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 automobiles of patrons, occupants, or employees. When bus transportation is provided, for patrons, occupants, or employees of a specific establishment, additional open or enclosed off-street parking spaces for each bus to be parked on the premises shall be provided in accordance with regulations herein for access, in yards, design, and maintenance and area applicable to accommodating such buses.
(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 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, or portion thereof shall serve as a required space for more than one use.
(D) Plans.
(1) Plans for the layout of off-street parking shall be in accord with the following minimum requirements:
Parking Pattern (degrees) | Maneuvering Lane Width (feet) | Parking Space Width (feet) | Parking Space Length (feet) | Total Width of One Tier of Spaces Plus Maneuvering Lane (feet) | Total Width of Two Tiers of Space Plus Maneuvering Lane (feet) |
75 – 90 | 20 | 9 | 20 | 40 | 60 |
54 – 74 | 15 | 8-1/2 | 20 | 36-1/2 | 58 |
30 – 53 | 12 | 8-1/2 | 20 | 32 | 52 |
(2) All maneuvering lane widths shall permit one-way traffic movement, with the exception of the 90 degree pattern where two-way movement may be permitted.
(E) Enclosed areas. Enclosed parking spaces shall have a vertical clearance of at least seven feet.
(F) Access. Each required off-street parking space shall open directly on 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.
(G) 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.
(H) Design and maintenance.
(1) Open or enclosed. 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 other than cinders 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 seven inches of water-bound macadam base, plus one inch of bituminous concrete binder, plus two inches of bituminous concrete surface. All materials and method of installation of any surfacing shall be in accordance with the village specifications.
(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 district, shall be effectively screened on each side adjoining or fronting on such property line by a wall, fence, or densely planted compact hedge, not less than five feet nor more than eight feet in height. 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 create a nuisance and in a parking area containing four or more parking spaces such lighting shall be extinguished one-half hour after the close of business.
(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) Surrounding 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.
(I) Location. All parking spaces required to serve buildings or uses erected or established after the effective date of this chapter shall be located on the same lot as the building or use served. Buildings or uses in any district except single-family and two-family dwellings existing on the effective date of this chapter which are subsequently altered or enlarged so as to require the provision of parking spaces under this chapter and new uses established in any Commercial District may be served by parking facilities located on land other than the lot on which the building or use served is located, provided such facilities are within 300 feet walking distance of a main entrance to the use served, and in any case are located in districts where parking lots or storage garages are listed as permitted uses or special uses.
(J) Employee parking. Parking spaces required on an employee basis shall be based on the maximum number of employees on duty or residing, or both, on the premises at any time.
(K) Required spaces. The minimum number of off-street parking spaces accessory to designated uses shall be provided as follows.
(1) Dwelling and lodging uses.
(a) Boarding or rooming houses. Two parking spaces plus one parking space for each three lodging rooms.
(b) Hotels and apartment hotels. One parking space for each three separate lodging rooms and one parking space for each dwelling unit.
(c) Motels or tourist homes. One parking space for each dwelling unit and one parking space for each lodging room.
(d) Multiple-family dwellings. One and one-half parking spaces for each dwelling unit.
(e) Single-family dwellings. Two parking spaces for each dwelling, but no more than four parking spaces for each single-family dwelling.
(f) Two-family dwellings. One and one-half parking spaces per dwelling unit, but not more than four for each dwelling unit.
(2) School, institution, auditorium, or other places of assembly uses.
(a) Churches. One parking space for each six seats, or for each 108 inches of seating space used for the principal church service.
(b) Convalescent homes, nursing homes, rest homes, and 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.
(c) Gymnasiums, stadiums, and grandstands. One parking space for each six seats or for each 108 inches of seating space.
(d) Libraries and museums. One parking space for each 800 square feet of floor area.
(e) 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.
(f) 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.
(g) 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.
(h) 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.
(i) 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.
(j) School, and other institutional auditoriums. One parking space for each two persons employed on the premises, and one additional parking space for each six seats, or for each 108 inches of seating space in the main auditorium or assembly hall.
(k) Schools, nursery, elementary, or junior high, public or private. One parking space for each faculty member and each other full-time employee.
(3) Recreational uses, commercial or noncommercial.
(a) Bowling alleys. Seven parking spaces for each lane plus such additional spaces as may be required herein for affiliated uses such as restaurants and the like.
(b) Gymnasiums, health salons, swimming pools, skating rinks, and dance halls, commercial. One parking space for each three persons, based on 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.
(c) Parks, recreation areas, or community centers, private, semipublic, or public. One parking space for each two employees, plus spaces in adequate number as determined by the Planning Commission to serve the visiting public.
(4) Commercial and manufacturing uses.
(a) All business and commercial establishments, except those specified hereafter. One parking space for each 250 square feet of floor area.
(b) 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 entrance 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.
(c) Automobile service stations. One parking space for each employee, plus two for each service stall.
(d) Banks. One parking space for each 400 square feet of floor area.
(e) Business, professional, and public administration or service office buildings. One parking space for each two persons employed based on the designed maximum employee capacity of the building.
(f) Cartage, express, parcel delivery, and freight terminal establishments. One parking space for each employee employed on the premises, and one and one-half parking space for each vehicle maintained on the premises.
(g) Drive-in business and commercial establishments. Reservoir parking spaces equal in number to 15% of the number of vehicle spaces used for serving customers.
(h) Establishments handling the sale and consumption on the premises of food and refreshment. One parking space for each 150 square feet of floor area.
(I) Furniture and appliance stores, motor vehicle sales, wholesale stores, and stores for repair of household equipment or furniture. One parking space for each 400 square feet of floor area.
(j) 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.
(k) Theaters. One parking space for each four seats up to 400 seats, plus one parking space for each six seats over 400.
(l) 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.
(m) Warehouse, storage, wholesale, and mail order establishments. One parking space for each employee and one parking space for each vehicle maintained on the premises.
(5) Miscellaneous uses.
(a) Planned developments. The number of parking spaces in accordance with the required spaces for each individual use.
(b) Public utility and public service uses. One parking space for each two employees, plus spaces in adequate number as determined by the Planning Commission to serve the visiting public.
(6) Other uses. Parking spaces for other permitted or special uses not listed above shall be provided in accordance with requirements designated by the Planning Commission.
(1995 Code, § 153.188) (Ord. 68-15, passed 8-22-1968) Penalty, see § 153.999