Off-Street Parking. Off-street parking is defined as parking on privately owned property. The regulations concerning off-street parking are intended to reduce the need for parking on streets and the traffic congestion and hazards caused thereby, and to provide for off-street parking adequate to each type of development, both in terms of amount and location. All parking space requirements set forth in this chapter shall be met prior to the occupancy of buildings and shall be satisfactorily maintained for each use listed in this chapter.

Off-Street Loading. To avoid damage to the streets and hazards to the pedestrians and congestion on the streets, it is required that spaces in the form of off-street loading areas be provided on the same lot as the building to be served by the delivery or loading of goods, and that such berths be adequate in size and number to provide the service needed without affecting adjacent properties, public streets or public rights-of-way.

The off-street parking required for the uses specified herein shall be for use only by the automobiles of the residents, employees and customers of the activity served by the off-street parking.

Off-street parking requirements shall be met on the same lot as the building served by the off-street parking or on a lot that is within one hundred feet of the building or facility served by the off-street parking and is specially reserved for the service of such building. Notwithstanding the above, off-street parking facilities for independent and separate buildings and uses may be provided collectively on a common lot if these facilities are not less than the total requirements of the independent and separate uses, and if all other requirements are met.

All standard parking spaces shall be at least nine feet in width and at least twenty feet in length and compact spaces shall be at least eight feet in width and sixteen feet in length, both exclusive of access drives, yards and ramps. Such spaces shall have a vertical clearance of at least seven feet. Lines demarcating parking spaces may be drawn at various angles in relation to curbs or aisles; provided, that the parking space so created contains within it the rectangular area required by this chapter.

Off-street parking spaces may be located in any required yard unless otherwise indicated in this title.

All off-street parking spaces and access areas shall be surfaced with Portland cement concrete, asphaltic concrete paving, or porous paving to the standards established by the city.

See parking lot layout standard in Section 17.52.100.

The following is the number of off-street parking spaces required for each of the uses identified below:

For any other use not specifically mentioned or provided for, the director shall determine the standards to be applied for parking using as a guide the uses listed above that most closely resemble the uses proposed.

Compact Car Parking Spaces. A maximum of forty percent of the total required parking spaces may be reduced in size for the use of small cars, provided these spaces shall be clearly identified with a sign permanently affixed immediately in front of each space containing the notation "compacts only." Spaces designed for small cars may be reduced in size to a minimum of eight feet in width and sixteen feet in length. Where feasible, all compact car spaces shall be located in one or more contiguous areas and/or adjacent to ingress/egress points within parking facilities. Location of compact car parking spaces shall not create traffic congestion or impede traffic flows.

Commercial Uses. One area required for every one hundred thousand square feet of wholesale commercial gross floor area;

Professional and Office Services Use. One area required for each one hundred thousand square feet of gross floor area;

Industrial Uses. One area required for each twenty thousand square feet of gross floor space.

Off-street loading berths shall be provided on the same lot as the use the berths serve and shall not occupy the front yard of the lot;

No loading area shall be located closer than twenty-five feet to a residential lot line unless screened by shrubbery or a fence or a combination thereof, any one of which must be approved by the city administrator;

Each loading area shall be designed with access to a street or alley in a manner that does not permit undue interference with traffic movement on the public street or alley;

Each required loading area shall be at least ten feet by twenty-five feet in size and eighteen feet in height and shall provide eighty-five feet of direct access uninterrupted by any change in horizontal or vertical direction between the loading dock and the street;

Each loading area surface and access area shall be improved with Portland cement concrete or asphaltic concrete paving to the standards established by the city public works director;

Areas set aside for off-street loading shall not be considered as satisfying the requirements for off-street parking space and shall not be used for vehicle repairs or servicing;

No approach to loading docks shall exceed a seven percent slope;

All or part of the off-street loading requirements may be met by loading facilities within the buildings.

Up to fifty percent of the parking facilities required by this chapter for a theater, bowling alley, dance hall, restaurant, or other similar uses, may be supplied by the off-street parking facilities provided by other "daytime" types of uses;

Up to fifty percent of the off-street parking facilities required by this chapter for any "daytime" buildings or uses may be supplied by the parking facilities provided by uses herein referred to as "nighttime" uses;

Up to one hundred percent of the parking facilities required by this section for a church or for an auditorium incidental to a public or parochial school may be supplied by the off-street parking facilities serving primarily "daytime" uses.

The building or use for which application is being made to utilize the off-street parking facilities provided by another building or use shall be located within three hundred feet of such parking facilities.

The applicant shall show that there is no substantial conflict in the principal operating hours of the two buildings or uses for which joint use of off-street parking facilities is proposed.