Whenever the off-street parking requirements in § 160.214 require the building of an off-street parking facility, or where P-1 Vehicular Parking Districts are provided, the off-street parking lots shall be laid out, constructed and maintained in accordance with the following standards and regulations:
(A) No parking lot, parking strip, parking bay or driveway shall be constructed unless and until a permit therefor is issued by the Building Inspector. Applications for a permit shall be submitted to the Building Department in such form as may be determined by the Building Inspector and shall be accompanied with 2 sets of plans for the development and construction of the parking lot showing that the provisions of this section will be fully complied with.
(B) Plans for the layout of off-street parking facilities shall be in accord with the following minimum requirements:
Parking Pattern | Maneuvering Lane Width | Parking Space Width | Parking Space Length | Total Width of One Tier of Spaces Plus Maneuvering Lane | Total Width of Two Tiers of Spaces Plus Maneuvering Lane |
0° (parallel parking) | 12 ft. | 8 ft. | 23 ft. | 20 ft. | 28 ft. |
30° to 53° | 12 ft. | 8 ft. 6 in. | 20 ft | 32 ft. | 52 ft. |
54° to 74° | 15 ft. | 8 ft. 6 in. | 20 ft. | 36 ft. 6 in. | 58 ft. |
75° to 90° | 20 ft. | 9 ft. | 20 ft. | 40 ft. | 60 ft. |
(C) All spaces shall be provided adequate access by means of maneuvering lanes. Backing directly onto a street shall be prohibited.
(D) Adequate ingress and egress to the parking lot by means of clearly limited and defined drives shall be provided for all vehicles. Ingress and egress to a parking lot lying in an area zoned for other than single family residential use shall not be across land zoned for single family residential use.
(E) All maneuvering lane widths shall permit one-way traffic movement, except that the 90-degree pattern may permit 2-way movement.
(F) Each entrance and exit to and from any off-street parking lot located in an area zoned for other than single-family residential use shall be at least 25 feet distant from adjacent property located in any single family residential district.
(G) (1) The off-street parking area shall be provided with a continuous and obscuring wall not less than 4 feet 6 inches in height measured from the surface of the parking area on all sides where the next zoning district is designated as a single family residential district.
(2) When a front yard setback is required, all land between the wall and the front property line or street right-of-way line shall be kept free from refuse and debris and shall be landscaped with deciduous shrubs, evergreen material and ornamental trees. The ground area shall be planted and kept in lawn. All such landscaping and planting shall be maintained in a healthy, growing condition neat and orderly in appearance.
(H) The entire parking area, including parking spaces and maneuvering lanes, required under this section, shall be provided with a durable and dustless surface and shall be graded and drained so as to dispose of all surface water in accord with the requirements and subject to the review and approval of the City Engineer.
(I) All lighting used to illuminate any off-street parking area shall be so installed as to be confined within and directed onto the parking area only.
(J) In all cases where a wall extends to an alley which is a means of ingress and egress to an off-street parking area, it shall be permissible to end the wall not more than 10 feet from such alley line in order to permit a wider means of access to the parking area.
(K) The Board of Appeals, upon application by the property owner of the off-street parking area, may modify the yard or wall requirements where, in unusual circumstances, no good purpose would be served by compliance with the requirements of this section.
(L) Whenever a durable and dustless parking area, as defined by this chapter, is required by this section, the owner shall execute and deliver to the Planning Commission an approved performance bond guaranteeing that the parking area will be hard surfaced as required within 1 year after occupancy. Delivery of the bond shall be a condition precedent to the site plan approval.
(M) Pedestrian walkways within parking lots. For the safety of pedestrians, in large (100 spaces or more) high-turnover parking lots, separate raised pedestrian walkways connecting the main building perimeter sidewalk with existing or proposed sidewalks along street rights-of-way shall be provided. This requirement shall not apply to uses within an Industrial District. Not less than 1 such walkway shall be provided for each street frontage. The walkways shall be constructed of concrete, asphalt, stone, brick, or other hard surface material. The walkways shall be not be less than 6 feet in width and shall be enhanced with landscaping along both sides, to help separate them from traffic and distinguish them from the parking area. The walkways must be integrated with the city's overall plan for pedestrian improvements where applicable. Parked cars shall not be permitted to overhang pedestrian walkways. The land used for this connecting sidewalk shall be countable in the computation of the required percentage of landscape area as provided in § 160.219(F).
(Prior Code, App., § 1305) (Ord. 84-24, passed 11-15-1984; Am. Ord. 04-03, passed 5-6-2004; Am. Ord. 2018-03, passed 4-5-2018)