For any use not specified in this subchapter, the requirements for off-street parking for a specified use to which said use is most similar, as determined by the Plan Commission, shall apply. The parking space requirements set out in this subchapter may be modified or waived by the Plan Commission.
Uses | Required Parking Spaces |
Uses | Required Parking Spaces |
Automobile or trailer sales area | 1 per 1,000 sq. ft. of retail area |
Automobile sales and repair (indoor) | 1 per 200 sq. ft. of floor area |
Banks, business offices, professional services and similar service uses | 1 per 300 sq. ft. of floor area |
Boarding or lodging house, sorority, fraternity or student housing | 1 per 3 occupants |
Bowling alley | 3 per lane, plus 1 per 6 spectator seats |
Clinic, medical or dental | 1 per 100 sq. ft. of floor area |
Commercial recreational use | 1 per 1 employee, plus 1 per 200 sq. ft. of floor area |
Home occupation | 1 in addition to residence requirement |
Hospital, nursing or convalescent homes or homes for aged | 1 per 3 beds, plus 1 per 2 staff doctors plus 1 per employee, plus 1 per institutional vehicle on largest work shift |
Hotels, motels or motor hotels | 1 per employee, plus 1 per sleeping room |
House of worship/church | 1 for every 3 seating spaces in the largest gathering room. If the seating is in the form of pews of benches, every 2 feet of linear pew or bench seating shall be considered 1 seat. |
Industrial park, research and manufacturing | 1 per person estimated on premises at peak period during day or night |
Industrial uses generally | 1 per person estimated on premises at peak period during day or night |
Kindergarten or day nursery | 1 per employee, plus 1 per 5 children |
Manufactured or mobile home community (park) | 1 per 1 employee, plus 2 per manufactured or mobile home space |
Mortuary or mausoleum | 1 per 50 sq. ft. of floor area of parlors or assembly rooms |
Police or fire station | 1 per 1 employee on a shift |
Private club or lodge | 1 per 6 active members |
Private recreational development | 1 per customer, plus 1 per employee per shift |
Public library or town building | 1 per 200 sq. ft. of floor area |
Radio or television tower | 1 per employee per shift, plus 1 for a service vehicle |
Residential use, including apartments | 2 per dwelling unit |
Retail stores - heavy traffic generators, including, but not limited to, supermarkets and other food stores, restaurants, bars, night clubs, ice cream parlors, bakery, drug stores, beauty and barber shops, discount stores | 1 per 150 sq. ft. of floor area for an individual use or a combination of 2 or more uses in 1 structure or a shopping center of comparably integrated uses where all uses included do not exceed 50,000 sq. ft. of floor area |
Retail stores - light traffic generators, including, but not limited to, furniture, jewelry, gifts, hardware, appliance stores and the like, personal service shops, household or equipment repair shops, clothing and shoe repair shops, wearing apparel | 1 per 300 sq. ft. of floor area for an individual use or a combination of 2 or more uses in 1 structure or a shopping center of comparably integrated uses where all uses included do not exceed 50,000 sq. ft. of floor area. |
School | 1 per staff member, plus 1 per 6 auditorium seats |
Shopping center (over 50,000 sq. ft.) | 1 per 160 sq. ft. of floor area |
Theater | 1 per 3 seats |
Trade, vocational or business school | 1 per 3 students and 1 per staff member |
Truck freight terminal | 1 per employee, plus 4 for customers, plus truck capacity |
Veterinary hospital for small animals kennel | 1 per 3 animal spaces (cages or pens) |
Wholesaling, distributing, warehousing, storage, transfer firms, contractors, custom fabricators | 1 per 2 persons estimated on premises at peak period during day or night. Retail space in establishment shall require additional space specified for that type of retail establishment |
(2004 Code, § 7-1107) (Ord. 2022-08, passed 5-25-2022)