(a) Location of parking areas. Required parking shall be located on the same lot as the use that the parking serves, except as follows.
(1) Required parking may be located on a different lot from the use that the parking serves if the parking is within:
(A) Four hundred feet from the dwellings it serves; and
(B) One thousand feet from non-residential uses it serves.
(2) Parking to serve any use may be placed within a CBD, CC, CS, ML or MH District.
(A) Parking within the INST District shall only be permitted to serve uses allowed within the INST District and dwellings.
(B) Parking within each residential district shall only be permitted to serve uses allowed within that district and dwellings.
(C) Parking within the open space district shall only be permitted to serve uses allowed within the open space district and dwellings.
(D) Such parking areas shall meet all other requirements of this Ordinance.
(b) Assignment of parking space in grouped lots. The required parking spaces for any number of separate uses may be combined in one lot; but the required spaces assigned to one use may not be assigned to another use at the same time; except that, one-half of the parking spaces required for places of worship, theaters or assembly halls whose peak attendance will be at night, Saturdays or Sundays may be assigned to a use which will be closed at night, on Saturdays and on Sundays.
(c) Remote parking lots encumbered. Where provision of required parking for a building or use established or enlarged subsequent to the adoption of this Zoning Ordinance involves one or more parcels of land that are not a part of the lot on which the principal use is situated, the applicant for a permit for the principal use shall submit, with his or her application for a building permit, an instrument duly executed and acknowledged subjecting such parcels of land to parking uses in connection with the principal use to which it is accessory. The applicant shall deposit the necessary registration fee; and, upon the issuance of a building permit, the Bureau of Codes shall cause such instrument to be registered in the office of the Register of Deeds.
(d) Setback of parking and loading areas. All parking and loading areas shall be set back from the street line in conformance with pertinent yard requirements; except that, permitted parking areas, but not loading areas, may be located in required yards adjoining streets; provided, they are separated from the street by a substantial wall or fence not more than 33% open or a dense hedge in accordance with § 1383.04.
(e) Landscaping.
(1) Lots less than or equal to 20 stalls require a landscaped area of a minimum of 3% of the total area of the parking lot.
(2) Lots over 20 stalls require a landscaped island at least five feet by 18 feet for every 18 spaces in a single row or five feet by 36 feet for 36 spaces in a double row, together with a minimum canopy of 10% of the total vehicle area. Equivalent areas may be used in corners of lots keeping in mind that a tree needs a minimum of 20 square feet.
(3) All landscaping must be in accordance with Art. 1383.
(4) A minimum of one deciduous shade tree meeting city requirements shall be planted for every 10 new off-street parking spaces that are added to a lot, other than spaces within an underground or multi-story parking structure. These trees may be planted within the lot, such as within and/or around parking areas. The Zoning Officer may allow existing healthy trees to be preserved to meet some or all of this requirement. These trees shall be planted in addition to any existing or required street trees.
(f) Demolition. When a structure is demolished and demolition is for the purpose of providing parking, then the provisions of this Ordinance and Art. 1383 apply.
(g) Surfacing. Every parking area, loading area and driveway shall be paved with a durable dustless material approved by the Bureau of Codes, graded to dispose of all surface water and maintained in good condition.
(h) Drainage. In C, R or INST Districts, paved parking and loading areas shall be provided with area drains connected to a storm sewer to eliminate surface drainage over sidewalks in the public right-of-way.
(i) Required screening when vehicular use areas abut public rights-of-way. On the site of a building or structure or lot providing off-street parking areas or other vehicular use area, there shall be provided landscaping between such area and such right-of-way, as follows: a strip of land at least four feet in depth located between the abutting right-of-way and the off-street parking area or other vehicular use area which is exposed to an abutting right-of-way shall be landscaped. Such landscaping shall include one small or medium tree for each 35 lineal feet or 45 feet for a large tree or fraction thereof within the four-foot strip or within the right-of-way areas reserved for the planting of street trees. In addition, a hedge, wall or other landscaping shall be planted within the landscaped strip in accordance with § 1383.04, except as provided in § 1341.17. The landscape strips along the public rights-of-way shall be presentations which will be varied through color, shape and texture of landscape material. The remainder of the required landscaped areas shall be landscaped with grass, ground cover or other landscape treatment.
(j) Required screening between vehicular use areas and abutting residential or institutional use. All buildings or structures or lots providing an off-street parking area or vehicular use area of five spaces or more, shall be provided with a wall or hedge or other landscape screen not greater than six feet in height, nor less than four feet in height and a minimum width of four feet, to form a continuous screen between the off-street parking area or vehicular use area and any abutting or any residential or institutional use. Such landscape screen shall be located between the common lot line and the off-street parking area or other vehicular use area exposed to the abutting property. If the screen consists all or in part of plant materials, such plant materials shall be planted in a planting strip of not less than four feet in width. Fence material may be substituted for the above which meets the range of height limits and may consist of up to 50% gaps in the material. Chain link and plastic construction fencing material is not acceptable.
(Ord. 5745, approved 4-16-1998; Ord. 5869, approved 5-16-2002; Ord. 6402, approved 2-4-2021; Ord. 6416, approved 7-8-2021)
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