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This Section applies to an off-street parking facility for a special exception use that is located in a one-family residential zone if 3 or more parking spaces are provided. These standards are intended to mitigate potential adverse visual, noise, and environmental impacts of parking facilities on adjacent properties. In addition, these requirements improve the compatibility and attractiveness of parking facilities, promote pedestrian-friendly streets, and provide relief from un-shaded paved areas.
(a) Location. Parking facilities must be located to maintain a residential character and a pedestrian-friendly street orientation.
(b) Setbacks. Each parking and loading facility, including each entrance and exit driveway, must be set back a distance not less than the applicable building front and rear yard and twice the building side yard required in the zone. The following additional setbacks must be provided for each parking facility:
(1) if 150 to 199 parking spaces are provided, the required side and rear parking facility setbacks must be increased by 5 feet;
(2) if 200 or more parking spaces are provided, the required side and rear parking facility setbacks must be increased by 10 feet.
(c) Screening. Each parking and loading facility, including driveway and dumpster areas, must be effectively screened from all abutting lots. Screening must be provided in a manner that is compatible with the area’s residential character. Screening must be at least 6 feet high, and must consist of evergreen landscaping, a solid wood fence, a masonry wall, a berm, or a combination of them. Along all street right-of-ways screening of any parking and loading facility must be at least 3 feet high and consist of evergreen landscaping, a solid wood fence, or masonry wall.
(d) Shading of paved areas. Trees must be planted and maintained throughout the parking facility to assure that at least 30 percent of the paved area, including driveways, are shaded. Shading must be calculated by using the area of the tree crown at 15 years after the parking facility is built.
(e) Compliance Requirement. For any cumulative enlargement of a surface parking facility that is greater than 50% of the total parking area approved before May 6, 2002, the entire off-street parking facility must be brought into conformance with this Section.
An existing surface parking facility included as part of a special exception granted before May 6, 2002, is a conforming use.
(Legislative History: Ord. No. 10-32, § 10; Ord. No. 11-27, § 2; Ord. No. 14-25, § 4; Ord. No. 14-47, § 1.)