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CITY OF NORTH ROYALTON, OHIO CODIFIED ORDINANCES
DIRECTORY OF OFFICIALS (2024)
COMPARATIVE SECTION TABLE
COMPARATIVE SECTION TABLE - ZONING
CHARTER OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF NORTH ROYALTON, OHIO
PART TWO - ADMINISTRATION CODE
PART FOUR - TRAFFIC CODE
PART SIX - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
PART EIGHT - BUSINESS REGULATION AND TAXATION CODE
PART TEN - STREETS, UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART TWELVE - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
TITLE TWO - Planning
TITLE FOUR - Subdivision Regulations
TITLE SIX - Zoning
CHAPTER 1260 General Provisions and Definitions
CHAPTER 1262 Administration, Enforcement and Penalty
CHAPTER 1264 Board of Zoning Appeals
CHAPTER 1266 Amendments
CHAPTER 1268 Districts Generally and Zoning Map
CHAPTER 1270 Residential Districts (Other Than Senior Citizen and Rural Residential Districts)
CHAPTER 1272 Senior Citizen District
CHAPTER 1273 Rural Residential Districts
CHAPTER 1274 Public Facilities Districts
CHAPTER 1276 Business Districts
CHAPTER 1278 Industrial Districts
CHAPTER 1280 Planned Unit Developments (Repealed)
CHAPTER 1281 Traditional Town Center/Main Street District (TCD)
CHAPTER 1282 Off-Street Parking and Loading
CHAPTER 1284 Signs
CHAPTER 1286 Nonconforming Uses
CHAPTER 1288 Buffering
Appendix I: Illustrations of Yard Regulations for Multifamily Dwellings
Appendix II: Parking Area Design Standards
Appendix III: Illustrations of Yards and Building Line
CHAPTER 1290 Wireless Telecommunications Facilities
CHAPTER 1292 Wind Energy Turbines
COMPARATIVE SECTION TABLE
PART FOURTEEN - BUILDING AND HOUSING CODE
PART SIXTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
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1282.11 ILLUMINATION OF PARKING AREAS.
   A lighting system shall be installed on all off-street parking areas. This lighting system shall be designed to produce a minimum maintained average light level of one-half foot-candle on the entire parking facility's horizontal surface, including the parking spaces, the loading spaces and the vehicular and pedestrian circulation areas. The system shall have a maximum brightness ratio of 6 to 1. The lighting fixtures shall be hooded and so arranged and controlled as not to cause a nuisance either to highway traffic or adjacent properties. When the parking facility is open to the public during darkness, this lighting system shall be operating sufficiently to produce the required minimum of one-half foot-candle. All lighting designs are subject to review and approval by the City Planning Commission.
(Ord. 08-111. Passed 9-2-08; Ord. 13-152. Passed 2-4-14.)
1282.12 PARKING SPACE AND AISLE SIZES.
   (a)   Standard Spaces and Aisles. Each standard parking space and the associated aisle shall meet the following minimum dimensions, except in the case of spaces designated as accessible:
 
Stall Angle & Size
Aisle (ft)
Angle
Length (ft)
Width (ft)
90°
19
9
24
60°
19
9
15
45°
19
12
12
parallel
23
9
12
 
