All required off-street parking and loading facilities including entrances, exits, maneuvering areas, waiting areas, and parking and loading spaces shall be in accordance with the following standards and specifications:
(a) Parking Space Dimensions. Each off-street parking space, open or enclosed, shall have an area of not less than 200 square feet (measuring 10 feet by 20 feet) exclusive of access drives or aisles.
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(b) Waiting Space Dimensions. Each off-street waiting space for a drive-thru or drive- in facility shall have an area not less than 160 square feet (measuring 8 feet by 20 feet) exclusive of access drives and parking aisles and shall not interfere with parking or circulation.
(c) Circulation Aisles. The minimum width for a circulation aisle shall be:
(1) 24 feet for 90º or perpendicular parking;
(2) 18 feet for 60º parking;
(3) 13 feet for 45º parking.
Circulation aisles having a width of less than 22 feet shall be one-way aisles.
(d) Paving. Off-street parking areas and driveways shall be improved, surfaced and maintained with a durable and dustless surface consisting of oiled crushed stone, asphalt, bituminous, concrete, or equivalent surfacing.
(e) Drainage. All required spaces, together with driveways and other circulation aisles, shall have adequate provision for underdrainage and for the disposal of storm water, so that water shall not flow onto adjoining property or adjacent sidewalks in a quantity or manner that would be detrimental thereto, or inconvenient to persons using the sidewalk. Provisions for drainage and storm water management shall include all drainage facilities, catch basins, conduits and other facilities as the City Engineer requires.
(f) Curbs. A curb at least six inches high shall be installed and maintained along the perimeter of a parking or loading area in accordance with the following:
(1) When abutting a landscaped area;
(2) When located in the front yard;
(3) When a parking lot is located in or adjacent to a Residential District.
However, when a raised sidewalk with a minimum width of seven feet is adjacent to a parking lot or the parking lot is equipped with wheel stops, a curb shall not be required.
(g) Handicapped Parking Spaces. Handicapped parking spaces shall be provided according to the ADA or other applicable requirements.
(h) Marking. Any off-street parking area of 5 or more parking spaces shall indicate the location of each parking space, the location of handicapped spaces and the location and direction of movement along the driveways providing access thereto by painting upon the surface, by raised directional signs, or by markers or other similar measures placed in the surfacing.
(i) Parking Lot Landscaping. All development subject to site plan review shall include the following required landscaping for parking lots.
(1) Interior Parking Lot Landscaping: For parking areas in any district except the I-2 District, designed to accommodate 20 or more vehicles, a minimum of 5 percent of the parking lot shall be planted as landscaped island areas, developed and distributed throughout the parking lot so as to provide visual and climatic relief from broad expanses of pavement. Each landscaped island shall be a minimum of ten feet in any horizontal dimension and shall provide at least one major shade tree having a clear trunk height of at least 6 feet and a minimum caliper of 2 inches. Shrub plantings adjacent to a building along the perimeter of the parking lot, or in any part of a yard, shall not be counted as interior landscaping. For the purpose of this section the area of a parking lot shall be the total vehicular surface area including circulation aisles.
(2) Additional Plantings Along Public Streets: Whenever parking areas consisting of five spaces or more are located such that the parked cars will be visible from a public street, landscaping in addition to the required interior landscaping shall be required between the street and the parking lot. Such landscaping shall be a minimum height of 3.5 feet, located adjacent to the parking lot and shall be placed to effectively obscure a minimum of 50 percent of the parking area.
(3) Screening of Parking Lots Abutting Residences in Residential Districts: Parking areas accommodating five or more vehicles for non-single-family uses abutting single family residential lots in a Residential District shall be screened from view from such properties through landscaping or ornamental walls or fences to promote harmony with the adjacent development.
A. Screening shall consist of one or a combination of the following:
1. A dense vegetative planting incorporating trees and/or shrubs of a variety which shall be equally effective in winter and summer.
2. A nonliving opaque structure such as a solid masonry wall, solidly constructed decorated fence, or louvered fence.
3. A landscaped mound or berm.
B. The height of screening shall be in accordance with the following:
1. Visual screening walls, fences, or mounds and fences in combination shall be a minimum of six feet high in order to accomplish the desired screening effect.
2. Vegetation shall be planted with such minimum height to assure that the required six feet screening effect shall be achieved not later than twelve months after the initial installation.
C. All screening shall be free of advertising or other signs, except for directional signs and other signs for the efficient flow of vehicles.
D. The required landscaping shall be maintained in healthy condition by the current owner and replaced when necessary. Replacement material shall conform to the original intent of the landscape plan.
E. Materials used in any ornamental wall or fence shall be compatible with the character of the proposed development and abutting properties.
(k) Lighting. Wherever a parking lot or garage is to be used during darkness, a system of lighting shall be installed to provide an adequate standard of illumination over the entire parking lot. All lights shall be shielded so that a minimum glare will extend to adjacent property. In no case shall such lighting impair safe movement of traffic on adjacent streets or highways.
(l) Wheel/Bumper Guards. Wheel guards or bumper guards as may be necessary shall be provided in connection with any off-street parking area of 5 parking spaces or more to contain cars on sloping surfaces and to prevent the bumpers of cars from projecting over sidewalks or property lines.
(m) Maintenance. A parking lot or garage shall be maintained in a manner to keep it as free as practicable from dust, paper and other loose particles, and snow and ice shall be promptly removed by the operator. All adjacent sidewalks shall be kept free from dirt, ice, sleet and snow and in a safe condition for use by pedestrians. All signs, markers or any other methods used to indicate direction of traffic movement and location of parking spaces shall be maintained in a neat and legible condition. Any walls, trees and shrubbery, as well as surfacing of the parking lot or garage, shall be maintained in good condition throughout its use for parking purposes. All exposed concrete walls shall be painted or finished.
(Ord. 2007-222. Passed 1-10-08.)