Off-street parking facilities for motor vehicles shall be provided in accordance with additional regulations set forth hereinafter.
(A) Use. Accessory off-street parking facilities required as accessory to uses listed herein shall be solely for the parking of passenger vehicles of patrons, occupants or employees.
(B) Exemption. When the application of the off- street parking regulations specified hereinafter results in a requirement of not more than three spaces on a single lot in any Commercial Zoning District, such parking spaces need not be provided. However, where two or more uses are located on a single lot, only one of these uses shall be eligible for the above exemption. This exemption shall not apply to dwelling units.
(C) Collective provisions. Off-street parking facilities for separate uses may be provided collectively if the total number of spaces so provided is not less than the sum of the separate requirements for each such use, and provided that all regulations governing location of accessory parking spaces, in relation to the use served, are adhered to. Further, no parking spaces or portion thereof shall require space for more than one use, unless otherwise authorized by the Board of Appeals.
(D) Area. A required off-street parking space shall be a minimum of nine feet in width and 18 feet in length, exclusive of access drives or aisles, ramps, columns or office work areas. Enclosed parking spaces shall have a vertical clearance of at least seven feet.
(E) Access. Each required off-street parking space shall open directly upon an aisle or driveway of such width and design as to provide safe and efficient means of vehicular access to such parking space. All off-street parking facilities shall be designed with appropriate means of vehicular access to a street or alley in a manner which will least interfere with traffic movement. No driveway across public property at the right-of-way line shall exceed a width of 25 feet. The width may be increased to 35 feet to accommodate truck traffic.
(F) In yards. Off-street parking spaces, open to the sky, may be located in any yard, except a front yard and a side yard adjoining a street. Enclosed buildings and carports containing off-street parking spaces shall be subject to applicable yard requirements.
(G) Design and maintenance.
(1) Accessory parking spaces. Accessory parking spaces may be open to the sky or enclosed in a building.
(2) Surfacing. All open off-street parking spaces and access drives shall be surfaced with smooth and durable surface material so that they will remain free from dust or litter particles and be adequately drained so that they will not retain water, except all open off-street parking areas containing more than four parking spaces and access drives shall be improved with:
(a) Six inches of compacted base materials; 1 inches of binder material; and one inch of wearing surface;
(b) Eight inches of compacted base material; and two inches of wearing surface (hot mix);
(3) Screening, landscaping and barriers. All open off-street parking areas, containing more than four parking spaces, located less than 40 feet from the nearest property line of a lot in a Residential Zoning District shall be effectively screened on each side adjoining or fronting on such property line by a wall, sound mound, ridge, fence or densely planted compact hedge, not less than five feet nor more than eight feet in height. The screening, landscaping and barriers shall be adequately maintained for aesthetic reasons. There shall be installed a substantial barrier on or adjacent to the lot line along all open off-street parking spaces and such barrier shall be so located that no portion of any vehicle parked on the lot shall extend over the lot line.
(4) Lighting. Any lighting used to illuminate off-street parking areas shall be directed away from residential properties in such a way as not to create a nuisance, and in a parking area containing four or more parking spaces, such lighting shall be extinguished hour after the close of business, except as may otherwise be permitted or required by the Zoning Board of Appeals for maintaining illumination after the time specified above.
(5) Repair and service. No motor vehicle repair work or service of any kind shall be permitted in conjunction with any parking facilities. No gasoline or motor oil shall be sold in conjunction with any accessory parking facilities.
(6) Sidewalks. All sidewalks surrounding off-street parking spaces shall be kept free from dirt, ice, sleet and snow and maintained in a safe condition for pedestrian travel.
