These performance standards are intended to prevent traffic congestion by requiring provision of adequate off street parking and loading areas. (Ord. 459-13, 2013)

All buildings and uses shall provide the minimum number of off street parking spaces required by section 17.60.040, table B-1 of this chapter. Parking spaces shall have paved or properly graded and drained gravel surfaces. (Ord. 459-13, 2013)

The classification of uses and the off street parking requirements for uses not listed in section 17.60.040, table B-1 of this chapter shall be determined by the administrator. Any person who disputes a decision of the administrator may request a review of that decision using the appeals procedure of section 17.16B.010 of this title. (Ord. 459-13, 2013)

TABLE B-1

 

 

 

Note: Other uses (transportation, communications, and utilities; wholesale trade; and industrial) shall provide 1 parking space for each anticipated employee plus 1 and 1 parking space for each anticipated company vehicle, plus 1. Where a place of assembly does not have fixed seating, 1 space shall be provided for each 25 square feet of assembly area. Off street parking requirements for different uses in the same building shall be calculated separately.

(Ord. 459-13, 2013)

Off street parking shall be provided on the same lot and under the same ownership as the use it serves, except that two (2) or more uses may share a parking area where:

   A.   The total number of spaces provided is not less than the sum of the parking spaces required for all buildings or uses served, and

   B.   A contract providing for shared parking for a period of ten (10) or more years is executed before approval of a permit and recorded before issuance of a certificate of compliance.

Required off street parking spaces shall be within six hundred feet (600') of a main entrance of the building or use being served, except for spaces serving a dwelling unit, which shall be within one hundred feet (100') of the unit served. (Ord. 459-13, 2013)

Daycare centers, preschools, public schools, and places for public assembly located on arterial roads shall provide at least one safe off street passenger loading area. Such areas shall be located where there is adequate visibility for their safe use and: a) be divided from the road by a curbed barrier of at least four feet (4') in width; b) be at least sixty feet (60') in length and twelve feet (12') wide; c) accommodate one-way traffic only; d) include a depressed curb section for handicapped access; and e) be marked by pedestrian crossing signs facing both traffic lanes. (Ord. 459-13, 2013)

   A.   Agricultural Storage Facilities: Certain agricultural storage facilities, like potato cellars, generate substantial traffic during harvest, and may affect the flow of traffic on public roads. Setting specific setback or loading area standards for such uses is difficult, but all proposals for class I permits for new agricultural storage facilities shall include an on site circulation plan showing how trucks will flow through the site and demonstrating that potentially adverse impacts on public roads will be minimized. Where storage facilities are part of a commercial or industrial development, the circulation plan must be submitted with the application for class II permit review.

   B.   Commercial And Industrial Uses: All commercial and industrial buildings and uses, except those to which subsection A of this section applies, shall provide one safe, properly signed, off street loading area for each ten thousand (10,000) square feet of gross floor area. Off street loading areas shall: 1) be on the same lot and under the same ownership as the building or use they serve, 2) be designed to accommodate the largest vehicle that may reasonably be anticipated for use on the site, and 3) have the following minimum dimensions:

 

 

No vehicle parked in a required off street loading space shall extend into a public right of way. (Ord. 459-13, 2013)

Paved access driveways shall be provided for safe access to all off street parking and loading areas.

   A.   No parking area, except those serving single-family dwellings, shall be designed or constructed to create a situation in which vehicles are required to back onto a public road.

   B.   Parking and loading areas shall be sited and designed to minimize the number of access points to arterial roads.

   C.   No access driveway to a local road shall be within twenty feet (20') of any intersection or alley or ten feet (10') of another access point. The distance from an access driveway to an intersection is measured from the junction of the corner lot lines at the intersection, to the nearest side of the driveway.

   D.   No access driveway to an arterial road shall be within sixty feet (60') of its intersection with any local street, or two hundred feet (200') of its intersection with another arterial.

   E.   Clear vision triangles shall be provided for all access driveways, as described in section 17.56A.050 of this title.

   F.   Access driveways for single-family dwellings shall be a minimum of ten feet (10') wide, with a curb radius of five feet (5'). Access driveways for other uses shall be designed to accommodate the reasonably anticipated level of use. No access driveway shall approach a public road at a grade of more than twelve percent (12%).

   G.   Where required for drainage, access driveways shall be constructed over a minimum twelve inch (12") culvert capable of supporting a load of forty thousand (40,000) pounds. (Ord. 459-13, 2013)

The pattern of circulation within parking areas shall be designed to provide safe and efficient access to individual parking spaces, protect pedestrians moving through the parking area and prevent accidents by minimizing the random movement of automobiles, and facilitate safe access to public streets.

   A.   Minimum aisle widths shall be:

      1.   For two-way circulation and/or ninety degree (90°) parking: Twenty four feet (24');

      2.   For one-way circulation and sixty degree (60°) angle parking: Eighteen feet (18');

      3.   For one-way circulation and forty five degree (45°) angle parking: Fifteen feet (15'); and

      4.   For one-way circulation and thirty degree (30°) angle parking: Thirteen feet (13').

   B.   Where one-way circulation is used, directional signs shall be installed at all access points to the parking area.

   C.   No parking area shall be designed so that circulation from one portion of the area to another relies on a public street. (Ord. 459-13, 2013)

There shall be safe pedestrian access around or through all parking and loading areas. (Ord. 459-13, 2013)