(A) Intent. Off-street parking and loading requirements and regulations are established in order to achieve, among others, the following purposes:
(1) To relieve congestion so the streets can be utilized more fully for movement of vehicular traffic;
(2) To promote the safety and convenience of pedestrians and shoppers by locating parking areas so as to lessen car movements in the vicinity of intensive pedestrian traffic;
(3) To protect adjoining residential neighborhoods from on-street parking;
(4) To promote the general convenience, welfare and prosperity of business, service, research, production and manufacturing developments which depend upon off-street parking facilities; and
(5) To provide regulations and standards for the development of accessory off-street parking and loading facilities in accordance with the objectives of the zoning code.
(B) Scope of regulations. Accessory off-street parking and loading facilities shall be provided as a condition precedent to occupancy of all residential, institutional, business, office, research, production, service and industrial uses in conformance with the provisions of this section:
(1) Whenever a building is constructed or a new use established;
(2) Whenever an existing building is altered and there is an increase in the number of dwelling units, seating capacity, the floor areas of buildings; and
(3) Whenever the use of an existing building is changed to a more intensive use which requires more off-street parking facilities, except certain nonconforming uses may continue as provided in § 155.32.
(C) Measurement of parking and loading units. For the purpose of determining the off-street parking and loading facilities required as accessory to a use, definitions and standards are established as follows.
(1) OFF-STREET PARKING SPACE shall mean an open or enclosed area directly accessible from a public street for parking of automobiles of owners, occupants, employees, customers or tenants of the main use. Each space shall be directly accessible from a drive or aisle, not less than eight feet wide by 20 feet long, exclusive of all drives, aisles, ramps and turning space.
(2) FLOOR AREA USED IN DETERMINING PARKING REQUIREMENTS shall mean the total area of all the floors of the building used by the principal activity as specified in division (E) below, measured from the exterior faces of the building. The areas used for storage or otherwise not occupied by people may be excluded from the floor area calculation if approved by the Planning Commission.
(3) GROSS FLOOR AREA USED IN DETERMINING LOADING REQUIREMENTS means the total floor area used for the main and accessory activities, and storage areas of the building served.
(4) SEATING CAPACITY means the number of seating units installed or indicated on plans for places of assembly; where not indicated on plans it shall be assumed that a seating unit will occupy six square feet of floor area exclusive of all aisles.
(5) EMPLOYEES wherever the parking requirement is based on employees, it shall mean the maximum number of employees on duty on the premises at one time or on any two successive shifts, whichever is the greater.
(6) OFF-STREET LOADING SPACE shall mean an open space or enclosed area as part of a building, directly accessible to a public street and available whenever needed for the loading or unloading of goods and products to the main use.
(D) Application and design. Any application for a permit to construct a building or parking area, or for a certificate of occupancy for a change in use of land or a building shall include a site plan drawn to scale and fully dimensioned, showing the proposed design of the parking area and loading facilities to be provided in compliance with the provisions of this section.
