Off-street parking facilities for motor vehicles shall be provided in accordance with the following.
(A) Use. Off-street parking facilities required herein as accessory to uses subject to this chapter shall be solely for the parking of passenger automobiles of patrons, occupants, or employees.
(B) Exemptions. When the application of the off-street parking regulations specified hereinafter results in a requirement of not more than three spaces on a single lot in the commercial districts, such parking spaces need not be provided, unless two or more uses are located on such lot in which case only one of the uses shall be eligible for the above.
(C) Computation. When determination of the number of off-street parking spaces required by this chapter results in a requirement of a fractional space, any fraction of one-half or less may be disregarded while a fraction in excess of one-half shall be counted as one parking space.
(D) Collective provisions. Off-street parking facilities for separate uses may be provided collectively if the total number of spaces so provided is not less than the sum of the separate requirements for each such use and provided that all regulations governing location of accessory parking spaces, in relation to the use served, are adhered to. Further, no parking spaces or portion thereof shall serve as a required space for more than one use unless otherwise authorized by the Zoning Board of Appeals in accordance with procedures set forth herein.
(E) Size. Except for parallel parking spaces, a required off-street parking space shall be at least nine feet in width and at least 20 feet in length, exclusive of access drives or aisles, ramps, columns, or office or work areas. Enclosed parking spaces shall have a vertical clearance of at least seven feet. For parallel parking, the length of the parking space shall be increased to 22 feet. All other requirements as to size shall be listed herein. Handicapped parking spaces will meet the size requirements as described in this chapter.
(F) Access. Each required off-street parking space shall open directly upon an aisle or driveway of such width and design as to provide safe and efficient means of vehicular access to such parking space. All off-street parking facilities shall be designed with appropriate means of vehicular access to a street or alley in an manner which will least interfere with traffic movement. No driveway across public property at the right-of-way line shall exceed a width of 25 feet.
(G) Design and maintenance.
(1) Open and enclosed parking spaces. Accessory parking spaces may be open to the sky or enclosed in an building.
(2) Surfacing. All open off-street parking areas containing more than three parking spaces shall be improved with a compacted base and a dust-free surface as approved by the County Highway Engineer.
(3) Screening and landscaping. All open automobile parking areas containing more than three parking spaces, located less than 40 feet from the nearest property line of a lot in a residence district, shall be effectively screened on each side adjoining or fronting on such property line by a solid fence or densely planted hedge, not less than five feet nor more than eight feet in height.
(4) Lighting. Any lighting used to illuminate off-street parking areas shall be directed away from residential properties. The Zoning Board of Appeals may, on petition of neighboring residential property owners or tenants, and after hearing, require that such lighting be reduced in intensity, height, changed in duration, or turned off after certain hours. In making this decision on any such petition, the Zoning Board of Appeals shall take into consideration the reasonable requirements of the user of the parking area involved.
(5) Repair and service. No regular motor vehicle repair work or service of any kind shall be permitted in conjunction with any parking facilities.
(H) Location. All parking spaces required to serve buildings or uses erected or established after the effective date of this chapter shall be located on the same or adjoining lot as the building or use served. Buildings or uses existing on the effective date of this chapter which are subsequently altered or enlarged so as to require the provision of parking spaces under this chapter, or new uses established in any commercial or industrial district, may be served by parking facilities located on land other than the lot on which the building or use served is located, provided such facilities are within 400 feet walking distance of a main entrance to the use served.
(I) Employee parking. Parking spaces required on an employee basis shall be based on the maximum number of employees on duty or residing, or both, on the premises at any one time.
(J) Required spaces. The minimum number of off-street parking spaces accessory to designated uses shall be provided as follows.
(1) Dwelling and lodging uses.
(a) Boarding or rooming houses: two parking spaces plus an additional one parking space for each three lodging units.
(b) Hotels and motels: one parking space per room, plus two parking spaces per three employees.
(c) Multiple-family dwellings: one and one-half parking spaces for each dwelling unit.
(d) Single-family dwellings: two parking spaces for each dwelling.
(e) Two-family dwellings: two parking spaces for each unit.
(2) Colleges, junior colleges, university, institutions, auditoriums, schools, or other places of assembly uses.
(a) Colleges, junior colleges, and universities. One parking space for each six students, based upon the maximum number of students that can be accommodated in accordance with design capacity, and one space for each employee.
(b) Nursing homes, rest homes, institutions for the care of the aged and for children, and sanitariums. One parking space for each two beds.
(c) Gymnasiums, stadiums, and grandstands. One parking space for each six seats or for each 108 inches of seating space.
(d) Hospitals. One parking space per bed for 100 bed hospitals; one and one-tenth parking spaces per bed for 101 to 300 beds, one and one-fifth parking spaces per bed for 301 to 500 beds; and one and three-tenths parking spaces per bed for over 500 beds.
