(A) Off-street parking required. At the time any building or structure is erected or enlarged, or increased in capacity, or any use is established, there shall be provided off-street parking spaces for automobiles in accordance with the following requirements; nonetheless, sufficient parking shall be provided off-street to avoid the necessity of parking on the street, except for certain areas designated by the county where off-street parking requirements cannot be met by past development and redevelopment and there are other programs in effect to mitigate the parking problem; or as may be required and established by conditional use permit.
(Prior Code, § 8-11-1)
(B) Size of parking space. The dimensions of each off-street parking space, exclusive of access drives or aisles, shall be at least nine feet by 20 feet for diagonal and 90-degree spaces; nine feet by 22 feet for parallel spaces, and the required size for accessible spaces.
(Prior Code, § 8-11-2)
(C) Access to individual parking space. Except for single-family and two-family dwellings, direct access to each parking space shall be from a private driveway and not from a public street. All parking spaces shall have independent access not blocked by another parking space or other obstacle.
(Prior Code, § 8-11-3)
(D) Number of parking spaces required.
(1) Reductions in calculations. When calculating the floor area of a building to establish parking requirements, reasonable reductions for hallways, closets and storage space, restrooms, kitchens and mechanical equipment may be deducted.
(2) Parking table.
Business or professional offices | 1 parking space for each 200 square feet of net usable or leasable floor area |
Churches with fixed seating | 1 parking space for each 3.5 fixed seats, or 1 parking space for each 7 feet of linear pew, whichever is greater |
Churches without fixed seats, sports arenas, auditoriums, theaters, assembly halls, meetings rooms | 1 parking space for each 3 seats of maximum seating capacity |
Dwellings | 2 parking spaces for each dwelling unit |
Furniture and appliance stores | 1 parking space for each 600 square feet of floor area |
Hospitals and clinics | 2 parking spaces for each bed, and/or examining room |
Hotels, motels, motor hotels | 1 space for each living or sleeping unit, plus parking space for all accessory uses as herein specified |
Nursing homes | 4 parking spaces, plus 1 space for each 5 beds |
Restaurants, taverns, private clubs and all other similar dining and/or drinking establishments | 1 parking space for each 3.5 seats or 1 parking space for each 100 square feet of floor area, whichever is greater |
In addition, drive-in facilities shall provide stacking area for at least 6 cars in a drive-through lane | |
Retail stores, except as provided in the provision for “furniture and appliance stores” of this table | 1 parking space for each 100 square feet of retail floor space |
In addition, convenience stores which sell gasoline shall provide stacking area for 6 cars in lanes serving the gas pumps, which stacking area may be considered to help fulfill the basic parking requirements | |
Shopping center or other groups of uses not listed above | 1 parking space for each 150 square feet of total floor space, or as determined by conditional use permit, but also including accessible parking spaces as required |
Wholesale establishments, warehouses, manufacturing establishments and all industrial uses | As determined by conditional use permit or by planned unit development requirements, if applicable, or by the Planning Commission, but in no case fewer than one space for each employee projected for the highest employment shift |
All other uses not listed above | As determined by conditional use permit based on the nearest comparable use standards |
(3) Sufficient parking required. Sufficient parking should be provided to ensure:
(a) Maximum utilization of the facilities on site will not unduly impose on neighbors’ rights in the vicinity;
(b) That in the future if there is a change of use that the parking is adequately related to the site so that a new use has a reasonable chance to provide satisfactory parking;
(c) Where the precise parking standards are not known or have proven unsatisfactory in other instances that care is given in the analysis of the parking requirements of the site and its proposed use to ensure a reasonable number of parking spaces that cannot become an excuse for failure of the use on the site to perform its function properly; and
(d) The intent of minimum parking requirements is that normal or competitive functions are not to be curtailed due to lack of sufficient parking and therefore the use or function of the principal user of the site fails or otherwise deteriorates.
(4) Analysis. It shall be the responsibility of the reviewing body to prepare its analysis of parking requirements in writing and make copies available to the property owner or lessee, and other parties of interest, as well as the governing body.
(Prior Code, § 8-11-4)
(E) Access requirements. Adequate ingress and egress to and from all uses shall be provided as follows.
(1) Residential lots. For each residential lot, not more than one access driveway which shall be a maximum of 40 feet wide at the street lot line, except lots with circular driveways and other special type circulation and parking, unless required to have a circular driveway to avoid backing onto the public right-of-way for safety purposes.
(2) Residential lots on major streets. Residential lots on major streets shall have circular driveways, on lot turnarounds or other provisions that facilitate vehicular traffic entering onto the public right-of-way in forward motion and eliminating all backing onto the public street or highway.
(3) Other than residential lots. Access shall be provided to meet the following requirements:
(a) Not more than two driveways shall be used for each 100 feet of frontage on any street, and signs provided prohibiting any vehicle from backing onto the street;
(b) No two of said driveways shall be closer to each other than 12 feet, and no driveway shall be closer to a side property line than three feet, except as modified by conditional use permit;
(c) Each driveway shall be not more than 35 feet wide, measured at right angles to the centerline of the driveway, except as increased by permissible curb return radii, or as established by conditional use permit. The entire flare of any return radius shall fall within the right-of-way;
(d) No driveway shall be closer than 50 feet to the point of intersection of two property lines at any street corner as measured along the property line, and no driveway shall extend across such extended property line; and
(e) On a street where there are no curbs or gutters, all driveways shall be well marked and protection provided the entire length of the frontage exclusive of the driveways as per approved plans.
(Prior Code, § 8-11-5)
(F) Maintenance of parking lots in Multi-family Residential, Commercial and Industrial Zones. Every parcel of land used as a public or private parking lot in any multi-family residential, commercial or industrial development shall be developed and maintained in accordance with the following requirements.
(1) Surfacing.
(a) Each off-street parking lot shall be surfaced with an asphaltic or cement or other binder pavement and permanently maintained so as to provide a dustless surface.
(b) The parking area shall be so graded as to dispose of all surface water.
(c) If such water is to be carried to adjacent streets, it shall be piped under sidewalks.
(2) Screening and fencing. The screening and fencing of a public or private parking lot in any multi-family residential, commercial or industrial development shall be in accordance with § 155.345 of this code.
(3) Landscaping. Each parking lot shall be adequately landscaped to comply with a plan approved by the land use authority and such landscaping shall be permanently maintained.
(4) Lighting. Lighting used to illuminate any parking lot shall be arranged to reflect the light away from adjoining residential premises and from street traffic.
(5) Prior existing parking lots. Parking lots created with other than an asphaltic or cement surface or other binder pavement prior to October 2012, may be maintained with the original paving surface.
(6) Expansion of existing parking lots. Whenever an existing parking lot created and surfaced with other than an asphaltic or cement surface or other binder pavement prior to October 2012, is expanded or is required to be expanded because of changes of use or additional parking needs, the entire parking lot must be brought up to the surfacing standards required in division (F)(1) above.
(Prior Code, § 8-11-6)
(G) Location of off-street parking. Off-street parking shall not be allowed in required front yard setbacks, except by conditional use permit and then only in areas where the character of the street and general landscaping plan will not be adversely affected.
(Prior Code, § 8-11-7)
(Ord. 12-13, passed 12-4-2012)