In all districts where off-street parking lots are the principal use of a site or are permitted as an adjunct to the lawful use of property therein, and such facilities provide parking privileges to owners, occupants, tenants, employees, patrons, customers, members, visitors, and invitees therein, such off-street parking lots shall be constructed and maintained subject to the following regulations:
(a) Application Requirements. An application for a permit to construct such a lot shall be submitted to the Village. After the Administrative Official has determined that the following mandatory provisions have been provided for, a permit shall be issued to the applicant. The application shall include a site plan along with all applicable construction details and elevations and shall include all items identified in this Section. All plans shall be prepared and sealed by a registered engineer.
(b) Ingress/Egress. Adequate ingress and egress shall be provided to meet the approval of the Administrative Official. Backing directly onto a street shall be prohibited.
(c) Construction Requirements. All parking lots shall, at a minimum, be surfaced and maintained with a durable and dustless surface (such as brick, stone, gravel or slag, washed silica pebbles, asphalt or concrete). All parking lots shall provide an adequate storm management system as approved by the Planning Commission in consultation with the Village Engineer and/or Zoning Officer.
(d) Lighting. All lighting used to illuminate any off-street parking area shall be so installed as to be confined within and directed onto only the parking area and property which it serves. No lighting shall be so located or visible as to be a hazard to traffic safety. Minimum light levels at any one location within the lots shall be one foot-candle, and maximum light levels at any point along the perimeter of the lot shall be one and one-half foot-candles. A lighting plan shall be submitted along with the site plan identified above and shall include all light locations, photometric diagrams and light fixture details. In addition, all off-street parking areas shall be designed and screened so as to minimize the presence of headlight glare on adjacent properties, particularly those zoned or used for residential purposes.
(e) Lots Located Opposite Residential Property. All street boundaries of such parking lots where residential property is located on the opposite side of the street shall provide screening of vehicle headlights to the residential property.
(f) Signs. No sign shall be erected upon such parking lots, except not more than one sign at each entrance to indicate the operator, the purpose for which operated and the parking rates, when charge is permitted. Such signs shall not exceed six square feet in area per site entrance and shall not extend more than eight feet in height above the nearest curb and shall be entirely upon the parking lot.
(g) Drive Width. Entry driveways shall be at least 12 feet wide for one-way travel and at least 24 feet wide for two-way travel.
(h) Layout Plan Requirements. Plans for the layout of off-street parking facilities shall be in accordance with the following minimum requirements:
Parking Angle | Stall Width (feet) | Aisle Width (feet) | Stall Length (feet) |
Parallel | 9 | 12 | 23 |
30 | 9 | 12 | 18 |
45 | 9 | 13 | 18 |
60 | 9 | 18 | 18 |
90 | 9 | 24 | 18 |
Facilities for the parking of tour busses, motorcoaches, and other large vehicles shall be designed in accordance with and depending upon the type(s) of vehicles proposing to be accommodated on a site.
(i) Parking for the Physically Handicapped. Parking requirements for the physically handicapped shall be in conformance with the Ohio Building Code.
(j) Maneuvering Lanes. All maneuvering lane widths shall permit one-way traffic movement, except that the 90-degree pattern may permit two-way movement.
(k) Other Driveway Standards. If abutting parking spaces are arranged at an angle other than those listed above, the minimum driveway width shall be determined according to the next higher standard from the table. For example, if 75-degree angle parking is provided, the minimum driveway width shall be the standards for 90-degree angle parking or twenty-four feet.
(l) Driveway Width for Driveways Used by Large Vehicles. If the driveway is regularly used by trash collection vehicles, delivery trucks or other large vehicles, the minimum width shall be increased to twenty-four feet.
(m) Other Improvements. Except for single- and two-family dwellings on individual lots, where three or more unenclosed parking spaces are provided, exclusive of driveways, the following additional improvements are required:
(1) Drainage. Parking areas shall be appropriately graded and equipped with facilities to collect and store stormwater on-site and transmit it to the approved public facilities, as determined by the Village Engineer and/or Zoning Officer.
(2) Marking. All parking spaces shall be appropriately marked with painted lines.
(n) Shared Parking and Access Facilities. In conjunction with multiple-family or nonresidential uses, two or more adjoining properties may be developed with shared parking and access facilities when approved under a single unified site plan. In such cases, the setbacks, curbing and perimeter landscaping requirement of this section shall not apply along the common property line.
