(a)

In any district, in connection with every building or part thereof hereafter erected, improved, altered or extended, having a gross floor area of 10,000 square feet or more and which is to be occupied by manufacturing storage, warehouse, goods display, retail store, wholesale store, market, hotel, hospital, mortuary, laundry, dry-cleaning or other use similarly requiring the receipt or dispatch by vehicles of materials or merchandise, there shall be provided and maintained on the same lot with such building at least one off-street loading space, plus one additional such loading space for each 20,000 square feet of gross floor area so used in excess of the first 30,000 square feet.

(b)

Each loading space shall be not less than ten feet in width, 45 feet in length and 14 feet in clear height.

(c)

Such space may occupy all or any part of any required yard or court space, except a front yard or the required side yard on the street side of a corner lot.

(d)

No such space shall be located closer than 50 feet to any lot located in any R District, unless the loading space is wholly within a completely enclosed building or unless enclosed on all sides by a wall or uniformly painted board fence not less than six feet in height.

(Code 1977, § 107-45; Ord. No. 2000-10, 9-25-2000)

(a)

In all districts, unless otherwise specified, subject to the provisions hereof, every industrial, commercial, business, trade, institution, recreational dwelling and other use, space for parking and storage of vehicles off the streets shall be provided to accommodate its normal parking requirements, as determined by the planning director at the time of application for a zoning certificate, but in no case not less than the following:

(1)

Automobile sales and service garages: 50 percent of floor area.

(2)

Banks, business offices and professional offices: 50 percent of floor area.

(3)

Doctor's offices: 50 percent of floor area.

(4)

Bowling alleys: five spaces for each alley.

(5)

Churches and schools: one space for each four seats in a principal auditorium or one for each ten classroom seats, whichever is greater.

(6)

Dance halls, assembly halls: 200 percent of floor area used for dancing or assembly.

(7)

Dwellings.

a.

Two spaces for each dwelling unit.

b.

Limited dwellings: one space per unit.

(8)

Furniture and appliance stores, household equipment or furniture repair shops with over 1,000 square feet of floor area: 100 percent of floor area.

(9)

Funeral homes and mortuaries: four spaces for each parlor or one space for each 50 square feet of floor area, whichever is greater.

(10)

Hospitals: one space for every two beds.

(11)

Hotels, motels and lodginghouses: one space for each bedroom or unit, plus one additional space for each employee.

(12)

Manufacturing plants: one space for each two employees on the maximum working shift or 25 percent of floor area, whichever is the greater.

(13)

Restaurants, beer parlors and nightclubs: 200 percent of floor area.

(14)

Retail stores, supermarkets, etc., under 2,000 square feet of floor area: 200 percent of floor area.

(15)

Retail stores, shops, etc., over 2,000 square feet of floor area: 100 percent of floor area.

(16)

Sports arenas and auditoriums other than in schools: one space for each three seats.

(17)

Theaters and assembly halls with fixed seats: one space for each three seats.

(18)

Commercial or club swimming pools: one space for each three members or each three persons of estimated maximum capacity.

(19)

Wholesale establishments or warehouse: one space for each two employees or ten percent of floor area, whichever is greater.

(b)

In the case of any building, structure or premises the use of which is not specifically mentioned herein, the provisions for a use which is so mentioned and to which said use is most nearly similar shall apply.

(c)

Except in the case of dwellings, no parking area provided hereunder shall be less than 1,000 square feet in area exclusive of necessary driveways, aisles or entrances. Each parking space shall be at least nine feet wide and 20 feet deep.

(d)

Every parcel of land hereinafter used as a public or private parking area, including a commercial parking lot, shall be improved and maintained in accordance with the following requirements:

(1)

Whenever possible, parking areas should be located to the rear of the building. Every off-street parking area for more than five vehicles shall be located at least 20 feet from any street line and from every residential lot line. The edges of the parking area shall be curbed or buffered, and the space between the parking area and the street or the lot line shall be landscaped and maintained in a sightly condition. Where adjoining a street, such landscaping shall consist of grass and low shrubs or ornamental trees. Where adjoining a residential lot, it shall include a hedge of sufficient type and height, not less than 30 inches, to protect and screen the adjoining property.

(2)

For parking areas of three or more vehicles, the area not landscaped and so maintained, including driveways, shall be graded, surfaced with asphalt, concrete or other similar material and drained to the satisfaction of the planning director to the extent necessary to prevent dust, erosion excessive water flow across streets or adjoining property. Failure to keep parking areas in satisfactory condition, i.e., free from all holes, shall be considered a violation of this chapter. All off-street parking spaces shall be marked as to indicate their location. Parking areas shall be arranged and marked to provide safe and orderly circulation.

(3)

Any lighting used to illuminate any off-street parking area, including any commercial parking lot, shall be so arranged as to direct the light away from adjoining residential premises and from public streets. All lighting, except for security lights, shall be turned off after normal business hours.

(4)

The board of appeals may authorize, subject to the provisions of sections 108-160 through 108-165, a modification, reduction or waiver of the foregoing requirements if it should find that in the particular case appealed the peculiar nature of the residential, business, trade industrial or other use, or the exceptional shape or size of the property or other exception situation or condition, would justify such modification, reduction or waiver.