   (b)   Accessible Parking Spaces. Off-street parking spaces reserved for individuals with disabilities shall be provided and designed to meet state requirements. The number, location, configuration and designation of accessible spaces shall comply with the most current iteration of "Accessible and Usable Buildings and Facilities," as adopted by the State of Ohio.
(Ord. 08-111. Passed 9-2-08; Ord. 20-40. Passed 4-7-20.)
1282.13 TABLE OF DESIGN DIMENSION FOR VARIOUS PARKING ANGLES. (REPEALED)
   (EDITOR’S NOTE: Section 1282.13 was repealed by Ordinance No. 20-40, passed April 7, 2020.)
1282.14 LOADING FACILITIES.
   Accessory loading and unloading facilities shall be provided as a condition precedent to occupancy of all business, service and industrial buildings hereafter erected and altered, and shall be maintained as long as such a building is occupied or unless equivalent facilities are provided in conformity with this chapter.
   (a)   Allocation of Use. Space required and allocated for any off-street loading facility shall not, while so allocated, be used to satisfy the space requirements for off-street parking. An off-street loading space shall not be used for repairing or servicing motor vehicles.
   (b)   Location of Facility. All required accessory loading facilities shall be related to the building and use to be served to provide for loading and unloading of delivery trucks and other service vehicles, and shall be so arranged that they may be used without blocking or otherwise interfering with the use of accessways, parking facilities, public streets or sidewalks. A required loading space shall not face or be visible from the frontage street and shall not be located in a required front yard, or in a required side or rear yard if adjoining a Residential District, unless entirely enclosed and approved by the Planning Commission.
   (c)   Access Driveways. Each required off-street loading space shall be designed for direct vehicular access by means of a driveway or driveways to a public street in a manner which will least interfere with adjacent traffic movements and interior circulation. The access drive of an off- street loading facility shall be located so that the driveway centerline shall be not less than 50 feet from the nearest intersecting street right-of-way line.
   (d)   Improvements. All accessory off-street loading spaces shall be improved as required for parking areas as set forth in Section 1282.10.
   (e)   Minimum Size Criteria. A required off-street loading space shall be at least 12 feet wide by at least 40 feet in length. The above area shall be exclusive of the maneuvering space, and each loading facility shall have a vertical clearance of at least 15 feet. Buildings of less than 5,000 square feet of floor area shall be provided with receiving platforms or other commensurate facilities.
   (f)    Truck Loading Spaces. A truck loading space shall be an accessible rectangle having a width of 12 feet and a length of 40 feet. Any overhead obstruction shall have a vertical clearance of 15 feet.
   (g)   Schedule of Required Loading Facilities. Accessory off-street loading spaces shall be provided as required herein for the following uses:
 
Use
Gross Floor Area of Building (sq. ft.)
Required No. of Spaces
Retail stores, all types
Under 20,000
1
20,000 to 50,000
2
50,001 to 100,000
3
 
 
Use
Gross Floor Area of Building (sq. ft.)
Required No. of Spaces
Printing and/or publishing warehouses or storage establishments
Under 40,000
1
40,000 to 100,000
2
Servicing, cleaning, repairing, testing or manufacturing establishments
Under 40,000
1
40,000 to 100,000
2
Each additional 100,000
1 additional space
 
(Ord. 08-111. Passed 9-2-08.)
1282.15 DRIVEWAYS TO PARKING AREAS.
   The location, width and number of entrance and exit driveways serving accessory parking facilities, drive-in businesses, fee parking lots and public parking lots, shall be planned in such a manner as to interfere as little as possible with the use of adjacent property and the flow of traffic on the streets to which they connect.
   Parking areas of up to 20 spaces shall have at least one two-lane driveway located at least 50 feet from the right-of-way line of the nearest intersecting street.
   Parking areas of more than 20 spaces should, if possible, have two two-lane driveways located not less than 50 feet from the right-of-way line of the nearest intersecting street.
   Entrance or exit driveways shall not exceed three lanes in width and be designed so that all cars can be driven forward into the street. The width of such driveways, measured at the street right-of-way line, shall conform with the following schedule:
 
Width of Driveway
Number of Lanes
Minimum (ft.)
Maximum (ft.)
One
10
12
Two
18
24
Three
27
36
 
