Enoch City Zoning Code

At the time any commercial building or structure is erected or enlarged or increased in capacity or any use is established or changed, there shall be provided off-street parking spaces for automobiles in accordance with the following requirements.

The dimensions of each off-street parking space shall be at least nine (9) feet by twenty (20) feet for diagonal or ninety-degree spaces; or nine (9) feet by twenty-two (22) feet for parallel spaces, exclusive of access drives or aisles.

A. A parking stall may be reduced by two (2) feet lengthwise, if landscaping, separated from the paved area of the parking stall by a bumper or tire guard, is provided in the remaining two (2) feet of the parking stall. All areas within the parking area not paved shall be landscaped.

B. Aisles across from parking stalls shall be twelve (12) feet for a one-way drive aisle and twenty-four (24) feet for a two-way drive aisle. 

C. All off-street parking shall comply with ADA Standards.

D. The circulation within a parking area shall comply with the following requirements as outlined in the diagram below:

F. Circulation: Circulation within a parking area with more than one (l) aisle must be such that a car need not enter the street to reach another aisle within the same parking lot.

G. Automobile Stacking for Drive-Up/Drive-Thru Services (Food and Non-Food Uses): In addition to the parking required for individual use, drive-up and drive-thru operations shall provide a site plan illustrating the queuing/stacking length and circulation pattern for the site. At a minimum, the plan shall demonstrate that queuing/stacking lanes are adequate in capacity so as not to impact traffic flow or pedestrian access within the adjacent public right-of-way. In addition, queuing/stacking lanes shall not encumber required parking spaces, vehicular access points, and overall pedestrian safety on-site.

H. The plan will be evaluated by City Staff based on best engineering principles to determine compliance with the criteria above. Staff may require additional information including an analysis prepared by a transportation professional to make such a determination.

I. Signs: Directional signs shall be required to differentiate between entrance and exit access points to the street on single-lane drives. 

In Commercial, Industrial, and Professional Office Zones, access to each parking space shall be from a private driveway and not from a public street. Otherwise:

A. One-way driveways shall be a minimum of twelve (12) feet in width.

B. Two-way driveways shall be a minimum of twenty-five (25) feet in width.

C. All garages and carport spaces shall be set back a minimum of eighteen (18) feet from the access drive serving them.  

The number of off-street parking spaces required shall be as follows:

A. Business or professional offices: One (1) parking space for each two hundred fifty (250) square feet of floor area.

B. Bedroom Rentals: One (1) parking space for each rental bedroom (guest room) plus two (2) additional spaces for full time residents.

C. Churches with fixed seating: One (1) parking space for each five (5) fixed seats, or one (1) parking space for each seven (7) feet of linear pew, whichever is greater.

D. Churches without fixed seats, sports arenas, auditoriums, theaters, assembly halls or meeting rooms: One parking space for each three (3) seats of maximum seating capacity.

E. Dwellings, single-family, two-family and twin hime: Two (2) parking spaces for each dwelling unit.

F. Dwellings, three-family, four-family, multi-family, condominiums, and town homes:

1. Dwelling units with garages and/or tandem/stacked parking shall have 1.5 parking spaces per bedroom and no fewer than 2 parking spaces per dwelling unit.
2. Dwelling units using congregate or shared parking faciliites shall have 1 parking spaces per bedroom and no fewer than 1.5 parking spaces per dwelling unit.
3. In addition to the required number of parking spaces for each dwelling, one guest space shall be provided for each five (5) dwelling units. Dwelling units using congregate or shared parking facilities servicing more than 10 units need not provide guest parking spaces.

G. Hospitals: 1.5 parking spaces for each bed.

H. Hotels, Motels, or Motor Hotels: One (1) parking space for each living or sleeping unit, plus one (1) parking space for each two-hundred and fifty (250) square feet of office area.

I. Nursing Homes: Four (4) parking spaces, plus one (1) space for each four (4) beds.

J. Public/Private Schools:

1. Elementary/Middle School: Three (3) parking spaces for every room used for administration or classroom.
2. High School: One (1) Parking space for every room used for administration or classroom plus one space for each four students.
3. Child In-home Daycare/School, 16 Children or less: Including the children of any owner or employee, one (1) parking space for eight (8) children or less, or two (2) parking spaces for nine (9) to sixteen (16) children. 

K. Restaurants, Taverns or Private Clubs, and all other similar dining and/or drinking establishments: One parking space for each 3.5 seats.

L. Retail establishments otherwise not enumerated in this section, such as drug stores, departments stores, repair shops, animal hospitals, business schools: One (1) space for each 600 square feet of building floor area, except area devoted exclusively to warehousing or storage, or three (3) parking spaces, whichever is greater.

M. Wholesale establishments, warehouses, manufacturing establishments and all industrial uses: Shall require one (1) parking space for each 250 square feet of office space, plus one (1) parking space for each, 2,000 square feet of manufacturing, plus one (1) parking space space for each 4,000 square feet of storage/warehousing

O. All other uses not listed above: The number of parking spaces based on the nearest comparable use standards.

Adequate ingress and egress to and from all uses shall be provided as follows:

A. Residential Lots. For each residential lot, not more than two (2) driveways, each of which shall be a maximum of twenty (20) feet wide at the street lot line, and such driveways shall not be closer than twelve (12) feet to each other.

B. Other than Residential lots. Access shall be provided to meet the following requirements:

1. Not more than two (2) driveways shall be used for each one hundred (100) feet or fraction thereof of frontage on the street.
2. No two (2) of said driveways shall be closer to each other than twelve (12) feet and no driveway shall be closer to a side property line than three (3) feet.
3. Each driveway shall be no more than thirty-five (35) feet wide, measured at right angles to the center line of the driveway, except as increased by permissible curb return radii. The entire flare of any return radius shall fall within the right-of-way.
4. No driveway shall be closer than ten (10) feet to the point of intersection of two property lines at any corner as measured along the property line, and no driveway shall extend across such extended property line.
5. In all cases where there is an existing curb and gutter or sidewalk on the street, the applicant for a permit shall provide a safety island along the entire frontage of the property, except for the permitted driveways. On the two ends and street side of each such island there shall be constructed a concrete curb, the height, location and structural specifications of which shall be approved by the local surveyor or engineer.
6. Where there is no existing curb and gutter or sidewalk, the applicant may at his option install such safety island and curb, or in place thereof, shall construct along the entire length of the property line (except in front of the permitted driveways) a curb, fence, or pipe rail not exceeding two (2) feet or less than eight (8) inches in height.

Gasoline pumps shall be set back not less than eighteen (18) feet from any street line to which the pump island is parallel, and not less than ten (10) feet from any residential or agricultural district boundary line. If the pump is set at an angle on the property, it shall be so located that the automobiles stopped for service will not extend over the property line.

Every parcel of land used as a public or private parking lot shall be developed and maintained in accordance with the following requirements:

A. Surfacing. Each off-street parking lot shall be surfaced with asphalt or Portland cement or other binder pavement so as to provide a dustless surface. The parking area shall be so graded as to dispose of all surface water. If such water is to be carried to adjacent streets, it shall be piped under sidewalks.

B. Screening. The sides and rear of any off-street parking lot, which face or adjoin a residential district, shall be screened from such district by a masonry wall or solid visual barrier fence not less than four (4) feet or more than six (6) feet in height.

C. Landscaping. Each parking lot shall be adequately landscaped as required in these ordinances by and permanently maintained.

D. Lighting. Lighting used to illuminate any parking lot shall be arranged to reflect the light away from adjoining premises and from street traffic and shall comply with the outdoor lighting ordinance.