A. Use Of Parking Spaces: Except as otherwise provided herein, required off street parking shall be used solely for parking for patrons, occupants, guests, visitors or employees of the premises on the same lot.
B. Collective Provision: Required parking spaces for different uses may be provided collectively. Except as provided herein for shopping centers, the total number of spaces so provided shall not be less than the sum of the spaces required for each separate use. No space shall serve as the required space for more than one use.
C. Parking For Shopping Centers: The number of parking spaces required for retail and personal service uses located in a shopping center shall be as provided for shopping centers in section 11-12-4, table 4 of this chapter, rather than the sum of the spaces required for the individual uses. Except that the number of spaces for restaurants, taverns and drive-in facilities located in a shopping center, and for any establishment occupying over fifty percent (50%) of the gross leasable area of the center, shall be as provided in section 11-12-4, table 4 of this chapter, for these individual uses and shall be added to the number of spaces required under the provisions for shopping centers for the balance of the uses in the center.
D. Surfacing Of Parking Areas: All open off street parking areas and related vehicular access drives and aisles shall be surfaced with a blacktop, sealcoat, brick or concrete all weather pavement. Any expansion or extension of such areas shall be surfaced with the same materials as the original installation, except that no expansion of an existing gravel parking area shall be permitted. Other than as provided for in this title, parking, displaying, maintaining and/or storing vehicles on grass is prohibited.
E. Wheel Guards: Where more than four (4) parking spaces abut on a sidewalk, wheel guards, bumper guards or curbs shall be installed with respect to such spaces so as to prevent parked vehicles from extending beyond the parking surface.
F. Fuel Sales In Parking Areas: Fuel or motor oil may be sold in an off street parking area only to users thereof and only within a completely enclosed building with no advertising sign visible from the outside, and with all fuel pumps screened from the view of the street. No fuel or oil shall be sold in a parking area in a Residential District.
G. Location Of Parking Spaces:
1. On Same Lot: Required off street parking for single-family detached and attached dwellings shall be provided on the same lot as the use served. Required parking for other uses may also be provided on a separate lot that is in the same possession, by deed or lease, so long as the nearest point of the parking area thereupon is within three hundred feet (300') walking distance of the nearest entrance to the use served.
2. In Yards:
a. Required off street parking for single-family detached and attached, and townhouse dwellings, may be located in front, side and rear yards.
b. It may be located forward of the actual building line opposite a front or corner side lot line the front of the dwelling faces, only if the parking is located entirely on a driveway.
c. Required off street parking for other uses may be located in required front, side and rear yards in all districts, subject to the requirements for parking screening strips in chapter 13, “Landscaping And Screening”, of this title.
d. No off street parking for any nonsingle-family residential use is permitted within any required yard abutting property in an RS District. No parking for any nonresidential use is permitted within any required yard abutting property in any Residential District.
H. Parking Of Recreational Vehicles And Trailers:
1. Residential Districts:
a. Only one recreational vehicle or trailer shall be permitted in the required front yard or required corner side yard, as defined in section 11-3-1 of this title.
b. Trailers and recreational vehicles must be properly licensed.
c. Additional recreational vehicles and trailers shall be maintained, kept, stored and/or parked on an approved solid parking surface no less than the minimum dimensions of the vehicle or trailer being parked thereon, but in no case shall the parking surface be less than nine feet by eighteen feet (9' x 18').
d. Said parking surface shall be constructed of paved, permanent, dust-free, homogenous material or brick pavers provided the parking surface does not allow grass or other vegetation to grow within, on or above the solid parking surface unless approved by the Zoning Administrator.
e. Said parking surface shall be required to connect to the right-of-way.
2. Other Districts: There shall be no restrictions on parking of recreational vehicles in Nonresidential Districts, other than those concerning outdoor storage.
I. Parking Of Commercial Vehicles:
1. Residential Districts:
a. No commercial vehicle, as defined in section 11-3-1 of this title, exceeding nine feet (9') in height and twenty five feet (25') in length may be parked and/or stored in a Residential Zoning District. Exterior ladders and any appurtenances on top of the vehicle shall be excluded from the height calculation. The following commercial vehicles are expressly prohibited from being parked and/or stored in a Residential Zoning District: stake bed trucks, box trucks, dump trucks, boom trucks, earth moving equipment, tow trucks, step vans, semitractor cabs with or without a trailer, and any vehicle in excess of ten thousand (10,000) pounds.
b. No more than one commercial vehicle, as defined in section 11-3-1 of this title, that does not exceed nine feet (9') in height and twenty five feet (25') in length may be parked and/or stored on a premises in a Residential Zoning District in accordance with the regulations for parking and/or storing of vehicles in a Residential Zoning District contained in this title.
2. Nonresidential Districts: No commercial vehicle, as defined in section 11-3-1 of this title, may be parked or stored in a Commercial or Office District, other than in a completely enclosed garage unless it is used in a business located on the same premises or is being parked temporarily by a customer, supplier, contractor or visitor, or for loading, unloading, moving, or construction, maintenance or repair of the premises.
J. Driveways: Refer to title 12, chapter 9, “Driveways And Parking Lots”, of this Code.
K. Bicycle Parking: All uses providing over twenty five (25) spaces shall provide space and facilities for bicycle parking. This provision is not applicable to properties zoned Business Park or Industrial District classifications.
(Ord. 86-382, 12-22-1986; Ord. 91-553; Ord. 10-1021; Ord. 10-1022; Ord. 12-1059; Ord. 21-3, 1-18-2021)