168.01 Purpose and Scope | 168.06 Off-Street Parking Regulations |
168.02 Jurisdiction | 168.07 Parking for Persons with Disabilities |
168.03 Applicability | 168.08 Dimensional Requirements |
168.04 Off-Street Loading Spaces Required | 168.09 Landscaping, Screening, and Open Space Requirements |
168.05 Lighting Requirements | 168.10 Off-Street Parking Spaces Required |
The purpose of this chapter is to protect the health, safety, and general welfare of the citizens to be accomplished so as to:
1. Prevent traffic congestion and hazards.
2. Provide for proper traffic safety by preserving the public thoroughfares for the unimpaired movement of pedestrian, bicycle, and vehicular traffic.
3. Provide for attractive, secure, properly lighted, and well screened off-street parking and loading facilities.
4. Assure the mobility and access of emergency vehicles.
5. Provide for appropriately designed parking and loading facilities in proportion to the needs generated by the varying types of land use in order to maintain the character of the City environment.
6. Minimize the negative visual impacts of large expanses of parking and loading areas by reducing glare from parking lots through open space and landscaping in and around parking areas.
The lawful use of parking and loading facilities existing on January 8, 2007, may be continued although such facilities may not conform to the regulations herein. Parking and loading facilities permitted before the adoption of the regulations herein shall be referred to as “permitted nonconforming uses.” No permit shall be issued for any lot, tenant, or development after the effective date of this chapter unless the same is in conformity with, the provisions of this chapter. No parking or loading facility, except where specified herein, may be substantially improved, converted, enlarged, or otherwise altered without conforming to this chapter.
In any and all districts in connection with every industrial, commercial, business, recreational, or dwelling use, and all other uses, space for off-street parking and storage of any vehicle shall be provided in accordance with all of the following regulations except where otherwise specified herein.
1. Loading Areas With Dock. Loading areas that have a dock shall have a minimum width of 12 feet and a minimum length of 40 feet.
2. Loading Areas Without Dock. Loading areas that do not have a dock shall have a minimum width of 10 feet and a minimum length of 25 feet.
3. Location of Loading Areas. Loading areas shall generally be located behind a building not fronting a public street right-of-way. Loading areas should be set back from an adjoining R District a distance of at least 25 feet or not less than the minimum required landscape buffer from the R District boundary and an opaque screen or buffer should be installed and maintained.
4. Use of Street or Alley Restricted. No portion of a public street or alley should be allowed to accommodate loading area functions unless otherwise designated by the City.
All of the following standards shall apply to all off-street parking:
1. Parking Spaces Required. No structure or use shall be permitted or constructed unless off-street parking spaces are provided in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
2. Arrangement and Marking. All parking areas shall be so arranged and marked so as to provide for orderly and safe loading or unloading, parking, and storage of vehicles.
3. Use of Spaces Restricted. Required parking spaces shall be used only for the parking of vehicles for property owners, guests, renters, patrons or employees of the site. Required parking spaces shall not be used for the commercial sale, display, rental or repair of other vehicles.
4. Surfaced Areas; Private Property. All parking of vehicles, including automobiles, vans, campers, trucks, trailers, tractors, recreational vehicles, boats, construction equipment and any other mobile vehicle equipped for street and highway travel shall occur on permanent impervious surface (concrete or asphalt) areas and on private property only.
5. Fractional Spaces. Fractional space requirements shall be rounded up to the next whole space.
6. Uses with Differing Business Hours. The number of required parking spaces for uses with differing business hours that share a parking lot may be reduced by 25 percent of the total required for each use if it is determined by the administrative official that such reduction will not have a negative impact on the congestion or safety of the development.
7. Reduction In Parking Capacity Prohibited. Any required parking spaces displaced by building expansion shall be provided elsewhere on the site. No required off-street parking facility shall be reduced in capacity below the minimum requirements of this chapter.
8. Change In Building or Use; Increased Capacity. When a principal building is enlarged, increased in capacity, or when a change in use creates an increase in the amount of off-street parking space required, additional off-street parking spaces shall be required in conformity with this chapter.
9. Striping of Spaces. All parking spaces, except parking spaces for single-family attached and detached dwellings, shall be striped in accordance with approved site plan. The striping is to remain maintained in a clear and visible manner.
10. Maneuvering and Circulation Area. Off-street parking facilities, including (but not limited to) parking lots, loading zones, and residential driveways shall accommodate the maneuvering and circulation of all vehicles on site, so as not to impair the movement of vehicles on public streets. Except for attached and detached single-family dwellings and townhomes, there shall be no backing of any vehicle from an off-street parking space into a public street or alley unless otherwise approved by the City Council.
11. Security and Lighting. All parking facilities shall be designed, constructed, and maintained with security as a priority to protect the safety of the users. In all cases, lighting may be regarded as an acceptable form of fulfilling the security requirement.
12. Sanitation. All parking facilities shall be maintained free of litter and debris, potholes, broken curbs, etc.
13. Auto Repair and Car Washes. For auto repair, car wash, oil change shops, or other similar uses, lift racks shall not be considered as a required parking space.
14. Flexible Space. Buildings developed as “flexible space” shall be designed to accommodate eight spaces per 1,000 square feet of gross building area. “Flexible space” is defined as those buildings that are constructed to include multiple tenants, generally including retail users and restaurant users. In the case that a big box retailer is a tenant within a “flexible space” building, the minimum parking requirements shall be provided in accordance with the parking requirements of each use. “Big box retailer” is defined as a single tenant user with a minimum square footage of 50,000 square feet in gross floor area.
15. Queuing Space. For purposes of the requirements herein, a “queuing space” is defined as a space used for the accommodation of vehicular traffic in wait, having a dimension of 12 feet in width and 20 feet in length.
16. C-2 District Exempt. The C-2 Downtown Village District is exempt from the provisions of this chapter.
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