(A) Access. Parking areas shall be designed so as to provide adequate means of access to a public alley or street. Such driveway access shall not exceed twenty-four (24) feet in width for residential districts and for other districts shall be allowed pursuant to site plan approval by the city. Properties within residential districts shall be limited to two (2) accesses and a minimum of six (6) feet is required between accesses. Accesses shall be located so as to cause the least interference with traffic movement and shall be no closer than two (2) feet from side lot lines, except for those properties with an approved zero (0) foot lot line.
(B) Size of parking spaces. Each parking space shall be not less than nine (9) feet wide and nineteen (19) feet in length exclusive of an adequately designed system of access drives.
(C) Drive aisles. Drive aisles shall be no less than twenty six (26) feet in width.
(D) Fractional spaces. When the determining of the number of off-street parking spaces results in a fraction, each fraction of one-half (1/2) or more shall constitute another space.
(E) Signs. No signs shall be located in any parking area except as necessary for orderly operation of traffic movement.
(F) Surfacing. All new parking areas and driveways shall be hard surfaced in order to control dust and drainage. Allowable surfacing materials include bituminous, concrete, or other materials as approved by the Public Works Director. Parking areas designed for fewer than three (3) vehicles shall be exempt from the hard surfacing requirement; however, all parking areas and driveways shall be hard surfaced a minimum of fifty (50) feet as measured from the nearest edge of the public roadway. If the public roadway is not hard surfaced, the driveway need not be hard surfaced until such time that the property owner is given notice to do so by the city. Notice will be given by the city within thirty (30) days of the public roadway being hard surfaced. The notice shall specify a required completion date which shall not be less than three (3) months nor more than one (1) year from the date of the notice. At any time that a property owner installs a new garage, adds on to an existing garage or replaces a garage, the hard surfacing requirement shall be enforced. Plans for surfacing and drainage are subject to city review and approval. A surfacing deposit, in an amount set forth by the City Council from time to time, shall be paid to the city at the time of building permit issuance for any property owner developing a vacant property, installing a new garage, adding on to an existing garage or replacing an old garage. The payment shall be made in the form of cash, letter of credit, or other means as approved by the city. Upon completion of the hard surfacing, the deposit shall be refunded. Surfacing shall be completed within one (1) year of building permit issuance or the deposit shall be forfeited.
(G) Lighting. Any lighting used to illuminate an off-street parking area shall be so designed and arranged as to reflect the light away from adjacent property.
(H) Curbing and landscaping. All open off-street parking areas designed to have head-in parking along the property line shall provide a bumper curb not less than three (3) feet from the side property line or guard of normal bumper height not less than one (1) foot from the side property line. When said area is for six (6) spaces or more, a curb or fence not over six (6) feet in height shall be erected along the front yard set back line with grass or planting occupying the space between the sidewalk and curb or fence.
(I) Fence required. When a required off-street parking area for six (6) or more vehicles is located adjacent to an R district a fence of adequate design, not over six (6) feet in height nor less than three and one-half (3-1/2) feet in height, shall be erected along the R district property line. Landscaping techniques approved by the city may be used to accomplish a buffer in lieu of fencing between the parking lot and the R district.
(J) Maintenance of off-street parking space. It shall be the joint responsibility of the operator and owner of the principal use, uses or building to maintain, in a neat and adequate manner, the parking area, access ways, landscaping and required fences.
(K) R districts. Required off-street parking spaces/areas in the R-1, R-2, R-3 and R-4 districts shall be on the same lot as the principal building.
(L) Commercial vehicle parking. Off-street parking facilities accessory to residential use shall be utilized solely for the parking of passenger automobiles or one (1) truck not to exceed one and one-half (1-1/2) ton capacity for each dwelling unit. Under no circumstance shall required parking facilities accessory to residential structures be used for the storage of commercial vehicles or for the parking of automobiles belonging to the employees, owners, tenants or customers of business or manufacturing establishments.
(M) Prohibited use of parking area. Required off-street parking space in any district shall not be utilized for open storage of goods or for the storage of recreational vehicles and campers and vehicles which are inoperable or for sale or rent.
(N) Recreational vehicle parking. Off street parking facilities utilized for recreational vehicles, including but not limited to RVs, campers and boats, shall have an improved, durable surface.
(Ord. 395, passed 7-6-2010) Penalty, see § 150.999