(A) Parking and parking lots; purpose. The purpose of this section is to provide for adequate parking for residential developments and to maintain all roadways and entrances free of impediments to traffic. All parking areas shall be designed for pedestrian safety.
(B) General regulations.
(1) All parking areas shall be landscaped. There shall be no large expanses of concrete;
(2) No required parking shall be allowed on public roads or entrances. No required parking shall be allowed on private roads, except where additional width has been provided expressly for this purpose;
(3) The site owner shall not allow the parking of abandoned or disabled vehicles in the development;
(4) If boats, trailers or other recreation or storage vehicles are allowed in the manufactured home park, the park owner shall provide additional parking facilities on each space or shall provide a separate storage area for these items. Boats, trailers or other recreational or storage vehicles shall not be stored or parked on public roads, private roads, entrances or required parking spaces or vacant manufactured home space. These items may not be stored or parked on an occupied manufactured home space, unless a specific storage/parking area has been specified for that space on the development plans. Parking or storage of these items shall not be located on septic tanks, septic tank drainage fields, or be located in proximity to any wells. Additionally, parking or storage shall not require passage over septic tanks or septic tank drainage fields;
(5) All parking spaces shall be located such that headlights are not directed at the pubic road. Any spaces that must be located such that headlights are directed at the road shall be screened by a combination of walls, fences, earthen berms and landscaping to prevent the intrusion of the headlights into the public road;
(6) At least 10% of all parking lot areas where more than 12 parking spaces are provided shall be landscaped. This may be waived by the Planning Commission;
(7) To avoid large expanses of paved parking area, the following provisions, which may be waived by the Planning Commission, shall apply:
(a) No more than 12 parking spaces will be permitted in a continuous row and the break between rows (the island) must be landscaped;
(b) The ends of parking rows and landscaped islands shall be a minimum of 6 feet wide and shall be adequately landscaped with shade trees, ground cover, and shrubs; and
(c) Double rows of parking shall be separated by a minimum 6-foot planting strip adequately landscaped with shade trees and shrubs.
(8) Parking area design shall include provision for the physically handicapped as required under state standards;
(9) All lighting in parking areas shall be arranged to prevent direct glare of illumination onto adjacent properties; and
(10) Off-street parking areas and driveways, exclusive of required landscaping, shall be surfaced with materials approved by the Planning Commission.
(C) 10,000-square-foot manufactured home spaces. Each residential dwelling unit within a development:
(1) Shall be provided 3 parking spaces, each 9 feet by 19 feet, for the exclusive use of that unit and its visitors on each manufactured home space;
(2) Shall be provided 2 parking spaces for the exclusive use of the unit, where additional visitor parking is supplied by widening the roadway width to allow parking on 1 or both sides of the private road; or
(3) Shall be provided 3 spaces in a common parking area.
(D) Other size manufactured home spaces. Each residential dwelling unit within a development shall be provided 3 parking spaces, each 9 feet by 19 feet, for the exclusive use of that unit and its visitors on each manufactured home space.
(Ord. 3 § 6.11 passed 9-14-1998) Penalty, see § 152.999