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Code Section: 145.2
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See also "Telephones, privately owned for public use, regulations for 1994" in the Interpretations - Alphabetical
Code Section: 149
Subject: Art requirement, gross floor area
Effective Date: 4/86
Interpretation:
This Section states that new buildings or additions to building of over 25,000 square feet in the C-3 Districts shall supply art work with a purchase price equal to one percent of the construction cost. This 25,000 square-foot figure shall be interpreted as gross floor area, as most references in the Code to floor area are based upon gross floor area except for the determination of required parking.
Code Section: 150
Subject: Parking location when lot split by zoning boundary
Effective Date: 4/63
Interpretation:
Where a single development is split by a zoning boundary, that part which is in the more restrictive district can harbor the same number of parking stalls as the number of dwelling units it contains. It can also harbor a certain share of the parking assigned to the dwelling units in the less restrictive portion of the lot; however, it cannot harbor so large a percentage of the parking stalls that it forces the building to have a greater mass than it would have if that part of the property were developed separately. Further, if there is another access characterized by higher density or less restrictive zoning, that access should be used for the high volume parking lot.
Code Section: 150(c)
Subject: Off-street parking, thresholds
Effective Date: 8/89
Interpretation:
This Section presents the off-street parking rules for additions to buildings. A long-standing interpretation has been that once a building which lawfully exists without parking due to its nonresidential uses totaling under the threshold amount, is expanded to be over that threshold, the original space is also subject to off-street parking according to the respective formulae for each use. However, such interpretation cannot be made to apply to cases where the expansion involves uses which are not measured, for parking purposes, by the same method (i.e., floor area) as the preexisting uses in the building. For example, adding 2,500 square feet of hotel use to a building already containing 2,000 square feet of restaurant and 2,000 square feet of office would not make the restaurant and office uses subject to parking since hotel parking requirements are based upon number of hotel rooms rather than square footage. Adding 2,500 square feet of retail use to such building would bring the restaurant and office uses over the threshold and make them subject to parking requirements because parking for retail use is based upon the same unit of measurement.
Code Section: 150(c)(1)
Subject: Parking credit
Effective Date: 4/87
Interpretation:
This Paragraph allows a legal parking deficiency for a building to be carried forward to a new use of the building. No parking credit can be given for conversions from nonresidential to residential live/work space.
Code Section: 150(c)(1), (2)
Subject: Parking calculation, rounding up or down
Effective Date: 8/87
Interpretation:
These Paragraphs state that when a building or use is expanded, parking need be provided only for the major addition which is defined, in the case of dwellings, as an addition which increases the requirement by one stall or more. Section 153(a)(5) requires that, when computing the parking requirement by dividing a quantity by the given formula for that use, a major fraction must be rounded up to provide the additional parking stall. For example, a church requires one parking stall for each 20 seats after the first 200 seats. The first parking stall would be required for 210 seats since 10 is the major fraction of 20.
Code Section: 150(c)(1)
Subject: Abandonment of parking grandfathering
Effective Date: 7/92
Interpretation:
This Section states that any legal parking deficiency may be carried forward to the next use. When a use that is noncomplying as to parking changes to a use that doesn't require parking, it loses its noncomplying status and therefore has no legal parking deficit to carry forward if it subsequently added or changed to a use that required parking.
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