Parking lot design shall consider development on adjacent sites. The Town may require cross access connections/easements to improve traffic circulation and to enhance public safety.
N. Striping. Except for one (1), two (2) and three (3) family dwellings, all parking stalls shall be marked with painted lines not less than four (4) inches wide.
O. Lighting. Parking lots used during hours of darkness shall be illuminated. Any lighting used to illuminate an off street parking area shall be so arranged as to reflect the light down and/or away from adjoining property, abutting residential uses and public right-of-ways and shall be a maximum of twenty five (25) feet in height above the surface of the parking lot for non-residential uses and sixteen (16) feet for residential uses and meet all other regulations of outdoor lightning for Fairfield Town.
P. Protruding Vehicles. All on site parking stalls shall be designed and constructed so that parked vehicles shall not protrude over a property line.