A. Space Requirements
The following matrix specifies the required minimum number of automobile spaces for a particular land use.
LAND USE | SPACES REQUIRED |
LAND USE | SPACES REQUIRED |
1. DWELLINGS | |
a. All Residential (houses, apartments, condominiums, townhouses, and mobile homes) | 2 per unit |
b. Hotel and Motel | 1.25 per room or suite, and 10 per 1000 sq. feet of floor area or 1 per 4 seats, whichever is greater for restaurant and lounge area |
c. Boarding and Rooming Houses, and Dormitories | 1 per each bedroom |
d. Travel Trailer Parks | 1 per unit |
2. PUBLIC ASSEMBLY | |
a. Churches, Temple, or Places of Worship | 1 per 4 seating spaces in main assembly area |
b. Fraternal Organization | 1 per 300 sq. feet of gross floor area |
c. Theater or Place of Assembly | 1 per 3 seats |
d. Day Care Facilities | 1 per staff member plus 1 space per 5 children (based on maximum capacity) |
e. Amusement Place, Dance Hall | 1 per 4 seats or 1 per 100 sq. feet of gross floor area, whichever is greater |
3. HEALTH FACILITIES | |
a. Nursing Homes | 1 per 4 beds, plus 1 per 4 employees |
b. Medical, Dental, and Health Offices and Clinics | 1 per 300 sq. feet gross floor area |
4. COMMERCIAL | |
a. Banks | 1 per 300 sq. feet gross floor area |
b. Food Store | 1 per 300 sq. feet gross floor area |
c. Food Stores with Gas Pump | 1 per 300 sq. feet gross floor area |
d. Automobile Service Station | 2 plus 4 spaces per service bay |
e. General Business, Commercial, or Personal Service Establishment Catering to Retail Trade | 1 per 300 sq. feet gross floor area |
f. Offices, Excluding Medical, Dental, and Health Clinics and Offices | 1 per 300 sq. feet gross floor area |
g. Eating and Drinking Establishments | 1 per 4 seats |
h. Take out establishments only | 1 per 200 sq. feet of gross floor area |
i. Shopping Centers | 1 per 300 sq. feet of gross floor area |
5. RECREATION | |
a. Marina | 0.5 per wet slip and 0.5 per dry slip |
6. INDUSTRIAL | |
a. Warehousing | 1 per 2000 sq. feet gross floor area |
b. Wholesale, Manufacture, Processing, or Assembly | 2 per 1000 sq. feet gross floor area. For each sq. foot up to 150,000 sq. feet plus 1 space per 1000 sq. feet for each sq. feet over 150,000 sq. feet of gross floor area |
7. MIXED USE | |
a. Mixed Use | Sum of individual categories |
Categories not listed above shall be established by the City Council based upon recommendations from the Planning and Zoning Board | |
B. Uses Not Specifically Listed in Matrix
Parking space requirements for a use not specifically listed in the matrix shall be derived from a use that most closely approximates the unlisted use.
C. Off-Street Parking Plan
A plan showing off-street parking shall be submitted and approved before a permit is issued for the construction of, or use of, the building or structure. This plan shall accurately show the number and location of spaces, their size access aisles, driveways, and required landscaping areas. This plan shall not include any City owned or City maintained right-of-way as part of the plan. The entire plan must be on the owner’s or developer’s property.
D. Spaces for Handicapped Persons
Any parking area to be used by the general public shall provide suitable, marked spaces for handicapped persons as required by the American National Standards Institute, (ANSI), A117.1, and by F.S. Chapter 553, Part II.
E. Joint Use and Off-Site Facilities
Parking spaces must be located and maintained on property abutting and contiguous of the building, structure, or use served. No parking spaces provided shall count as part of the spaces required for another building, structure, or use, unless the spaces are jointly provided by uses that are not normally open at the same time. If such a joint parking arrangement is proposed, the applicants must file a written notarized agreement assuring the retention of the joint parking arrangement with the application for a building permit.
F. Garbage Dumpsters
No Garbage dumpster shall be permitted to be placed in a required parking space. If a garbage dumpster is required, an additional space must be included in the Off-Street Parking Plan.
(Ord. 711, passed 2-5-2019; Ord. 804, passed 1-10-2023)