The following requirements are provided so that the required off-street parking facilities will be developed in such a manner as to interfere as little as possible with the use of neighboring properties and with vehicular traffic on neighboring streets.
(a) Required off-street parking facilities shall be located on the same lot as the main building or use served.
(b) Required off-street parking spaces shall be provided as follows:
(1) When there is more than one shift in operation, the required spaces shall be related to the number of employees on the combined major and secondary shifts.
(2) For executive offices and sales offices, one space shall be required per 200 square feet of office floor area.
(3) For all other permitted uses, one space shall be required for each 1.5 employees or one space for each 300 square feet of building floor area, whichever is greater.
(4) If the application of the standards set forth in this subsection as to the number of employees results in fewer parking spaces than required by the application of the standards set forth in this subsection as to the square feet of buildings, the Planning and Zoning Commission may permit the construction of the lesser number of spaces. However, the additional area required to provide the number of spaces under the square feet of building standard shall be reserved and held as open area, exclusive of all required yard areas, for future construction of parking spaces when the number of employees in the building increases.
(5) Where the computation of required off-street parking spaces results in a fractional unit, one additional off-street parking space shall be provided.
(c) The gross floor area of a building is the total area of all the floors, including the basement, measured from the exterior faces of the building.
(d) A parking space shall be not less than 180 square feet (nine feet by twenty feet) exclusive of drives and turning spaces.
(e) All parking areas and driveways shall be surfaced with asphalt, concrete or another similar hard surface as approved by Council.
All parking areas and driveways shall provide adequate drainage so that all water is contained within the lot on which the parking area or driveway is located in such a manner that water does not drain across other private property.
Adequate bumper guards or curbs shall be provided to establish the limits of the parking area except at exits and entrances. Such guards or curbs shall restrain the vehicles so that no part of a parked vehicle shall project into that portion of a required yard in which off-street parking is prohibited.
(f) The location and width of entrance and exit driveways to parking facilities shall be planned, whenever possible, so that the centerline of the access driveways on the frontage street of a corner lot shall be at least forty feet from the right-of-way line of the nearest intersecting street. Whenever possible, driveways shall be spaced at not less than 120-foot intervals, measured from the centerline of the driveways.
Entrances and exits shall be limited to three lanes.
Entrances to and exits from a U-5 District shall be limited to streets along which the frontage is located in a U-5 or U-4A District. The width of such entrances and exits shall conform to the following schedule:
Width (ft.) | ||
Minimum | Maximum | |
One lane | 10 | 12 |
Two lanes | 18 | 24 |
Three lanes | 27 | 33 |
In all cases, the radius of the edge of the apron shall be at least fifty feet so that a car may enter or leave the curb lane without obstructing vehicles in other traffic lanes. The maximum curb cut shall be limited to the width of the entrance or exit plus each radius of the apron.
(g) Sources of light for the illumination of buildings or grounds shall be shielded so as not to be objectionable or hazardous to owners of adjacent property or to public streets.
(Ord. 1970-25. Passed 8-5-70.)