(A) Parking in the Central Business District. Uses located within the Central Business District are exempt from all off-street parking and loading requirements.
(B) Parking space requirements.
(1) The required parking and loading spaces shall be provided on the premises of each use. Each parking space shall contain a minimum area of not less than 300 square feet including access drives and a width of not less than nine feet, and a depth of not less than 20 feet.
(2) The minimum number of required off-street parking spaces for various uses shall be as follows:
(a) One- to four-family dwelling. One parking space per unit. No garage shall be converted into living space unless other acceptable on-site parking space is provided;
(b) Apartments. One and one-half parking spaces for each apartment, except housing for the elderly projects, which shall provide three-tenths parking space for each dwelling unit;
(c) Board housing. One parking space off-street per person owning motor vehicle;
(d) Mobile home park. One and one-fourth parking space per mobile home berth;
(e) Motel or motor hotel. One parking space for each rental room or suite;
(f) Churches. One parking space for each four seats, based on the design capacity of the main seating area;
(g) Elementary school or junior high school. Two parking spaces for each classroom;
(h) Senior high school. One parking space for each classroom, plus one parking space for each ten students, based on design capacity;
(i) Public administration buildings, community center, public library, museum, art galleries, post office, and other public service buildings. One parking space for each 500 square feet of floor area in the principal structure;
(j) Assembly or exhibition hall, armory, auditorium, theater, or sports arena. One parking space for each four seats, based on design capacity;
(k) Golf course, golf clubhouse, country club, swimming club, tennis club, public swimming pool. Twenty spaces, plus one space for each 500 square feet of floor area in the principal structure;
(l) Hospitals. One parking space for each three beds; convalescent, or nursing home, one parking space for each four beds;
(m) Automobile service station. Four parking spaces, plus two parking spaces for each service stall. Such parking spaces shall be in addition to gas pump service area;
(n) Drive-in restaurant. Twenty parking spaces or one space for each 20 square feet of floor area, whichever is greater;
(o) Restaurant, café, night club, tavern, or bar. One parking space for each 100 square feet of floor area;
(p) Bowling alley. Five parking spaces for each bowling lane;
(q) Miniature golf course, archery range or golf driving range. Ten parking spaces;
(r) Professional offices, medical and dental clinics and animal hospital. One parking space for each 500 square feet of floor area;
(s) Office building. One parking space for each 500 square feet of floor area;
(t) Retail stores and service establishments. One parking space for each 200 square feet of floor area;
(s) Research, experimental, or testing stations. One parking space for each employee on the major shift or one off-street parking space for each 500 square feet of gross floor area within the building, whichever is the greater;
(u) Auto sales, trailer sales, marine, and boat sales, implement sales, garden supply store, buildings materials sales, auto repair. One parking space for each 500 square feet of floor area;
(v) Shopping center. Where several business uses are grouped together according to a general development plan, on-site automobile parking shall be provided in a ratio of not less than three square feet of gross parking area for each one square foot of gross floor area; separate on-site space shall be provided for loading and unloading;
(w) Storage, wholesale, or warehouse establishments. One parking space for each two employees on the major shift or one space for each 2,000 square feet of floor area, whichever is greater, plus one space for each company motor vehicle when customarily kept on the premises; and
(x) Manufacturing or processing plant. One off-street parking space for each two employees on the major shift or one off-street parking space for each 1,000 square feet of gross floor area within the building, whichever is greater, plus one space for all company motor vehicles when customarily kept on the premises.
(C) Off-street loading design and maintenance.
(1) Location. All required loading or unloading into or out of trucks in excess of three-fourths-ton capacity, or railroad cars, shall be conducted at facilities specifically designed or designated for that purpose. These facilities shall be located upon the zoning lot of the principal use requiring them. All berths beyond one shall be separate from areas used for off-street parking.
(2) Access. Each required off-street loading berth shall be so designed as to avoid undue interference with other vehicular or rail access or use of public streets, alleys, or other public transport system.
(3) Surfacing. All off-street loading facilities, including loading berths and maneuvering areas, shall be surfaced with a hard, all-weather, dust-free durable surfacing material, and shall be well drained and landscaped and shall be maintained in a sightly and well-kept condition.
(4) Landscaping and screening. All berths shall be screened from view from the property street frontage and/or from the zoning district boundary when the adjacent property or property across the street frontage or side street frontage is zoned or used for residential purposes. Said screening shall be accomplished by a solid wall not less than eight feet in height and shall be so designed as to be architecturally harmonious with the principal structure. Screen plantings may be substituted for the prescribed wall, however, such plantings must not be less than two and one-half inches in diameter and of such type as to permit a minimum of 90% opacity during all months of the year.
(5) Design. Fifty percent of the required number of truck berths shall be 50 feet in length, 12 feet in width and 15 feet in height. All loading areas shall consist of a maneuvering area in addition to the berth and shall not use any of that portion of the site containing parking stalls. Maneuvering areas shall be of such size as to permit the backing of truck tractors and coupled trailers into a berth, without blocking the use of other berths or drive or maneuvering areas.
(6) Required loading areas.
(a) Space for loading and unloading of goods, supplies, and services shall be provided in addition to required off-street parking spaces and shall be sufficient to meet the requirements of each use.
(b) The following uses shall observe required loading and unloading spaces as indicated.
Use | Required Spaces |
Use | Required Spaces |
Auditorium, stadium, gymnasium, community centers, and religious institutions and schools (private and public) | 1 for every structure over 100,000 square feet of gross floor area |
Bowling alleys | 1 space for each structure over 20,000 square feet of gross floor area |
Furniture, automobile and boat sales, and appliance sales | 1 space, plus one additional space for each 25,000 square feet of gross floor area |
Hospitals, rest homes, nursing homes, and the like | 1 space, plus one additional space for each 100,000 square feet of gross floor area |
Light and heavy commercial uses, except where otherwise specified | 1 space for the first 10,000 square feet of gross floor area and one space for each additional 50,000 feet of gross floor area |
Manufacturing and research, experimental, or testing stations | 1 space for each 50,000 square feet of gross floor area. |
Motels, hotels, lodging and rooming houses, private clubs, and lodges | 1 for each structure over 20,000 square feet of gross floor area |
Office building and professional offices (other than doctor and dentist), banks | 1 space for buildings between 30,000 and 100,000 square feet of gross floor area and one additional space for each additional 100,000 square feet of gross floor area |
Restaurants and other food dispensing establishments except drive-in restaurants | 1 for each structure with over 10,000 square feet of gross floor area |
(2006 Code, § 11.20) (Ord. 130, passed 12-24-1971; Ord. 5, 3rd Series, passed 1-17-1980) Penalty, see § 152.99