Nonresidential uses within the business, limited business districts and transitional districts may improve city right of way and may be credited with the parking spaces created by that improvement.
A. Location: Improvements shall be located within areas that meet the most number of the following criteria used to determine the funding priority of city projects:
1. Located within one-fourth (1/4) or one-half (1/2) mile of a school;
2. Provides continuous connection;
3. Decreases a hazardous condition in need of repair;
4. Located within or adjacent to designated bicycle and pedestrian corridors;
5. Located within or adjacent to designated collectors;
6. Provides neighborhood interconnection;
7. Located within one-fourth (1/4) or one-half (1/2) mile of downtown or neighborhood services;
8. Located within downtown.
B. Requirements For Credit: Parking credited shall be subject to the following requirements:
1. Improvements for parking spaces to be credited to a property will be constructed in accordance with city standards and approved engineered drawings for the right of way. Sufficient space, exclusive of travel lanes, for the planned parking within the right of way must exist. These improvements may include concrete curb, gutter and sidewalk, asphalt paving, storm drainage, street trees, including irrigation, ornamental lamps, benches, trash receptacles or other street furniture, parking striping or any other improvement considered necessary or appropriate to the district and surrounding uses by the administrator or the commission.
2. No parking area within any city right of way shall be held or used for exclusive parking for any property owner. The right of way shall be open to use by the public. Upon approval by the council, the right of way improved may be posted for short term parking only.
3. Credit shall also be given for those improvements installed as a portion of a local improvement district (LID) which assessed the subject property.
4. The owner or owner's successors shall be credited the total number of spaces credited by an LID or other improvements to the city right of way allowed in this section. (Ord. 1191, 2015)