(5)

Joint use. Two or more uses may provide for their respective required parking in a common parking lot. The board of appeals may reduce the total number of spaces that this chapter would require the uses to have if it can be demonstrated to the board of appeals, as either a variance or a conditional use, that the hours and/or days of peak parking need for the uses will justify a reduction in the number of off-street parking spaces in the common parking lot.

(6)

Mixed uses. Where a permitted use contains or includes more than one of the types of uses identified in subsection (a) of this section, the number of parking spaces required shall be the sum of the computed requirements for the separate types of uses.

(7)

Location of parking spaces. A principal use's required off-street parking spaces shall be on the same lot or premises as the principal use unless this requirement cannot be met, in which case the required off-street parking shall be located within 300 feet of the principal use. This distance shall be measured from the two lot lines, (one from the principal use's lot and one from the lot on which the off-street parking area is located) that are closest to each other.

(8)

Fractional spaces. Where the computation of required parking spaces results in a fractional number, only the fraction of one-half or more shall be counted as one.

(Code 1977, § 107-46(A)—(D); Ord. No. 2000-10, 9-25-2000; Ord. No. 2004-6, 6-14-2004)

In the event of new construction or reconstruction on any parcel in the B-1 District, the owner shall be required to provide parking in accordance with section 108-788 and this section for any new construction, or in the case of reconstruction involving any exterior wall to any building fronting Main Street. In the event sufficient area is not available to provide such parking then the owner shall pay a fee per required space to the Mayor and Council in an amount as from time to time established by resolution of the Mayor and Council, which said fee shall be paid into a separate parking fund, to be utilized by the Mayor and Council for providing and maintaining parking adjacent to or within the B-1 District.

(Code 1977, § 107-46(E); Ord. No. 2000-10, 9-25-2000)

(a)

No gasoline filling station, public garage or automobile repair shop shall have an entrance or exit for vehicles within 200 feet along the same side of a street of the premises of any school, public playground, church, hospital, public library or institution for dependents or children, except where such property is in another block or on another street which the lot in question does not abut; but in no case shall any such gasoline filling station, garage or shop be located within 100 feet of any of said public, semipublic or institutional buildings or properties. This regulation shall not be interpreted, however, as prohibiting a parking area accessory to and on the premises of the institution itself.

(b)

No gasoline filling station or public garage shall be permitted where any oil draining pit or visible appliance for any such purpose, other than filling caps, is located within 12 feet of any street lot line or within 25 feet of any R District, except where such appliance or pit is within a building.

(c)

On all corner lots, all vehicular entrances to or exits from any gasoline filling station, or commercial, customer or employee parking lot for more than five motor vehicles, or public garage or automobile repair shop, shall be not less than 25 feet from the corner property lines extended. No such vehicular entrance or exit, whether on a corner lot or not, shall exceed 40 feet in width at the curbline or 30 feet at the property line.

(Code 1977, § 107-47; Ord. No. 2000-10, 9-25-2000)

Every motel shall comply with all sanitary and other requirements prescribed by law or regulation, and in addition:

(1)

All buildings shall be distant not less than ten feet from every property line.

(2)

The buildings shall not occupy in aggregate more than 25 percent of the gross lot area.

(3)

No vehicular entrance to or exit from any motel of more than ten units shall be within 200 feet along streets of a school, public playground, church, hospital, library or institution for dependents or for children, except where such building or property is in another block or fronts on a street on which such motel will have no entrance or exit.

(Code 1977, § 107-48; Ord. No. 2000-10, 9-25-2000)

The parking of a recreational vehicle in any district shall be prohibited, except as provided in section 108-713 and except that one recreational vehicle may be parked or stored in an accessory building or in the rear yard of a principal use, provided that no living quarters shall be maintained or any business conducted in such recreational vehicle while it is parked or stored.

(Code 1977, § 107-49; Ord. No. 2000-10, 9-25-2000)

(a)

A home occupation shall not exceed 25 percent of the floor area of the primary structure and 50 percent of an accessory building on the premises.

(b)

Other than those related by blood, marriage or adoption, no more than one person may be employed in the home occupation.

(c)

Inventory and supplies shall not occupy more than 50 percent of the area permitted to be used as a home occupation.

(d)

There shall be no exterior display or storage of goods, equipment or vehicles in conjunction with the business, on the premises, except the primary vehicle of the resident owner.

(e)

There shall be no more than one advertising sign displayed on the premises which shall not exceed four square feet in area, the location of which shall be no closer to the street than the street right-of-way line, provided that it does not interfere with traffic visibility on a corner lot as provided in section 108-709.

(f)

Home occupations involving auto repair or maintenance shall be prohibited.

(g)

Home occupations involving beauty shops or barbershops shall require conditional use approval from the board of appeals.

(h)

Sales and services shall be arranged by appointment and scheduled so that not more than one patron vehicle is on the premises at the same time.

(i)

Two additional parking spaces shall be provided on the premises, except only one need be provided if the home occupation does not have an employee. Said parking requirements shall comply with sections 108-788 and 108-789.

(Code 1977, § 107-51; Ord. No. 2000-10, 9-25-2000)