(a) Required. In all districts, in connection with every industrial, business, institutional, recreational, residential or other use, there shall be provided, at any time any building or structure is erected or is enlarged or increased in capacity, off-street parking spaces for automobiles in accordance with the following requirements:
(1) Each off-street parking space shall have an area of not less than 180 square feet, exclusive of access drives or aisles, and shall be of usable shape and condition.
(2) There shall be adequate provision for ingress and egress to all parking spaces. Where a lot does abut on a public or private alley or easement of access, there shall be provided an access drive not less than eight feet in width in the case of a dwelling, and not less than twenty feet in width in all other cases, leading to the parking, storage, loading or unloading spaces required in this chapter.
(b) Number of Spaces. The number of off-street parking spaces to be provided shall not be less than as provided in the following table:
Use | Parking Spaces Required |
Dwellings, including 1, 2 and 3 family dwellings, multiple-family dwellings, summer cottages and mobile homes. | 1 for each dwelling unit, except that 1 additional space of proper size and construction shall be provided for each additional motor vehicle owned and/or continuously stored on a residential property by the resident or owner. 1½ spaces for each multiple-family dwelling unit. |
Rooming or boarding house, tourist home. | 1 for each sleeping room or suite. |
Hotel or motel. | 5, plus 1 for each sleeping room or suite. These spaces shall be in addition to the parking spaces that shall be provided for any portion of the hotel that is used for office, business or commercial purposes, including the lobby, but not including corridors giving access to sleeping rooms. |
Use | Parking Spaces Required |
Use | Parking Spaces Required |
Private club, golf club or lodge. | 1 for each 4 members. |
Commercial golf course. | 40 for each 9 holes, plus 1 for each employee. |
Church or temple. | 1 for each 5 seats in the main auditorium. |
School (except high school or college). | 1 for each 5 seats in the auditorium or main assembly room, or 2 for each classroom, whichever is greater. |
College or high school. | 1 for each 6 seats in the main auditorium, or 4 for each classroom, whichever is greater. |
Community center, library, museum or art gallery. | 10, plus 1 for each 300 square feet of floor area in excess of 2,000 square feet. |
Hospital. | 1 for each bed. |
Sanitarium, convalescent home, home for the aged or similar institution. | 1 for each 3 beds. |
Offices, clinics, personal and professional services. | 1 for every 100 square feet of floor space. |
Retail business or business service establishment. | 1 for each 150 square feet of floor space and 1 for each 2 employees on the maximum working shift. |
Theater or auditorium (except school auditorium), sports arena, stadium or gymnasium. | 1 for each 5 seats or bench seating spaces. |
Bowling alley. | 5 for each alley, plus 1 for each 200 square feet of area used for eating, drinking or other recreation. |
Mortuary or funeral home. | 1 for each 50 square feet of floor space in slumber rooms, parlors or individual funeral service rooms. |
Restaurants, nightclubs, cafes or similar halls recreation or amusement establishments, dance halls, assembly or exhibition halls without fixed seats. | 1 for each 100 square feet of floor area. |
Furniture or appliance store, hardware store, wholesale establishment, machinery or equipment sales and services. | 2 plus 1 for each 200 square feet of floor area over 1,000 square feet. |
Use | Parking Spaces Required |
Manufacturing, industrial or mining establishment, research or testing laboratory, creamery, bottling plant, warehouse or similar establishment. | 1 for each 2 employees on the maximum working shift, plus space to accommodate all trucks and other vehicles used in connection therewith. |
(c) Interpretation. The following rules shall govern the determination of spaces required:
(1) “Floor area” means the gross floor area of the specified use.
(2) Fractional numbers shall be increased to the next whole number.
(3) The parking space requirement for a use not specifically mentioned in this section shall be the same as required for a use of a similar nature.
(4) Whenever a building or use constructed or established after the effective date of this Zoning Code is changed or enlarged in floor area, number of employees, number of dwelling units, seating capacity or otherwise, to create a need for an increase of ten percent or more in the number of existing parking spaces, such spaces shall be provided on the basis of the enlargement or change. Whenever a building or use existing prior to the effective date of this Zoning Code is enlarged to the extent of fifty percent or more in floor area or in the area used, such building or use shall then and thereafter comply with the parking requirements set forth in this section.
(Ord. 1466. Passed 4-11-94; Am. Ord. 1905. Passed 12-13-11.)