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OFF-STREET PARKING
(A) Intent and purpose. The purpose of this section is to alleviate or prevent congestion of the public roads, and so promote the safety and welfare of the public by establishing minimum requirements for the off-street parking of motor vehicles in accordance with the use to which property is placed.
(B) Scope. The off-street parking provisions of this chapter shall apply as follows:
(1) For all buildings and structures erected and all uses of land established after the effective date of this chapter, accessory off-street parking facilities shall be provided as required by the regulations of the District in which the buildings or uses are located. However, where a building permit has been issued prior to the effective date of this chapter, and provided that construction is begun within one year of the effective date and diligently prosecuted to completion, off-street parking, loading and unloading facilities as required herein need not be provided.
(2) When the intensity of the use of any building, structures, or premises shall be increased through addition of dwelling units, gross floor area seating capacity, or other units of measurement specified herein for required off-street parking facilities the off-street parking as required herein shall be provided for the increase in intensity of the land use. No building or structure lawfully erected or use lawfully established prior to the effective date of this chapter shall be required to provide the additional off-street parking facilities unless and until the aggregate increase in units of measurement shall equal not less than 15% of the units of measurement existing on the effective date of this chapter, in which event off-street parking facilities as required herein shall be provided for the total increases.
(3) Whenever the existing use of a building or structure shall hereafter be changed to a new use, off-street parking facilities shall be provided as required for the new use. However, if the building or structure was erected prior to the effective date of this chapter, additional off-street parking facilities are mandatory only in the amount by which requirements for the new use would exceed those for the existing use of the latter were subject to the parking and loading provision of this chapter.
(C) Existing off-street parking facilities. Accessory off-street parking facilities which are located on the same lot as the building or use served and which were in existence on the effective date of this chapter or were provided voluntarily after the effective date shall not hereafter be reduced below, or if already less than, shall not further be reduced below, the requirements of this chapter for a similar new building or use.
(D) Voluntary establishment. Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to prevent the voluntary establishment of off-street parking facilities to serve any existing use of land or buildings provided that all regulations herein governing the location, design, improvement, and operation of the facilities are adhered to.
(E) Damage or destruction. For any conforming or legally non-conforming building or use, as restricted by §§ 159.140 through 159.147 which is in existence on the effective date of this chapter, which subsequently thereto is damaged or destroyed by fire, collapse, explosion, or other cause, and which is reconstructed, re-established, or repaired, off-street parking facilities equivalent to any maintained at the time of the damage or destruction shall be restored or continued in operation. However, in no case shall it be necessary to restore or maintain off-street parking facilities in excess of those required by this chapter for equivalent new uses in construction.
(F) Control of off-site facilities. Where required off-street parking facilities are provided on land other than the zoning lot on which the building or use served by the facilities is located, they shall be and remain in the same possession or ownership as the zoning lot occupied by the building or use to which the off-street parking facilities are necessary. No such off-site parking facilities shall be authorized and no zoning certificate shall be issued where the plans call for off-site parking facilities other than on the same zoning lot until and unless the Planning and Zoning Commission has reviewed the plans and heard the applicant and made findings that the common ownership or possession of the zoning lot and the site of the parking facilities are reasonably certain to continued an that the off-street parking facilities will be maintained at all times during the life of the proposed use or building.
(G) Submission of plot plan. Any application for a building permit, or for a certificate of occupancy where no building permit is required, shall include therewith a plot plan, drawn to scale and showing dimensions, any off-street parking facilities to be provided shall be in compliance with this chapter.
Off-street parking facilities accessory to residential use and development in any residential district in accordance with the requirements of this section shall be used solely for the parking of vehicles controlled by the occupants of the dwelling structures to which the facilities are necessary, or by guests of the occupants of the structure, and as regulated in § 159.019 of this chapter.
(Am. Ord. 07-0508, passed 2-21-07)
Off-street parking facilities for different buildings, structures, or uses, or for mixed uses, may be provided collectively in any zoning district in which separate parking facilities for each constituent use would be permitted, provided that the total number of spaces so located together shall not be less than the sum of the separate requirements for each use. Developer, builder and/or development shall provided a recorded document for cross access easements when property or properties have more than one tenant/occupant to the property for parking lot usage by patrons, employees, and the like.
(A) When a determination of the number of off-street parking spaces required by this chapter results in a requirement of a fractional space, any fraction of one-half or less may be disregarded, while a fraction in excess of one-half shall be counted as one parking space.
(B) The total number of accessory parking spaces provided for one-family, two-family or multiple family dwellings shall not exceed that required by this chapter for such or for any equivalent new use by more than 50% or four spaces, whichever number is greater.
(C) Size and access (off-street parking).