(H) Handicapped parking. Handicapped parking spaces will equal or exceed the area standards set forth previously with the addition of a five foot service aisle as part of the parking space. The location and any other requirements will meet any state or federal regulations. The following number of handicapped parking spaces per parking lot are recommended:
Lot Spaces Handicapped Spaces (Minimum)
100 or more Subject to review
(I) Required spaces. The minimum number of off-street parking spaces accessory to designated uses shall be provided as follows:
Designated use | Minimum number of off-street parking spaces |
Designated use | Minimum number of off-street parking spaces |
Dwelling and lodging uses | |
Boarding or rooming houses | Two parking spaces per building, plus one parking space for each three lodging rooms. |
Hotels, motels, tourist homes or the like | One parking space for each lodging room, plus spaces as required for any restaurant that is included. |
Multiple-family dwellings | Two parking spaces for each dwelling unit. |
Single-family dwellings | Two parking spaces for each dwelling, but not more than four parking spaces for each single family dwelling. |
Two-family dwellings | Two parking spaces per dwelling unit, but not more than four for each dwelling unit. |
School, institution, auditorium or other places of assembly uses | |
Arenas, stadiums and grandstands and the like | One parking space for each six seats or for each 108 inches of seating space. |
Churches | One parking space for each six seats or for each 108 inches of seating space used for the principal church service. |
Convalescent homes, nursing homes, rest homes, institutions for the care of the aged and for children | One parking space for each three beds, plus one parking space for each two employees and each doctor assigned to the staff. |
Hospitals | One parking space for each two hospital beds, plus one parking space for each two employees, plus one parking space for each doctor assigned to the staff. |
Libraries and museums | One parking space for each 800 square feet of floor area. |
Medical and dental clinics | Three parking spaces for each examining and treatment room, plus one parking space for each doctor and employee in the building. |
Meeting halls, convention halls and exhibition halls | The number of parking spaces equal to 30% of the maximum number of people that can be accommodated in accordance with such design capacity. |
Private clubs and lodges | One parking space for each lodging room and one parking space for each six seats in accordance with design seating capacity of the main meeting room. |
Schools: commercial or trade and music, dance or business | One parking space for each two employees, plus one space for each five students, based on the maximum number of students that can be accommodated in accordance with such design capacity. |
Schools: day care, nursery, elementary or junior high, public or private | One parking space for each faculty member and each other full-time employee. |
Schools: high, public or private | One parking space for each seven students, based on the maximum number of students that can be accommodated in accordance with such design capacity of the building. Two spaces for each employee. |
Recreational uses; commercial or noncommercial | |
Bowling alleys | Seven parking spaces for each lane, plus such additional spaces as may be required affiliated uses, such as restaurants and the like. |
Gymnasiums, health clubs, swimming pools, skating rinks and dance halls, commercial | One parking space for each three persons, based upon the maximum number of persons that can be accommodated at the same time, in accordance with such design capacity and one parking space for each two employees. |
Parks, recreation areas or community centers: private, semi-public or public | One parking space for each two employees, plus spaces in adequate number as determined by the Plan Commission to serve the visiting public. |
Commercial and manufacturing uses | |
All business and commercial establishments, except those specified hereafter | One parking space for each 250 square feet of floor area. |
Automobile laundries | One parking space for each two employees, plus one space for the owner or manager, and in addition, reservoir parking spaces to accommodate automobiles awaiting entrances to the automobile laundry equal in number to five times the maximum capacity of the automobile laundry. Maximum capacity, in this instance, shall mean the greatest possible number of automobiles undergoing some phase of laundering at the same time. |
Automobile service stations | One parking space for each employee, plus two for each service stall. |
Banks | One parking space for each 400 square feet of floor area. |
Business, professional and public administration or buildings | One parking space for each 400 square feet of gross floor area of the building. |
Cartage, express, parcel delivery and freight terminal establishments | One parking space for each employee employed on the premises and 1 parking space for each vehicle maintained on the premises. |
Drive-in business and commercial establishments | Reservoir parking spaces equal in number to 15% of the number of vehicle spaces used for serving customers. |
Establishments handling the sale and consumption on the premises of food and refreshment | One parking space for each 150 square feet of floor area. |
Furniture and appliance stores, motor vehicle sales, wholesale stores, stores for repair of household equipment or furniture | One parking space for each 400 square feet of floor area. |
Manufacturing establishments and establishments engaged in production, processing, assembly, disassembly, cleaning, servicing, testing or repairing of materials, goods or products | One parking space for each two employees or one parking space for each 1,200 square feet of floor area, whichever requires the greater number of parking spaces. |
Theaters | One parking space for each four seats. |
Undertaking establishments and funeral parlors | Eight parking spaces for each chapel or parlor, plus one parking space for each funeral vehicle maintained on the premises. |
Warehouse, storage | One parking space for each two employees and one parking space for each vehicle maintained on the premises. |
Wholesale and mail order establishments | One parking space for each 400 square feet of floor area in the building. |
Miscellaneous uses | |
Planned developments | The number of parking spaces in accordance with the required spaces for each individual use. |
Public utility and public service uses | One parking space for each two employees, plus spaces in adequate number as determined by the Plan Commission to serve the visiting public. |
Note: Parking spaces for other permitted or special uses not listed above shall be provided in accordance with requirements designated by the Plan Commission. | |
(Ord. 1995-12, passed 7-6-95)