   The angle of intersection between the driveway and the street shall be between 70 degrees and 90 degrees. The radii of the edge of the driveway apron shall be at least 20 feet.
   (a)   Design Criteria. Driveway approach designs shall be approved by the Planning Commission for developments for which all parking spaces are provided. Driveway approaches on public streets may not be used to furnish circulation from one row of parking to an adjacent row of parking. This traffic circulation must be provided on private property.
   (b)   Backing onto Public Rights-of-Way is Prohibited. Backing a vehicle onto or from public rights- of-way is prohibited in all areas except one- and two-family residential areas located on streets that are classified as local or collector streets. Parking spaces shall be designed and arranged so that all maneuvering movements are on the private property.
   (c)   Access to Parking Spaces. All parking spaces must have convenient ingress and egress. Aisle lanes shall be clear and specifically delineated as necessary. All access to individual parking spaces shall be from aisle lanes within the parking facility or from a public alley. Final approval of aisle widths that are designated as fire lanes shall be determined by the North Royalton Fire Department and approved by the Planning Commission.
   Note: An aisle way which provides direct access to parking stalls shall be a one-way aisle, except for parking stalls which are perpendicular or parallel to the aisle way, and where opposing directions are each provided in separate bays (two W-1 bays, see Section 1282.13(a)) or an opposing aisle is at least 13 feet wide in addition to W-1.
   The parking space shall be designed so that the total process of entering and leaving a parking space shall be accomplished in no more movements than two forward and one reverse. No backing maneuver from a parking stall shall conflict or block the public street driveway approach. With the exception of parking facilities having attendant parking, designing of a parking space so as to require the movement of a vehicle to permit entry or exit from another parking space is not permitted.
(Ord. 08-111. Passed 9-2-08.)
1282.16 APPROVAL OF FACILITIES.
   (a)   Detailed drawings of accessory off-street parking and loading facilities shall be submitted in accordance with all the provisions of this chapter for review by the Planning Commission.
   (b)   The Planning Commission may require structural or landscape features such as bumper guards, curbs, walls, fences, shrubs, ground cover or hedges to further carry out the objectives of the Master Plan and of this Zoning Code before an application is approved and before a building permit or certificate of occupancy may be issued.
(Ord. 08-111. Passed 9-2-08.)
1282.17   LANDSCAPING AND SCREENING.
   In the case of a new parking lot, the parking lot shall be landscaped to meet the standards of this section. In the case of an expanded parking lot, the existing and new sections of the parking lot shall both be landscaped to meet the standards of this section if the expansion area is more than twenty percent of the area of the existing parking lot. Otherwise, the requirement applies only to the expanded area of the parking lot.
   (a)   Street Frontages. In any area where a parking lot adjoins a public street right-of-way, a landscaped frontage strip at least six feet in depth, measured inward from the street right-of-way line, shall be placed on the private property. The frontage strip shall be planted with deciduous trees, at least two inches in caliper, spaced no more than forty feet apart, and evergreen and/or flowering shrubs at least two feet in height, spaced no more than four feet apart, as measured on centers.
   (b)   Islands. In a parking lot or parking lot area with ten or more parking spaces, landscaped islands, each at least 100 square feet in area, bordered by concrete curbs, shall be provided so that there are no more than twenty parking spaces in a continuous row, unbroken by a landscape island. At least one deciduous tree shall be planted in each island, with each tree at least two inches in caliper.
   (c)   Property Lines. A parking lot shall be bordered by a transition strip wherever the adjoining property is in residential zoning district. The transition strip shall be located on the property of the parking lot and shall be at least six feet in depth, measured inward from the property line. The transition strip shall be planted with deciduous or evergreen trees, at least six feet in height, spaced no more than fifteen feet apart, as measured on centers, and evergreen and/or flowering shrubs at least four feet in height, spaced no more than four feet apart, as measured on centers. An ornamental masonry wall of board-on-board wood fence, at six feet in heights, if approved by the Planning Commission, may be substituted for the required shrubbery.
   (d)   Landscape Irrigation. All landscaped areas shall be provided with mechanical irrigation systems, such systems shall be designed so as not to interfere with traffic on any public right-of-way.
(Ord. 20-40. Passed 4-7-20.)