(A) Parking And Loading Spaces Required: No building or structure shall be erected, nor any residential use changed to commercial, business park or industrial use, unless maintained off street parking and loading spaces have been provided in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. Even where the new use involves no additions or enlargements, there shall be provided as many such spaces as may be required by this chapter.
(B) Altered Or Enlarged Building, Compliance With Current Provisions: No building or structure shall be substantially altered, added to or enlarged, or its use changed permanently unless there is provided as many such spaces as may be required by this title with respect to the square footage as to which alteration, addition, enlargement, or change of use has occurred.
(C) Surfacing Requirements: Parking and/or storage of otherwise legal and licensed vehicles of any kind, except upon properly surfaced and approved driveways or parking aprons, is prohibited. Parking of such vehicles on lawns, patios, garden area, or naturally wooded terrain is expressly forbidden at any time, except in an emergency such as fire, flood, earthquake, etc., or to facilitate approved construction work.
(D) Location Of Parking Spaces: The following regulations shall govern the location of off street parking spaces and areas:
1. Parking spaces for all detached residential uses shall be located on the same lot as the use which they are intended to serve.
2. Parking spaces for commercial, business park, or institutional uses shall be located not more than three hundred feet (300') from the principal use and shall be located behind or beside the use, except in the CBD, where parking spaces shall be located not more than one thousand feet (1,000') from the principal use and shall be located behind or beside the use.
3. Parking spaces for apartments, condominiums or similar residential uses shall be located not more than two hundred feet (200') from the principal use on the same developed property.
4. In all zones, if a new single-family residential structure is built without a garage, space shall be provided for the lawful addition of future covered parking.
5. No parking lot pavement edge for a commercial or industrial use may be located closer than five feet (5') from the right-of- way of a public street unless approved by the Public Works Director. (Ord. 973, 11-29-2018, eff. 1-1-2019)
(E) Maintenance: The owner of property used for parking and/or loading shall maintain such area in good condition without holes and free of all dust, trash and other debris.
(F) Disabled Vehicles: The parking of a disabled vehicle within a residential or commercial zone for a period of more than two (2) weeks shall be prohibited, unless such vehicle is stored in an enclosed garage or other accessory building.
(G) Uses Not Listed: Parking spaces for other permitted or conditional uses not listed in this section shall be determined by the commission.
(H) Fractional Numbers: Fractional numbers shall be decreased to the whole number.
(I) Reduction Of Requirements: Where there is an adequate public transit system, or where, for any other reason parking demand is unusually low, such as where uses with differing operating hours or needs share parking under a formal, written agreement to which the City is a party, then the parking space provisions cited herein may be reduced proportionately by the commission. If the owner, whose parking facility is under such an agreement which requires the facility to be available to the patrons of the other use(s), fails or refuses to make such parking available in accordance with the agreement, such failure or refusal is a violation of this title.
(J) Alternative Proposals: Where special conditions exist which make compliance with these standards impractical, the commission will consider alternative proposals presented according to the procedures and standards for a variance.
(K) Off Street Loading Spaces: Required off street loading space is not to be included as off street parking space in computation of required off street parking spaces. All off street loading spaces shall be located outside of any right-of-way or a street or alley.
(L) Snow Removal, Storage: Where snow removal and storage may pose a problem to traffic circulation or reduce the amount of adequate parking for winter business, the developer of the property shall designate a snow storage area and remove snow as necessary to maintain minimum traffic circulation and parking.
(M) Authority To Make Adjustments: Adjustments to required parking may be authorized by the commission based upon evidence of actual parking demand for the proposed use.
(N) Multiple Uses: Required parking facilities for two (2) or more uses, structures, or parcels of land may be satisfied by the same parking facilities used jointly, to the extent that the owners or operators show that the need for parking facilities does not materially overlap (e.g., uses primarily of a daytime versus nighttime nature; weekday uses versus weekend uses), and provided that the right of joint use is evidenced by a recorded deed, lease, contract, or similar written instrument establishing the joint use. The City may approve owner requests for shared parking through land use review.
(O) Varying Uses: If more than one type of land use occupies a single structure or parcel of land, the total requirements for off street automobile parking shall be the sum of the requirements for all uses, unless it can be shown that the peak parking demands are actually less (i.e., the uses operate on different days or at different times of the day). The City may reduce the total parking required accordingly through land use review.
(P) Residential Driveways: For residential driveways, see section 9.6.03 of this Code. (Ord. 907, 1-24-2013)