All off street parking spaces hereinafter required by this title, except those required for single-family dwellings, shall be designed in accordance with one of the formulae set forth in the following off street parking chart. Off street parking spaces shall be provided in accordance with the specific parking classes. Parking spaces for accessory uses not specifically enumerated within a parking class shall be assumed to be included in the principal (permitted or special) use requirement.
If, for any reason the classification of any use, for the purpose of determining the amount of off street parking, or the number of spaces to be provided by such use, is not readily determinable hereunder, the parking class of such use shall be fixed by the zoning administrator. Uses included shall not be construed as an approved or recommended use unless otherwise specifically so identified in a district. (Ord. 0-77-27, 7-18-1977)
A. Parking Classes:
OFF STREET PARKING TABLE
Parking Class | Uses (Permitted Or Special) | Required Spaces |
Parking Class | Uses (Permitted Or Special) | Required Spaces |
Class 1 | Dwelling, multiple-family Dwelling, single-family | 2 per dwelling unit |
Class 2 | Apartment hotels Lodging houses | 1 space per lodging room or dwelling unit, plus 1 per each 2 employees |
Class 3 | Hotels Motels | 1 per each room or suite of rooms comprising 1 dwelling unit, plus 1 per each 2 employees, plus 1 per 100 square feet retail sales and dining area |
Class 4 | Hospitals: 100 beds 101–300 beds 301–500 beds 500 beds | 1.0 per bed 1.1 per bed 1.2 per bed 1.3 per bed |
Class 5 | Assisted living facility Convalescent home, extended care facility or rest home, nursing home, sanatorium | 1 per each 2 beds, plus 1 per each 2 employees |
Convent, monastery, nunnery | ||
Home for the aged | ||
Institutions - for the care and residence of children and adults; for the treatment of alcoholism, drug addiction, or treatment and care of the insane or feebleminded | ||
Parsonage, rectory or parish house | ||
Religious retreat | ||
Class 6 | Medical and dental clinics | 2 per each office or exam room, plus 1 per 500 square feet contained in waiting room or lobby |
Class 7 | Aquarium | 3 per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area |
Library, museum or art gallery (public) | ||
Office building | ||
Philanthropic and charitable institutions | ||
Class 8 | Animal hospital and veterinarian | 4 per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area |
Animal kennels | ||
Art studio | ||
Blueprinting | ||
Bus terminal | ||
Business machine sales and service | ||
Catering services | ||
Civil defense - fire and police stations | ||
Clothing and costume rental | ||
Club or lodge, private, operated for benefit of members and not for gain | ||
Custom dressmaking | ||
Diaper service | ||
Dry cleaning plant employing not more than 6 persons | ||
Frozen food locker plants, including sale of frozen foods | ||
Interior decorator | ||
Labor union offices and lodges | ||
Laboratory, medical, dental or optical | ||
Laboratory, research and testing | ||
Lithographing | ||
Massage salon | ||
Office machine sales and service | ||
Photostating | ||
Physical culture and health services | ||
Post office | ||
Recording studio | ||
Recreational and community center buildings | ||
Repair of shoes, clothing and hats | ||
School - music, dance and vocal | ||
Small animal grooming establishments | ||
Tailor shop | ||
Tattoo parlors | ||
Telephone exchanges and equipment | ||
Ticket agency | ||
Travel agency | ||
Class 9 | Dormitory | 5 per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area |
Fish market | ||
Fraternity house | ||
Furniture store | ||
Furrier | ||
Hearing aid store | ||
Leather goods and luggage store | ||
Lodging house | ||
Orthopedic and medical appliance sales | ||
Photography studio | ||
Picture framing | ||
Rummage shop | ||
Sorority house | ||
Class 10 | Antique store | 6 per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area |
Apparel store | ||
Art and school supply store | ||
Art store, retail | ||
Auto accessory store | ||
Bakery, retail | ||
Bank, savings and loan | ||
Barbershop | ||
Beauty shop | ||
Book and stationery store | ||
Bus depot | ||
Camera and photographic supply | ||
Candy, nut and confectionery store | ||
Carpet and floor covering store | ||
China and glassware store | ||
Coin store, currency exchange | ||
Dairy products store | ||
Delicatessen | ||
Department store | ||
Drugstore | ||
Dry cleaning, laundry services | ||
Electrical and household appliance store | ||
Employment agency | ||
Financial institutions and uses | ||
Florist | ||
Funeral parlor | ||
Garden supply, tool and seed store | ||
Gift store | ||
Government administration buildings, without garages or shops | ||
