(a) Authorization; Location. In lots within or abutting residential districts R-2, R-4, R-6, R-8 and R-10 and in residential office districts, in connection with and accessory to one or more business or industrial establishments located in an adjoining business or industrial district or in connection with any institutional or other permitted nonresidential use located in any district, the Planning Commission may authorize the establishment and operation of off-street restricted accessory parking areas for any number of self-propelled vehicles, subject to the conditions and limitations of this section. Restricted accessory parking areas shall be located no farther than 200 feet from a business or industrial use or the premises of any institutional or permitted nonresidential building in the particular residential district.
(b) Arrangement; Prohibited Activities; Signs. Such parking areas shall be arranged and marked, as approved by the Traffic Engineer, so as to provide for orderly and safe parking or storage of vehicles. No commercial repair work, servicing or selling of any kind shall be conducted on such areas and no sign of any kind other than those indicating entrances, exits, name of establishment to which such parking area is accessory and conditions of use shall be erected thereon.
(c) Entrances and Exits. Entrances and exits to and from such parking areas shall be located to cause the least effect on adjoining property.
(d) Fencing; Screening. Such parking areas shall be fenced; or, where deemed essential to protect the adjoining residential district, screened by means of a wall or planting of such height and design as will meet the approval of the Planning Commission.
(e) Operational Improvements. In addition to the requirements above, such parking areas shall comply with such further requirements or conditions, with respect to surfacing, marking, lighting and other improvements with respect to other features of operation, including the time limit of lighting to prevent glare or obnoxiousness to adjoining residential properties, as the Planning Commission and the Traffic Engineer may deem necessary or desirable and may prescribe for the protection of the residential district in which such parking areas are to be located.
(f) Applications for Permits; Hearing. The application to the Planning Commission for permits to establish such parking areas shall be accompanied by the names and addresses of all of the owners of properties adjoining the proposed area and all other properties within the same block as will be the proposed parking area and of properties separated therefrom by not more than one street, any part of any one of which properties is within 200 feet of any part of such proposed parking area and is located in a residential district. Such property owners shall be given notice of public hearing and shall have the opportunity of expressing themselves thereat.
(g) Nonconforming Areas. The Planning Commission may, on application, authorize the continuation of the use of a nonconforming restricted accessory parking area located in a residential district; provided, that all requirements and conditions which the Commission may deem necessary or desirable and may prescribe for the protection of the residential district in which such parking area is located are complied with; and, in so doing, the Commission may require the execution, acknowledgement and delivery to the City of a valid and binding contract by the owner of the land, which contract shall create a covenant running with the land, to ensure that such requirements or conditions are observed and will remain effective until such parking area is discontinued or the use is terminated and containing such other provisions as the Commission may require.
(h) Revocation of Permit. A permit or certificate of occupancy issued for a restricted accessory parking area under the provisions of this section shall be revocable, subject to compliance with all requirements and conditions stipulated above.
(Ord. 1896. Passed 8-1-96.)