(a) General Requirements. In all districts, in connection with every industrial, business, institutional, recreational, residential or other use, there shall be provided, at any time any building or structure is erected or is enlarged or increased in capacity, off-street parking spaces for automobiles in accordance with the following requirements:
(1) Each off-street parking space shall have an area of not less than 180 square feet exclusive of access drives or aisles, and shall be of usable shape and condition.
(2) There shall be adequate provision for ingress and egress to all parking spaces. Where a lot does abut on a public or private alley or easement of access, there shall be provided an access drive not less than eight feet in width in the case of a dwelling, and not less than twenty feet in width in all other cases, leading to the parking or storage or loading or unloading spaces required hereunder.
(b) Number of Spaces Required. The number of off-street spaces to be provided shall conform to the requirements specified in the following table:
Use | Parking Spaces Required |
One-family units | Two for each dwelling unit |
Two-family, multiple dwellings and mobile homes |
Two for each dwelling unit |
Rooming or boarding house, tourist home, hotell or motel or dormitory |
One for each sleeping room or suite |
Private club, golf club or lodge |
One for each four members |
Church or temple |
One for each four seats in main auditorium |
School (except high school or college) | One for each ten seats in auditorium or main assembly room, or two for each classroom, whichever is greater |
College or high school | One for each teacher or employee and one for each five students |
Community center, library, museum or art gallery | Ten plus one additional for each 200 square feet of floor area in excess of 2,000 square feet |
Commercial golf course | Forty for each nine holes, plus one for each employee |
Hospital, sanitarium, convalescent home, home for the aged or similar institution |
One for each three beds, plus one for each staff member and employee |
Theater or auditorium (except school auditorium), sports arena, stadium or gymnasium |
One for each four seats or each ten lineal feet of bench seating spaces |
Bowling alley | Five for each lane, plus one additional space for each 200 square feet of area used for eating, drinking or other recreation |
Mortuary or funeral home | One for each fifty square feet of floor space in slumber rooms, parlors or individual funeral service rooms |
Personal or professional services restaurants, nightclubs, cafes or similar recreation or amusement establishments, dance hall, assembly or exhibition halls without fixed seats |
One for each 150 square feet of floor area |
Retail business or business service establishment except as otherwise specified herein |
One for each 150 square feet of gross floor area, plus one for each two employees on the maximum work shift. |
Furniture or appliance store, hardware store, wholesale establishments, machinery or equipment sales service |
Two plus one additional for 600 square feet of floor area over 1,000 square feet. |
Printing or plumbing shop or similar service establishment |
One for each two persons employed therein |
Manufacturing or industrial establishment, research or testing laboratory, dairy processing, bakery, bottling plant, warehouse or similar establishment |
One for each two employees on the maximum working shift plus space to accommodate all trucks and other vehicles used in connection therewith. Spaces shall also be provided for visitor vehicles. |
(c) Interpretation. The following rules shall govern the determination of spaces required:
(1) "Floor area" means the gross floor area of the specified use.
(2) Fractional numbers shall be increased to the next whole number.
(3) The parking space requirement for a use not specifically mentioned herein shall be the same as required for a use of similar nature.
(4) Whenever a building or use constructed or established after the effective date of this Zoning Ordinance is changed or enlarged in floor area, number of employees, number of dwelling units, seating capacity or otherwise, to create a need for an increase of ten percent (10%) or more in the number of existing parking spaces, such spaces shall be provided on the basis of the enlargement or change. Whenever a building or use existing prior to the effective date of this Zoning Ordinance is enlarged to the extent of fifty percent (50%) or more in floor area or in the area used, such building or use shall then and thereafter comply with the parking requirements set forth herein.