(A) Intent of parking provisions. It is the intent of this chapter that off-street parking spaces shall be provided and adequately maintained by each property owner in every zoning district for the use of occupants, employees, and patrons of each building and premise constructed, altered, or enlarged after the effective date of this chapter.
(B) Definition. The term FLOOR AREA, as applied to offices, merchandising, or service types of uses, shall mean the gross floor area used or intended to be used for services to the public as customers, patrons, clients, patients, or tenants, including those areas occupied for fixtures and equipment used for display or sale of merchandise, but excluding floor areas which are used exclusively for storage, for housing of mechanical equipment integral with the building, for maintenance facilities, or for those areas where customers, patients, clients, salespeople, and the general public are denied access. FLOOR AREA shall be measured from the exterior faces of exterior walls or from the center line of walls separating two buildings.
(C) Fractional spaces. When units of measurement determining the number of required parking spaces result in a fractional space, the number of spaces required shall be rounded up to the nearest whole number.
(D) Waiver of parking requirements. The Planning Commission may modify or waive all or a portion of the requirements of this chapter based on the specific needs of the site, provided that negative impacts on neighboring properties are minimal.
(E) Requirements for a use not mentioned. In the case of a use not specifically mentioned, the requirements of off-street parking facilities for a use which is mentioned and which the Planning Commission determines is most similar to the use not listed shall apply.
(F) Use of parking areas. No commercial repair work, servicing, or selling of any kind shall be conducted on any parking area. Required parking space shall be used only for the parking of vehicles used to service the establishment to which it is accessory and by its patrons.
(1) No charge shall be made for customers, employees, or other visitors utilizing the parking facilities.
(2) No advertising sign shall be erected on required parking areas except that not more than one directional sign at each point of ingress or egress may be erected which may also bear the name of the enterprise the lot is intended to serve. The signs shall not exceed 20 square feet in area and shall not project beyond the property line of the premises.
(G) Building additions or other increases in floor area. Additional parking shall be provided and maintained in proper ratio to any increased floor area or building use capacity.
(H) Joint use of parking areas. The joint use of parking facilities by two or more uses is recommended and may be granted by the Planning Commission whenever the use is practical and satisfactory to each of the uses intended to be served and when all requirements for location, design, and construction can be satisfied.
(1) Computing capacities. In computing capacities of any joint use, the total space requirement is the sum of the individual requirements that will occur at the same time. If space requirements for individual uses occur at distinctly different times, the total of the off-street parking facilities required for joint or collective use may be reduced below the sum total of the individual space requirements at the discretion of the Planning Commission.
(2) Record of agreement. A copy of an agreement between joint users shall be filed with the application for a building permit and recorded with the County Register of Deeds. The agreement shall include a guarantee for continued use of the parking facility for each party to the joint use.
(I) Parking space requirements. The number of required off-street parking spaces in all districts for every residential, recreational, institutional, cultural, business, and industrial use shall be provided in accordance with the following minimum requirements. The maximum number of parking spaces permitted shall be 1.5 times the minimum.
(1) Two-family dwellings - two spaces for each family.
(2) Multiple-dwellings unit - 1.5 spaces for each dwelling.
(3) Boarding and lodging houses, fraternities, private clubs - one space for each bedroom.
(4) Hotels/motels - one space for each guest room plus one space for each employee.
(5) Convalescent home, convents, or similar use - one space for each four beds plus one space for each employee in the largest shift.
(6) Hospitals, sanitariums, patient beds - one space for every three beds plus one space for each employee in the largest shift.
(7) Clinics - four spaces for each doctor plus one space for each other employee.
(8) Auditoriums (incidental to schools), churches, theaters, buildings of similar use with fixed seats - one space for every two seats plus one space for each employee in the largest shift.
(9) Auditoriums (other than incidental to schools), lodge halls, meeting halls, community centers, or buildings of similar use without fixed seats - one space for every four persons of legal capacity.
(10) Elementary and junior high schools - one space for every employee, including administrators and teachers.
(11) High schools and colleges - one space for every employee, including administrators and teachers, plus one space for every five students.
(12) Libraries, museums, and post offices - two spaces for every 500 square feet of floor area plus one space for every employee in the largest shift.
(13) Private golf clubs, swimming pool clubs, tennis clubs, or other similar uses - one space for every two people in the maximum capacity.
(14) Golf courses open to the general public except miniature or par three courses - four spaces for each one golf hole plus one space for each employee in the largest shift.
(15) Stadiums and sports arenas - one space for every two seats.
(16) Dance halls, pool and billiard rooms, exhibition halls, roller rinks - one space for each 100 square feet of floor area.
(17) Bowling alleys - three spaces for each alley plus one space for every employee in the largest shift.
(18) Miniature or par three golf courses - three spaces for each one golf hole plus one space for each employee in the largest shift.
