(A) General parking area and surface requirements. All off-street parking areas as required in this section shall comply with the following minimum area and surface requirements.
(1) Size requirements. A parking space shall be not less than eight feet in width and not less than 19 feet in length.
(2) Surface requirements. Parking spaces shall be surfaced with Portland cement, concrete asphaltic concrete or equivalent hard surface, or two-inch thickness pit run one-inch screened gravel with 15% binder.
(3) Enclosed areas, garages. Enclosed parking areas or garages, if surfaced as required in division (A)(2) above shall qualify to meet the minimum parking space requirements under this section.
(4) Minimum requirements. Requirements as to number and size of parking spaces in this section are minimum requirements only and shall not be construed as limitations.
(B) Off-street parking requirements. Except in the CBD Zoning District, at the time of construction or enlargement of a structure or building, off-street parking spaces and loading areas shall be provided, constructed and maintained for all uses as follows:
(1) Single-family residential: two spaces;
(2) Duplex residential: three spaces;
(3) Multi-family residential: one and one-half spaces per dwelling unit.
(4) Mobile home residential: two spaces;
(5) Hotel/motel: one space per room;
(6) Hospital: one space for each two hospital beds;
(7) Places of public assembly (theaters, auditoriums and the like): one space for each six seats;
(8) Bowling alleys: three spaces per alley;
(9) Skating rinks/dance halls: one space for each 300 square feet of floor area;
(10) Retail sales and professional office: one space for each 500 square feet of gross floor area;
(11) Restaurants: one space for each four seats plus one space for each two employees;
(12) Taverns, bars and cocktail lounges: one space for each two seats;
(13) Primary educational facilities: one space per classroom or one space for every six seats in the largest facility for public assembly, whichever is the greater;
(14) Secondary educational facilities and colleges/universities: one space per ten students or one space for every six seats in the largest facility for public assembly, whichever is the greater;
(15) Manufacturing or industrial: one space for every two employees on the largest working shift; and
(16) Assisted elderly housing: four parking spaces or one-half space for each residential unit, whichever is greater.
(C) Off-street parking requirements in the CBD Zoning District. When new residential construction is accomplished in the CBD Zoning District, one and one-half off-street parking spaces shall be provided for each dwelling unit.
(D) Self-propelled and accessory vehicles. Effective July 1, 2019, parking of self-propelled vehicles and Class I accessory vehicles on single family, two-family and multi-family residential dwellings in the city shall be limited as follows.
(1) Surfaced. All parking areas and driveways shall meet the requirements of division (D)(2)(a) below and shall be surfaced as therein required.
(2) Requirements.
(a) On residential lots with a street frontage of less than 60 feet, no more than 50% of the front yard area shall be surfaced and used for drives and parking.
(b) On residential lots with a street frontage of 60 feet or more in width, not more than 40% of the front yard area shall be surfaced and used for drives and parking.
(c) On residential lots where two or more sides abut a public street, the allowable drive and parking areas for the narrower street frontage shall be determined as described in division (D)(2)(a) and (D)(2)(b) above. For the greater street frontage, the maximum area to be surfaced and used for drives and parking within that front yard is 25%.
(d) For purposes of this section, a
FRONT YARD is defined as that area between the wall of the principal building and a lot line which abuts a public street and the extension of said building line to the lots lines.
(3) Exemptions. The provisions of this division (D) shall not apply during any snow event as described in § 71.07(A), nor during a period beginning two days before the county fair and ending two days after the fair.
(4) Permit for construction.
(a) Whenever any person shall desire to construct front yard parking surface improvements in compliance with this division (D), such person shall obtain from the Zoning Officer a permit for the proposed front yard parking construction.
(b) The fee for front yard parking surface improvements pursuant to this division (D)(4) shall be in an amount as determined from time to time by resolution of the City Council.
(c) The application for the permit required for this division (D) and the permit form shall be as created by the Planning Department. All such permits issued shall be valid until the subsequent November 15.
(d) If a permit under the provisions of § 95.017(C) is required and obtained and the permit fee paid in connection with a permit required under this division (D)(4), the permit fee under this division (D) shall be waived.
(Prior Code, § 9-11-3) (Ord. passed 10-11-1990; Ord. 497, passed 7-13-1998; Ord. 544, passed 3-19-2001; Ord. 766, passed 7-7-2014; Ord. 840, passed 12-3-2018; Ord. 843, passed 3-18-2019) Penalty, see § 155.999