Except as provided in this section, no application for a building permit shall be approved unless there is included with the plan for such building, improvements, or use, a plot showing the required space reserved for off-street parking and service purposes. Occupancy shall not be allowed unless the required off-street parking and service facilities have been provided in accordance with those shown on the approved plan.

Off-street parking spaces shall not be reduced below the minimum required number for the use or facility to which they are assigned unless approved by the planning director.

All off-street parking, loading, and service areas shall be constructed of concrete or asphalt. All such areas shall be at all times maintained at the expense of the owners thereof, in a clean, orderly, and dust-free condition.

Parking stalls shall have a minimum width of nine feet and length of 18 feet. There shall be provided adequate interior driveways to connect each parking space with a public right-of-way. Interior driveways shall be at least 24 feet wide where used with 90 degree angle parking, at least 18 feet wide where used with 60 degree angle parking, at least 13 feet wide where used with 45 degree parking, and at least 12 feet wide where used with parallel parking, or where there is no parking, interior driveways shall be at least ten feet wide for one-way traffic movement and at least 20 feet wide for two-way traffic movement.

Two or more neighboring uses, of the same or different types may provide joint facilities provided the number of off-street parking spaces are not less than the sum of the individual requirements.

Each off-street parking space shall be clearly marked, and pavement directional arrows or signs shall be provided in each travel way wherever necessary. Markers, directional arrows and signs shall be properly maintained so as to ensure their maximum efficiency.

The off-street parking facilities required for all other uses shall be located on the lot or within 1,000 feet of the permitted use requiring such off-street parking, such distance to be measured along lines of public access to the property between the nearest point of the parking facility to the building to be served.

In all zoning districts off-street parking spaces for the storage and parking of self-propelled motor vehicles for the use of occupants, employees and patrons of the buildings hereafter erected, or enlarged after the effective date of the zoning ordinance shall be provided as herein prescribed.

Required parking spaces shall be maintained and shall not be encroached upon so long as said main building or structure remains, unless an equivalent number of such spaces are provided elsewhere in conformance with this article. The owner or owners of a building structure or other land use requiring off-street parking spaces must show, to the satisfaction of the planning director, or his designee, that he is the record title holder of the property devoted to said principal land use and of the property proposed for off-street parking use, or that he is the lessee of such property.

In order to assure a proper and uniform development of public parking areas throughout the area of jurisdiction of this ordinance, to relieve traffic congestion on the streets, and to minimize any detrimental effects on adjacent properties, off-street parking space shall be provided and maintained as called for in the following schedule. For any use or class of use not mentioned in this schedule, the requirements shall be the same as a similar use as mentioned herein. Parking requirements for additions to existing uses shall be based only upon the new addition even if the existing use is deficient.

Any off-street parking facility of ten cars or more shall also provide the equivalent of one parking space per each ten cars and each fraction thereof, to be planted with at least one tree with a minimum diameter (measured at the location of its greatest width) of one and one-half inches, and grass and/or ground cover. The exact location within the parking facility is optional with each design, but the planted area herein referred to shall be in addition to perimeter buffer strips and to other landscaping on the property outside the parking facility.

The purpose of this requirement is to aid in providing visual definition, oxygenation, shade, wind modulation, drainage absorption and relief from other problems as may result from total coverage paving.

In order to assure a proper and uniform development of public handicapped parking areas throughout the area of jurisdiction of this ordinance, handicapped parking space shall be provided and maintained as called for in the following schedule. Handicapped parking requirements for additions for existing uses shall be based only upon the new addition, even if the existing use is deficient.

On the same premises with every building, structure or part thereof, erected and occupied for manufacturing, storage, warehouse, truck freight terminal, goods display, department store, wholesale store, market, hotel, hospital, mortuary, laundry, dry cleaning or other uses similarly involving the receipt or distribution of vehicles, materials, or merchandise, there shall be provided and maintained on the lot of adequate space for standing, loading and unloading services in order to avoid undue interference with public use of the streets and alleys. Such loading and unloading space, unless otherwise adequately provided for, shall be an area ten feet by 50 feet, with 15-foot height clearance, and shall be provided according to the following schedule:

Industrial, wholesale and retail operations shall provide space as follows:

(1)

Off street loading spaces shall be provided as appropriate to the functions and scope of operation of individual or groups of buildings and uses.

(2)

Off street loading spaces shall be designed and constructed so that all maneuvering to park and unpark vehicles for loading and unloading can take place entirely within the property lines of the premises. Loading spaces shall be provided so as not to interfere with the free, normal movement of vehicles and pedestrians on public right-of-ways.

(3)

Ingress and egress to off-street loading spaces shall conform to driveway entrance regulations of the city.