Off-street parking for specific uses shall be required as follows:
Use | Required Spaces |
Use | Required Spaces |
All nonresidential buildings, except those specified below | 1 space for each 300 square feet of floor area |
Auditoriums, theaters, other places of public assembly | 1 parking space for each 4 seats |
Bowling alley | 3 spaces per alley |
Church or temple | 1 parking space for each 4 seats in the main auditorium |
Community center, library, museum or similar public or semi-public buildings | 10 parking spaces plus 1 additional space for each additional 300 square feet of floor area in excess of 2,000 square feet |
Hospital | 1.5 parking spaces for each bed |
Hotel or motel | 5 parking spaces plus 1 space for each sleeping room or suite |
Manufacturing or industrial establishments, research or testing laboratory, bottling plant, warehouse or other similar establishments | 2 parking spaces for each 3 employees on the maximum shift, plus space to accommodate all trucks and other vehicles used in connection therewith |
Medical office building | Buildings in which 20% or more of the gross area is occupied by members of healing profession; 1 parking space for each 200 square feet of the gross area used for medical purposes |
Mortuary | One space for each 50 square feet of floor area in slumber rooms or 1 for each 4 seats in chapel, whichever is greater |
Multiple dwellings | 1.5 spaces for each dwelling unit of one bedroom or less; 2 spaces for each dwelling unit of 2 bedrooms or more |
Multiple dwellings for the elderly and handicapped | 0.75 spaces for each dwelling unit |
Other retail uses | 1 parking space for each 300 square feet of gross floor area except for planned shopping centers of 100,000 square feet of floor area or more who may reduce their requirement to one space for each 400 square feet of floor area |
Personal services | 1 parking space for each 200 square feet of floor area |
Private club or lodge | 1 parking space for each 300 square feet of floor area |
Restaurant, bar, café or recreation or amusement establishment not specified herein | 1 parking space for each 100 square feet of floor area or 1 parking space per 3 fixed seats, which ever is greater |
Retail stores selling furniture, appliance or home improvement products (i.e. carpet, paint, wallpaper and the like) | 1 parking space for each 600 square feet of floor area |
Rooming and boarding houses, sororities and fraternities | 1 space per 2 beds |
Sanitarium or institutional home | 1 parking space for each 3 beds |
School | |
Colleges and universities | Because of the unique parking needs of colleges and universities, a permit application for new construction must include a parking study prepared by the applicant of the parking needs of the entire campus including the new use and the study must address a plan to meet the parking needs of the staff and students |
Elementary school | 5 spaces plus 1 parking space for each teacher and staff member |
High schools | 1 parking space for each 3 students based on the building’s design capacity |
Junior high school | 25 spaces plus 1 parking space for each teacher and staff member |
Single-family and two-family dwellings | 1 space for each dwelling unit |
(1992 Code, App. F, § 16.02) (Ord. 10-06, passed 1-23-2006)