(a) Number of Parking Spaces. Any building or other structure erected, altered or used and any lot used or occupied for any of the following purposes shall be provided with minimum improved off-street parking spaces as set forth herein, together with adequate driveways or other improved means of access to and from a street or right of way:
(1) Single-family and two-family dwellings; rooming houses, apartment houses, apartment hotels, and any other manner of dwelling or rooming unit: Two (2) all weather parking spaces per unit.
(2) Community facilities. For any of the following uses, the required parking spaces shall be all weather.
A. Church, gymnasium, auditorium, assembly room, stadium or other similar place of public or private assembly: One (1) parking space for every three (3) seats provided for assembly.
B. Public and private elementary schools and junior high schools: One (1) parking space for each full time employee plus one (1) space for every three (3) seats for assembly.
C. Public and private senior high schools: One (1) space for each full time employee, plus one (1) space for every three (3) students and also one (1) space for every three (3) seats for assembly.
D. Colleges and similar adult educational facilities: One (1) space for each full time employee and one (1) space for every two (2) students plus one (1) space for every three (3) seats for assembly.
E. Hospital: One (1) space for each bed plus one (1) space for each employee normally present on any single weekday shift. If the facility also provides outpatient services additional parking shall be provided for each staff member on duty at any one time plus not less than 10 spaces for patients.
F. Community center, library, museum or other similar public place: One (1) parking space for every 200 square feet of floor area in public use.
G. Institutional home: One (1) parking space for every two (2) beds plus one (1) space for each full-time employee.
H. Club: One (1) parking space for every 25 square feet of floor area in public use.
I. Parks: One (1) parking space for every 1,000 square feet of improved park area.
J. Golf courses: Seven (7) parking spaces for every hole.
K. Convalescent home, rest home or skilled nursing facility: One (1) parking space for every four (4) beds plus one (1) space for each week-day shift employee plus one (1) space for every 200 square feet of building space.
(Ord. 280(00-01). Passed 12-6-01.)
L. Child day-care centers: Two (2) parking spaces plus one (1) space for each employee.
(Ord. 90(06-07). Passed 11-2-06.)
(Ord. 90(06-07). Passed 11-2-06.)
(3) Commercial facilities. For any of the following uses, the required parking spaces shall be all-weather:
A. Retail store or shop; department store or supermarket: one parking space for every 100 square feet of store sales floor space.
B. Restaurant, café or tea room: one parking space for every three seats and one space for every two employees.
C. Indoor theater: one parking space for every four seats.
D. Office building or wholesale establishment: one parking space for every 200 square feet of floor area.
E. Laboratory or any industrial establishment, not located in an “M-3" Industrial Park Manufacturing District: one parking space for every two employees.
F. Any establishment located in an “M-3" Industrial Park Manufacturing District: one parking space for each employee, plus visitor and customer parking space as determined by the Planning Commission. Parking space requirements for plants on shift operations shall be determined by the Commission. Off-street parking shall also be provided for all company trucks and for trailers awaiting pick up or arriving after plant closing time.
(Ord. 115(88-89). Passed 10-6-88.)
G. Motels, hotels, lodges, bed & breakfast: One (1) parking space per guestroom, one and one-half (1½) spaces per suite. These spaces shall be in addition to those required in previous sections for restaurants or assembly usage, and single-family dwellings.
(Ord. 280(00-01). Passed 12-6-01.)
H. Other commercial buildings: one parking space for every 100 square feet of floor area or fraction thereof, except when otherwise authorized as a special exception consistent with the requirements set forth herein for comparable establishments.
I. Open areas used for commercial purposes: one parking space for every 1,000 square feet of area, or fraction thereof.
J. Service establishments: one parking space for every 100 square feet of customer service floor area.
K. Shopping centers: the minimum number of parking spaces shall meet the requirements of Parking Requirements for Shopping Centers by the Urban Land Institute.
(Ord. 115(88-89). Passed 10-6-88.)
(4) Facilities in the C-4 Downtown Commercial District.
A. New facilities constructed within the C-4 Downtown Commercial District shall be provided with all-weather off-street parking spaces in conformity with the applicable provisions of Sections (1), (2) and (3) above on the same zoning lot as the facility with which they are affiliated or within 800 feet thereof when authorized as a special exception by the Planning Commission.
B. Existing facilities within the C-4 Downtown Commercial District shall be provided with one all-weather off-street parking space for each employee for each commercial enterprise and two all-weather off-street parking spaces for each residential unit.
(Ord. 171(04-05). Passed 5-19-05.)
(5) Other uses not specifically mentioned. Wherever off-street parking is required for any use under this Zoning Ordinance, and this Zoning Ordinance is silent as to the specific requirements thereof, the Planning Commission shall determine the number of such spaces as it deems reasonable and necessary.
(b) Location of Parking Spaces. The location of parking spaces required in this section shall be subject to the following requirements:
(1) Community facilities. Parking spaces for community facilities in residentially zoned districts and for prior nonconforming commercial facilities in residentially zoned districts may be located on zoning lots or within 200 feet of the zoning lot for the use with which they are affiliated when authorized as a special exception by the Planning Commission; provided, however, that no such special exception shall be issued unless the following requirements shall be met:
A. The parking spaces shall be all-weather;
B. The parking spaces shall be subject to the following yard setbacks:
Front - no closer to the front lot line than the front of the adjacent homes; Rear-none; Sides - five feet;
C. The parking spaces shall be lotscaped to minimize their impact on the surrounding neighborhood as the Planning Commission shall determine;
D. Adequate access to the parking spaces shall have been obtained pursuant to Chapter 907 hereof; and
E. A public hearing has been held on the issue of the issuance of the special exception with thirty-day notice from the Planning Commission to adjacent property owners.
(2) Multi-family or commercial facilities. Parking spaces for multi-family residential facilities or commercial facilities in residentially zoned or commercially zoned districts, respectively, shall be located on the same zoning lot as the use with which they are affiliated; or within 200 feet of the zoning lot when authorized as a special exception by the Planning Commission.
(3) Reduction of facilities. Off-street parking facilities existing at the effective date of this Zoning Ordinance shall not subsequently be reduced to an amount less than required hereunder for a similar new building or new use. Off-street parking facilities provided to comply with the provisions of this Zoning Ordinance shall not subsequently be reduced below the requirements of this Zoning Ordinance.
(4) Mobile home and house trailer parks. Each mobile home park shall provide the parking space required by Section 1115.04(f).
(Ord. 115(88-89). Passed 10-6-88.)
(5) Parking lots shall comply with the requirements of Chapter 1107
of the Planning and Zoning Code.
(Ord. 257(08-09). Passed 11-5-09.)
(Ord. 257(08-09). Passed 11-5-09.)