(E) Schedule of parking requirements. Accessory off-street parking facilities shall be provided in quantities not less than set forth in the following schedule:
Building and Use | Minimum Spaces Required |
Building and Use | Minimum Spaces Required |
Business and Offices (including Home Professional Offices and Home Occupations) | |
Commercial recreation: | |
1. Open commercial amusement | 1 space per 500 sq. ft. of lot area |
2. Bowling alleys | 5 spaces per lane |
Mortuaries | 20 spaces plus 1 space per 200 sq. ft. |
Offices: | |
1. Medical and dental offices | 1 space per 200 sq. ft. |
2. Other offices: first floor and above | 1 space per 250 sq. ft. |
Places of assembly; theaters, halls, arenas | 1 space per 4 seats |
Retail stores, services and first floor offices: | |
1. Less than 4,000 square feet per unit | 7 spaces per 1,000 sq. ft. |
2. 4,000 to 10,000 square feet per unit | 6 spaces per 1,000 sq. ft. |
3. 10,000 square feet or greater | 5 spaces per 1,000 sq. ft. |
Community Facilities | |
Civic: libraries, museums, churches, club and community centers | 1 space per 500 sq. ft. * |
Educational: primary and secondary public; private schools | 1 space per 1,000 sq. ft. * |
Governmental: municipal, county, state and federal buildings used by the public | 1 space per 300 sq. ft. of floor area plus 1 space for each 2 principally administrative functions employees |
Health and welfare: | |
1. General and special hospitals | 1 space per 500 sq. ft. |
2. Institutions for children and for the aged, nursing homes, sanitariums | 1 space per 1,000 sq. ft. |
3. Medical clinics | 1 space per 200 sq. ft. plus 1 space for each doctor and 1 space for each employee |
Places of assembly: auditoriums, lodge, halls, gymnasiums and stadiums | 1 space per 4 seats |
Recreation: | |
1. Playfields | 1 space per 4000 sq. ft. of playfield area plus 1 space per 4 seats in assembly room |
2. Skating rinks, swimming pools | 1 space per 50 sq. ft. of area devoted to the activity or 1 space per 2 members |
Mobile Homes | 1.5 spaces per mobile home space |
Residential | |
Apartment | 1.5 spaces per dwelling unit |
Hotels, motels, tourist home | 1.5 space per mobile home space |
One-family dwellings | 1 space per dwelling unit |
Rented rooms | 0.5 space per rented room plus |
1 space for resident family | |
Townhouse | 1.5 spaces per dwelling unit |
Two-family dwellings | 1 space per dwelling unit |
Service and Manufacturing | |
Manufacturing plants | 1 space per 2 employees |
Wholesale, distribution, laboratories, general services, machine shops and similar establishments | 1 space per 2 employees |
Other Buildings or Uses | For specific buildings or uses not scheduled above, the Planning Commission shall apply the unit of measurement set forth in the above scheduled which is deemed to be most similar to the proposed building or use |
* For the assembly parts of the building, 1 space per each 4 seats, or 1 space for each 6 square feet of assembly floor area shall be added | |
(F) Modifications of requirements.
(1) Public facilities available. The required spaces as determined by the above schedule and standards may be modified by the Planning Commission in the village’s Central Business District area /where free parking areas or publicly owned parking areas are readily accessible and where land is not available for development of accessory off-street parking as required herein.
(2) Parking for single and mixes uses. A building occupied by one use shall provide the off-street parking spaces as required for the specific use. A building, or group of buildings, occupied by two or more uses, operating normally during the same hours, shall provide spaces for not less than the sum of the spaces required for each use. For a large unit development of business uses, such as a shopping center, spaces shall be provided for the total area of the building or buildings as set forth in division (E) above instead of the requirements based on each separate use.
(3) Joint use of parking facilities. Churches, civic clubs, community centers, auditoriums, lodge halls, gymnasiums and stadiums may make arrangements with business establishments which normally have different hours of operation for sharing up to, but not more than 50% of their requirements in adjacent parking areas which are accessory to such business uses, provided however, where there is a sharing of facilities by different owners or tenants, there shall be an agreement covering a period of time as may be required by the Planning Commission, and provided further that, should any of the uses by changed for the facilities discontinued, then the required spaces for the use or uses remaining shall be provided elsewhere as a condition precedent to the continued use of said building or buildings.
(G) Continuation of facilities.
(1) Off-street parking and loading facilities accessory to an existing use on the effective date of this chapter, 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, service or repair of motor vehicles, and shall not be reduced below the requirements of this chapter during the period that the main use is maintained, unless an equivalent number of spaces shall be provided for said use in another approved location.
(2) Wherever parking facilities are permitted on land other than the zoning lot on which the building or use served is located, such facilities shall be in the same ownership as the zoning 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, his or her heirs, or assigns to maintain the required number of parking facilities for the duration of the use served as a precedent to the continuation of such use.