(o) Setback Requirements. The setbacks of all off-street parking lots shall be in accordance with the requirements identified below:
(1) Front yard. No parking lot stalls or aisles shall be located closer than five feet to the public road right-of-way. In addition, and whenever possible, parking should be located behind building.
(2) Side yard on interior lot lines. No parking lot stalls or aisles shall be located closer than ten feet to the adjoining parcel property line of a residential use and must be screened in accordance with section (q) herein. Parking lot stalls and aisles shall be permitted to abut the property line of an adjacent non-residential use.
(3) Side yard on street side of corner lots. No parking lot stalls or aisles shall be located closer than five feet to a street right-of-way.
(4) Rear yard. No parking lot stalls or aisles shall be located closer than five feet to the rear property line of nonresidential uses. When a parking lot is located adjacent to any residential use, the setback shall be ten feet.
(5) Rear yard abutting a street. No parking lot stall or aisle shall be located closer than five feet to a street right-of-way.
(p) Landscape Screen Requirements. When required, parking spaces and parking areas shall be effectively screened with perimeter landscaping on all sides adjacent to or visible from adjacent properties, streets or alleys. Any parking area containing more than fifty spaces shall also include interior landscaping to further reduce the visual impacts of the areas, to reduce their heat radiation effects, to improve oxygen generation, and to reduce air pollution.
(1) Installation/maintenance. Landscape screening shall be installed and maintained as required in this Ordinance.
(2) Screening. Screening shall be provided for all non-residential uses where three or more unenclosed parking spaces are provided exclusive of driveways. Screening shall be provided in accordance with a landscape plan submitted as part of the application and shall meet the design standards identified in this Ordinance.
(q) Design Standards for Landscape Screen Requirements.
(1) Deciduous or evergreen shrubs used in a perimeter landscape screen shall be at least two feet high at initial planting and shall be expected and permitted to grow to a height of at least three feet within two years of planting; such materials shall be expected and permitted to grow to a height of five feet.
(2) At initial planting, deciduous trees shall be a minimum of two- and one-half-inch caliper, ornamental trees a minimum of two-inch caliper and evergreen trees a minimum of five feet in height.
(3) The required height of a perimeter landscape screen may be reduced where it is determined by the Village Engineer and/or Zoning Officer that such landscaping would interfere with traffic safety and visibility.
(4) The required height of a perimeter landscape screen may be increased where significant changes in elevations between an adjacent property or public right-of-way make it necessary to comply with the intent of this Ordinance.
(5) The selected combination of plant materials shall be a harmonious combination of living deciduous and evergreen trees, shrubs and vines irregularly spaced to provide an effective year-round screen and to present an aesthetically pleasing view, and all quantities shall be based on the on a landscape plan that has been submitted and approved by the Planning Commission.
(6) Loose groundcover or mulch materials shall be placed or effectively contained so they do not spill over into parking and access facilities or the public right-of-way.
(7) All required landscape features within three feet of the edge of parking or access facilities shall be protected from vehicle encroachment by curbing, wheel stops or similar means.
(8) Where fifty or more parking spaces are provided, there shall be at least 10 square feet of interior landscaped area per space provided within the overall perimeter of the parking area.
(9) Interior landscaped areas shall be at least 125 square feet in an area with a minimum dimension of no less than eight feet.
(10) At least one shade tree of a minimum two- and one-half-inch caliper shall be planted in each interior landscaped area.
(11) There shall be at least one interior landscaped area for each fifty parking spaces provided or fraction thereof.
(12) The application of the above standards may be adjusted, in part or in whole, to allow credit for healthy plant material to be retained on or adjacent to the site if such an adjustment is consistent with the intent of this article.
(r) Maintenance. It shall be the responsibility of the owner and occupant of the property to maintain all parking and access facilities in a safe and usable condition. This includes, among other things, patching, sealing and replenishing paving; repainting space markings; repairing or replacing curbing or wheel stops and cleaning on-site drainage facilities. It shall also be the responsibility of the owner and occupant to maintain required landscape in neat, clean, orderly and healthful condition. This includes, among other things, pruning, mowing, weeding, litter removal, replacement of dead or diseased plants, repair or replacement of broken or damaged walls, and the regular feeding and water of plant materials.
(Ord. 21-2020. Passed 12-14-20.)