(A) Parking space description. A required off-street parking space shall be an area of not less than 180 square feet, nor less than nine feet wide by 20 feet long, measured perpendicularly to the sides of the parking space exclusive of access drives or aisles, ramps, columns or office and work areas, accessible from streets or alleys or from private driveways or aisles leading to streets or alleys and to be used for the storage or parking of passenger automobiles or commercial vehicles of not more than ten-ton GVW. Aisles between vehicular parking spaces shall be not less than 12 feet in width when serving automobiles parked at a 45-degree angle in one direction, nor less than 25 feet in width when serving automobiles parked perpendicularly.
(B) Measurement of space. When determination of the number of required off-street parking spaces results in a requirement of a fractional space, any fraction up to and including one-half shall be disregarded, and fractions over one-half shall be interpreted as one parking space.
(C) Access. Parking facilities shall be designed with appropriate means of vehicular access to a street or alley in a manner as will least interfere with the movement of traffic and so designed as to permit adequate maneuvering area for vehicles to turn around where only one entry or exit is provided in order that no backing of vehicles into the street is required. No driveway or curb cut in any district shall exceed 25 feet in width.
(D) Signs. No signs shall be displayed in any parking area within any residential district, except as provided in this subchapter.
(E) Striping. All parking spaces shall be properly marked by durable paint in stripes a minimum of four inches wide and extending the length of the parking space.
(F) Surfacing. All open off-street parking areas, except those accessory to single-family dwellings, shall be improved with a compacted gravel base, not less than four inches thick, surfaced with all weather dustless material.
(G) Lighting. Any lighting used to illuminate an off-street parking area shall be so arranged as to reflect the light away from all adjoining properties.
(H) Storm water drainage. Adequate storm water drainage facilities shall be installed in order to ensure that storm water does not flow onto abutting property or abutting sidewalks in a way or quantity that pedestrians using the sidewalk would be detrimentally affected or inconvenienced. The city shall approve all facilities.
(1994 Code, § 155.115) (Ord. 200, passed 4-28-1969; Ord. 298, passed 2-28-1987)