A. Purpose: The intent of off-street parking requirements is to provide convenient and safe access to property, reduce the need for on-street parking and thus congestion on streets, alleviate hazards associated with access to traffic-generating business and industrial uses, provide adequate and safe parking for residents and business customers, protect residential uses from the undesirable effects of abutting traffic, and maintain the traffic carrying capacity of the road system serving the jurisdiction.
B. Design:
1. An off-street parking space shall be at least nine feet (9') in width and eighteen feet (18') long.
2. Off-street parking areas must be accessible from a public street.
3. The access to a commercial or industrial off-street parking area must be at least twenty four feet (24') wide, or twelve feet (12') wide where one-way drives are used.
4. Off-street parking spaces serving residential uses must be located on the same lot as the dwelling, and may not be located in any front yard except in the driveway.
5. Off-street parking areas serving commercial, industrial, public or institutional uses must be located within five hundred feet (500') of the use, and may not be located in required front yards.
6. Off-street parking areas serving multi-family residential developments of more than ten (10) units, commercial, industrial and institutional uses must comply with the following provisions:
a. Grading And Drainage: Off-street parking areas shall be graded and any needed swales, culverts or other drainage facilities installed to remove surface runoff in a manner that does not adversely affect adjacent properties, public streets or surface waters.
b. Surfacing: Off-street parking areas shall be surfaced with gravel or equivalent material. Parking areas containing twenty (20) or more spaces shall be surfaced with asphalt, paving or other hard surface.
c. Screening: Where an off-street parking area abuts a residential use or zoning district, the parking area shall be effectively screened at the property line(s) by an acceptably designed sight-obscuring wall, fence or planting screen.
d. Lighting: No lighting used to illuminate a parking area shall face, or have its light source directly visible from any residential use or residential zoning district.
C. Number Of Spaces: The following number of off-street parking spaces are required:
1. Residential: | ||
Single-family and mobile home | 2 per dwelling unit. | |
Multiple-family | 11/2 per dwelling unit. | |
Boarding houses, rooming houses | 1 per room for rent. | |
2. Commercial: | ||
Auto repair, body shops | 2 per service bay. | |
Banks, financial institutions | 2 per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area. | |
Bowling alleys | 4 per lane. | |
Drive-in restaurants | 1 per 50 feet of floor area or a minimum of 10, whichever is greater. | |
Funeral homes, mortuaries | 1 per 4 seats. | |
Hotels, motels | 1 per rental unit. | |
Medical, dental clinics | 4 per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area. | |
Offices; business, professional, governmental | 2 per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area. | |
Restaurants, taverns | 1 per 4 seats of customer seating. | |
Service station | 1 per 2 gasoline pumps and 2 per service bay. | |
Theater | 1 per 4 seats. | |
All retail establishments not otherwise classified | 4 per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area. | |
All other commercial uses | 2 per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area. | |
3. Institutions: | ||
Churches | 1 per 4 seats. | |
Community centers | 4 per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area. | |
Hospitals and nursing homes | 1 per 2 beds. | |
Libraries, museums | 2 per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area. | |
Schools, elementary | 1 per classroom, plus 1 per 8 seats in auditorium. | |
Schools, secondary | 1 per 4 students plus 1 per classroom. | |
Other institutions | 2 per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area. | |
4. Industrial: | ||
Motor freight companies | 1 per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area. | |
Production and manufacturing | 2 per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area. | |
Warehousing | 1 per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area. | |
D. Joint Use Of Off-Street Parking Facilities: The applicant for a proposed use may apply to the zoning commission to use the off- street parking facility of another use. The zoning commission may approve an application for joint use, provided:
1. The parking facility is within five hundred feet (500') of the proposed use.
2. There will be no substantial conflict between the principal operating hours of the uses for which joint use of parking facilities is proposed, and no conflicting demands for parking by employees, customers or clients.
3. Where necessary, the applicant shall present an appropriate and enforceable lease or agreement, executed by the parties for the joint use. The term of the lease or agreement shall be for the duration of time that each use exists at the said location. (Ord. 2000-03, 9-13-2000)