The following off-street parking standards shall apply to all new residential development.
A. Single-family/duplex dwellings shall provide garages as follows:
Number of Bedrooms* | Number of Stalls |
3 or fewer | 2 |
4 and 5 | 3 |
6 or more | 4 |
*A bedroom or room that could be used as a bedroom as determined by the director of community development.
1. Parking stall sizes shall be a minimum of ten feet by twenty feet.
2. Back-up area shall be a minimum of twenty-four feet.
3. Garages shall be set back a minimum of twenty feet from the front property line, except for garages on Terrace Drive where the setback shall be ten feet.
4. An electronic automatic garage door opener shall be provided for each garage door.
5. Carports are prohibited.
6. A minimum of seventy-two cubic feet of accessory storage area per unit shall be provided within the garage on shelves (with a minimum depth of eighteen inches). Storage rooms or closets cannot satisfy this requirement.
7. Tandem spaces are prohibited.
B. Multi-family dwellings, including single room occupancy (SRO) housing units, (buildings containing more than two dwellings on a single parcel) parking as follows:
Number of Bedrooms* | Number of Parking Spaces |
studio-2 | 2 garage spaces |
3 or more | 2 garage spaces plus 1 space per bedroom* over 2 (shall be in a garage or assigned surface parking space on the project site) |
*A bedroom or space that could reasonably be used as a bedroom.
1. Guest parking shall be provided as follows:
a. One space per four units either in a common garage or as surface parking on the same site.
b. Guest spaces must be open and accessible at all times.
2. Tandem spaces shall not count towards meeting the parking requirements set forth in this section.
3. Parking stall sizes shall be a minimum of ten by twenty feet.
4. Back-up area shall be a minimum of twenty-four feet.
5. An electronic automatic garage door or gate opener shall be provided for each garage door.
6. Carports are prohibited.
7. Aisle widths including back-up areas shall not be less than twenty-four feet.
8. Garages must provide a minimum of seventy-two cubic feet of accessory storage area in private secure storage bins (with a minimum depth of three feet) suspended above the parking spaces reserved for each dwelling unit. Common storage rooms, or individual storage lockers, cannot satisfy this requirement unless approved by the planning commission.
9. Where dwellings are subject to recorded conditions, covenants and restrictions (CCR's), the parking requirements in division C. shall be enforced by the homeowners' association. To enforce this division, an action may be brought by the city against any individual, or against the homeowners' association, or both, to ensure compliance with said requirements.
10. Where dwellings are subject to recorded conditions, covenants and restrictions, a provision shall be included to prohibit rooms that were not considered bedrooms for purposes of parking calculations from being marketed or used as bedrooms.
(Ord. 2014-08-1471 § 16; Ord. 2006-09-1364 § 3; Ord. 2005-12-1354 § 1, 2006; Ord. 2005-04-1347 § 1; Ord. 2001-07-1289 § 1; Ord. 93-03-1152 § 4 (part); Ord. 89-09-1040 § 1 (part))