(a) Off-street parking and loading facilities accessory to an existing use on the effective date of this Zoning Code, and those required as accessory to a use created or a building constructed or altered thereafter, shall be continued and maintained in operation, and shall not be used for automobile sales or service or repair of motor vehicles, and shall not be reduced below the requirements of this Zoning Code during the period that the main use is maintained, unless an equivalent number of spaces shall be provided for such use in another approved location.
(b) Should any main use change whereby it remains within the same zoning district but, because of the change in use, the required number of off-street parking spaces increases, off-street parking shall be required so that the new use conforms to the schedule of parking requirements set forth in Section 1282.05 and the length and width requirements of Section 1282.12.
(c) Wherever parking facilities are permitted on land other than the lot on which the building or use served is located, such facilities shall be in the same ownership as the lot occupied by the building or use to which the parking facilities are accessory. Such ownership shall be by deed or a long-term lease agreement, whereby the owner of the land on which the parking facilities are to be located shall be bound by a covenant filed and recorded in the office of the County Recorder, requiring each such owner, and his or her heirs or assigns, to maintain the required number of parking facilities for the duration of the use as a precedent to the continuation of such use.
(Ord. 08-111. Passed 9-2-08.)