Grocery or food store | ||
Haberdasheries | ||
Hardware store | ||
Hobby shop | ||
Home furnishings | ||
Household appliance store | ||
Ice cream store | ||
Jewelry store | ||
Laundry, self-service | ||
Liquor store | ||
Locksmith | ||
Meat market | ||
Millinery shop | ||
Musical instruments sales and service | ||
Newspaper distribution | ||
Paint, glass and wallpaper store | ||
Pawnshop | ||
Pet shop | ||
Railroad passenger station | ||
Class 11 | Auction halls Auditoriums and auditoriums as accessory to churches, schools and other institutional establishments | 1 space per 5 seats or 90 linear inches of seating |
Churches, temples and synagogues | ||
Convention halls or exhibition halls | ||
Racetracks | ||
Stadiums | ||
Note to class 11: When the number of parking spaces as required herein is provided for an auditorium or other place of public assembly accessory to a school, and when, approved by the plan/zoning board of appeals, additional parking spaces for such auditorium or other places of public assembly must be equal to or in excess of the applicable requirements set forth in classes 12, 13 and 14 of this table. | ||
Class 12 | Nursery schools Elementary schools Middle schools | 1 per each employee, plus 1 per each 3 classrooms |
Class 13 | High schools | 1 space per each employee, plus 1 space per each 4 students based on the maximum number in accordance to design capacity |
Class 14 | Junior colleges 4 year colleges Universities | 1 space per each 2 employees, plus 1 space per each 4 students |
Class 15 | Business schools Commercial or trade schools Music or dance schools | 1 space per each 2 employees, plus 1 space per each 2 students |
Class 16 | Cocktail lounges Restaurant, carryout only | 10 spaces per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area |
Restaurant, family dining type, where food is consumed on premises | ||
Taverns | ||
Class 17 | Drive-in type restaurants where: Food is consumed on the premises but not within a completely enclosed building, or Food is served directly to customers in parked motor vehicles | 30 spaces per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area |
Class 18 | Boarding school, elementary | 1 space per each employee |
Concrete mixing plans | ||
Correctional institution | ||
Dry cleaning plant | ||
Exterminator | ||
Machinery sales and/or service | ||
Mail order house | ||
Microwave relay towers | ||
Radar installation and tower | ||
Radio and TV stations and towers | ||
Taxidermist | ||
Class 19 | Greenhouses and nurseries, retail Golf driving ranges | 1 per 1,000 square feet gross floor area, plus 1 per 2,000 square feet of gross land area |
Class 20 | Golf courses, public/private | 100 per 9 holes regular golf or par 3 |
Par 3 golf courses | ||
Pitch and putt golf courses | ||
Class 21 | Commercial camping grounds | 1 per 2,000 square feet of gross land area |
Outdoor rifle range, trap or skeet shooting range | ||
Zoos and zoological gardens | ||
Class 22 | Athletic field | 1 per 5,000 square feet of gross land area |
Botanical gardens | ||
Forest preserve | ||
Grounds of recreational clubs, noncommercial | ||
Polo fields | ||
Public parks and playgrounds | ||
Class 23 | Bowling alley Dance halls Skating rinks | 1 space per 2 persons based on the maximum persons that can be accommodated at the same time in accordance with design capacity and 1 space per each 2 employees |
Swimming pools | ||
Tennis courts and clubs | ||
Class 24 | Indoor theaters | 1 space per each 4 seats up to 400 seats, plus 1 space per each 6 seats over 400 seats |
Class 25 | Drive-in theaters (outdoor) | Reservoir of 10 percent of capacity of use |
Class 26 | Drive-in banking facility | Reservoir space sufficient to accommodate a number of automobiles equal to 5 times the number of teller windows |
Class 27 | Auto laundry (mechanical) | 1 per each 2 employees, plus 1 per manager-owner, plus parking spaces equal to 5 times the maximum capacity of auto washing unit |
Class 28 | Auto service station | 1 space per each island of pumps, plus 2 spaces each stall |
Class 29 | Battery and tire service shops Garage for storage, servicing and repair of motor vehicles, including body repair, painting and engine rebuilding | 5 per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area, plus 1 per 2,000 square feet of land area |
Mobile home display and sales and service | ||
Model garage display and sales | ||
Motor vehicles sales and service | ||
Motorcycle, bicycle, and other outdoor recreational vehicle | ||
Trailer, boat, and camper or camper-trailer sales, rental and service | ||
Class 30 | Abrasives manufacturing Air, motor, railroad, and water freight terminal Asphalt manufacturing | 1 per each 2 employees or not less than 25 percent of the zoning lot, whichever is larger. Requests for variances shall be liberally considered by the circumstances attendant a particular use on a particular lot |
