Establishments that, by their nature, create lines of customers waiting in automobiles to be served, shall provide off-street storage areas in accordance with the following requirements:
(a) Retail businesses (such as photo pick-ups, restaurants and/or drive-through beverage docks), that normally can serve customers in three minutes or less, shall provide no less than five storage spaces per window or service lane. Drive-in restaurants and other similar uses that require an additional stopping point for ordering shall provide a minimum of three additional storage spaces for each such stopping point.
(b) Financial institutions, including banks and savings and loan associations, with drive-in types of services (such as teller windows, pneumatic tube transaction stations and free-standing ATM machines) shall provide at least four storage spaces per window, station, machine or similar facility.
(c) Self-service car washes shall provide no less than three storage spaces for every stall or bay. All other car washes shall provide a minimum of six storage spaces per entrance. Combinations of self-serve and other-serve shall provide the number of storage spaces required by each stall or bay and entrance.
(d) Gasoline service stations shall provide at least one storage space for each accessible side of a gasoline pump. Gasoline pumps shall not be located closer than 15 feet to any principal building, property line, right of way and/or easement.
(e) An off-street storage space shall be an unobstructed paved area that is at least ten feet wide and 18 feet long. Each storage space shall be located at the end of another storage space so that the motor vehicles are lined up in preparation for advance to the window, pump, stall, bay, station, entrance, machine or similar facility. An off-street storage space is not an off-street parking space.
(Ord. 186-91. Passed 10-15-92; Ord. 130-03. Passed 7-17-03.)