(A) Scope of regulations. The off-street parking and loading provisions of this section shall apply as follows:
(1) For all buildings and structures erected and all uses of land established after July 6, 2010, accessory parking and loading facilities shall be provided as required by the regulations of this subchapter. However, where a building permit has been issued prior to the effective date of this chapter, and provided that construction is begun within one year of the effective date, and diligently carried out to completion, only the less restrictive parking and loading standards as required prior to the effective date shall be provided.
(2) When the intensity of use of any building, structure or premises shall be increased through addition of dwelling units, gross floor area, seating capacity or other unit of measurement specified herein for required parking or loading facilities, parking and loading facilities as required herein shall be provided for the increase in intensity of use.
(3) Whenever the existing use of a building or structure is changed to a new use, parking or loading facilities shall be provided as required for the new use.
(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 July 6, 2010 or were provided voluntarily after the effective date, shall not hereafter be reduced below, or if already less than, shall not further be reduced below the requirements of this subchapter for a similar new building or use.
(C) Central Business District parking requirements. For the purpose of allowing the existing mix and density of uses within the B3 Central Business District, additional off-street parking is not required.
(D) Permissive parking and loading facilities. Nothing in this chapter 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 the facilities are adhered to.
(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 the 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 off-site parking facilities shall be authorized, and no occupancy permit shall be issued where the plans call for parking facilities to be located on a lot other than on the same zoning lot as the principal use, until and unless the Planning and Zoning Commission has reviewed the plans, heard the applicant and made findings that the zoning lot and the remote site are in common ownership and that the off-site parking facilities will be maintained at all times during the life of the proposed use or building. Properties in the B3 Central Business District are excluded from this provision.
(Ord. 10-3277, § 2-1.2, passed 1-4-2010; Ord. 15-3505, passed 11-16-2015; Ord. 20-3625, passed 12-21-2020)