A. Scope Of Regulations: The off street parking and loading provisions shall apply as follows:
1. For all buildings and structures erected and all uses of land established after the effective date hereof, off street parking and loading spaces shall be provided as hereinafter required. (Ord. B-39, 1969)
2. All buildings and structures erected and all uses of land established prior to the effective date hereof shall not be required to construct off street parking and loading spaces as required in this chapter. (Ord. D-24, 1-20-2015)
3. Any building or use which is enlarged or increased after the effective date hereof shall conform to the requirements necessary for the increased intensity of use. (Ord. B-39, 1969)
4. The parking requirements may be waived by the Board of Adjustment and Appeals in the form of a variance when public parking lots are located in the vicinity of the use and such lots will fill the general parking requirements. (Ord. D-39, 1-17-2017)
B. Existing Parking And Loading Facilities: Accessory off street parking or loading facilities which are located on the same lot as the building or use served and which were in existence on the effective date hereof or were provided voluntarily after such effective date shall not hereafter be reduced below, or if already less than, shall not be further reduced below, the requirements of the provision for a similar new building or use.
C. Permissive Parking And Loading Facilities: Nothing herein shall be deemed to prevent the voluntary establishment of off street parking or loading facilities to serve any existing use of land or buildings provided that all regulations herein governing the location, design, improvement and operation of such facilities are adhered to.
D. Damage Or Destruction: For any conforming or legally nonconforming building or use which is in existence on the effective date hereof, which subsequent thereto is damaged or destroyed by fire, collapse, explosion or other cause, and which is reconstructed, reestablished or repaired, off street parking or loading facilities need not be provided, except that parking or loading facilities equivalent to any maintained at the time of such damage or destruction shall be restored or continued in operation. However, in no case shall it be necessary to restore or maintain parking or loading facilities in excess of those required by the provision for equivalent new uses or construction.
E. Control Of Off Site Parking Facilities: When required parking facilities are provided on land other than the zoning lot on which the building or use served by such facilities is located, they shall be and remain in the same possession or ownership as the zoning lot occupied by the building or use to which the parking facilities are accessory. No such off site parking facilities shall be authorized by the City Council, and no occupancy permit shall be issued where the plans call for parking facilities other than on the same zoning lot until and unless the Planning and Zoning Commission has reviewed the plans and heard the applicant and made findings that the common ownership or possession of the zoning lot and the site of the parking facilities are reasonably certain to continue and that the off site parking facilities will be maintained at all times during the life of the proposed use or building.
F. Submission Of Plot Plans: Any application for a building permit or for a certificate of occupancy where no building permit is required, shall include therewith a plot plan, drawn to scale and fully dimensioned, showing any parking or loading facilities to be provided in compliance herewith. (Ord. B-39, 1969)