A. Required parking:
1. A use other than those specified in Table 15.40.050.A shall meet the parking requirements as specified elsewhere in this title.
Table 15.40.050.A Parking Requirements for Uses in the Industrial Zone Classifications | |
Type of Activity | Parking Requirement (spaces/gross square feet) |
General manufacturing | 1 per 800 |
Warehousing, wholesaling, and storage | 1 per 2,000 |
Administrative and business office, retail or service areas | 1 per 250 |
Trade schools, including but not limited to, vocational training, real estate, art and professional schools | Subject to approval of a Minor Site Plan pursuant to Chapter 15.47. |
Research and development, including, but not limited to: contractors offices, industrial development planning services, industrial management services, management engineering, systems engineering and systems research and development | Uses shall be broken into component parts (office, manufacturing, etc.) and shall meet the cumulative parking requirements of all parts |
Restaurant with up to 200 seats (non-drive-through) within the Restaurant Overlay District pursuant to Chapter 15.67 | May be eligible for a parking exemption pursuant to 15.67.030 |
Self-service storage facility | At least six spaces, accessible at all times as “visitor” parking |
2. In any industrial zone classification every building hereinafter erected, reconstructed, or structurally altered shall be provided with permanently maintained, on-site automobile parking as required by this chapter. Such parking facilities shall be made permanently available and maintained for said parking purposes.
3.
Handicapped parking shall be provided in accordance with Title 24 of the California Building Code and shall count towards the provision of required parking.
B. Stall size:
1. Standard parking spaces shall have a minimum length of 19 feet and a width of 8.5 feet.
2. Compact parking spaces are permitted for employees only. This type of space shall be limited to a maximum of 30 percent of the required parking spaces for the industrial use, with a size no smaller than 16 feet in length, by 8 feet in width. Compact spaces shall be clearly marked as "Compact - Employees Only" or similar wording.
3. Any parking space adjacent to a wall, whether standard or compact, shall have a minimum width of 9 feet.
4. At least 20 percent of the required parking shall be provided and clearly marked as "visitor" parking, with a no space smaller than 19 feet in length by 9 feet in width.
C. Location of parking:
1. All required on-site parking spaces shall be located on the same lot or building site, except that such required spaces may be permitted at other locations when and as authorized by a Conditional Use Permit.
2. Parking shall not be located within any setback area.
3. Required parking spaces may overhang two feet over landscaped areas and walkways, other than street rights-of-way, provided the total depth of any such landscaped area or walkway is at least six feet.
4.
All required parking spaces shall have separate access to a public street or alley.
5. Where it can be shown that the parking required under this section will substantially exceed the actual peak parking demand, such excess parking may be provided as permanent groundcover landscaping, subject to the approval of a Conditional Use Permit.
6. Mechanical and automated parking devices may be used in any industrial zone classification, provided they are not visible from the street or from adjacent properties, subject to the approval of a Site Plan application pursuant to Section 15.47.025 of this Title.
D. Mixed-use occupancies and joint use of parking:
1. The total on-street parking spaces required on any property when more than one class of use is proposed for either the same property or within the same occupancy, shall be equal to the sum of the spaces required for each of such separate classes of use.
2. A Minor Exception may be granted to reduce the required parking for mixed- use occupancies (i.e., a joint use of parking), based upon the submission of a Shared Parking Analysis as defined in Chapter 15.04 and enforceable documents guaranteeing that the uses will be operating during mutually exclusive hours, and upon such other circumstances or criteria as the Zoning Administrator or Planning Commission, on appeal, may require.
E. Carpool/vanpool parking:
1. A minimum of ten percent of employee parking spaces (as determined in accordance with Subsection 15.40.050.C.2 of this chapter) shall be reserved (through signage or other means) for the exclusive use of carpools and vanpools. The spaces shall be located as close as practical to the entrance(s) of the use they are intended to serve.
2. The total number of employee parking spaces shall be either 90 percent of the total required parking spaces for the use, or may be provided by the applicant, subject to the approval of the Director of Development Services.
3. For those developments that must comply with Section 15.40.070 of this chapter, there may be a reduction in the number of required vanpool/ carpool parking spaces to a maximum of 30 percent of what would otherwise be required under Subsection 15.40.050.C.2 of this chapter, subject to the approval of a Conditional Use Permit.
(Ord. 3254 § 7, 2018; Ord. 3232 (part), 2016; Ord. 3131 (part), 2009; Ord. 3066, (part), 2005: Ord. 3022, 2002: Ord. 2982, 2001).