(A) In all zoning districts, off-street parking and loading requirements shall be provided in amounts not less than specified for the various districts.
(B) (1) The Director of Planning and Development, after consultation with the Director of Utilities and Engineering, shall make a determination, in the cases of uses not listed in § 162.091 of the minimum required off-street parking spaces.
(2) In reaching the determination, the Director of Planning and Development and the Director of Utilities and Engineering, shall be guided by the requirements for similar uses, the number and kind of vehicles likely to be attracted to the proposed use and studies of the parking requirements of the uses in other jurisdictions.
(3) The Director of Planning and Development may approve alternative parking standards in situations where an applicant can sufficiently demonstrate that a particular situation is unusual, unique or poses practical difficulty, and upon submission of adequate technical justification such as independent parking analysis, Urban Land Institute (ULI) or Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) parking standards or similar justification.
(C) Additional parking shall be provided and maintained in proper ratio to any increase in floor area or building use capacity.
(D) For the purposes of determining off-street parking and loading requirements, the following provisions shall apply.
(1) USABLE FLOOR AREA as applied to offices, merchandising or service types of uses, shall mean the floor area used or intended to be used for services to the public as customers, patrons, clients, patients or tenants, including areas occupied by fixtures and equipment used for display or sale of merchandise, but excluding floor areas which are used exclusively for storage, for housing of mechanical equipment integral to the building, for maintenance facilities, stairwells, restrooms or for those areas so restricted that customers, patients, clients, salespersons and the general public are denied access. Measurement of useable floor area shall be the sum of the horizontal area of each story of a structure measured from the interior faces of the exterior walls.
(2) Where benches, pews or other similar seating facilities are used as seats, each 24 inches of the seating facilities shall be counted as one seat.
(E) In the case of mixed uses in the same building at the same time, the total requirements for off-street parking and loading shall be the sum of the requirements for the separate individual uses computed separately.
(F) Joint or collective provision of off-street parking for buildings or uses on two or more properties shall not be less than the sum of the requirements for the participating individual uses computed separately.
(G) It shall be unlawful to use any of the off-street parking or loading areas established to meet the requirements of this subchapter for any purpose other than the parking of licensed vehicles or the loading and unloading of necessary service trucks.
(H) Off-street parking shall be no closer to any principal building than five feet. Bumper guards shall be installed to prevent yard encroachment.
(I) In the residential districts and in commercial and industrial districts within 50 feet of an residential district, no parking space may be located in a front yard.
(J) Parking spaces may be provided in side and rear yards in the residential districts and in any yard in commercial and industrial districts except that in the commercial and industrial districts, no parking space may be provided in a front yard unless the building is set back at least 30 feet from the street, and further provided that the parking use must conform to the permitted land use for the district.
(K) Parking spaces for any use specifically permitted in an residential district may be provided on a lot adjoining that use provided there is compliance with all the requirements of divisions (I) and (J) above.
(L) Where parking is provided in a commercial district adjacent to a residential district or where five or more parking spaces are provided for use in a residential district adjacent to a residential district, all parking spaces, loading spaces and drives shall be set back from the residential district 15 feet. This setback shall be a landscaped area providing sight proof landscaping and/or fencing to screen the use from adjacent properties as approved on a site plan per requirements in §§ 162.280 through 162.285.
(M) Where parking is provided in a manufacturing district adjacent to a residential district, all parking spaces, loading spaces and internal drives except for fire lanes, ingress and egress, shall be set back from the residential district 30 feet. This setback shall be a landscaped area providing sight proof landscaping and/or fencing to screen the use from adjacent properties as approved on a site plan per requirements in §§ 162.280 through 162.285.
(N) When determination of the number of off-street parking spaces or loading spaces required by this subchapter results in a requirement of a fractional space, any fraction in excess of one-half shall be counted as one parking space; any fraction of one-half or less may be disregarded.
(O) No repairs or services to vehicles shall be carried on or permitted in off-street parking areas.
(P) No vehicular display for purpose of sale shall be carried on or permitted upon the premises unless the display is by a licensed automobile dealer on a properly zoned parcel.
(Q) In the residential districts, the only off-street parking permitted is that parking which is an accessory use to the primary residential dwelling. The use of an off-street parking lot in a residential district by a nearby or adjacent to a commercial use is prohibited.
(R) Off-street parking required for enlargements or change of use. Existing buildings not complying with off-street parking requirements may be remodeled, repaired and structurally altered, but any enlargement or change of use of a structure or building which would require a greater number of parking spaces than was required for the prior use must provide the required parking spaces for the enlargement or use.
(1980 Code, § 29.602) Penalty, see § 162.999