Off-street parking facilities shall be provided in at least the amount and maintained in the manner set forth in this division; provided, however, that off-street parking facilities in excess of the amounts heretofore required by law need not be provided for uses actually operated on March 12, 1992. Any enlargement or expansion of such uses, however, shall have provided, for the increment only, off-street parking facilities in at least the amount and maintained in the manner set forth in this division, just as though the increment were a separate and new use.

(Ord. No. 1-1992, § 11(51-1316), 3-10-1992)

Off-street parking facilities shall be constructed, maintained and operated in accordance with the following specifications:

(1)

Size and location. Each off-street parking space shall be an area at least nine feet wide and 19 feet deep, exclusive of access or maneuvering area, ramps and other appurtenances. Maneuvering area, ramps and other appurtenances shall be located off the street right-of-way and, except for one-family and two-family dwellings, facilities shall be so planned that vehicles do not have to back into the roadway. Where it is infeasible to locate required off-street parking spaces on the same site as the use for which they are provided, upon approval of the zoning commission, such off-street parking spaces may be located on another site not more than 300 feet from the use. When so located on another site, such other site shall be considered to be part of the required building site. Required off-street parking spaces shall not occupy any part of the required front yard of a dwelling use; provided, however, that for one-family and two-family dwellings one-half of the required off-street parking may occupy the portion of a driveway in a required front yard; and further provided that required off-street parking in the required front yard for multiple-family dwellings should be discouraged but may be permitted, provided that adequate open space as required in article V of this chapter is provided elsewhere on the site and the front yard parking is landscaped. The parking area should be designed to provide maximum opportunity for landscaping, particularly by not paving islands and protecting other areas not actually needed for parking and turning movements from vehicular encroachments. All landscaped areas should be curbed where adjoining the parking areas.

(2)

Aisles. Vehicular access to individual parking spaces shall be provided by aisles not less than 11 feet wide for 30-degree angle parking, 13 feet wide for 45-degree angle parking, 18 feet wide for 60-degree angle parking and 25 feet wide for 90-degree (perpendicular) parking. If each parking space is ten feet wide and 20 feet deep, a 20-foot-wide aisle may be permitted for 90-degree parking.

(3)

Surfacing and drainage. Surfacing of parking facilities shall be concrete, asphaltic concrete or three-course penetration. Parking facilities shall be properly graded for drainage and maintained in good condition, free of weeds, dust, trash and debris. The zoning commission shall have the right to waive, modify or temporarily defer all or part of the above surfacing requirement for any use when it finds that unique circumstances exist and the improvements are not requisite in the interests of the public health, safety and general welfare.

(4)

Wheel guards. Except for one-family and two-family dwellings, wheel guards shall be provided and so located that no part of parked vehicles will extend beyond the owner's property.

(5)

Lighting. Except for one-family and two-family dwellings, adequate lighting shall be provided in all parking facilities. Lighting shall be so arranged that the source of light is concealed from public view (from the street) and from adjacent residential properties and does not interfere with traffic.

(6)

Entrances and exits. Entrances and exits to parking facilities shall be so located as to minimize traffic congestion.

(7)

Prohibition of other uses. Other uses, such as the sale, repair, dismantling or servicing of vehicles, equipment, materials or supplies and off-street loading, shall not be conducted within required off-street parking facilities.

(8)

Prohibition of large vehicles. In residential districts, off-street parking facilities shall be used only by vehicles up to one ton manufacturer's capacity rating and having wheels not to exceed 17 inches in diameter.

(9)

Large parking facilities. The plans for any nonresidential parking facility with a capacity of more than 50 spaces, which are visible from a public street, shall be subject to the approval of the planning director with respect to layout, circulation, accommodations for pedestrians, landscaping, ingress and egress, and other characteristics affecting safety and convenience. The planning director may require that open areas suitable for landscaping be provided within such facilities in an amount not to exceed two percent of the gross paved area. Parking facilities in excess of 300 spaces shall divide the facility into blocks of parking bays containing not more than 300 spaces, defined by curbed strips at least 15 feet wide. Such strips and other areas within the parking facility not actually needed for parking or drives should be designed to provide the maximum opportunity for landscaping. All required landscaped areas shall be raised and protected by a curb. Tree limbs and other plantings shall be maintained so as not to create a material impediment to visibility between the heights of three feet and seven feet above the grade of the parking facility. Appeals of a decision by the planning director shall be reviewed by the zoning commission which shall either affirm, modify or reverse the decision of the planning director.

