(A) Purpose. The purpose of this section is to regulate the location and capacity of off-street parking and off-street loading facilities to minimize adverse effects on adjacent properties as well as lessen congestion and increase the safety and capacity of public streets.
(B) General requirements.
(1) An off-street parking space shall be at least nine feet wide and 20 feet long, exclusive of access drives or ramps and have a vertical clearance of at least seven feet.
(2) All open off-street parking areas with four or more spaces and all loading berths shall:
(a) Be improved with all-weather surface to provide durable and dust-free surface;
(b) Be graded to dispose of all surface water run-off but not to be diverted to adjoining properties;
(c) Be arranged and marked to provide for orderly and safe parking:
(d) Have an access road of eight feet for residential or 15 feet for non-residential buildings; and
(e) Be screened by wall, fence, or landscaping from the street or from any residential or institutional property.
(3) Off-street parking or loading facilities requirements shall be met on the same lot as the building served unless the adjoining lot is exclusively used for meeting the parking requirements of a building or use.
(C) Special requirements.
(1) No building shall be erected or enlarged to the extent of increasing the floor area by as much as 50% without meeting these requirements:
(a) Business, professional, or public office building, bank, medical, or dental clinics: one parking space for each 150 square feet of floor area;
(b) Church or a place of worship: one parking space for each five seats in the main building;
(c) Eating and drinking establishments, restaurants: one space for each 200 square feet of f1oor area;
(d) Community center: ten parking spaces, plus one additional space for each 300 square feet of floor area in excess of 2,000 square feet;
(e) Funeral home: one parking space for each 150 square feet of floor space in the parlor and service rooms;
(f) Hospital, nursing home: one parking space for each bed;
(g) Commercial, industrial or manufacturing establishments warehouses, or similar uses: one parking space for every two employees on the maximum working shift plus space to accommodate all trucks and other vehicles used in connection thereof;
(h) Motels: one parking space per room;
(i) Private club or lodge: one parking space for every ten members;
(j) Residential uses:
1. Single family: two spaces per unit;
2. Duplexes: two spaces per unit;
3. Multiple family: one space for efficiency unit two spaces for one bedroom or larger units;
4. Mobi1e home park: two spaces per unit; and
5. Manufactured or modu1ar homes: two spaces per unit.
(2) Restaurants, eating and drinking establishments: one parking space for each 100 square feet of floor area;
(3) Retail stores and service establishments: one parking space for each 200 square feet of floor area; and
(4) Downtown commercial district: one parking space for each 600 square feet of floor area.
(Ord. 19-1, passed 8-10-1998) Penalty, see § 154.99