Heath City Zoning Code
CHAPTER 1183
Off-Street Parking and Loading
1183.01 OFF-STREET PARKING.
Surfaced off-street automobile parking shall be provided on any lot on which any of the following uses are hereafter established; such space shall be provided with vehicular access to a street or alley. For purposes of computing gross off-street parking area required, the ratio of 162 square feet per parking space shall be used.
(Ord. 2-00. Passed 3-20-00.)
1183.02 NUMBER OF SPACES REQUIRED.
The number of off-street parking spaces required shall be as set forth in the following:
Use | Parking Spaces Required |
Automobile or Machinery sales and service garages | 1 for each 600 sq. ft. floor area |
Automobile car wash, automatic | Two per site in addition to required stacking spaces. A washing space is not a parking space. |
Automobile car wash, self-service | No parking space is required; one drying space plus two stacking spaces are required per washing space. A washing space is not a parking place. |
Banks, business and professional offices | 1 for each 500 sq. ft. floor area |
Bowling alleys | 4 for each alley |
Churches | 1 for each 4 seats in the sanctuary |
Dance halls and assembly halls without fixed seats; exhibition halls except church assembly rooms in conjunction with auditorium | 1 for each 100 sq. ft. of floor area used for assembly or dancing |
Dwellings (not including garage) | Single family - 4 spaces per dwelling Multi-family- 2 spaces per one bedroom unit 3 spaces per two bedroom unit 4 spaces per three bedroom unit |
Funeral homes, mortuaries | 1 for each 50 sq. ft. of floor area |
Furniture and appliance stores, household equipment or furniture repair shop over 1,000 sq. ft. floor area | 1 for each 500 sq. ft. of floor area |
Hospitals | 2 for each bed |
Hotels, motels and bed and breakfast | 1 for each bedroom |
Libraries, museums or art gallaries | 1 for each 400 sq. ft. of floor area |
Manufacturing plants, research or testing laboratories, bottling plants, over 1,000 sq. ft. in area | 1 for each employee in the maximum shift |
Medical or dental clinics | 1 for each 200 sq. ft. of floor area |
Restaurants, taverns and night clubs, of over 1,000 sq. ft. floor area | 1 for each 200 sq. ft. of floor area |
Retail stores, shops, etc., of over 2,000 sq. ft. of floor area | 1 for each 250 sq. ft. of floor area |
Convalescent and nursing homes | 1 for each 2 beds |
Sports arenas, auditoriums, theaters, assembly halls, other than schools | 1 for each 4 seats |
Wholesale establishments or warehouses | 1 for each employee on maximum shift or 1 for each 3,000 sq. ft. of floor area, whichever is greater. |
High school, business, technical and trade school, college and university | 1 for each 2 students |
Elementary and middle schools | 2 per classroom and 1 for each 60 sq. ft. of gross floor area in the auditorium or multi-purpose room. |
(Ord. 2-00. Passed 3-20-00.)
1183.03 DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF PARKING AREAS.
Every parcel of land hereafter used as a public or private parking area, including a commercial parking lot and also an automobile or trailer sales lot, shall be developed and maintained in accordance with the following requirements:
(a) Screening and Landscaping. Off-street parking areas for more than five vehicles shall be effectively screened on each side which adjoins premises situated in any R District by a masonry wall or solid fence of acceptable design. Such wall or fence shall be between four and six feet in height and shall be maintained in good condition. Landscaping provided in lieu of such wall or fence shall consist of a strip of land not less than fifteen feet in width planted with an evergreen hedge, or dense planting of evergreen shrubs not less than four feet in height.
(b) Surfacing. Any off-street parking area for more than five vehicles shall be graded for proper drainage and surfaced so as to provide a durable and dustless surface.
(c) Lighting. Any lighting used to illuminate any off-street parking area shall be so arranged as to reflect the light away from adjoining premises in any R District. All types of illumination shall be shaded or concealed so that the light will not interfere with the vision of motor vehicle operators or shine directly on residential property nor flash or simulate movement.
(d) Joint Use of Parking Areas. Parking spaces may be located on a lot other than that containing the principal use with approval of the Board provided a written agreement, approved by the City Solicitor and accepted by Council, shall be filed with the application for a zoning permit.
(e) Parking Area Modifications. The Board may authorize on appeal a modification, reduction or waiver of the foregoing requirements, if it should find that, in the particular case appealed, the peculiar nature of the residential, business, trade, industrial or other use, or the exceptional shape or size of the property or other exceptional situation or condition would justify such action. No action shall be taken by the Board unless and until it has first received the recommendation of the Planning Commission regarding the appeal. Additional green space may be substituted for parking spaces in reserve.
(f) Aisle. An aisle is that portion of the circulation area within a parking lot, excluding the driveway, that provides accessibility to parking, stacking or loading spaces. An aisle to serve adjacent loading spaces shall have a minimum width fifteen feet. No part of the loading space may be inlcuded in this calculation.
The minimium width permissible for an aisle to serve adjacent parking spaces shall depend on the smallest angle of parking as measured between the centerline of the aisle and the centerline of the adjacent parking space as illustrated.
Angle of Parking | Minimum Aisle Width |
80' degree or more | 20 feet - two way travel |
Less than 80' but 50' or more | 17 feet - one way travel |
Less than 50' | 13 feet - one way travel |
0' or parallel parking | 13 feet - one way travel |
0' or parallel parking | 20 feet - two way travel |
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(g) A driveway is any access corridor leading from a public right of way to a parking lot, aisle, parking circulation area, garage, off-street parking space or loading space. The division of building and zoning limits points of driveway access from residentially zoned lots abutting an improved alley and street.
Each driveway shall be located and designed in a manner that provides for the safety of motorists and pedestrians.
(1) A driveway serving a parking lot shall be designed so that vehicles entering or leaving parking lot will be traveling in a forward motion.
(2) A driveway serving a residential parking area containing one to eight parking spaces shall have a minimum width of ten (10) feet per direction.
(3) All other driveways shall have a minimum of twenty feet (20) feet.
(Ord. 2-00. Passed 3-20-00.)
1183.04 OFF-STREET LOADING.
In any district, in connection with every building or part thereof erected and having a gross floor area of 5,000 square feet or more, which is to be occupied by manufacturing, storage, warehouse, goods display, retail store, wholesale store, market, hotel, hospital, mortuary, laundry, dry cleaning or other uses similarly requiring the receipt or distribution by vehicles of material or merchandise, there shall be provided and maintained, on the same lot with such building, at least one off-street loading space, plus one additional such loading space for each 10,000 square feet or major fraction thereof, of gross floor area so used in excess of 10,000 square feet. (Ord. 2-00. Passed 3-20-00.)
1183.05 LOADING SPACE DIMENSIONS.
Each loading space shall be not less than ten feet in width, twenty-five feet in length and fourteen feet in height. (Ord. 2-00. Passed 3-20-00.)
1183.06 LOADING SPACE MAY OCCUPY YARD.
Subject to the limitations in Section 1183.07, such space may occupy all or any part of any required yard. (Ord. 2-00. Passed 3-20-00.)
1183.07 DISTANCE FROM R DISTRICTS.
No space shall be closer than fifty feet to any other lot located in any R District, unless wholly within a completely enclosed building or unless enclosed on all sides by a wall or uniformly painted solid board fence not less than six feet in height.
(Ord. 2-00. Passed 3-20-00.)