(10)

Attendant parking and multiple level parking facilities. The standards set out in this section apply to grade level parking facilities. They may be modified as appropriate for attendant parking and multiple level parking facilities, but the design of such facilities shall be subject to approval of the zoning commission with respect to layout, circulation, accommodations for pedestrians, ingress and egress and other characteristics affecting safety and convenience.

(11)

Prohibition of placement of sight obstructions. Nothing that exceeds three feet in height, other than a passenger vehicle, shall be temporarily or permanently parked or placed in the first 15 feet directly behind any property line abutting any public street so as to obstruct the view and/or impair the safety of anyone entering or exiting adjacent properties.

(12)

Occupancy restrictions. No person shall use or occupy any recreational vehicle, camping or recreational equipment, bus or trailer for living or sleeping purposes on any parking lot or on any residential, commercial or industrial property not specifically zoned for the occupancy of such vehicles or equipment.

(Ord. No. 1-1992, § 11(51-1317), 3-10-1992)

The following amounts of off-street parking spaces shall be provided according to the classification of uses that follow. If a use is not readily determinable by this schedule, the number of spaces shall be based upon a reasonable assessment of need by the office of zoning administration:

(1)

Business and personal service establishments:

Beauty and barber shops, one per 100 square feet.

Funeral home, one per three seats.

Furniture store, retail, one per 400 square feet reserved parking area with the following amounts surfaced for active use:

General business:

Up to 25,000 square feet, one per 200 square feet of gross floor area, adjusted according to combination of individual uses.

Twenty-five thousand one to 400,000 square feet, one per 250 square feet of leasable floor area, regardless of individual uses.

Over 400,000 square feet, one per 200 square feet of leasable floor area, regardless of individual uses.

Hotel, motel, one per guestroom.

Restaurant, lounge, dancehall, one per 100 square feet.

(2)

Business and professional offices and services:

Bank, loan, finance office, one per 250 square feet.

General office, one per 250 square feet of leasable office floor area.

Medical, dental, therapy clinic, one per 150 square feet of leasable floor floor area, may be reduced to five per practitioner upon evidence of a continuing low patient load practice.

(3)

Institutions:

Church, one per three seats.

Club, lodge, one per 300 square feet.

Hospital:

General acute care, one per 1½ beds.

Extended care of sanitarium, one per two beds.

Convalescent or nursing, one per five beds.

Library, museum, one per 300 square feet.

Nursery, day care, kindergarten, one per employee, plus 20 lineal feet of off-street driveway per eight children enrolled.

School, determined by the zoning commission or board of adjustment.

(4)

Recreation and entertainment:

Theater, auditorium, gymnasium, convention hall, one per three seats.

Travel trailer park, 1½ per trailer space or one if on-street parking is available.

(5)

Residences:

Dwelling, one-family and two-family, two per unit.

Dwelling, multifamily:

Up to 500 square feet unit, 1½ per unit.

Five hundred one to 700 square feet unit, 1¾ per unit.

Over 700 square feet unit, two per unit.

Dwelling, multifamily, mid-rise or high-rise (in R-5A districts):

Four to nine stories, 1¼ per unit.

Over nine stories, one per unit.

Dwelling, townhouse, 2½ per unit.

Fraternity or sorority house, one per two beds.

Group home, one per four beds.

Roominghouse or boardinghouse, one per guestroom.

(6)

Warehousing and manufacturing:

Industrial and manufacturing establishments, one per 400 square feet.

Warehouses:

Ten thousand square feet, one per 400 square feet.

Over 10,000 square feet, 25 plus one per three employees.

(Ord. No. 1-1992, § 11(51-1318), 3-10-1992)

(a)

Where the required driveway or parking facilities are not located on the same site with the building or use served or where such facilities are jointly provided for shared use by two or more building sites, a covenant shall encumber the title of the property that is to provide the required facilities. The encumbrance shall be valid for the total period that the facilities are required and shall be recorded in the conveyance records of the town. A certified copy of the covenants shall be filed with the zoning administrator, along with an approved parking and circulation plan, before a certificate of occupancy is issued. Failure to abide by the agreement may result in revocation of the certificate of occupancy.

(b)

No use shall be considered as individually having provided off-street parking facilities which are shared with one or more other uses unless the schedules of operation of all such uses are such that none of the uses sharing the facilities require the off-street parking facilities at the same time as any other use sharing them.

(c)

An application for approval of a special plan under this division shall be filed with the zoning administrator by the owners of all structures then existing on such land area, and all incumbrancers of such land area and structures and, additionally, shall contain sufficient evidence to establish that the applicants are all the owners and incumbrancers of the designated land area and structures. The application shall contain such information required by this chapter or deemed necessary by the zoning administrator and shall include plans showing the location of the uses or structures for which off-street parking facilities are required and the location at which the off-street parking facilities are proposed to be located.

