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(a) Main Uses.
(1) Governmental. Municipal, County, State, Federal and other public buildings and uses principally for administrative functions and use by the public.
(2) Civic. Publicly owned art galleries, museums, club and community centers, memorials, cemeteries, libraries and lodge halls.
(3) Educational. Primary and secondary public, private or parochial schools, public or private colleges or universities.
(4) Recreational. Public parks, recreation fields and playgrounds, gymnasiums and auditoriums, stadiums, pools and theaters.
(5) Religious. Churches, synagogues and tabernacles.
(Ord. 93-2. Passed 4-5-93.)
(b) Accessory Uses.
(1) Accessory off-street parking and loading facilities as required by this chapter.
(3) Storage buildings and comfort stations.
(4) Structures and facilities for active or passive recreation.
(5) Residences for custodians, guards, or employees.
(6) Maintenance and heating facilities.
(7) Exterior condensers of central air conditioning systems.
(8) Direct broadcast satellite receiving stations, and other telecommunications structures as set forth in Section 1113.04
(a).
(Ord. 95-67. Passed 10-16-95.)
(a) All main uses permitted in a Civic District shall have the following minimum required yards:
Front - 30 feet
Rear - 50 feet.
(b) A side yard is not required. The Planning and Design Commission may require landscape buffering or landscape screening in accordance with Section 1113.09 and Section 1149.05 along a side or rear lot or parcel line provided that any wall or any fencing whether incorporated as part of a landscape buffer or whether used as a landscape screen along the side lot line of the front yard of an adjacent Residential District or any other zoning district with an existing residence thereon shall not be constructed, erected or installed closer than twenty feet from the right-of-way line. Except as otherwise specifically permitted or as specifically required by the provisions of this chapter, trees, shrubs, yard structures and other landscape features shall not be constructed, erected or installed closer than twenty feet from the right-of-way line. Required front yards shall not be used for parking. Open parking areas in side or rear yards shall not be closer than six feet to an adjoining lot line of a Residential District or any other zoning district with an existing residence thereon.
(Ord. 95-67. Passed 10-16-95.)
(a) The height of any main or accessory building shall not exceed sixty feet in a Civic and Recreational District. Church spires, cupolas, domes, towers and monuments shall not exceed 100 feet above finished grade. In a Civic and Recreational District stacks, water tanks, elevator penthouses, bulkheads, skylights, ventilators, air conditioning and temperature control equipment, other mechanical appurtenances relating to the operation of the main or accessory building itself and penthouse enclosures for mechanical appurtenances erected upon or constituted as an integral part of the main or accessory building itself and not used for human occupancy may be erected to a height not to exceed fifteen feet above the finished roof line of the building.
Wireless, broadcasting, receiving and transmitting towers, radio and television antennae (except as provided in subsection (b) hereof), chimneys, flag poles and other like structures may be erected above the height limits specified herein, subject to the following constraints:
(1) The height from the base of such structure, or the uppermost point at which such structure is attached to a main or accessory building, to the top of such structure shall not be greater than the horizontal distance from the base of such structure to the nearest adjoining property line.
(2) A variance approved by the Board of Zoning and Building Appeals shall be required for any such structure over thirty-five feet in height if detached from the main building, or over fifteen feet in height above the uppermost point of attachment to the main building.
No wireless, broadcasting, receiving and transmitting tower and no radio or television antennae shall be erected in a front yard. Any wireless, broadcasting, receiving and transmitting tower and any radio or television antennae may be erected only in a side yard or in a rear yard in accordance with the provisions of this section.
Wireless, broadcasting, receiving and transmitting towers, radio and television antennae, chimneys, flag poles and other like structures shall be designed and constructed to withstand windloads in accordance with ANSI (American National Standards Institute) A 58.1. Structural calculations and details for the installation shall be furnished to the Division of Building.
(b) A direct broadcast satellite receiving station may be placed on the roof of a main or accessory building provided all of the following conditions are satisfied:
(1) The receiving station is not linked or otherwise connected to receivers which are not located within the same premises as the antenna;
(2) The highest point of the satellite receiving dish shall not exceed three feet greater than the dimension of the dish above the plane upon which it is mounted which shall include the height of any base upon which the dish is mounted;
(3) The satellite receiving dish shall not exceed nine feet in dimension;
(4) The satellite receiving dish shall be constructed and anchored in such a manner as to withstand wind loads in accordance with ANSI (American National Standards Institute) A 58.1. Structural calculations, including calculations certifying to the capability of the roof to support the dish and the base, and details for the installation shall be furnished to the Division of Building;
(5) The satellite receiving dish shall be affixed in a permanent fashion such that it would only be removable for repair or replacement;
(6) The dish shall not be placed closer than twenty feet from any roof edge;
(7) Only one such station shall be permitted at any one time on the same building;
(8) No lettering, numerals, symbols, pictorial signs or designs exceeding one-half inch in any dimension shall be permitted on any surface.
