Off-street automobile parking space shall be provided on every lot on which any of the following uses are hereafter established, enlarged or increased in capacity, except in the C-2 General Commercial District where the provision of parking by individual owners would not be practical. Such off-street parking spaces shall be maintained and shall not be encroached upon by structures or other uses so long as the principal building, structure or use remains, unless an equivalent number of such spaces are provided elsewhere in conformance with this ordinance.

1001.1 Plans and specifications required. Plans and specifications showing required offstreet parking spaces, including the means of access and interior circulation, shall be submitted to the building inspector for review at the time of application for a building permit or a certificate of occupancy.

1001.2 Off-street parking area design. Each off-street parking space shall be not less than two hundred (200) square feet in area, exclusive of access drives or aisles, shall be of usable shape and condition, and shall have vehicular access to a public street. Except for single-family residences in residential districts, turning space shall be provided so that no vehicle will be required to back into a public street.

(a)

There shall be provided an access drive of not less than ten (10) feet in width, and where a turning radius is necessary, it will be of such an arc as to reasonably allow an unobstructed flow of vehicles.

(b)

Parking aisles for automobiles shall be of sufficient width to allow a minimum turning movement in and out of parking space. The minimum width of such aisle shall be as follows:

(1)

For ninety (90) degree or perpendicular parking, the aisle shall not be less than twenty-two (22) feet in width.

(2)

For sixty (60) degree parking, the aisle shall not be less than eighteen (18) feet.

(3)

For forty-five (45) degree parking, the aisle shall not be less than thirteen (13) feet in width.

(4)

For parallel parking, the aisle shall not be less than ten (10) feet in width.

(c)

All off-street parking areas shall be drained so as to prevent runoff onto abutting properties and shall be constructed of materials which will have a dust-free surface resistant to erosion.

(d)

All lighting fixtures used to illuminate any off-street parking area shall be so arranged as to reflect the light away from any adjoining residential lot or institutional premises.

1001.3 Off-street parking requirements. The number of automobile parking spaces provided shall be at least as great as the number specified below for various uses. Where a use is not specifically mentioned, the parking requirements of a similar or related use shall apply.

(a)

Automobile or machinery sale and service garages: One (1) space for each two hundred (200) square feet of showroom floor area plus two (2) spaces for each service bay plus one (1) space for each two (2) employees.

(b)

Barbershops and beauty parlors: One (1) space for each chair plus one (1) space for each employee.

(c)

Bowling alleys. Seven (7) spaces for each alley.

(d)

Banks, businesses and professional offices: One (1) space for each four hundred (400) square feet of gross floor area.

(e)

Churches, auditoriums, stadiums, sports arenas, theaters, and other places of public assembly, other than schools: One (1) space for each four (4) seats.

(f)

Funeral homes and mortuaries: One (1) space for each four (4) seats in the chapel or one (1) space for each fifty (50) square feet of floor area plus one (1) space for each fleet vehicle, whichever is greater.

(g)

Furniture, appliance stores, household equipment and furniture repair shops: One (1) space for each five hundred (500) square feet of floor area.

(h)

Gasoline filling stations: Three (3) spaces for each grease rack or similar facility plus one (1) space for each attendant.

(i)

Hospitals and nursing homes: One (1) space for each four (4) beds plus one (1) space for each four (4) employees, including nurses.

(j)

Hotels, motels and tourist homes: One (1) space for each guest bedroom plus one (1) space for each three (3) employees.

(k)

Industrial: One (1) space for each two (2) employees at a maximum employment on a single shift plus one (1) space for each employee vehicle operating from the premises.

(l)

Lodges, clubs and fraternal halls: One (1) space for each four (4) seats in the main assembly room or seating area, or one (1) space for each fifty (50) square feet of floor area usable for seating if seating is not fixed.

(m)

Medical and dental clinics: One (1) space for each two hundred (200) square feet of floor area plus one (1) space for each employee.

(n)

Mobile home parks: Two (2) spaces for each mobile home stand.

(o)

Places of amusement or assembly without fixed seats: One (1) space for each three hundred (300) square feet of floor area devoted to patron use.

(p)

Restaurants, beer parlors, taverns and night clubs: One (1) space for each four (4) seats provided for patron use, plus one (1) space for each two (2) employees.

(q)

Residential: Two (2) spaces for each dwelling unit (a driveway may be used for parking).

(r)

Retail trade, commercial or personal service: One (1) space for each two hundred (200) square feet of floor area.

(s)

Rooming and boarding houses: One (1) space for each two (2) bedrooms.

(t)

Schools: One (1) space for each two (2) staff members plus one (1) space for each four (4) auditorium seats.

(u)

Self-service laundry or dry cleaning stores: One (1) space for each two (2) washing and/or dry cleaning machines.

