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.