(Ord. 95-67. Passed 10-16-95.)
Required off-street parking facilities, including access driveways, accessory to an existing use, and those required as accessory to a use created or a building constructed or altered hereafter, shall be continued and maintained in operation, and shall not be reduced below the requirements during the period that the main use is maintained. Failure by the owner or owners to supply such off-street parking shall cause the Building Commissioner to revoke the occupancy of a sufficient area in order to bring the facility into conformity with parking requirements.
(a) Whenever the use of an existing building is changed to a use requiring more parking facilities, or whenever an existing building is altered and there is an increase in seating capacity or floor area, appropriate additional parking facilities shall be provided on the same lot or on an adjacent lot under the same ownership. (Ord. 84-93. Passed 6-17-85.)
(b) Permitted main uses may share up to, but not more than, fifty percent (50%) of their off-street parking requirements in an adjoining General Business District A or B including adjoining parking areas which are accessory to permitted General Business “A” or “B” uses which normally have different hours of operation.
(Ord. 95-67. Passed 10-16-95.)
(c) Where there is a sharing of parking facilities as permitted by subsection (b) hereof, there shall be a written agreement covering such indefinite period of time as may be required by the Planning and Design Commission whereby the owner of the land on which the facilities are to be located shall be bound by a long term lease or by a covenant filed and recorded in the Office of the County Recorder requiring such owner, his heirs, successors or assigns to make such parking facilities available to such use.
(Ord. 93-2. Passed 4-5-93.)
(a) "Accessory parking space" means an open or enclosed area (garage) directly accessible from a public street for parking of motor vehicles of owners, patrons, occupants, employees, customers or tenants of the main building or use. Each space shall be directly accessible from a drive or aisle, and shall have a minimum rectangular dimension of not less than nine feet in width and eighteen feet in length for ninety degree parking; nine feet in width and twenty-two feet in length for parallel parking; ten feet in width and eighteen feet in length for sixty degree parking and twelve feet in width and eighteen feet in length for forty-five degree parking, exclusive of all drives, aisles, ramps and other circulation areas, and determined from an accurate plan of the area.
(b) “Employees", wherever the parking requirement is based on employees, means the maximum number of employees on duty on the premises at one time or on any two successive shifts, whichever is the greater.
(c) "Seating capacity" means the number of seating units installed or indicated on plans for places for assembly; where not indicated on plans, it shall be assumed that a seating unit shall occupy six square feet of floor area exclusive of all aisles or areas used for assembly.
(d) Where the computation of required spaces results in a fractional unit, one additional space shall be provided.
(Ord. 93-2. Passed 4-5-93.)
(Ord. 93-2. Passed 4-5-93.)
Nature of Facility | Spaces Required |
(a) Governmental. Municipal, County State, Federal and other public assembly buildings. | 1 per 4 seats of area used for public plus 1 per each 2 employees |
(b) Civic. Art galleries, libraries museums, churches, synagogues and tabernacles, club and community centers. | 1 per 3 seats of seating capacity of area used for assembly plus 1 per each 2 employees |
(c) Educational. Public and private and parochial primary and secondary schools, public, private or parochial colleges or universities. | 1 per 3 seats of seating capacity of area used for assembly plus 1 space per faculty and staff member |
(d) Places of Assembly. Auditoriums, lodge halls, theaters, gymnasiums, pools, stadiums. | 1 per 3 seats of seating capacity of area used for public assembly |
(Ord. 93-2. Passed 4-5-93.)
The location and width of entrance and exit driveways to parking facilities shall be planned to interfere as little as possible with the use of nearby property and with pedestrian and vehicular traffic on adjacent streets. Whenever possible, the center line of the access driveways on the frontage street shall be at least forty feet from the right-of-way lane of the nearest intersecting street and spaces at not less than 120 feet intervals, measured from the center line of the driveways.
Parking areas shall be designated so that vehicles can be driven forward into the street. Those of fifteen spaces or less shall have at least one single-lane driveway with a maximum of two single-lane or one two-lane driveway. Those of sixteen spaces or more shall have at least two single-lane or one two-lane driveway. Each accessway to a parking area of sixteen spaces or more shall be limited to two lanes.
The width of driveways, measured at the setback line, shall conform to the following schedule. At no point where adjoining a public sidewalk shall the maximum widths be exceeded.
Lanes | Minimum (feet) | Maximum (feet) |
1 | 10 | 12 |
2 | 18 | 24 |
The angle of intersection between the driveway and the street shall be between sixty degrees and ninety degrees. The radius at the edge from the apron shall be at least twelve feet, twenty feet recommended, so that a motor vehicle entering or leaving may not obstruct vehicles in other traffic lanes in the driveway or in the curb lane of the street.
(Ord. 84-93. Passed 6-17-85.)
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