Code Section: 159 (a)

Subject: Required parking not on same lot

Effective Date: 9/90

Interpretation:

   This Section allows, under certain circumstances, for required off-street parking to be provided on a different lot than the use it serves. This paragraph, however, states that required parking for one- or two-unit dwellings shall be located only on the lot it serves or in a community garage. Since the Zoning Administrator has allowed required parking for one- and two-family dwellings to be located on abutting lots under some circumstances, the question arose as to whether their required parking could be provided by leasing surplus parking directly across the street. It was explained that those circumstances where required parking was provided on an adjoining lot was to allow splitting a lot which contained a one- or two-family dwelling with no parking in the structure itself but rather in a separate garage on the portion to be split off. In those cases, in order to preserve the parking for the existing house and in order to preserve the existing house itself where adding parking inside the structure itself was infeasible, the lot split was approved with an easement granting use of the parking stall on the newly-created lot to the existing house. This Section still would not allow required parking for a one- or two-family dwelling across the street.