(v)

Shopping centers: Five and one-half (5.5) spaces for each one thousand (1,000) square feet of floor space.

(w)

Supermarket, self-service food and discount stores: One (1) space for each one hundred fifty (150) square feet of floor area.

(x)

Wholesale establishments and warehouses: One (1) space for each four hundred (400) square feet of floor space.

(y)

For the purposes of determining off-street parking requirements the following units of measurement shall apply:

(1)

Floor area. Where floor area is the unit for determining the required number of off-street parking spaces, said unit shall mean the gross floor area, or in the case of a shopping center, the gross leasable floor space, except that any area used for parking within the principal building and any area used for incidental service storage, installations of mechanical equipment, penthouse housing ventilators and heating systems, and similar uses, need not be included in the computation.

(2)

Places of assembly: In stadiums, sports arenas, churches and other places of assembly in which those in attendance occupy benches, pews or other similar seating facilities, each eighteen (18) inches of such seating facilities shall be counted as one (1) seat. In cases where a place of assembly has both fixed seats and open assembly area, requirements shall be computed separately for each type and added together.

(3)

Fractions: When units of measurement determining the number of required parking spaces result in requirement of a fractional space, any fraction up to and including one-half (½) shall be disregarded and fractions over one-half (½) shall require one (1) parking space.

(z)

The parking requirements for all uses proposed on a lot shall be cumulative, unless the board of adjustment shall find that the parking requirements of a particular land use occur at different hours from those of other contiguous land uses such that particular land use parking areas and be advantageously used during nonconflicting hours by the other contiguous land use, in which event the required parking spaces for such particular land use may be reduced by the board of adjustment to a minimum of the greatest number of spaces required for any of such contiguous land uses.

1001.4 Location on other property. If the required automobile parking spaces for commercial, industrial or public uses cannot be reasonably provided on the same lot on which the principal use is conducted, such spaces may be provided on other off-street property provided such property lies within three hundred (300) feet of the entrance of such principal use. Such automobile parking space shall be associated with the principal use and shall not hereafter be reduced or encroached upon in any manner.

1001.5 Extension of parking space into a residential district. Required parking space may be extended one hundred (100) feet into a residential zoning district, provided that:

(a)

The parking space adjoins a commercial or industrial district;

(b)

Has its only access to or fronts upon the same street as the property in the commercial or industrial district for which it provides the required parking spaces; and

(c)

Is separated from abutting properties in the residential district by a ten (10) foot wide evergreen buffer strip.

1001.6 Joint use of off-street parking areas. Nothing in this ordinance shall be construed to prevent the joint use of an off-street parking area or facility by two (2) or more buildings or uses if the total of such spaces when used together shall not be less than the sum of the requirements for the various individual uses or buildings computed separately.

Off-street loading and unloading space with access to a public street or alley shall be provided on every lot on which is hereafter established a business, trade or industrial use which customarily receives or distributes material or merchandise, except in the C-2 General Commercial District where provision of off-street loading space by individual owners would not be practical.

1002.1 Plans and specifications required. Plans and specifications showing required loading and unloading spaces including the means of ingress and egress and interior circulation shall be submitted to the building inspector for review at the time of application for a building permit or certificate of occupancy.

1002.2 Off-street loading area design and requirements. Off-street loading and unloading space, which shall be located on the same lot with the use which it is intended to serve, shall be provided as indicated below:

(a)

All retail sale facilities, having less than five thousand (5,000) square feet of floor area, shall provide at least one (1) loading space which shall not be less than ten (10) feet by thirty-five (35) feet.

(b)

All retail sales facilities having over five thousand (5,000) square feet of gross floor area shall be provided with at least one (1) off-street loading-unloading space, and for every additional twenty thousand (20,000) square feet of gross floor space, or fraction thereof, one (1) additional loading and unloading space. Said loading and unloading spaces shall not be less than ten (10) feet in width and fifty-five (55) feet in length with not less than fifteen (15) feet in height clearance.

(c)

Wholesale and industrial users shall provide one (1) space of at least ten (10) feet in width by fifty-five (55) feet in length for each ten thousand (10,000) square feet of floor area or part thereof, with a minimum of not less than two (2) loading spaces.

(d)

Bus and truck terminals shall provide one (1) space to accommodate each bus or truck that will be stored or loading and unloading at the terminal at any one time.

(e)

In the case of mixed uses on one lot or parcel, the total requirements for off-street loading-unloading facilities shall be the sum of the various uses computed separately.

(f)

Any loading-unloading space shall not be closer than fifty (50) feet to any other lot located in any residential district unless wholly within a completely enclosed building or unless enclosed on all sides by a wall, fence or compact planting not less than six (6) feet in height.

(g)

All off-street loading and unloading facilities that make it necessary to back out directly into a public road shall be prohibited.