(A) Purpose. Off-street parking requirements are intended to properly regulate the number and design of off-street vehicular parking spaces to meet the needs of occupants, customers, visitors or others involved in the use of any building, structural improvement or place of assembly; and to eliminate the undue use of the surface street system for parking purposes.
(B) Requirements.
(1) In all districts, except E-1 (Central Business), there shall be provided off-street parking spaces.
(2) Each parking space shall have adequate drives and room for ingress and egress to each parking space with a minimum size of eight feet by 22 feet for each parallel parking space and nine feet by 18 feet for each angular head-in parking space, and shall be designed in accordance with minimum standards as defined.
(3) The minimum number of off-street parking spaces required shall be as follows:
Commercial uses: | |
Assembly and exhibition halls without fixed seats | 1 per each 150 square feet |
Automotive sales and service | 1 per each 500 square feet of floor area |
Banks | 1 per 300 square feet of floor area |
Bingo parlor | 1 per each 3 seats (occupant load) |
Bowling alley | 5 per each lane |
Broadcast and communication services | 1 per each 300 square feet of floor area |
Commercial trade school | 1 per each 2 students and staff |
Day care and kindergarten | 1 per each 8 pupils (design capacity) |
Flea market (indoor and outdoor) | 15 spaces per each 200 square feet of floor area or market area |
Funeral homes, mortuaries | 1 per each 200 square feet of floor area |
Furniture and appliance store | 1 per each 500 square feet of floor area |
Health clubs | 1 per each 200 square feet of floor area |
Hotels, motels | 1 per room for the first 250 rooms and 0.75 space per room for each room over 250, plus 1 space per 5 restaurant/lounge area seats, plus 1 space per 125 square feet of meeting/conference areas |
1.1 spaces per room which contains kitchenette facilities, plus parking for restaurant and meeting areas per ratio stated herein | |
2 spaces per guest room provided with kitchen facilities, plus parking for restaurant and meeting areas per the ratio stated herein | |
Lumber yard, building materials and hardware sales | 1 per each 200 square feet of retail floor area, plus 1 per each 1,000 square feet of wholesale or storage area |
Office and business services | 1 per 300 square feet of floor area |
Live theaters and auditoriums | 1 per each 3.5 seats |
Motion picture theaters (which do not include live performances) | 1 space per 3.5 seats for single-screen theaters |
1 space per 5 seats for motion picture theaters with 2 or more screens | |
Nursing/convalescent home | 1 per each six beds (design capacity) |
Private clubs and dancehalls | 1 per each 100 square feet of floor area |
Repair service | 1 per each 500 square feet of floor area |
Restaurants and cafeterias | 1 per each 150 square feet of seating area |
Retail | 1 per each 200 square feet of floor area |
Shopping centers | 1 per each 200 square feet of retail space, plus required parking for non-retail uses |
Governmental/institutional uses: | |
Church, synagogue, temple | 1 per each 4 seats in the main sanctuary |
Colleges, universities | 1 per each 2 students, plus 1 for each classroom, laboratory or instruction area |
Governmental office buildings, libraries, museums | 1 per each 300 square feet of floor area |
Hospital | 1 per each 15 beds (design capacity) |
Schools: | |
Elementary | 1 per each 15 students (design capacity) |
Middle/junior high | 1 per each 15 students (design capacity) |
High | 1 per each 3 students and 1 per each staff |
Industrial: | |
Distribution, warehouse or storage | 1 per each 1,000 square feet of floor area |
Manufacturing facility | 1 per each 1,000 square feet of floor area |
Multi-family/apartments: | |
1.75 per each efficiency or 1 bedroom unit | |
2 per each 2 bedroom unit | |
2.5 per each 3 or more bedroom unit | |
3 per each 4 or more bedroom unit | |
Mobile home | 2 per dwelling unit |
Retirement center (excluding nursing home) | 1.5 per unit |
Residential uses: | |
Duplex/single-family attached | 2 per dwelling unit |
Single-family dwellings | 2 per dwelling unit |
Townhouses | 2 per dwelling unit |
Triplex or fourplex | 2 per dwelling unit |
Transient accommodations: | |
Bed and breakfast | 1 per guest room plus parking for other uses as required by this chapter |
Clubs, boardinghouses, dormitories | 1 per guest room plus parking for other uses as required by this chapter |
(C) Off-street stacking requirements for drive-through facilities.
(1) A stacking space shall be an area on a site measuring eight feet by 20 feet with direct forward access to a service window or station of a drive-through facility which does not constitute space for any other circulation driveway, parking space or maneuvering area.
(2) For financial institutions with drive-through facilities, each teller window or station, human or mechanical, shall be provided with a minimum of five stacking spaces.
(3) For each service window of a drive-through restaurant, a minimum of six spaces shall be provided.
(4) For kiosks, a minimum of two stacking spaces for each service window in addition to the service window shall be provided.
(5) For each full service car wash, vacuum or gas pump lane, a minimum of seven stacking spaces shall be provided.
(6) For each self-service (drive-through/automated) wash bay, a minimum of three stacking spaces in addition to the wash bay shall be provided.
(7) For each self-service (open bay), a minimum of two stacking spaces in addition to the wash bay shall be provided.
(8) For automobile quick lube facilities, a minimum of three stacking spaces in addition to the service bay shall be provided.
(D) Joint parking. Uses may join in establishing joint parking areas. Where it can be demonstrated before the Zoning Commission that parking for two or more specific uses occurs at alternating periods, and where the combined floor area of such uses occupies not less than 50,000 square feet or where the aggregate required off-street parking for such uses would be at least 200 spaces, then the parking space requirements of the use requiring the greater number of spaces may be applied to the other uses in a combined parking area. However, it shall be demonstrated as a condition precedent to consideration of a joint parking area that such area will result in a reduction of at least 10% of the aggregate required off-street parking for such uses.
(1998 Code, App. A, § 40-56) (Ord. 95-26, passed 1-3-1996)