A. Parking Space Defined: A parking space shall be an area for the parking of a motor vehicle, plus those additional areas and facilities required to provide for the safe ingress and egress from said space. The area set aside to meet these provisions must be usable and accessible for the type of off street parking need which must be satisfied.
B. Parking Spaces Required; When: Except as provided in section 10-12-10 of this chapter, at the time of initial occupancy of a site or of construction of a building or of a major alteration or enlargement of a site or building, there shall be provided off street parking facilities for automobiles in accordance with the requirements of this section and other applicable provisions of this chapter.
C. Parking Space Schedule:
Residential: | |
One-family dwellings | 2 spaces for each dwelling unit. |
Two-family, three-family and multiple-family dwellings | 11/2 spaces for each dwelling unit, except as provided under the following provisions relating to housing for the elderly. |
Housing for the elderly | 1 space for each dwelling unit, provided that sufficient space shall be set aside for 11/2 spaces for each dwelling unit in the event of a change of use. |
Private clubs, fraternity houses, sorority houses, lodges, lodging houses and rooming houses | 1 space for each two beds. |
Hotels | 1 space for each 2 beds. |
Motels | 1 space for each guest room, plus 1 space for each 2 employees. |
Central Commercial District: | |
Retail and personal service service uses within the area designated central commercial by the general square feet of floor area | 1 space for each 800 square feet of floor area. |
Other uses within the central commercial district | The number of spaces otherwise required for the type of use by provisions of this chapter. |
Neighborhood And Community Commercial Areas: | |
Uses within an integrated shopping center located within an area designated neighborhood community commercial by the general plan, involving a combination of any 3 or more retail uses permitted within the CC district for which building area, off street parking, off street loading, landscaping, lighting and other features are developed, managed and maintained as if a single unit | 3 spaces for each 1,000 square feet of gross leasable area. |
Uses not within an integrated shopping center as defined under the above paragraph | The number of spaces otherwise required for the type of use by provisions of this chapter. |
Commercial And Industrial Uses: | |
Banks | 1 space for each 300 square feet of floor area. |
Business and professional offices (not including medical or public administrative offices) | 1 space for each 400 square feet of floor area. |
Retail stores, food | 1 space for each 150 square feet of floor area. |
Retail stores, other than food, and personal service establishments | 1 space for each 200 square feet of floor area. |
Retail stores which handle only bulky merchandise such as furniture, household appliances, motor vehicles, farm implements and machinery | 1 space for each 600 square feet of floor area. |
Service commercial establishments, repair shops and wholesale establishments | 1 space for each 600 square feet of floor area, or 1 space for each 2 employees, whichever number is the greatest. |
Commercial and industrial uses conducted primarily outside of buildings | 1 space for each 2 employees of the maximum working shift. |
Manufacturing plants and other industrial uses | 1 space for each 2 employees of the maximum working shift. |
Utilities: | |
Electric distribution substations, electric transmission substations, gas regulator stations, public utility pumping stations, reservoirs, water or gas storage tank farms, sewage treatment plants and other public utility buildings and uses | 1 space for each 3 employees of the maximum working shift, plus 1 space for each company vehicle stored on the site. Where such facility is unmanned, no spaces need be provided. |
Health Uses: | |
Medical and dental offices or clinics including, but not limited to, chiropractors, dentists, doctors, physical therapists, optometrists psychiatrists and similar professions | 2 spaces for each practitioner, plus 1 space for each 400 square feet of floor area. |
Rest homes, nursing homes, convalescent homes, homes for the aged | 1 space for each 2 employees of the daytime shift, plus 1 space for each 4 beds. |
Charitable and religious institutions providing sleeping accommodations | 1 space for each 4 beds. |
Hospitals | 1 space for each 4 beds and 1 space for each 2 employees of the maximum working shift, plus 1 space for each staff doctor. |
Places Of Assembly: | |
Cafe, restaurant or other establishment for the sale and consumption on the premises of food and beverages | 1 space for each 4 seats. |
Drive-in restaurants | 1 space for each 2 seats, plus the number of additional spaces prescribed by the planning commission. |
Auditoriums (except school auditoriums), churches, mortuaries, sports arenas and stadiums, dance halls, private clubs and lodges | 1 space for each 60 square feet of floor area used for seating if seats are not fixed, or 1 space for each 5 seats. School classrooms associated with a church do not require parking in addition to that required for church seating. |
Theaters | 1 space for each 5 seats. |
Bowling alleys | 4 spaces for each alley, plus 1 space for each 4 seats devoted to restaurant and/or cocktail lounge. |
Other places of assembly without fixed seats | 1 space for each 60 square feet of floor area used for assembly. |
Educational Uses: | |
Public and parochial elementary and junior high schools | 1 space for each employee including teachers, administrators and custodians, plus sufficient space for safe and convenient bus loading and unloading of students. |
High schools | 1 space for each employee including teachers, administrators and custodians, plus 1 space for each 10 students enrolled, plus sufficient spaces for safe and convenient bus loading and unloading of students. |
Colleges | 1 space for each employee, including teachers, administrators and custodians, plus 1 space for each 5 students enrolled. |
Nursery schools | 1 space for each employee. |
Business, professional and trade schools and colleges; art, craft, music and dancing schools | 1 space for each employee, including teachers and administrators, plus 1 space for each 3 adult students. |
Public Uses: | |
City, county, special district, state and federal administrative offices | 1 space for each 2 employees. |
Public buildings and grounds other than administrative offices and educational uses | 1 space for each 2 employees of the maximum working shift, plus the number of additional spaces required by the planning commission. |
Transportation Terminals And Facilities: | |
Airports, heliports, bus depots, railroad stations and yards, truck terminals | 1 space for each 2 employees of the maximum working shift, plus the number of additional spaces prescribed by the planning commission. |
Miscellaneous Uses: | For a use not specified in the above parking space schedule, the same number of parking spaces shall be provided as determined by the planning commission, as are required for the most similar specified use. |
D. Units Of Measurement:
1. For the purposes of this chapter, "floor area" shall mean that floor area used, or intended to be used, for service to the public as customers, patrons, clients or patients or as tenants, including areas occupied by fixtures and equipment used for the display or sale of merchandise. It shall not include areas used principally for storage, or administrative offices incidental to a retail or commercial service use.