Bakery | ||
Bedding manufacturing | ||
Boot and shoe manufacturing | ||
Bottling companies | ||
Brick and structural clay products manufacturing | ||
Carpet manufacturing | ||
Cartage and express facilities | ||
Cement, bulk, storage | ||
Chemical processing manufacturing | ||
Cloth products manufacturing | ||
Cosmetic manufacturing | ||
Electric substation | ||
Electronic, scientific and precision instrument | ||
Electroplating | ||
Feed and seed store | ||
Feed mills | ||
Food manufacturing, packaging and processing | ||
Fuels, solid or liquid, storage and wholesale distribution | ||
Fur processing | ||
Gas regular station | ||
Glass products production and sales | ||
Grain storage and processing | ||
Graphite products manufacturing | ||
Gypsum manufacturing | ||
Heavy machinery manufacturing | ||
Insulating material manufacturing | ||
Laundry | ||
Light machinery production, appliances and business machines | ||
Linoleum manufacturing | ||
Machine shop | ||
Meatpacking | ||
Metal reduction and refinement | ||
Metal stamping | ||
Musical instrument manufacturing | ||
Orthopedic and medical appliance manufacturing | ||
Paint products manufacturing | ||
Paper products manufacturing | ||
Petroleum products, refining, storage and processing | ||
Plastics manufacturing | ||
Pottery and ceramics manufacturing | ||
Printing and publishing | ||
Rope, cord and twine manufacturing | ||
Sewage treatment plant | ||
Soap manufacturing | ||
Sporting goods manufacturing | ||
Steel manufacturing | ||
Warehousing and storage and distribution | ||
Warehousing and wholesaling establishments | ||
Waterworks, reservoir, pumping and filtration plant | ||
Wearing apparel manufacturing | ||
Woodworking, planing mills and wood products manufacturing | ||
Any similar production processing, cleaning, servicing, testing, storage, and repair | ||
Class 31 | Amusement parks and establishments Billiard and pool halls | 3 per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area, plus 3 per 1,000 square feet of gross land area |
Indoor amusements, including indoor archery, rifle range | ||
Kiddie parks | ||
Miniature golf | ||
Class 32 | Air conditioning and heating contractor | 2 per each 1 employee |
Building materials and products sales and storage | ||
Contractors and construction yards and offices | ||
Dumps and sanitary landfills | ||
Electrical showrooms and shops | ||
Engineers and architects offices and yards | ||
Greenhouse, wholesale | ||
Junkyard and auto graveyard | ||
Linen supply | ||
Plumbing showroom and shops | ||
Class 33 | Airports and landing fields Cemeteries, columbaria, crematories, and mausoleums | Spaces as required by zoning administrator after review by the plan/zoning board of appeals |
Heliports, public and private | ||
Public stables | ||
Riding academy | ||
Class 34 | Shopping centers under unified control or ownership on a tract of land 4 acres or more in area | The number of parking spaces shall be the sum of the required number of spaces as heretofore set forth for such uses |
Mixed uses | When 2 or more uses are located on the same zoning lot, or within the same building, parking spaces equal in number to the sums of the separate requirements for each such use shall be provided. No parking space or portion thereof shall serve as a required space for more than 1 use unless otherwise authorized by variation by the plan/zoning board of appeals and city council. | |
(Ord. 0-77-27, 7-18-1977; amd. Ord. 0-03-35, 9-15-2003; Ord. 0-14-20, 10-28-2014; Ord. O-22-15, 5-9-2022)
B. Chart:
OFF STREET PARKING CHART
C. Parking Lot Dimensions For Compact Cars:
MINIMUM PARKING LOT DIMENSIONS: COMPACT CARS1
Angle | Stall Width | Stall Depth Perpendicular To Aisle | Aisle Width | Double Stall Width | Parking Module (Curb To Curb) |
0° | 19' | 7.0' | 10.0' | - | - |
30° | 8' | 14.4' | 10.0' | 12.0' | 39.0' |
45° | 8' | 16.3' | 12.0' | 13.4' | 46.4' |
60° | 8' | 17.0' | 15.0' | 15.0' | 49.0' |
90° | 8' | 15.0' | 24.0' | 30.0' | 54.0' |
Note:
1. All handicapped parking stalls shall comply with the Illinois accessibility code.
D. Parking Lot Dimensions For Standard Cars:
MINIMUM PARKING LOT DIMENSIONS: STANDARD CARS1
Angle | Stall Width | Stall Depth Perpendicular To Aisle | Aisle Width | Double Stall Width | Parking Module (Curb To Curb) |
0° | 22.0' | 8.0' | 12' | - | - |
30° | 8.5' | 16.7' | 11' | 12.8' | 44.4' |
45° | 8.5' | 18.8' | 13' | 13.8' | 50.6' |
60° | 8.5' | 19.9' | 18' | 17.8' | 57.8' |
90° | 8.5' | 18.0' | 24' | 36.0' | 60.0' |
Note:
1. All handicapped parking stalls shall comply with the Illinois accessibility code.
(Ord. 0-77-27, 7-18-1977)