(A) Location. Parking spaces required for single-family dwellings, single-family attached dwellings or multiple-family dwellings shall be located on the same lot as the dwelling or dwellings served. Parking spaces required for all other buildings may be located on the same lot or within 500 feet of the lot on which the building is located. All parking spaces, parking areas and garages shall be so located and designed as to provide vehicular access to adjacent streets and alleys with the least interference with through traffic movements.
(B) Parking areas separate from principal building. Only parking areas open to the sky may be used to satisfy the off-street facilities parking requirements when the parking facilities are to be constructed on a separate lot or parcel of land which is removed from the site of the principal building which requires the parking facilities. This provision shall not apply in a business district or other district where a public garage for the storage of private automobiles and vehicles is a permitted use.
(C) Plot plan showing location of parking area. No application for a building permit for a new, enlarged or altered structure or improvement or use shall be approved unless there is included with the plan for the structure or improvement or use a plot plan drawn to scale, showing the required off-street automobile parking facilities in accordance with the conditions specified herein; nor shall a permit be issued for the improvement of a parking area to serve as an accessory use to an existing building or buildings until a plot plan, drawn to scale, has been submitted in accordance with the provisions contained herein.
(D) Location of off-street parking and driveways in yards. Within the maximum number of spaces allowed, off-street parking spaces may be located in rear yards and side yards, subject, in the case of lots in residence districts, to the restrictions stated in § 153.080, but in no case shall they be located in any front yard; provided, however, that driveways serving single-family dwellings and single-family attached dwellings and driveways providing direct access from a garage or parking area to a street or alley (and not serving as a circulation aisle in connection with any parking space) may traverse any required yard. Permanent off-street parking shall not be located in the portion of a driveway that traverses the front yard.
(E) Private garages; driveways located below grade. Except in the B Business District, no building or part of a building shall be constructed or structurally altered to create any private garage or other place for the storage or parking of automobiles if any part of an automobile stored or parked in the space would be below the natural, unaltered adjoining grade of the lot on which the building is situated. Except in the B Business District, no part of any driveway or other impervious surface leading to a private garage shall be constructed so the surface thereof is below the natural, unaltered adjoining grade of the lot on which it is situated, except to the extent that the Administrative Official shall have determined that the topography of the lot requires all or any part of the driveway to be below the natural, unaltered adjoining grade of the lot and the driveway would not present undue risks to public safety or create excessive additional burdens upon village sewer systems for drainage of stormwater.
(Ord. 577, passed 4-14-1969; Ord. 976, passed 4-9-2007; Ord. 1024, passed 8-10-2009)