All off-street parking facilities shall conform to the following minimum standards:

A.

Dimensions:

1.

Table:

2.

For any given parking between 45 degrees and 90 degrees not specifically listed in the above table, use a table angle nearest the given angle.

3.

The minimum driveway width (F) at any parking stall angle less than 45 degrees, including parallel stalls, is 8.8 feet.

4.

The turnaround or end driveway width (G) shall be a minimum of 18 feet.

5.

The wheelstop setback dimension (E) shall be a minimum of two feet for any parking plan.

6.

The required front setback dimension (A) shall be as specified for the zone in which the parking lot is to be located.

B.

Access.

1.

All ingress to and egress from off-street parking facilities with the exception of the R-1 and R-2 zones and used properties shall be in a forward motion. However, alleyways may be used for ingress and egress to and from parking stalls provided that the stalls are set back the proper distance from the property line so that the aisle width is sufficient, as required in the parking stall and aisle dimension table.

2.

Any driveway used for both ingress to and egress from a parking facility shall have a minimum width of 20 feet. Any driveway used for either ingress or egress to or from a parking facility and not directly serving parking stalls shall have a minimum width of ten feet.

C.

Small car "compact" stalls. If desired, 30 percent of the required parking stalls may be designated for parking small cars. Small car stalls shall be 7½ feet in width and 15 feet in length for 90-degree angle. Each small car space shall be identified with the word "compact" painted on the pavement. Small car spaces shall be distributed within a parking lot and not all grouped/bunched in one location.

D.

Handicap spaces. Every parking facility serving commercial, industrial and public uses shall include parking stalls for the physically handicapped Parking spaces for physically handicapped persons shall be provided per the latest adopted version of the California Building Code.

E.

Location. Where a distance is specified, such distance shall be the walking distance measured from the nearest point of the parking area to the nearest point of the building that such parking area is required to serve.

1.

For one, two, or multiple-family dwellings, parking areas shall be located on the same lot or building site as the buildings they are required to serve.

2.

For hospitals, sanitariums, residential care facilities, asylums, orphanages, rooming houses, lodging houses, fraternity, and sorority houses, parking areas shall not be located more than 150 feet from the buildings they are required to serve.

3.

For uses other than those specified above, parking areas shall not be located over 400 feet from the building they are required to serve.

F.

Landscaping. Not less than five percent of the interior of all off-street parking facilities with five or more spaces shall be landscaped and maintained. All such landscaping and maintenance shall be subject to approval by the Director of Community Development or his or her designee.

G.

Lighting. All off-street parking facilities shall be illuminated. Illumination shall be so arranged as to reflect the light away from adjacent properties, streets or highways. All off-street parking illumination facilities shall be as approved by the Community Development Director.

H.

Screening.

1.

General. All off-street parking facilities with five or more spaces abutting a dedicated street shall be separated from such street by a decorative wall, view-obscuring fence, permanently maintained evergreen hedge, earth berm or combination thereof, not less than 30 inches and not more than 36 inches in height.

2.

Abutting residential zones. All off-street parking facilities with five or more spaces abutting a residential use shall be separated from such property by a six-foot high solid masonry wall or landscaped and maintained fence.

I.

Vehicle repair work. No major repair work or servicing of vehicles shall be conducted in any off-street parking facilities.

J.

Site plan approval. Before any off-street parking facility containing ten or more spaces may be erected on any lot in any zone, a site plan and a landscape plan shall be submitted to and approved by the Planning Commission upon site plan approval. Any off-street parking facility containing nine or fewer spaces may be approved administratively by the Director of Community Development or his or her designee, if all standards of this section are met.

K.

Required paved parking. All minimum required off-street parking facilities, parking spaces, aisles, and access drives shall be paved so as to provide a durable, dustless surface and shall be so graded and drained so as to dispose of surface water without damage to adjacent properties, streets or alleys.

L.

Excess parking. The Community Development Director may authorize excess parking areas, beyond the minimum required parking set forth above, as follows:

1.

The surface of the parking area shall be either paved or consist of a uniform layer of gravel evenly distributed from edge to edge and shall be free of bare spots and vegetation.

2.

The depth of the gravel layer shall be at least two inches.

3.

The gravel area shall be maintained in good condition by the property owner.

4.

The material used for a gravel parking area shall be rock, crushed stone, or other suitable material at the discretion of the Director of Community Development, no more than two inches in diameter and shall not contain dirt, construction debris or other foreign material. Sand, rock dust, or other similar material less than one-eighth inch in diameter may be allowed, but shall not be included in the measurement of minimum gravel depth. The base below the gravel layer shall be pervious.

5.

Overall site drainage shall be directed away from gravel parking areas.

6.

Surface drainage of gravel parking areas shall be directed to pervious surfaces only and shall remain on site.

7.

Concrete or asphalt driveway aprons are required between public streets and any gravel parking areas. Said driveway aprons shall extend a minimum of 20 feet from the property line.

8.

Mud and gravel tracked onto public roads from gravel parking areas shall be cleaned and removed by the responsible property owner.

9.

If the public has access to the gravel parking area any time between sunset and sunrise, then lighting shall be required per subsection G, above.

10.

Landscaping is not required for gravel parking areas.

(Ord. No. 2020-1059, § 1, 3-23-2020; Ord. No. 2023-1075, §§ 1, 2, 4-24-2023)

All off-street loading facilities shall conform to the following standards:

A.

Dimensions. Each loading space shall be at least 40 feet in length, 12 feet in width exclusive of aisle or maneuvering space, and shall have an overhead clearance or at least 14 feet.

B.

Access. All loading space shall be accessible from a street or alley or from an aisle or drive connecting with a street or alley. From major streets, all ingress and egress to or from a loading space shall be in a forward motion.

C.

Paving. All loading spaces, aisles, and access drives shall be paved so as to provide a durable, dustless surface and shall be so graded and drained so as to dispose of surface water without damage to adjacent properties, streets or alleys.

D.

Lighting. If the loading area is illuminated, lighting shall be deflected away from adjacent uses so as to cause no annoying glare.

E.

Vehicle repair work. No repair work or servicing of vehicles shall be conducted on off-street loading facilities.

(Ord. No. 2020-1059, § 1, 3-23-2020)