The owners, operators, persons, corporations and firms, controlling or using parking lots incidental to the operation of retail, commercial or light industrial businesses shall comply with the following provisions:
(a) The driveways and parking space shall be smoothly graded, hard-surfaced with asphalt, asphalt-concrete or concrete and adequately drained. Surface waters shall not be permitted to be discharged over or onto public sidewalks or roadways or adjoining premises. Lighting of such parking lots shall be reflected away from adjacent residences in the area and so arranged as to cause no annoying glare.
(b) Wherever a parking lot or driveway thereto adjoins a residential area, such parking lot and/or driveway shall be effectively screened by a suitable masonry wall or hedges placed at least three feet distant from the adjoining property line and extending to the building setback line. Along the street frontage of every such parking lot there shall be constructed a curb or barrier set at a distance of at least five feet from the street line, not over two feet in height and of such design and construction as to prevent any portion of a vehicle parking in such area from overhanging any portion of the public street.
(c) No bus, trailer, semitrailer, van or truck of more than one-half ton capacity shall be permitted to be parked on such parking lots continuously for a period exceeding twenty-four hours, except in case of emergency; and whenever such emergency occurs the owner or operator or person in charge shall immediately notify the Police Division of such fact. Trucks not exceeding one ton capacity which are regularly used in the business for which such parking lot is an adjunct, are exempted from the provisions of this subsection.
(d) No vehicle of any kind which is damaged or in need of repairs, shall be parked continuously in such lots for a period exceeding forty-eight hours. Whenever the owner, operator or person in charge is unable to remove such vehicles from the parking areas he shall immediately notify the Director of Safety of such fact together with his reasons for his inability to have such vehicle removed. The Safety Director may then extend such period of continuous parking for an additional period of forty-eight hours.
(Ord. 113-1964. Passed 2-22-65.)