The off-street parking and loading provisions of this chapter shall apply as follows.
(A) For all buildings and structures erected and all uses of land established after the effective date of this chapter, accessory parking and loading facilities shall be provided as required by this chapter. However, where a building permit has been issued prior to the effective date of this chapter and provided that construction is begun within six months of such effective date and diligently prosecuted to completion, parking and loading facilities in the amounts required for the issuance of said building permit may be provided in lieu of any different amounts required by this chapter.
(B) When the intensity of use of any building, structure or premise shall be increased through the addition of dwelling units of measurement specified herein for required parking or loading facilities, parking and loading facilities as required herein shall be provided for such increase in intensity of use. However, no building or structure lawfully erected or use lawfully established prior to the effective date of this chapter shall be required to provide such additional parking or loading facilities unless the aggregate increase in units of measurements exceeds an amount equal to 15% of the number of units of measurement existing upon the effective date of this chapter.
(C) Wherever the existing use of a building or structure shall hereafter be changed to a new use, parking or loading facilities shall be provided as required for such new use. However, if the said building or structure was erected prior to the effective date of this chapter, additional parking or loading facilities are mandatory only in the amount by which the requirements for the new use would exceed those for the existing use had the latter been subject to the parking and loading provisions of this chapter.
(D) In order to prevent undue traffic congestion in areas of extensive business concentration and so promote an orderly and efficient circulation of pedestrians and vehicles, it is necessary and reasonable that off-street parking facilities be provided in such areas only in conformity with an overall, coordinated parking plan. To secure these objectives no accessory off-street parking facilities shall be required for any use in the central business district code area defined as follows:
The land bounded by Jennings, Main and Chestnut Streets and the Penn-Central right-of-way.
(Ord. passed 9-1-2006) Penalty, see § 154.999