Off-street automobile parking and loading spaces shall be provided, as specified in this Ordinance, for uses and structures hereafter established. Any building or use that is subsequently enlarged shall meet the off-street parking and loading space requirements of this Ordinance for the addition made. All non-residential parking must be in compliance with Georgia law and the Americans with Disabilities requirements on handicapped parking.

The following are required plan and design standards for off street parking:

A.

Required area for each parking space. Each automobile parking space shall be not less than nine (9) feet wide and eighteen (18) feet deep. Adequate interior driveways shall connect each parking space with a public right-of-way. A maximum of one foot six inches of the required eighteen (18) feet may overhang a grassed area. This overhang cannot be over a sidewalk or right-of-way and must be arranged in such a way as to allow adequate front-to-front parking.

B.

Interior driveways. Interior driveways when used with 90-degree-angle parking shall be at least 22 feet wide; when used with 60-degree-angle parking, at least 12 feet wide with one-way traffic, 22 feet wide with two-way traffic; when used with parallel parking or where there is no parking, at least ten (10) feet wide for one-way traffic and at least 20 feet wide for two-way traffic. A minimum ten foot driveway and stacking lane is required for any type drive-up window or pick-up station. This is in addition to regular driveways.

C.

Improvement of off-street parking lots. All off-street parking lots, whether public or private, for more than five vehicles shall meet the following standards:

1.

They shall be graded to insure proper drainage, surfaced with concrete or asphalt at least two inches thick installed on an approved base and maintained in a good condition free of weeds, dust, trash and debris.

2.

Where required or encouraged by this ordinance, porous paver systems (grass pave, porous concrete or asphalt, grasscrete, or other modular systems) shall be installed to the manufacturer's specifications on an approved base and maintained in a good condition free of weeds, dust, trash and debris. Porous paver systems shall be routinely cleaned and vacuumed to remove trapped sediment and debris which would otherwise prevent them from passing stormwater into the ground.

3.

High intensity lighting facilities shall be so arranged that the source of any light is concealed from public view and from adjacent residential properties and does not interfere with traffic.

4.

They shall not be used for the sale, repair, dismantling or servicing or storing of any vehicle, equipment, materials or supplies.

5.

Each parking space shall be clearly demarcated by a painted stripe no less than three (3) inches wide running the length of each of the longer sides of the space or by curbing or by other acceptable method which clearly marks and delineates the parking space within the parking lot.

D.

Location of required off-street parking spaces on other property. If the required automobile off-street parking spaces cannot reasonably be provided on the same lot on which the principal use is located, such spaces may be provided on other off-street property lying not more than four hundred feet from the main entrance to the principal use, unless otherwise specified in this Ordinance. In this situation, the applicant shall submit with his application for a building permit or an occupancy permit an instrument duly executed and acknowledged which accepts as a condition for the issuance of a building permit or an occupancy permit the permanent availability of such off street parking spaces to serve his principal use.

E.

Sharing of required off-street parking spaces. One-half of the off-street parking spaces required by a use whose peak attendance will be at night or on Sundays may be shared with a use that will be closed at night or on Sundays, unless otherwise specified in this Ordinance.

F.

Location and surface of parking areas. Unless otherwise specified in this Ordinance, parking spaces shall be located in the rear or sides of the principal building unless a condition or hazard exists, outside of the control of the owner and which cannot be feasibly remedied, that prohibits the construction of a parking lot in the rear or side of the building. In any district except RD, the parking of any vehicle on other than a surface prepared to accommodate the vehicle is prohibited. In any residential district except RD, the parking of any vehicle in the front yard or in front of the principal building line is prohibited except on a prepared driveway or in a carport or garage.

Where encouraged or required by this Ordinance, parking spaces on public streets shall be required to be provided by the developer consistent with the requirements of this section for surface, drainage and other improvements. On street parking spaces shall be counted towards the minimum number of spaces provided for the lot in which the spaces directly abut.

Table 9.4: Minimum Number of Parking Spaces Required

The maximum number of spaces shall not exceed 125% of the minimum number of spaces required.

A.

Plan and design standards. The following are the plan and design standards for off-street loading spaces:

1.

Off-street loading spaces shall have access from an alley or, if there is no alley, from a public street.

2.

The off-street loading space shall be so located that it causes a minimum of interference with the free movement of vehicles over a street, sidewalk or alley.

3.

Maneuvering and turning areas shall be provided so that no vehicles are required to back into a street.

B.

Minimum size and number. The minimum number and size of off-street loading spaces required are as follows:

1.

An off-street loading space shall have the minimum dimensions of 12 feet x 40 feet x 14 feet of overhead clearance.

2.

The minimum number of such spaces required are as follows:

a.

Retail business, office, wholesale, industrial, governmental, and institutional uses, including public assembly places, hospitals and educational institutions, one space for the first 10,000 square feet of total floor area or fractional part thereof.

b.

For anything in excess of 10,000 square feet, such uses shall provide loading spaces according to the following schedule: