A. Off Street Parking:
1. All off street parking areas shall be sited and landscaped to screen their visibility from street rights of way, residential dwellings, pedestrian pathways, and adjoining property outside of the 1st Street Redevelopment PUD. Parking areas shall be screened to a minimum height of three feet (3').
2. Parking stall measurements and drive aisle widths shall conform to title 9, chapter 15 of the city code.
3. It is desired that all off street parking areas be aesthetically improved to reduce obtrusive characteristics that are inherent to their function. Landscape islands and/or pods shall be implemented in accordance with title 9, chapter 19 of the city code except that parking rows along a building face or adjacent to the streetscape shall only be required to implement terminal islands at the end of a parking row and shall not be required to provide intermediate islands within a linear row of parking.
4. Overstory trees shall be planted within all terminal landscape islands within the parking lot.
B. Off Street Loading:
1. All off street loading areas shall be sited and landscaped to screen their visibility from street rights of way, residential dwellings, pedestrian pathways, and adjoining property outside of the 1st Street Redevelopment PUD. Screening shall be implemented in accordance with title 9, chapter 19 of the city code.
2. Loading area measurements and drive aisle widths shall conform to title 9, chapter 15 of the city code.
C. Parking Ratios: The minimum number of parking stalls shall be as provided per title 9, chapter 15 of the city code, except that office and retail uses shall provide a minimum of one parking space per three hundred (300) square feet of gross floor area. Restaurants (both sit down and drive-through) and drinking establishments shall provide a minimum of one parking space per one hundred fifty (150) square feet of gross floor area. With the approval of the city council and the execution of an appropriate cross parking easement, required spaces for one parcel may be located on a different parcel. If shared parking is utilized, the total parking spaces provided within the PUD must meet the minimum number of parking stalls for all uses within the PUD.
D. Off Street Parking Lot Setbacks: Parking shall be set back so as to provide a minimum of fifteen feet (15') from the ultimate street right of way of Grand Avenue and fifteen feet (15') from the ultimate street right of way of 1st Street. The parking lot setback may be reduced to ten feet (10') if a streetscape is implemented within the setback. Parking shall be set back a minimum of five feet (5') from internal property lines within the 1st Street Redevelopment PUD unless the parking space within the setback is part of a common parking lot of joint usage between the adjoining lots. (Ord. 2122, 11-2-2015)