Ada City Zoning Code
CHAPTER 1166
Off-Street Parking and Loading Regulations
1166.01 OFF-STREET PARKING.
(a) Surfaced off-street automobile parking shall be provided on any lot on which any of the following uses are hereafter established; such space shall be provided with vehicular access to a street or alley. For purposes of computing gross off-street parking area required, the ratio of 200 square feet per parking space shall be used.
(b) This section does not apply to the downtown commercial (C-1) area (North and South Main Street from Lehr Avenue to Highland Avenue). Since this area is very condensed with little or no room for parking and there is a parking lot available, the off-street parking standard will not apply to this area for commercial uses. Any residential use within the commercial district must provide off-street parking.
(Ord. 2001-22. Passed 1-15-02.)
1166.02 NUMBER OF PARKING SPACES REQUIRED.
The number of off-street parking spaces required shall be set forth in the following:
Use | Parking Spaces Required |
Automobile or Machinery Sales and Service Garages
| -One (1) for each six hundred (600) square feet floor area.
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Banks, Business. And Three or More Professional Offices
| -One (1) for each four hundred (400) square feet of floor area.
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Bowling Alleys
| -Five (5) for each alley plus one (1) for each employee
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Churches or Temples
| -One (1) for each four (4) seats in the Main auditorium
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Country Club of Golf Club
| -One (1) for each five (5) members
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Dance Halls and Assembly Halls Without fixed seats, Exhibition Halls Except Church Assembly Room in Conjunction with Auditorium
| -One (1) for each one hundred (100) square feet of floor area used for assembly or dancing
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Dwelling- Single Family
| A minimum of one (1) space for each bedroom-allowed in side or rear yard or in a driveway leading to an attached garage only. |
Dwellings- Two (2), and Three (3) Family, Multiple Dwelling and Summer Cottages
| A minimum of one (1) space for each bedroom per dwelling unit; allowed in side or rear yard or in a driveway leading to an attached garage only. |
Funeral Homes, Mortuaries
| -One (1) for each fifty (50) square feet of Floor area in slumber rooms, parlors, or Individual funeral service rooms.
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Furniture & Appliance Stores Household equipment or Furniture Repair Shop over one thousand square Feet of floor area
| -One (1) for each four hundred (400) square feet of floor area plus one (1) space for each employee
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Hospitals
| -One (1) for each three (3) beds plus one space for each employee
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Hotels, Lodging houses
| -One (1) for each bedroom
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Libraries, Museum, or Art Galleries or Community Center
| -Ten (10) plus one (1) Additional for each three (3) hundred square feet of floor area in Excess of two thousand (2000) square feet
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Manufacturing Plants, Research or Testing Laboratories, Bottling Plants over one thousand (1000) Square feet in area
| - One (1) for each three (3) employees in the maximum working shift or one thousand two hundred (1,200) square feet of floor
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Medical or Dental Clinics
| -One (1) for each four hundred (400) square Feet of floor area
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Motel, Motor Hotels, and Tourists Home
| -One (1) for each living or sleeping unit
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Private Club or Lodge
| -One (1) for each ten (10) members
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Restaurants, Beer Parlors & Night Clubs of over one thousand (1,000) Square feet in area
| -One (1) for each three (3) seats plus one (1) for each employee
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Retail Stores, Shops, etc. of Over two thousand (2000) square Feet floor area
| -One (1) for each four hundred (400) square feet of floor area plus (1) one for each employee
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Sanitariums, Convalescent homes, Children’s Homes
| -One (1) for each three (3) beds plus one (1) for each employee
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School, Technical Institution | -One (1) for each eight (8) seats in an auditorium or three (3) for each classroom, whichever is greater
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Sports arenas, Auditoriums, Theaters, Assembly Halls, Other than schools
| -One (1) for each three (3) seats or bench seating spaces
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Wholesale Establishments or Warehouses
| -One (1) for each three (3) employees on maximum shift or for each three thousand (3,000) Square feet of floor area, whichever Is greater.
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(Ord. 2015-07. Passed 11-17-15.)
1166.03 DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF PARKING AREAS.
Every parcel of land hereafter used as a public or private parking area, including a commercial parking lot and also an automobile trailer sales lot, shall be developed and maintained in accordance with the following requirements:
(a) Screening and Landscaping. Off-street parking areas for more than five (5) vehicles shall be effectively screened on each side which adjoins premises situated in any R-District by a masonry wall or solid fence of acceptable design. Such wall or fence shall be between four (4) and six (6) feet in height and shall be maintained in good condition. Landscaping provided in lieu of such wall or fence shall consist of a strip of land not less than fifteen (15) feet in width planted with and evergreen hedge, or dense planting of evergreen shrubs not less than four (4) feet in height.
(b) Surfacing. Any off-street parking area for more than four (4) vehicles shall be graded for proper drainage and surfaced with a durable hard surface, such as concrete or asphalt concrete. All parking for four (4) vehicles or less shall have a minimum of a stone surface may be waived if the parking lot is fifty (50) feet or mote off the street right-of-way. The first fifty- (50) feet of the drive must be paved.
(c) Lighting. Any lighting used to illuminate any off street parking area shall be so arranged as to reflect the light away from adjoins premises in any R-District.
(d) Joint Use of Parking Areas. Parking spaces may be located on a lit other than that containing the principal use with approval of the Board and a written agreement, approved by the Board and accepted by the Village Council shall be filed with the application for a zoning permit.
(e) Parking Areas-Modifications. The Board may authorize on appeal a modification, reduction or waiver of the foregoing requirements, if it should find that, in the particular case appealed the peculiar nature the residential, business, trade, industrial or other use, or in the exceptional shape or size of the property or other exceptional situation or condition, would justify such action. The Board shall take no action unless and until it has first received the recommendation of the Planning Commission regarding the appeal.
(Ord. 92-8. Passed 7-7-92.)
1166.04 OFF STREET LOADING.
In any district, in connection with every building or part thereof erected and having a gross floor area of 5,000 square feet or more, which is to be occupied by manufacturing, storage, warehouse, goods display, retail store, wholesale store, market, hotel, hospital, mortuary, laundry, dry cleaning or other uses similarly requiring the receipt or distribution by vehicles of material or merchandise, there shall be provided and maintained on the same lot with such additional such loading space for each 10,000 square feet or major fraction thereof, or gross floor area so used in excess of 10,000 square feet.
(Ord. 92-8. Passed 7-7-92.)
1166.05 LOADING SPACE-DIMENSIONS.
Each loading space shall be not less than ten (10) feet in width, twenty-five (25) feet in length, and fourteen (14) feet in height.
(Ord. 92-8. Passed 7-7-92.)
1166.06 LOADING SPACE-OCCUPY YARD.
Subject to the limitations in Section 1166.07 such may occupy all or any part of any required yard.
(Ord. 92-8. Passed 7-7-92.)
1166.07 LOADING SPACE-DISTANCE FROM R-DISTRICT.
No space shall be closer than 50 feet to any other lot located in any R-District, unless wholly within a completely enclosed building or unless enclosed on all sides by a wall or uniformly painted solid board fence not less than six (6) feet in height.
(Ord. 92-8. Passed 7-7-92.)