(1) Size. A required off-street parking space in all districts shall be at least
nine feet six inches in width (WP) and at least 18 feet in length, exclusive of access drives or aisles, ramps, curbs, columns, office or work areas. The width and length of all parking spaces adjacent to curb and gutter shall be measured from the edge of pavement. All spaces shall have a minimum vertical clearance of at least seven feet. Aisles widths between vehicular parking spaces shall be not less than the following:
(a) Forty-five degree angle with a 16 feet 6 inch stall length (SL), 15 foot aisle width (AW), and 48 feet wall to wall (W) measured to and from the edge of pavement, accommodating one-way aisle travel;
(b) Sixty degree angle with 18 foot stall length (SL), 18 foot aisle width (AW), and 54 foot wall to wall (W) measured to and from edge of pavement, accommodating one-way aisle travel;
(c) Sixty degree angle with 18 foot stall length (SL), 26 foot aisle width (AW), and 62 foot wall to wall (W) measured to and from edge of pavement, accommodating two-way aisle travel; and,
(d) Ninety degree angle with 18 foot stall length (SL), 26 foot aisle width (AW), and 62 foot wall to wall (W) measured to and from edge of pavement, accommodating two-way aisle travel.
(2) Access. Each required off-street parking space shall open directly on an aisle or driveway of such width and design as to provide safe and efficient means of vehicular access to the parking space, unless the parking facilities are serviced by a parking attendant. All off-street parking facilities shall be designed with appropriate means of vehicular access to a street or alley in a manner which will least interfere with traffic movements. No driveway across public property nor curb cut shall exceed a width of 25 feet, unless otherwise allowed within this chapter.
(3) Measurement of space. When determination of the number of required off-street parking spaces results in a requirement of a fractional space, any fraction up to and including one-half shall be disregarded; and, any fraction over one-half shall be interpreted as one parking space.
(D) Design and maintenance.
(1) Open and enclosed parking spaces. Accessory parking spaces located on the same lot as occupied by the use served may be open to the sky or enclosed in a building. Accessory parking spaces located in a residential district elsewhere than on the same lot occupied by the use served shall be open to the sky except when otherwise allowed as a special use.
(2) Surfacing. All open off-street parking areas, including driveways and aisles, shall be improved with a compacted stone base, not less than eight inches thick, surfaced with not less than three inches of compacted asphalt or concrete as approved by the village.
(3) Curbing. All parking lots shall have complete non-mountable curbing system at the perimeter of the lots. This system shall be designed to retain and direct storm water on-site.
(4) Screening and landscaping. All applications for a building permits requested for new construction in multi-family residential, commercial, and manufacturing districts shall provide a landscaping plan which shall be submitted to the Village Planner for review and subject to approval by the Planning and Zoning Commission and Village Board of Trustees. All open automobile parking areas containing more than four parking spaces shall be effectively screened on each side adjoining or fronting on any property situated in a residential district or any institutional premises by a wall, fence or densely planted compact hedge not less than five feet nor more than seven feet in height. The required screening shall conform with the front and side yard setback requirements of the district in which the parking is located. Landscaping requirements under the business/commercial section of this chapter shall also apply where required.
(5) Lighting. Any lighting used to illuminate off-street parking areas shall be directed away from any residential properties and public highways in such a way as not to create a nuisance.
(6) Signage. Directional and regulatory signs only are permitted on parking areas.
(7) Repair and service. No motor vehicle repair work of any kind shall be permitted in conjunction with accessory off- street parking facilities provided in a residential district. The sale of gasoline and motor oil in conjunction with accessory off-street parking facilities is not permitted in any residential district.
(8) Required setbacks. Except for otherwise provided for herein this chapter or within a specific zoning district, no parking space nor portion thereof shall be established within the front yard setback of any business, commercial, industrial, manufacturing, airport or university district. Further any decorative or landscaping wall, fence or hedge developed around any parking area shall be subject to the setback requirements of this chapter in the same manner as the parking lot.
(E) Location of off-street parking facilities. Off-street parking spaces may be located in any yards, except required front yards. The location of off-street parking spaces in relation to the use served shall be as prescribed hereinafter. All distances specified shall be within walking distance between the parking spaces and a main entrance to the use served:
(1) For uses in a residential district. Parking spaces accessory to dwellings shall be located on the same zoning lot as the use served. Spaces accessory to uses other than dwellings may be located on a lot adjacent to, or directly across the street or alley from the lot occupied by the use served, but in no case at a distance in excess of 300 feet from such use.
(2) For apartments, condominiums or efficiency units containing four or more dwelling units on the same lot or parcel of land as the building they are required to serve, or on a separate lot or parcel of land not more than 300 feet from the nearest entrance to the main building being served, provided the lot or parcel of land selected for the parking facilities is located in a apartment district or a less restricted district.
(3) For boarding house, clubs, congregate care, convalescent homes, dormitories, fraternity, halfway house, health club, hospitals, lodge, lodging house, nursing home, orphanages, rooming house, sanitariums, sorority, and for other similar uses, the off-street parking facilities required shall be on the same lot or parcel of land as the main building or buildings being served, or upon properties contiguous to the zoning lot upon which is located the building or buildings they are intended to serve.
(4) For uses in business and industrial/ manufacturing districts. All required parking spaces shall be within 1,000 feet of the use served, except for spaces accessory to dwelling units (not including hotels) which shall be within 300 feet of the use served. However, no parking spaces accessory to a use in a business or manufacturing district shall be located in a residential district, unless recommended by the Planning and Zoning Commission in accordance with § 159.172 of this chapter to the Village Board of Trustees.
(Am. Ord. 06-0369, passed 2-1-06; Am. Ord. 07-0599, passed 12-19-07; Am. Ord. 08-0655, passed 5-21-08)
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