1141.17 PARKING PERMITS; PROCEDURE AND FEE.

   (a)   Permit Required. No person shall charge or collect any fee for the parking of automobiles or other vehicles within the City unless a permit has first been obtained, as hereinafter provided.

   (b)   Conditions and Limitations. No parking fee permit shall be issued, except under the following conditions:

      (1)   All lands on which automobiles are to be parked shall be located in one or more the following use districts:

            • Automobile Parking District.

            • Office Building District.

            • Local Business District.

            • General Business District.

      (2)   Charges may be made for parking facilities required to be furnished as accessory parking under any provisions of this Zoning Code, only if the establishment providing such accessory parking is of such a character that all its patrons arrive and leave at approximately the same time or times. No fees shall be charged or collected for the use of the accessory parking facilities of an establishment which experiences a continuous flow of traffic during its hours of operation.

      (3)   The permit applicant shall provide a minimum of 200 parking spaces.

   (c)   Permit Procedure. Applications for parking fee permits together with the parking permit fee as established in subsection (d) hereof shall be made in writing to the Planning and Zoning Commission, and shall contain:

      (1)   A scale drawing showing all lands to be included in the proposed parking facility, the location of all parking spaces to be located thereon, all adjacent streets, all contiguous properties and the owners thereof, and all buildings or structures located on such contiguous properties;

      (2)   An affidavit of the applicant stating the number of spaces available to be used for vehicle parking.

The Commission shall consider parking fee permit applications at a regular meeting and shall issue the permit if it finds that the application conforms to the conditions and limitations set forth in subsection (b) hereof, and if the Commission further finds that the operation of the proposed parking facility shall not have a materially detrimental effect upon neighboring properties and shall not create hazardous traffic conditions. The Commission may impose upon issuance of parking fee permits reasonable conditions to prevent detrimental effects upon neighboring properties, including without limitation, installation of special screening or landscaping and limits upon the times of the day or week when parking operations may be conducted, and may further impose such reasonable conditions as it deems necessary to prevent or minimize hazardous traffic conditions, including without limitation a requirement that the applicant furnish at his own cost and expense police or traffic control officers to supervise ingress and egress from all driveways, auxiliary driveways and from the parking facilities, the number and location of such officers to be determined by the Police Department. If the parking permit is approved by the Commission, the parking permit fee submitted by the applicant shall be forwarded to the Director of Finance together with a copy of the parking permit. Parking fee permits shall expire one year from the date of their issuance by the Commission, and unless changes in the number of parking spaces or the layout of the parking facility have been made, shall be automatically renewable from year to year upon payment of the annual parking permit fee, except under the following conditions:

The Commission shall review such parking permit application every three years starting in calendar year 1991. The Secretary of the Commission shall contact each parking permit holder not later than October 1st of the year in which the review is due. The parking permit holder shall submit to the Commission on or before November 1st of that same year all of the documents required in subsections (c)(1) and (2) hereof together with the parking permit fee as established in subsection (d) hereof. The review shall be completed on or before December 31st of that same year and shall follow the same procedure as established for the application of the original parking permit as set forth hereinabove. The Commission shall notify, in writing, at least seven days prior to such review, the Mayor and all members of Council as to the date, time and location of such meeting.

When parking variances have been granted to the applicant, the Commission shall review such parking permit every year commencing in calendar year 1991.

   (d)   Parking Permit Fee. The holder of a parking fee permit shall pay to the City an annual parking permit fee equal to the sum of two dollars ($2.00) for each parking space available for vehicle parking with a minimum amount of five hundred dollars ($500.00) and a maximum amount of seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750.00.)

   (e)   Improvements and Maintenance. All lands subject to a parking fee permit shall be improved and maintained as required in Section 1141.10 through 1141.13.

   (f)   Penalty. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be subject to citation and a fine in the amount of five hundred dollars ($500.00). Each day such offense continues shall be a separate offense. (Ord. 43-1996. Passed 2-11-97.)