Off-street parking areas should be designed to create a safe and comfortable passage for pedestrians. All off-street parking lots, including exits, entrances, drives, and parking areas, shall:
(a) Be designed to allow for traffic movement following generally accepted geometric design principles.
(b) Have physical access to a public street.
(c) Be so designed that stormwater runoff from the parking area does not create erosion, flooding, or other nuisance condition or hazard, on the parking area property or adjoining properties or roadways. Wherever practicable, runoff shall be directed into existing stormwater conveyances, such as ditches, curbs, and storm sewers. In no case shall runoff be directed onto adjoining properties in locations that previously did not receive runoff.
(d) Off-street parking areas, loading, egress and ingress, and maneuvering space shall be paved with asphalt or concrete. Any parking area not paved at the time of adoption of this chapter shall be allowed to continue as such until an expansion of the building or parking area occurs. At such time, the parking area must be paved and meet current landscaping requirements.
(e) Be maintained as long as the use, which it serves, exists. Each parking space shall be marked and maintained.
(f) Unless otherwise required by these regulations, all off-street parking with more than ten (10) automotive vehicles that adjoins any plot zoned or used for single-family residential purposes, shall be screened with landscaped devices following Section 9-3077.5 to protect residences from light, glare, noise, and fumes.
(Ord. of 6/5/06; Ord. of 12/6/10; Ord. of 6/28/21)