Off-street parking and loading requirements and regulations are established in order to achieve, among others, the following purposes:
(a) To relieve congestion so the streets can be utilized more fully for movement of vehicular traffic;
(b) To promote the safety and convenience of pedestrians and shoppers by locating parking areas so as to lessen car movements in the vicinity of intensive pedestrian traffic;
(c) To protect adjoining residential neighborhoods from on-street parking;
(d) To promote the general convenience, welfare and prosperity of business, service, research, production and manufacturing developments which depend upon off-street parking facilities;
(e) To protect neighboring residential properties by requiring landscaping and buffering of adjacent off-street parking and loading areas; and
(f) For such purposes to provide regulations and standards for accessory off-street parking and loading facilities in accordance with the objectives of the Comprehensive Plan of the city.
(Ord. 09-O-5, passed 5-18-2009)