(19) Professional offices and banks - one space for every 200 square feet of floor area.
(20) General offices - one space for every 200 square feet of floor area.
(21) Clothing, furniture, appliance, hardware, automobile, machinery sales, shoe repair, personal services (other than beauty and barber shops), wholesale sales - one space for every 200 square feet of floor area.
(22) Barber shops and beauty parlors - two spaces for each beauty and/or barber shop chair.
(23) Supermarkets, self-service food store - one space for every 100 square feet of floor area.
(24) Restaurants, cafeterias, taverns, bars - one space for every 75 square feet of floor area plus one space for every three seats.
(25) Automobile service and repair garages, gasoline filling, and service stations - 1.5 spaces for each repair and service stall plus one space for each employee in the largest shift.
(26) Drive-in restaurants - one space for every order station, plus one non-order station space for every employee in the largest shift.
(27) Drive-in, restaurants and other drive-in businesses - stacking space for five cars between the sidewalk area and the service window, plus one space for every 75 square feet plus one space for every three seats.
(28) Retail stores, except as otherwise specified herein - one space for every 150 square feet of floor area.
(29) Funeral homes and mortuaries - one parking space for every 50 square feet of floor area in slumber rooms, chapels, and assembly rooms.
(30) Warehouses, wholesale stores - one space for every 800 square feet of floor area, plus one space for every employee in the largest shift.
(31) Industrial or manufacturing establishments, including research and testing laboratories, creameries, bottling works, printing and engraving shops - one space for every employee in the largest shift or one space for every 800 square feet of gross floor area, whichever is greater.
(J) Location of parking areas. Required parking shall be provided on the premises or within 1,000 feet measured from the nearest point of the parking area to the nearest point of the building.
(K) Site plan review. Whenever four or more vehicles are required for a given use under the requirements of this section, plans and specifications for the construction or alteration of an off-street parking area shall be submitted to the Zoning Administrator before a building permit can be issued. The plans and specifications should show the location, basis of capacity calculation, size, site design, surfacing, marking, lighting, drainage, curb cuts, entrances, exits and any other detailed feature essential to the complete design and construction of the parking area.
(L) Site development requirements. All off-street parking areas shall be designed, constructed, and maintained in accordance with the following standards and requirements.
(1) A minimum area of 180 square feet shall be provided for each vehicle parking space, each space shall be definitely designated and reserved for parking purposes exclusive of space requirements for adequate ingress and egress. Each space shall have a minimum width of nine feet and a minimum length of 20 feet.
(2) Parking areas shall be so designed and marked as to provide for orderly and safe movement and storage of vehicles.
(3) Adequate ingress and egress to the parking area by means of clearly limited and defined drives shall be provided.
(a) Except for parking space provided on single-family and two-family residential lots, drives for ingress and egress to the parking area shall be not less than 20 feet wide and so located as to secure the most appropriate development of the individual property.
(b) Each entrance to and exit from any off-street parking area shall be at least 25 feet from any adjacent lot within a residential district and at least 50 feet from any intersection.
(4) Each vehicle parking space within an off-street parking area shall be provided adequate access by means of maneuvering lanes. Backing directly onto a street shall be prohibited. The width of required maneuvering lanes may vary depending upon the proposed parking pattern, as follows.
(a) For right-angle parking patterns 75 to 90 degrees, the maneuvering lane width shall be 20 feet.
(b) For parking patterns 54 to 74 degrees, the maneuvering lane width shall be 15 feet.
(c) For parking patterns 30 to 53 degrees, the maneuvering lane width shall be 12 feet.
(d) All maneuvering lane widths shall permit one-way traffic movement, except for the 90-degree pattern which may provide for two-way traffic movement.
(5) Parking areas with a capacity of four or more vehicles shall be surfaced with a material that shall provide a durable, smooth, and dustless surface, and shall be graded and provided with adequate drainage facilities to dispose of all collected surface water.
(6) Except for single-family and two-family residential lots, adequate lighting shall be provided throughout the hours when the parking area is in operation. The lighting shall not exceed an intensity of five foot-candles, nor shall it be less than one and one-half foot-candles. All lighting shall be so arranged so as to reflect light away from any residential property adjacent and any adjacent road or street so the light will not interfere with traffic.
(7) Where a parking area with a capacity of four or more vehicles abuts a residential district or public right-of-way in a residential district, a buffer strip at least ten feet wide shall be provided between the parking area and the adjoining property and a vertical screen shall be erected consisting of structural or plant materials no less than four feet in height and spaced so as to effectively screen the parking area from the residential area.
(Ord. 146, passed 3-2-1998; Ord. 163, passed 6-4-2001; Ord. 225, passed 7-9-2013; Ord. 230, passed 12-9-2014; Ord., passed 810-2021) Penalty, see § 153.999