(a) General.
(1) Required. In connection with every use, there shall be provided, at the time any building or structure is erected, or at any time any use of land is extended, off-street parking spaces for automobiles in accordance with the requirements specified in Section 1163.03.
(2) Minimum size. Each off-street parking space shall contain an area of not less than 160 square feet exclusive of access drives and aisles, and shall be of usable shape and condition.
(3) Access. In any district, there shall be no driveway entrance hereafter constructed with, or altered to, a width of less than ten feet or more than twenty-six feet at the curb or roadway, and no driveway shall hereafter be constructed with, or widened to, a width greater at the property line than at the curb or roadway; driveway entrances on any lot shall not hereafter be constructed or widened to occupy more than an aggregate of twenty-six feet of such lot’s frontage on the same street, and on any lot which has or shall have more than one driveway entrance, from all abutting streets combined, no such entrance or part thereof shall hereafter be provided within thirty feet from the adjacent side line of the nearest such entrance on the same lot.
(4) Type. Parking space for all types of uses may be provided either in garages or parking areas conforming to the provisions of this Zoning Code.
(b) Location of Parking Facilities. Except as otherwise provided in the applicable district use regulation, required off-street parking facilities shall be located on the same lot as the principal building or on a lot within 500 feet thereof. The distance specified herein and the distances specified in the district use regulations shall be measured from the nearest point of the parking facility to the nearest point of the lot occupied by the building or use that such facility is required to serve.
(c) Units of Measurement. For the purposes of determining off-street parking requirements, the following units of measurement shall apply:
(1) Floor area. In the case of use, where floor area is the unit for determining the required number of off-street parking spaces, such unit shall mean the gross floor area, except that such floor area need not include any floor area used for parking within the principal building and need not include any area used for incidental service storage, installations of mechanical equipment, penthouses, ventilators, and heating systems and similar uses.
(2) Hospital bassinets. In hospitals, bassinets shall not be counted as beds.
(3) Places of public assembly.
A. Benches. In stadiums, sports arenas, churches and other places of assembly in which those in attendance occupy benches, pews or other similar seating facilities, each eighteen inches of such seating facilities shall be counted as one seat for the purpose of determining the off-street parking requirements of this Zoning Code.
B. Fixed seats and assembly area. In cases where a place of assembly has both fixed seats and open assembly area, requirements shall be computed separately for each type and added together.
(4) Fractions. When units of measurement determining the number of required parking spaces result in requirement of a fractional space, any fraction up to and including one-half shall be disregarded and fractions of over one-half shall require one parking space.
(d) (1) Additions and Enlargements. Whenever any enlargement of building or extension of land use results in an increase in the number of units used to measure required off-street parking spaces, and such alteration or change creates a need for an increase of more than ten percent (10%) in the number of required off-street parking spaces, additional off-street parking shall be provided on the basis of the increase in the number of such units of measurement, provided, however, that in case a change or increase in use creates a need for an increase of less than five off-street parking spaces, no additional parking facilities shall be required.
(2) Exceptions. In the case of additional dwelling units created by conversion of an existing dwelling one off-street parking space shall be required for each additional dwelling unit so created.
(e) Mixed Occupancies and Uses Not Specified. In the case of mixed use, the total requirements for off-street parking facilities shall be the sum of the requirements for the various uses computed separately. Where a use is not specifically mentioned, the requirements for a use which is so mentioned and to which said use is similar shall apply. Off-street parking facilities for one use shall not be considered as providing requirements for any other use, except as specified for joint use.
(f) Collective Provision. Where permitted by the applicable district use regulations, nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent provision of collective off-street parking facilities for two or more buildings or uses. In cases of collective uses for other than dwelling units, the required total of such off-street parking spaces supplied collectively shall be not less then eighty-five percent (85%) of the sum of the requirements computed separately, provided, further, that the applicable district use regulations shall be complied with. In cases of collective usage involving dwelling units, parking spaces shall be provided at the rate of one per dwelling unit.
(g) Joint Use of Facilities. Off-street parking facilities required for churches shall be reduced by fifty percent (50%) where such churches:
(1) Abut, either directly or across a street or alley, a nonresidence district; or
(2) Are located within a nonresidence district; or
(3) Abut a parking lot serving a business or industrial use in a nonresidence district.
(Ord. 1135. Passed 11-26-84.)