In all districts space for the off-street storage and parking of vehicles shall be reserved and improved for use at the time any building or structure is erected, enlarged, or expanded in height or ground coverage, or altered internally to effect an arrangement of space or use which increases the number of required parking spaces by more than ten percent over the number required by the use or building prior to the change or alteration.

(Ord. 698(part), 1979).

The minimum required off-street parking spaces for the respective uses shall be as follows:

(1)

Dwellings.

(a)

Single-family and multiples with four or less units, two spaces per unit,

(b)

Multiple-family with five or more units, 1.5 spaces per dwelling unit,

(c)

Senior citizen manors or apartments, 0.75 spaces per dwelling unit;

(2)

Business or professional offices, one space for each four hundred square feet of gross floor area;

(3)

Churches, mortuaries, funeral homes, one space for each four seats in the chapel or nave;

(4)

Bowling alleys, five spaces for each lane;

(5)

Dancehall, places of assembly and exhibition halls without fixed seats, one space for each fifty square feet of gross floor area;

(6)

Food stores, markets, drugstores, and designed neighborhood shopping centers:

(a)

Gross floor area (exclusive of basement areas) less than three thousand square feet, one space for each three hundred square feet of gross floor area;

(b)

Gross floor area (exclusive of basement areas) three thousand square feet or more, one space for each two hundred square feet of gross floor space area;

(7)

Hotels, 1.2 to 1.5 spaces for each room or suite plus required spaces for any restaurant, assembly rooms, or other associated uses, except that a hotel of less than fifteen units shall have one space for each room;

(8)

Hospitals, sanitariums, convalescent homes, nursing homes, and rest homes, one space for every three patient beds plus one additional space for each staff doctor, and one additional space for every three employees;

(9)

Medical and dental clinics, one space for each three hundred square feet of gross floor area;

(10)

Furniture, appliance, hardware stores, and household equipment, personal service, clothing, and other retail stores, one space for each four-hundred square feet of gross floor area and a minimum of four spaces;

(11)

Restaurants, ice cream or soft drink shops serving both within and without the building, one space for each seventy-five square feet of gross floor area, minimum of eight spaces;

(12)

Restaurants and taverns with no service outside the building, one space for each one-hundred square feet of gross floor area;

(13)

Rooming houses and boardinghouses, one space for each occupant accommodation;

(14)

Skating rinks and other commercial recreation uses, one space for each two-hundred square feet of gross floor area;

(15)

Wholesale stores, warehouses, storage buildings, motor vehicle, or machinery sales, one space for each employee with a minimum of four spaces;

(16)

Motels and bed and breakfast inns, one space for each room or suite plus required space for accessory uses;

(17)

Industrial, one to two spaces for each employee.

(Ord. 830 § 1(part), 1985; Ord. 698(part), 1979).

In the case of a use not specifically mentioned in this chapter, the requirements for off-street parking facilities shall be the same as the above mentioned use which is most similar.

(Ord. 698 (part), 1979).

In the case of mixed uses, the total requirements for off-street parking facilities shall be the sum of the requirements for the various uses computed separately. Off-street parking facilities for one use shall not be considered as providing required facilities for any other use except as hereinafter specified for a joint use.

(Ord. 698 (part), 1979).

Two or more properties may jointly use a common parking facility; provided, the facility is jointly owned or otherwise secured by easement or other sufficient legal document that assures continuance of the joint use of the facility.

(Ord. 698 (part), 1979).

For joint use of parking facilities, the total number of required spaces may be reduced by no more than ten percent and the number may be reduced further with the approval of the commission, under the following conditions:

(1)

No more than fifty percent of the parking spaces required for a theater, bowling alley, dancehall, bar, restaurant, or other enterprise which is primarily a nighttime or Sunday use may be supplied by the off-street parking spaces allowable to certain other types of uses specified under Section 18.68.020;

(2)

No more than fifty percent of the parking spaces required for a business office, retail store, personal service shop, household equipment or furniture shop or other enterprise which is primarily a daytime and non-Sunday use may be supplied by the off-street parking space allowable to certain other types of uses specified under Section 18.68.020.

(Ord. 698 (part), 1979).

Required off-street parking spaces shall be located as follows:

(1)

For any type of dwelling, on the same lot with the building to be served;

(2)

For any other use except one served by an approved joint-use parking facility, on the same lot with or not more than three hundred feet from the building or use to be served;

(3)

For a use served by an approved joint-use parking facility, on the same lot with, or not more than eight hundred feet from, the building or use to be served;

(4)

For a planned shopping center, in the location or locations contemplated by the general overall layout scheme for the center at ultimate development (e.g. peripheral parking).

(Ord. 698(part), 1979).

Any required parking facility shall be improved in accordance with the following requirements:

(1)

Off-street parking facilities shall be hard surfaces (e.g., Portland cement concrete or asphalt concrete pavement), shall be graded and drained so as to dispose of surface water to the satisfaction of the city public works department, and shall be maintained in good condition free of weeds, dust, trash and debris;

(2)

The location and design of all entrances and exits shall be subject to the approval of the building department;

(3)

Any lighting used to illuminate any off-street parking facility shall be so arranged as to reflect light away from adjoining residential premises;

(4)

Each individual parking space shall have a minimum dimension of nine feet wide and a minimum area of two hundred square feet or as designed by an engineer to the most current edition of the Standard Specifications for Road, Bridge, and Municipal Construction.

(Ord. 1066 § 1, 1998: Ord. 698(part), 1979).

Prior to the issuance of a permit for any commercial, industrial, public or semipublic building or use, a plan showing the proposed and existing building or buildings and the layout, a dimension and number of parking spaces shall be submitted to and approved by the building inspector.

(Ord. 698(part), 1979).

On every lot in a commercial or industrial district, and on every lot in any district on which is conducted any hotel, public or semi-public use, there shall be provided space, either inside or outside a building, for the loading and unloading of goods and materials. Such space shall be not less than ten feet in width, twenty-five feet in length, nor less than fifteen feet in height when covered. Such space shall be provided with access to an alley or a street.

(Ord. 698(part), 1979).

Editor's note— Ord. No. 1335, § 1, adopted Aug. 21, 2019, repealed § 18.68.110 which pertained to camping on public property and derived from Ord. No. 1262, §§ 1, 2, adopted Oct. 3, 2012.