(a) Minimum requirements. In the interest of the health, safety and welfare of the general public and in the promotion and preservation of traffic safety, all buildings, structures and uses shall be provided with adequate off-street parking and off- street loading facilities in accordance with the parking and loading requirements of this section. Off-street parking and off-street loading areas shall be maintained to be structurally sound and neat and orderly in appearance and continued as part of the primary use of the site.
If the gross floor area of the principal structure on the site is expanded or enlarged, or if the use on the site is changed to one which would require a larger number of parking spaces than the previous use, then off-street parking serving the site shall be increased by the number of additional parking spaces required by the new use. Deficiencies in the number of required parking spaces shall not be increased. If an existing deficiency is maintains or reduced then the change of use may be approved.
Parking space computation shall be based on the gross floor area unless otherwise stipulated in the Land Development Code.
The minimum off-street parking spaces shall be provided in accordance with the following:
(1) Business, Office, Professional Office, Financial, Medical, Dental, Clinic, or retail uses. One space per 200 square feet of gross floor area or fraction thereof.
(2) Barbershops and beauty parlors. One space per 100 square feet of gross floor area or fraction thereof.
(3) Churches, temples or places of worship. One space for each three seats or seating places, or one space for each 150 square feet of gross floor area, or fraction thereof, of the main assembly hall, whichever is greater, based on maximum occupancy as determined by the fire marshal.
(4) Libraries, museums. One space for each 300 square feet of gross floor area, or fraction thereof, that is open to the public.
(5) Multi-family dwelling units. Two parking spaces per unit must be provided. At least one of these spaces must be fully enclosed.
(6) Restaurants, lounges, and other eating or drinking establishments. One space per 75 feet of gross floor area devoted to customer service.
(7) Single-family dwelling units. Enclosed parking space must be provided for at least two vehicles.
(8) Vocational, trade, and academic schools above ninth grade level: One space for every two students (computed on total student capacity as determined by the fire marshal and/or the State of Florida).
(9) Schools ninth grade level and below: one and 1/2 spaces for each classroom.
(10) Daycare/nurseries: one and one half spaces for each employee based on the number of employees determined by State licensing agency to be present when operating at full capacity.
(11) Bed and breakfast inns. One on-site parking space per guestroom and an additional two on-site parking spaces for the resident manager/innkeeper.
(12) Drug stores and pharmacies. One space for each 200 square feet of gross floor area or fraction thereof.
(13) Parking requirements for uses not specifically listed shall be determined by the Building Official based on the most similar use listed which is most similar in the number of automobile trips generated as computed using the most recent edition of the I.T.E. Trip Generation Manual.
(b) Location and design of off-street parking spaces for other than single-family residential dwellings and duplex residential structures.
(1) Parking spaces shall be located on the same property with the principal structure and use to be served, unless otherwise authorized by the Town Commission. Off-site parking may be authorized in the following instances:
a. Insufficient parking is available on the property containing the principal structure.
b. The off-site parking area is located a maximum of 300 feet to the property line as measured along a straight line from the closest point of each property to one another.
c. Compliance with all other applicable parking regulations are complied with.
d. No public right-of-way or other public property shall be used to meet the parking requirements.
(2) Sufficient on site space shall be provided to ensure for ingress and egress to parking spaces and internal traffic circulation.
a. Minimum design standards. Minimum dimensions of parking spaces shall be ten
feet (10') by twenty feet (20'). When a curb stop or curbing is used as a wheel stop for head-in parking, the twenty foot (20') dimension may be eighteen feet (18') of paving from the curb stop plus a two foot (2') overhang area. The overhang area shall not be counted as buffering or landscaping area to meet minimum landscape requirements.
b. Minimum ingress/egress. Parking areas shall have parking spaces meeting the standards set forth in subparagraph (2)a. above, and shall meet the following standards with regard to driveways or aisles through a parking lot.
(3) Required off-street parking areas for three or more automobiles shall have individual spaces marked and shall be so designed, maintained, and regulated in such a manner that no parking or maneuvering incidental to parking shall be on any public right-of-way, public street, walk, or alley, and so that any automobile may access and exit from the parking space without moving another automobile.
(c) Additional regulations.
(1) No truck over ¾-ton, trailer, major recreational equipment, travel van, boat or similar object may be parked in front of the front building line of a residence unless it is not visible from the street.
(2) Handicapped parking space requirements. Handicapped parking spaces shall be posted as per the Federal Highway Administration Uniform Traffic Code. The required number of handicapped parking spaces and design shall be as required by Florida Statutes.
(d) Off-street loading requirements. Loading space dimensions: length, 45 feet; width, 14 feet; and height, 14 feet. Sufficient maneuvering area shall be provided where it is anticipated that trucks or trailers exceeding 45 feet in length will be utilized in loading or unloading. Loading spaces shall be within the confines of the property.
(1) Every single-occupancy retail or office establishment permitted use having a floor area of 3,000 square feet or more, requiring the receipt or distribution by vehicles of materials and merchandise shall have at least one permanently maintained off-street loading space for each 3,000 square feet of gross floor area.
(2) Single-occupancy retail operations with a gross floor area of less than 3,000 square feet shall provide sufficient receiving space on the property so as not to hinder the fast movement of vehicles and pedestrians over a sidewalk, street or alley as determined by the Town Planner.
(3) All refuse and garbage shall be held in suitable containers at the rear of the front line of the structure for subsequent pickup.
(e) No off-street parking of vehicles is allowed except on hard surfaced areas. Hard surface shall include asphalt, concrete or other similar stabilizing material. Pervious surfacing material considered by the Planning and Zoning Board may be approved by the Town Commission as part of the site plan review and approval process where circumstances of use are conducive to this type of pavement. Marl is specifically prohibited for use in parking areas and driveways.
(f) Where artificial lighting of parking areas is provided, it shall be designed and arranged so as to shield public streets and adjacent properties from direct glare.
(`75 Code, Appendix A, Art. VII, § 1) (Ord. passed 9-26-72; Am. Ord. 83-3, passed 3-15-83; Am. Ord. 85-7, passed 11-12-85; Am. Ord. 87-02, passed 5-12-87; Am. Ord. 93-01, passed 3-10-93; Am. Ord. 94-01, passed 6-15-94; Am. Ord. 2003-04, adopted 12-17-03; Am. Ord. 2-2005, adopted 7-20-05; Am. Ord. 2014-08, passed 10-29-14; Am. Ord. 2017-05, adopted 12-20-17; Am. Ord. 2018-03, adopted 8-15-18; Am. Ord. 2019-06, adopted 1-15-20)