(d)

Applications under this division shall be reviewed by the zoning administrator and either approved or disapproved within 90 days of receipt; any approval may establish conditions and limitations.

(e)

Upon approval of a special plan, a copy of such plan shall be registered among the records of the zoning administrator and shall thereafter be binding upon the applicants, their heirs, successors and assigns; shall limit and control the issuance and validity of permits and certificates; and shall restrict and limit the use and operation of all land and structures included within such special plans to all conditions and limitations specified in such plans and their approvals.

(f)

Pursuant to the same procedure and subject to the same limitations and requirements by which the special plan was approved and registered, any special plan may be amended or withdrawn, either partially or completely, if all land and structures remaining under such special plan comply with all the conditions and limitations of the special plan and all land and structures withdrawn from such special plan comply with all regulations established by this chapter and unrelated to the special plan.

(Ord. No. 1-1992, § 11(51-1319), 3-10-1992)

No structures shall be erected, altered, used or occupied unless the off-street truck loading facilities required in this division are provided in at least the amount and maintained in the manner set forth in this division; provided, however, that off-street truck loading facilities in excess of the amounts heretofore required by law need be neither provided nor maintained for structures actually used, occupied and operated on March 10, 1992, unless, after March 10, 1992, such structures are enlarged, expanded or changed, in which event the structures hereby excluded shall not be used, occupied or operated unless there is provided for the increment only of such structures, and maintained as required in this division, at least the amount of off-street truck loading facilities that would be required under this division if the increment were a separate structure. The provision and maintenance of the off-street truck loading facilities required shall be the joint and several responsibility of the operator and owner of the structure for which the off-street truck loading facilities are required to be provided and maintained.

(Ord. No. 1-1992, § 11(51-1331), 3-10-1992)

For the purposes of this chapter there shall be considered to be two sizes of off-street truck loading spaces, large and small. Each large space shall have an overhead clearance of at least 14 feet, shall be at least 12 feet wide, and shall be at least 50 feet long, exclusive of access or maneuvering area, platform and other appurtenances. Each small space shall have an overhead clearance of at least ten feet, shall be at least eight feet wide, and shall be at least 20 feet long, exclusive of access or maneuvering area, platform and other appurtenances. Off-street truck loading facilities shall be located on the same building site on which the structure for which they are provided is located; provided, however, that facilities provided under a cooperative arrangement as permitted in this division may be located on another site not more than 300 feet from the structure for which they are provided.

(Ord. No. 1-1992, § 11(51-1332), 3-10-1992)

Off-street truck loading facilities shall be constructed, maintained and operated in accordance with the following specifications:

(1)

They shall be properly graded for drainage, surfaced with concrete, asphaltic concrete or asphalt and maintained in good condition, free of weeds, dust, trash and debris.

(2)

They shall be provided with barriers of such dimensions that occupants of adjacent structures are not unreasonably disturbed, either by day or night, by the movement of vehicles.

(3)

Lighting facilities shall be so arranged that they neither unreasonably disturb occupants of adjacent residential properties nor interfere with traffic.

(4)

They shall be provided with entrances and exits so located as to minimize traffic congestion.

(Ord. No. 1-1992, § 11(51-1333), 3-10-1992)

Requirements for the provision of off-street truck loading facilities with respect to two or more structures may be satisfied by the permanent allocation of the requisite number of spaces for each use in a common truck loading facility, cooperatively established and operated; provided, however, that the total number of spaces designated is not less than the sum of the individual requirements unless, in the opinion of the zoning administrator, a lesser number of spaces will be adequate, taking into account the respective times of usage of the truck loading facilities by the individual users, the character of the merchandise, and related factors. In order to eliminate a multiplicity of individual facilities, to conserve space where space is at a premium, and to promote orderly development generally, the zoning administrator is hereby authorized to plan and group off-street truck loading facilities cooperatively for a number of truck loading generators within close proximity to one another in a given area in such manner as to obtain a maximum of efficiency and capacity, provided consent thereto is obtained from the participants in the cooperative plan.

(Ord. No. 1-1992, § 11(51-1334), 3-10-1992)

At least the following amounts of off-street truck loading facilities shall be provided for all structures containing uses devoted to commerce, business, industry, manufacturing, storage, warehousing, processing, offices, professional purposes, hotels, multiple-family dwellings, hospitals, airports, railroad terminals and similar purposes; provided, however, that structures required to provide and maintain less than five parking spaces shall be exempt from the requirements of this section:

(Ord. No. 1-1992, § 11(51-1335), 3-10-1992)