The design standards specified below shall be required for all off-street parking facilities with a capacity of 3 or more vehicles built after the effective date of this Chapter.
1. Parking lot dimensions shall be no less than those listed in the following table:
Angle of Parking | Parking Width** | Stall Depth*** | Aisle Width | |
One-Way | Two-Way | |||
90 | 9' | 19'* | 12' | 24' |
60 | 9' | 20' | 18' | 22' |
45 | 9' | 20' | 15' | 20' |
30 | 9' | 18' | 12' | 20' |
Parallel | 8' | 21' | 12' | 20' |
* Where parking spaces abut landscaped areas, it shall be permissible to reduce this dimension by 2' to allow for vehicle overhang.
** Narrowest dimension across space.
*** Measured from driveway line to most distant point of space.
(Ord. 169)
2. Parking areas shall be designed so that each motor vehicle may proceed to and from the parking space provided for it without requiring the moving of any other motor vehicle.
3. The width of entrance and exit drives shall be:
A. A minimum of 12 feet for one-way use only.
B. A minimum of 20 feet for two-way use.
C. A maximum of 50 feet at the street line.
4. Except as provided in § 27-513(2) in order to service any property held under single and separate ownership, entrance and exit drives crossing the street lot line shall be limited to two along the frontage of any single street and their center lines shall be placed at least 80 feet apart. On all corner properties, they shall be placed a minimum of 60 feet, measured at the curb line, between the center line of any entrance or exit drive and the street line or the street parallel to said access drive.
5. In no case shall parking areas for 3 or more vehicles be designed to require or encourage cars to back into a public street in order to leave a lot.
6. All parking spaces and access drives shall be separated from any property line by a planting strip which shall be at least 10 feet in depth. (Ord. 212, 5/11/88)
7. Except where entrance and exit drives cross street lines, all parking areas for any purpose other than single family residences shall be physically separated from any public street by a concrete curb and by a planting strip which shall be not less than 10 feet in depth. This 10 foot planting strip shall be parallel to the street line and shall be measured from the future right-of-way.
A. Parking areas of more than 30,000 S.F. shall be provided with curbing, planting strips, planters or any combination thereof to delineate main driveways and parking areas.
8. All artificial lighting used to illuminate any parking space or spaces shall be so arranged that no direct rays from such lighting shall fall upon any neighboring property.
9. In all single family attached and apartment areas, the following additional requirements shall apply:
A. Parking areas shall be arranged to prevent through traffic to other parking areas.
B. Parking areas shall be separated from adjacent structures, access roads and traffic arteries, with hedges, dense planting, earth berms, changes in grade or decorative walls. All parking areas shall be a minimum of 20 feet from all structures, access roads and traffic arterials.
(Ord. 45, Z-§ 602(9)(B), 5/12/76; as amended by Ord. 169, 1/9/85; and by Ord. 212, 5/11/88)