A. All off-street parking facilities including entrances, exits, circulation areas and parking spaces shall be in accordance with the following standards and specifications:
1. Parking Space Dimensions
Each off-street parking space shall have the following dimensions and shall be of useable shape and condition:
A | B | C | D | E | F | ||
Parking Angle | Stall Width | Length of Stall | Aisle Width | Width of Access Drive | Bay Width (center to center) | ||
One Way | Two Way | One Way | Two Way
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0 degrees | 9 feet | 20 feet | 12 feet | 18 feet | 20 feet | 24 feet | 30 feet |
45 degrees | 9 feet | 19 feet | 13 feet | 20 feet | 20 feet | 42 feet | 49 feet |
60 degrees | 9 feet | 20 feet | 18 feet | 22 feet | 20 feet | 52 feet | 56 feet |
90 degrees | 9 feet | 19 feet | 22 feet | 24 feet | 24 feet | 60 feet | 62 feet |
2. Accessways to Parking Areas
Accessways to off-street parking areas shall be as follows:
a. The location and width of entrance and exit driveways to accessory parking facilities, except for single-family and two-family dwellings, shall be planned in such a manner as to interfere as little as possible with the use of adjacent residential property and with pedestrian and vehicular traffic on adjacent streets.
b. With exception of the Neighborhood Commercial District, accessways to non-residential districts shall be not closer than 100 feet to adjoining residential use districts.
c. With exception of the Neighborhood Commercial District, non-residential uses adjoining Single-Family and Two-Family Districts shall have a buffer strip which may not be devoted to any part of the main or accessory use of such property except landscape screening of a type to be approved by the Planning Commission which is adequate to effectively screen the non-residential land use from the adjoining residential use.
d. Accessways to parking areas in all nonresidential districts must be approved by the Director of Safety.
3. Surface Improvements of Parking Areas
All parking facilities and accessways shall be asphalt or concrete with adequate drainage so that added injury will not be caused to adjacent property and water will not drain across a public walk.
4. Barriers
Wherever a parking lot extends to a property line, fencing, wheelstops, concrete curbs or other suitable barriers shall be provided in order to prevent any part of a parked vehicle from extending beyond the property line and/or from destroying the screening materials. Furthermore, Appropriate bumper guards or curbs shall be provided where needed in order to define parking spaces or limits of paved areas.
5. Separate or Combined Use of Facilities
A building containing one use shall provide off-street parking spaces as required for the specific use. A building or group of buildings containing two or more uses operating normally during the same hours, and which have different off-street parking requirements, shall provide spaces for not less than the sum of the spaces required for each use or the spaces required for a large development of business buildings.
Institutions and places of amusement or assembly may assume that up to, but not more than, fifty percent of their requirements may be provided in adjacent parking areas which are accessory to business establishments and which normally have different hours of operation. However, where there is a combined use of facilities under separate owners, there shall be a contract governing a period of time as may be required by the Planning Commission. Should either of the combined uses be changed or discontinued, then the required spaces for the use remaining shall be provided elsewhere as a condition precedent to the continued use of such remaining building.
6. Signs Pertaining to Parking Areas
No signs, except those indicating the operator, the purpose or business served or instructions for parking shall be permitted. Such a permitted sign shall be limited to not more than one (1) such sign on each street which abuts the area, shall not exceed twenty (20) square feet in area, shall not extend more than ten (10) feet in height above the ground and shall not be located outside the part of the lot used for parking or less than twenty-five (25) feet from a lot line of a residential district.
7 Visibility
Access of driveways for parking areas shall be located in such a way that any vehicle entering or leaving such parking area shall be clearly visible by any pedestrian or motorist approaching the access or driveway from a public street, private street or alley. Furthermore, any vehicle entering or leaving an off-street parking facility shall be traveling in a forward motion.
8. Marking
All parking areas for more than five (5) vehicles shall be marked with paint lines or in some other manner approved by the City and shall be maintained in a clearly visible condition. Restriping shall be required when necessary.
9. Illumination of Parking Areas
Parking areas shall be thoroughly illuminated whenever the public street lights are lit and when the buildings served are in operation. Such illumination shall be so designed and located that light sources shall be shielded from adjoining residential districts and streets and shall not be of excessive brightness. Flickering, moving or intermittent illumination shall not be permitted.
10. Location of Parking Facilities
a. Residential Buildings. Parking facilities shall be located on the same lot as the dwelling service. Except for driveways and turn-arounds, paved areas that may be used for parking shall not be located within the required front or side yard or where a building is not permitted. Group parking facilities in Multi-Family Districts shall be kept available to each dwelling unit.
In residential districts, only one truck, not exceeding three-quarters of a ton in rated capacity, may be stored in a garage, provided such truck is used solely by the occupant.
b. Institutional, Amusement and Assembly Use. Parking facilities shall be located on the same lot as the use served. However, where no such adjacent land is available, the nearest point of the lot shall be located within a walking distance of 200 feet of such use, but not across a major thoroughfare.
c. Business Use. Parking facilities shall be located on the same lot or adjacent to the business use served in retail districts. However, where no such adjacent land is available, the nearest point of the lot shall be located within a walking distance of 200 feet of such use, but not across a major thoroughfare.
d. Commercial and Industrial Use. Parking facilities shall be located on the same lot as the main use served in a Commercial Service or Industrial District. However, where no such adjacent land is available, the nearest point of the lot shall be located within a walking distance of 300 feet of such use.
e. Yard Regulations and Protection of Adjacent Areas
(1) Front yard depth for off-street parking areas shall be not less than eight (8) feet when adjacent to, or across the street from, a residential district. Side or rear yards abutting a residential district shall be not less than ten (10) feet. If abutting other use districts, no side or rear yard is required.
(2) Off-street parking areas having a capacity of more than six (6) automobiles, when adjacent to or surrounded by a residential district, shall have bumper guards or curbs placed on the aforesaid yard (limits of parking area) lines, and the area between yard lines and side or rear lot lines shall be landscaped with a hedge or shrubs or screened by a substantially solid fence, uniformly painted, at least five (5) feet high above the finished grade. The location and type of structural or landscape features such as bumper guards, curbs, walls, fences, shrubs, ground cover or hedges, shall be approved by the City Planning Commission. Such features shall be maintained adequately at all times.
(Ord. 2000-128. Passed 12-6-00.)