(e) Libraries and museums. One parking space for each 800 square feet of floor area.
(f) Medical and dental clinics. One parking space for each 250 square feet of floor area.
(g) Meeting halls, convention halls, and exhibition halls. The number of parking spaces equal to 30% of the maximum number of people that can be accommodated in accordance with such design capacity.
(h) Private clubs and lodges. One parking space for each lodging room and one parking space for each six seats in accordance with design seating capacity of the main meeting room.
(i) Schools. Schools shall have parking spaces as follows.
1. Elementary and junior high schools shall have one parking space for each teacher and other employee.
2. Senior high schools shall have one parking space for each teacher and other employee, plus one parking space per five students.
3. Nursery schools shall have one parking space for each teacher and other employee, plus one off-street loading space per eight pupils.
4. If a school has an auditorium or assembly hall which may be used by persons other than students of the school, the parking requirements set forth under division (J)(2)(g) above shall be used to fulfill the parking requirements of the school.
5. Commercial and trade schools shall have two parking spaces per five students, plus two parking spaces per three employees.
(K) Recreational uses, commercial or non-commercial.
(1) Bowling alleys. Seven parking spaces for each lane plus such additional spaces as may be required herein for affiliated uses such as restaurants and the like.
(2) Golf courses. Six parking spaces per green and one parking space per employee.
(3) Golf driving range. One parking space per tee and one parking space per employee.
(4) Gymnasiums, health salons, swimming pools, skating rinks, and dance halls, commercial. One parking space for each three persons, based upon the maximum number of persons that can be accommodated at the same time in accordance with such design capacity, and one parking space for each two employees.
(L) Business, commercial, and manufacturing uses.
(1) All business and commercial establishments, except those specified hereafter. One parking space for each 300 square feet of floor area.
(2) Automobile carwash. One parking space for each two employees, plus one space for the owner or manager, and in addition, reservoir parking spaces to accommodate automobiles awaiting entrance to the automobile carwash equal in number to five times the maximum capacity of the automobile laundry. MAXIMUM CAPACITY, in this instance, shall mean the greatest number of automobiles which can be laundered at the same time.
(3) Automobile service stations. One parking space for each employee, plus two for each service stall.
(4) Banks. One parking space for each 400 square feet of floor area.
(5) Business, professional or service office buildings. One parking space for each 200 square feet of floor area used or intended to be used for service to the public as customers, patrons, or clients, whichever requires the greater number parking spaces, with a minimum of five spaces.
(6) Cannabis businesses.
(a) Cannabis dispensing organizations. One parking space per 200 square feet.
(b) Other cannabis business establishments. One parking space per 5,000 square feet for grow and process floor area, and one parking space per 300 square feet for office space.
(7) Cartage, express, parcel delivery, and freight terminal establishments. One parking space for each person engaged or employed on the premises and one parking space for each vehicle maintained on the premises.
(8) Drive-in business and commercial establishments. Extra (reservoir) parking spaces equal in number to 15% of the number of vehicle spaces used for serving customers.
(9) Establishments handling the sale and consumption on the premises of food and refreshment. One parking space for each three persons based upon the maximum number of persons that can be accommodated at the same time in accordance with such design capacity.
(10) Furniture and appliance stores, motor vehicle sales, wholesale stores, stores for repair of household equipment or furniture. One parking space for each 400 square feet of floor area.
(11) Production, processing, assembly, disassembly, cleaning, servicing, testing, or repairing of materials, goods, or products. One parking space for each two employees, as related to the working period when the maximum number of persons are employed on the premises.
(12) Theaters. One parking space for each six seats up to 400 seats, plus one parking space for each four seats over 400.
(13) Theaters (automobile drive-in). Extra (reservoir) parking spaces equal in number to 10% of the vehicle capacity of such theaters.
(14) Undertaking establishments and funeral parlors. Eight parking spaces for each chapel or parlor, plus one parking space for each funeral vehicle maintained on the premises.
(15) Warehouse, storage, wholesale, and mail order establishments. One parking space for each employee employed on the premises and one parking space for each vehicle maintained on the premises.
(M) Miscellaneous uses.
(1) Planned developments. The total number of parking spaces needed to meet the requirements herein for each use located in the development.
(2) Public utility and public service uses. One parking space for each two employees.
(N) Other uses. Parking spaces for other permitted or special uses not listed above shall be provided in accordance with requirements recommended by the Community Development Administrator and approved by the Zoning Board of Appeals, Land Use Committee, or County Board.
(Prior Code, 7 TCC 1-19(c)) (Ord. LU-20-03, passed 2-26-2020)