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Escalante City Zoning Code

10.12 Off-Street

Parking Requirements

10.12.010 Off - Street Parking Required

At the time any building or structure is erected or enlarged or increased in capacity or any use is established, there shall be provided off-street parking spaces for automobiles adjacent to the building, structure.

10.12.020 Size

The dimensions of each off-street parking space shall be at least nine (9) feet by twenty (20) feet for diagonal or ninety-degree (90) spaces; or nine (9) by twenty-two (22) feet for parallel spaces, exclusive of access drives or aisles.

10.12.030 Access To Individual Parking Space

Except for single-family and two-family dwellings, access to each parking space shall be from a private driveway and not a public street.

10.12.040 Number Of Parking Spaces

  1. Business or Professional Offices: One (1) parking space for each five hundred (500) sq. ft. or floor area.
  2. Dwellings, Single-Family, Two-Family and Cluster (Townhouse and Condominium): Two (2) parking spaces for each dwelling unit.
  3. Dwelling, Multifamily: Two (2) parking spaces for each unit plus one (1) guest shall be provided for each five (5) dwelling units.
  4. Hotels, Motels, Motor Hotels: One (1) space for each living or sleeping unit, plus parking space for all accessory uses as herein specified.
  5. Commercial & Retail Stores: One (1) parking space for each five hundred (500) square feet of retail floor space.
  6. Commercial Storage Units: One (1) parking space for each thirty (30) feet of building frontage storage space.
  7. Wholesale Establishments: Warehouses, Manufacturing Establishments, and all Industrial uses. As determined by conditional use permit or by Planned Development Industrial uses. As determined by conditional use permit or by Planned Development requirements, if applicable, or by the Escalante City Planning Commission, but in no case fewer than one (1) space for each employee projected for the highest employment shift.
  8. Handicapped and Motorcycle Parking: Every parking lot over twenty-five (25) spaces shall, as a minimum, provide one (1) handicapped parking stall with easy access. One (1) additional handicapped stall will be provided for each fifty (50) additional parking spaces.  One (1) motorcycle stall shall be provided for every twenty-five (25) parking spaces.
  9. All Other Uses Not Listed Above: As determined by the Escalante City Planning Commission, based on the nearest comparable use standards.

10.12.050 Access Requirements

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

  1. 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. No driveway shall be closer to a side property line than three (3) feet.
  2. 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 any street.
    2. No two (2) of said driveways shall be closer to each other than twelve (12) feet, and 
    3. Each driveway shall be not more than fifty (50) feet wide, measured at right angles to the center line of the driveway, except as increased by permissible curb return radius.  The entire flare of any return radius shall fall within the right-of-way. 
    4. No driveway shall be closer than twenty (20) feet of any intersection at any corner as measured along the property line. 
    5. 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 and no less than eight (8) inches in height.
    6. All other uses not listed above as determined by the Escalante City Planning Commission, based on the nearest compatible use standards. 

10.12.060 Location Of Gasoline Pumps

Gasoline pumps shall be set back not less than eighteen (18) feet from any street line to which the pump island is perpendicular and twelve (12) 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 island is set at an angle on the property, it shall be so located that the automobiles and towed accessories stopped for service will not extend over the property line.