All off-street parking facilities shall conform with the following standards:
A. All parking areas shall have adequate ingress and egress to a street or alley.
B. Entrances and exits to parking lots and other parking facilities shall be provided at locations approved by the site plan review committee.
C. The parking area, aisles and access drives shall be surfaced with an asphalt concrete surfacing of two-inch minimum thickness on a four-inch untreated rock base. The subgrade shall be compacted to a minimum relative compaction of ninety (90) percent. The minimum slope of asphalt paved surface in the direction of drainage shall be twelve (12) inches per one hundred (100) feet and the minimum slope of concrete gutters shall be three inches per one hundred (100) feet.
D. The four-inch untreated rock base may be modified on basis of an "R" value test of the existing soil. The test to be made with a traffic index of 5.0.
E. On major developments service roads shall be designed to carry the traffic loads anticipated.
F. No parking areas shall be located within a required front setback or within a street side setback of a corner lot.
G. Each parking space shall conform to standards as specified by the city traffic engineer. Open spaces shall be plainly marked by striping.
H. Parking spaces for the physically handicapped person shall be provided per the latest adopted version of the California Building Code.
I. Parking spaces for "compact automobile" will be permitted providing that each parking space is not less than fifteen (15) feet in length and seven and one-half feet in width, exclusive of aisles and access drives. Number of compact parking spaces shall not exceed thirty (30) percent of the total required parking spaces of an establishment. There shall be no more than four contiguous compact stalls within a parking lot. Any compact parking shall be approved by the site plan review committee.
J. If the parking area is illuminated, lighting shall be deflected away from abutting residential sites so as to cause no annoying glare.
K. In all C-N, C-R, C-S, C-MU, D-MU, O-PA, O-C, and BRP zone districts where a site adjoins or is directly across the street from an R-1 or R-M zone, a concrete block or masonry wall not less than six feet in height shall be located on the property line except in a required front yard, in which case the wall shall be three feet, and suitably maintained.
L. No repair work or servicing of vehicles shall be conducted on a parking area.
M. New parking facilities shall promote the use of time and/or motion sensitive parking lot and security lights, where feasible, as determined by the Site Plan Review Committee.
N. New parking facilities shall promote and be evaluated as part of an overall program to implement low impact development features on-site that reduce impermeable surfaces and increase infiltration. The implementation and design of low impact development features for the site will be determined by the Site Plan Review Committee.
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O. Vacant or unimproved lots shall not be used as vehicle parking facilities and/or outdoor storage of commercial equipment, construction equipment, and similar uses unless screened appropriately, as determined by Site Plan Review Committee.
P. For Residential zones, all parking shall be permitted on impervious surfaces such as pavement or concrete when in the front yard setback area.
Q. For Residential zones, all driveways shall be paved. (Ord. 2017-01 (part), 2017: prior code § 7497)