The following regulations and conditions shall apply to all off-street parking facilities:
(A) Size and access. Each off-street parking space shall have a width of not less than nine feet and a length of not less than 19 feet except that up to 25% of the required parking spaces may be designated for compact car use in parking lots provided for uses other than residential dwelling units and having at least ten spaces. Compact car spaces shall have a minimum width of eight feet and a minimum length of 16 feet. Every space designated to accommodate compact cars shall be clearly marked as a compact space. Each space shall have adequate ingress and egress. Parking lot dimensions shall be set forth in the city standard specifications. When the required covered parking space for a dwelling unit is converted into a different use and occupancy, such required car space shall be relocated and covered by a garage or carport in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
(B) Location. Off-street parking facilities shall be located as follows (where a distance is specified, such distance shall be the walking distance measured from the nearest point of the parking facility to the nearest point of the building such facility is required to serve):
(1) For single or multiple-family dwellings, parking facilities shall be located on the same lot or building site as the buildings they are required to serve;
(2) For hospitals, sanitariums, rest homes, asylums, orphanages, rooming houses, lodging houses, club rooms, and fraternity and sorority houses, not more than 150 feet from the buildings they are required to serve; and
(3) For uses other than those set forth in subsections § 10-3.1207(B)(1) and (2) of this subsection, not over 300 feet from the building they are required to serve.
(C) Mixed occupancies in a building. In the case of mixed uses in a building or on a lot, the total requirements for off-street parking facilities shall be the sum of the requirements for the various uses computed separately. The off-street parking facilities for one use shall not be considered as providing the required parking facilities for any other use, except as set forth in subsection § 10-3.1207(D) of this section for joint use.
(D) Joint use. The Building Department, upon an application by the owner or lessee of any property, may authorize the joint use of parking facilities by the following uses or activities under the conditions set forth:
(1) Up to 50% of the parking facilities required by this subchapter for a use considered to be primarily a daytime use may be provided by the parking facilities of a use considered to be primarily a nighttime use; up to 50% of the parking facilities required by this subchapter for a use considered to be primarily a nighttime use may be provided by the parking facilities of a use considered to be primarily a daytime use, provided such reciprocal parking area shall be subject to the conditions set forth in subsection § 10-3.1207(D)(4) of this section.
(2) Up to 100% of the parking facilities required by this subchapter for a church or for an auditorium incidental to a public or parochial school may be supplied by parking facilities of a use considered to be primarily a daytime use, provided such reciprocal parking area shall be subject to the conditions set forth in subsection § 10-3.1207(D)(4) of this section.
(3) The following uses are typical daytime uses: banks, business offices, retail stores, personal service shops, clothing or shoe repair or service shops, manufacturing or wholesale buildings and similar uses. The following uses are typical of nighttime and/or Sunday uses: auditoriums incidental to a public or parochial school, churches, dance halls, theaters, and bars.
(4) Conditions required for joint use:
(a) The building or use for which application is being made for authority to utilize the existing off-street parking facilities provided by another building or use shall be located within 150 feet of such parking facility;
(b) The applicant shall show that there is no substantial conflict in the principal operating hours of the building or uses for which the joint use of off-street parking facilities is proposed; and
(c) If the building, structure, or improvement requiring parking space is in one ownership, and the required parking space provided in another ownership, partially or wholly, there shall be a recording in the office of the County Recorder of a covenant by such owner for the benefit of the city in the form first approved by the city that such owner will continue to maintain such parking space so long as the building, structure, or improvement is maintained within the city. The covenant herein provided shall stipulate that the title to and right to use the lots upon which the parking space is to be provided will be subservient to the title to the premises upon which the building is to be erected and that it is warranted that such lots are not and will not be made subject to any other covenant or contract for use without the prior written consent of the city as authorized by the Council.
(E) Common facilities. Common parking facilities may be provided in lieu of the individual requirements contained herein, but such facilities shall be approved by the Building Department as to size, shape, and relationship to business sites to be served, provided the total of such off-street parking spaces, when used together, shall not be less than the sum of the various uses computed separately.
(F) Plans. Plans of the proposed parking area shall be submitted to the Building Department at the time of an application for a building permit for any building to which the parking area is accessory. The plans shall clearly indicate the proposed development, including the location, size, shape, design, curb cuts, lighting, landscaping, and other features and appurtenances of the proposed parking lot.
(G) Accessibility. Parking spaces shall be easily accessible by standard-size automobiles, shall be so designed as to be accessible from a public street or alley, and shall be located so that sufficient area is available for maneuvering purposes.
(H) Stalls. No parking space shall be so located as to require the moving of any vehicle on the premises in order to enter into or proceed out of any other stall; provided, however, this provision need not apply in the event the parking facility has an attendant at all times during the use of such facility.
(I) Backing onto streets. Automobile parking so arranged as to require the backing of motor vehicles from a parking space, garage, or other structure onto a major street, as designated by the Council, shall be prohibited when either or both of the following conditions exist:
(1) The property is adjacent to, and contiguous to, a public alley; or
(2) The width of the lot and/or the nature of the design of the existing and/or proposed structures is such that vehicles leaving the property may do so by moving in a forward direction with relation to the street.
(J) Fractional spaces. When units of measurements determining the number of required parking spaces result in a requirement of a fractional space, any fraction of ½ or greater shall require one parking space.
(K) Waiting areas. Adequate ingress, egress, and waiting areas for such uses as drive-in movies, banks, and restaurants shall be provided on the subject lot as required by the City Traffic Engineer.
(L) Loading spaces.
(1) In any zone, in connection with every building, or part thereof, erected on, or after, August 4, 1978, having a floor area of 5,000 square feet or more, which building is to be occupied by manufacturing, storage, warehouse, goods display, retail store, wholesale storage, market, hotel, hospital, mortuary, laundry, dry cleaning, or other uses similarly requiring the receipt or distribution by vehicles of material or merchandise, there shall be provided and maintained on the same parcel with such building at least one off-street loading space, plus one additional loading space for each additional 20,000 square feet, or fraction thereof, of gross floor area.
(2) Each loading space shall be not less than ten feet in width, 35 feet in length, and 14 feet in height.
(3) No such space shall be located closer than 50 feet to any parcel in any R zone, unless wholly within a completely enclosed building, or unless screened by a solid wall not less than eight feet in height.
('61 Code, § 10-3.1207) (Ord. 26 C.S., passed 4-16-62; Am. Ord. 301 C.S., passed 8-4-78; Am. Ord. 452 C.S., passed 1-15-86)