2. If, in the application of the requirements of this section, a fractional number is obtained, one parking space shall be provided for a fraction of one-half (1/2) or more, and no parking space shall be required for a fraction of less than one-half (1/2).
E. Change In Use, Additions And Enlargements: Whenever there is a change in use, or increase in floor area, or other unit of measurement specified herein, and such change, increase or other unit of measurement is such that it creates a need for an increase in the number of off street parking spaces by ten percent (10%) or more, such increase in off street parking facilities shall be provided on the basis of the increased requirements of the new use, or on the basis of the increased floor area, or in other units of measurement; provided, however, that in case a change in use creates a need for an increase of two (2) or less off street parking spaces, no additional parking facilities shall be required.
F. Remodeling: No additional off street parking facilities shall be required solely because of the remodeling of an existing use or building, unless there is a change in use or increase in floor area or other unit of measurement as the result of such remodel for which additional facilities are required in accordance with the provisions of subsection G of this section.
G. Mixed Uses: In the case of mixed uses, the total requirements for off street parking facilities shall be the sum of the requirements for the various uses computed separately. Off street parking facilities for one use shall not be considered as providing required parking facilities for any other use except as herein specified for joint use.
H. Joint Use: The planning commission may, upon written application by the owner or lessee of any property, authorize the joint use of parking facilities by the following uses or activities under the conditions specified herein:
1. Seventy five percent (75%) of the parking facilities required by this chapter for a use considered to be primarily a daytime use may be provided by the parking facilities of a use considered to be primarily a nighttime use, and seventy five percent (75%) of the parking facilities required by this chapter for a use considered primarily a nighttime use may be provided by the parking facilities of a use considered to be primarily a daytime use; provided, however, that such parking area shall meet the conditions set forth in subsection H3 of this section.
2. The following uses are typical of daytime uses: banks, business offices, retail stores, personal service shops, clothing or shoe repair or service shops, manufacturing or wholesale buildings and similar uses. The following uses are typical nighttime uses: dance halls, theaters, bars, auditoriums other than those incidental to a public or parochial school or churches, and similar uses.
3. The following are conditions required for joint use:
a. The buildings or use for which application is being made for authority to utilize the existing off street parking facilities provided by another building or use, shall be located within two hundred feet (200') of such parking facility.
b. The applicant shall show that there is no substantial conflict in the principal operating hours of the building or uses for which the joint use of off street parking facilities is proposed.
c. If the building, structure or improvement requiring parking space is in one ownership and the required parking space provided is in another ownership, partially or wholly, there shall be a recording in the office of the county recorder of a covenant by such owners for the benefit of city, in a form approved by the city, that such owner or owners will continue to maintain such parking space so long as said building, structure or improvement is maintained by said owner within said city. The covenant herein required shall stipulate that the title to and right to use the parcel or parcels upon which the parking space is to be provided will be subservient to the title to the premises upon which the building is to be erected and that said parcel or parcels are not and will not be made subject to any other covenant or contract for use without prior written consent of the city.
I. Common Facilities: Common parking facilities may be provided in lieu of the individual requirements contained herein, but such facilities shall be approved by the planning commission as to size, shape and relationship to sites to be served. The total of such off street parking spaces, when used together, shall not be less than the sum required for the various uses computed separately, except as follows:
1. Where joint use is allowed.
2. When such common parking facility is to occupy a site three thousand (3,000) square feet or more, a fifteen percent (15%) reduction in the total number of spaces shall be permitted.
3. Where the provisions of subsections H2 and H3 of this section apply.
J. In Lieu Payments For Uses Within Central Commercial District: (No provisions). (Ord. 622, 9-2-1980)