(H) Location of parking facilities. Accessory parking facilities shall be provided at locations as set forth herein except as may be modified by divisions (F) and (G) above.
(1) Residential Districts and uses.
(a) Accessory, enclosed or open parking facilities as required shall be provided on the same lot as the dwelling unit served.
(b) In multifamily districts, parking facilities shall be provided within a walking distance of 200 feet of the building entrance of the unit to be served.
(c) In one and two-family residential districts one truck, which is used solely by the occupant and does not exceed three-quarter tons in rated capacity, may be stored on the lot.
(2) Civic uses and places of assembly. Where churches, civic clubs, community centers, auditoriums, lodge halls, gymnasiums and stadiums share parking facilities where adjacent business establishments, such parking facilities shall be located within a walking distance of not more than 250 feet from the entrance of the main building of said use.
(3) Business and office uses.
(a) Accessory parking facilities shall be provided on the same lot as the main use served in the Central Business District, except where modified by the Planning Commission in accordance with the provisions of division (F) above. In such cases the nearest point of the parking lot shall be located within a walking distance of not more than 250 feet from the main entrance of the building served.
(b) A parking area serving the uses covered in this subsection shall be further regulated in relation in any adjoining residential district lines as set forth in § 155.17(F).
(I) Loading facilities. Accessory loading and unloading facilities shall be provided as a condition precedence to occupancy of all business, service and industrial buildings hereafter erected and altered, and shall be maintained as long as such building is occupied or unless equivalent facilities are provided in conformance with the regulations of this section.
(1) 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 of motor vehicles.
(2) Location of facility. All required accessory loading facilities shall be related to the building and use to be served to provide for loading and off-loading 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 be located in a required front yard, or a required side or rear yard if adjoining a residential district. If a loading space is entirely enclosed, it may be located in such side or rear yard if approved by the Planning Commission.
(3) 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.
(4) Minimum size criteria. A required off-street loading space shall be at least ten feet wide by at least 30 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 ten feet.
(J) Schedule of required loading facilities. Accessory off-street loading spaces shall be provided as required for the following uses:
Use | Gross Floor Area of Building (sq. ft.) | Required Number of Spaces |
Use | Gross Floor Area of Building (sq. ft.) | Required Number of Spaces |
Printing, publishing warehouses, storage establishments | 3,000 to 40,000 square feet | 1 |
40,000 to 100,000 square feet | 2 | |
Retail store, all types | 3,000 to 20,000 square feet | 1 |
20,000 to 50,000 square feet | 2 | |
50,000 to 100,000 square feet | 3 | |
Servicing, cleaning, repairing, testing, or manufacturing establishments | 3,000 to 40,000 square feet | 1 |
40,000 to 100,000 square feet | 2 | |
Each additional 100,000 square feet | 1 additional space | |
(K) Approval of facilities. Detailed drawings of accessory off-street parking and loading facilities shall be submitted in accordance with all the provisions of this section for review by the Planning Commission. The Planning Commission may required structural or landscape features such as bumper guards, curbs, walls, fences, shrubs, ground cover or hedges to further carry out the objectives of this chapter before an application is approved and a building permit or certificate of occupancy may be issued.
(L) Parking of vehicles weighing over seven tons on public streets in Residential Districts.
(1) Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT. All districts designated as R-1, R-2 or R-3.
WEIGHT. The total avoirdupois weight of the vehicle and load and does not refer to the axle load or wheel load.
(2) Prohibition. No person shall park a vehicle upon a public street within a residential district within the village which has a weight in excess of seven tons, nor shall the owner of a vehicle with a weight in excess of seven tons permit such a vehicle to be parked upon a public street within a residential district within the village.
(Ord. 656-70, passed 2-16-1970; Ord. 797-80, passed 8-18-1980)