(a)

Provision and maintenance required. No land shall be used or occupied, no structure shall be erected, altered, used or occupied and no use shall be operated unless the off-street parking facilities required in this section are provided in at least the amount and maintained in the manner herein set forth; provided, however, that off-street parking facilities in excess of the amounts heretofore required by law need be neither provided nor maintained for land, structures or uses actually used, occupied and operated on the effective date of the ordinance from which this section derives unless, after such date, such land, structures or uses are enlarged, expanded or changed, in which event the land, structures and uses hereby excluded shall not be used, occupied or operated unless there is provided, for the increment only of such land, structures and uses, and maintained as herein required, at least the amount of off-street parking facilities that would be required hereunder if the increment were a separate land, structure or use. The provision and maintenance of the off-street parking facilities herein required shall be the joint and several responsibility of the operator and owner of the use and the operator and owner of the land on which, or the structure in which, is located the use for which off-street parking facilities are required to be provided and maintained.

(b)

Size and location. Each off-street parking space shall be an area of appropriate dimensions of not less than one hundred eighty (180) square feet net, exclusive of access or maneuvering area, ramps and other appurtenances. Except as otherwise permitted under special plan for location or sharing of facilities, off-street parking facilities shall be located on the building site on which the use or structure for which they are provided is located; required off-street parking for dwelling uses shall not occupy any part of a required front yard, except in an R-1 and R-2 District, which may use the driveway for one (1) of the two (2) required parking spaces. In R-3 zones, the front yard may not be used for parking.

(c)

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

(1)

Drainage and surfacing. They shall be properly graded for drainage, surfaced and maintained in good condition, free of weeds, dust, trash and debris. All parking facilities/spaces provided in the C-6 Zoning District shall be hard surfaced with concrete or pavers.

(2)

Wheel guards. They shall be provided with wheel guards or bumper guards, so located that no part of the parked vehicles will extend beyond the parking facility;

(3)

Lighting. Facilities shall be so arranged that the source of light is concealed from public view and from adjacent residential properties and does not interfere with traffic;

(4)

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

(d)

Combined facilities. The off-street parking facilities required by two (2) or more uses located on the same building site may be combined and used jointly; provided, however, that where the facilities are combined and used jointly by two (2) or more uses having different standards for determining the amount of facilities required, the off-street parking facilities shall be adequate in area to provide the sum total of the facilities required of all such uses, and provided further, that where the facilities are combined and used jointly by two (2) or more uses having the same standard for determining the amount of facilities required, all of such uses, for the purposes of this section, shall be considered as a single unit in determining the amount of off-street parking facilities required.

(e)

Amounts of off-street parking facilities required. At least the following amounts of off-street parking facilities shall be provided. The classification of uses shall be deemed to include and apply to all uses, and if the classification of any use for the purpose of determining the amount of off-street parking facilities to be provided is not readily determinable hereunder, the classification of the use shall be fixed by the office of zoning administration.

All spaces must have equal access to the street, except in R-1 zones.

(f)

Parking facility requiring fifty or more spaces. If the minimum number of off-street parking facilities required by this chapter is fifty (50) or more spaces, special review procedures shall apply as follows:

(1)

Exemption from review. Developments which require review by the zoning commission under section 28-93(c), planned building groups, or planning approval are exempt from review under this section.

(2)

Application for approval. An application for approval of a parking facilities plan shall be filed with the office of zoning administration by the owner and developer of the property in question. The application shall contain such information required by this chapter or reasonably deemed necessary by the office of zoning administration and shall include plans showing the location of the uses or structures for which off-street parking facilities are proposed to be located.

(3)

Administrative examination. Upon receipt of an application for approval of a plan for parking facilities providing for fifty (50) or more spaces, properly and completely made out, the office of zoning administration shall examine the application and make such investigation as is necessary. Within fifteen (15) days of the receipt of an application, the office of zoning administration shall transmit the application in triplicate, together with its report and recommendation, to the zoning commission. The zoning commission may also transmit a copy of the application to any department or agency which might be affected by the approval of the application, and such department or agency may transmit its report and recommendation to the zoning commission within the review time period specified.

(4)

Review by zoning commission. The zoning commission shall review each application and shall approve or disapprove the parking plan within thirty-five (35) days after receipt of such application by the commission; approval may establish conditions and limitations. The zoning commission shall then return the application, together with its report of approval or disapproval, to the office of zoning administration, and the office of zoning administration shall notify the applicant of the approval or disapproval of the parking plan by the zoning commission.

(g)

Offstreet parking driveways (entrances and exits). Except as provided for in section 28-48(f), the following provisions regarding the design and location of driveways shall apply:

(1)

All off-street parking facilities on or for properties along major traffic routes, as designated herein, shall be provided with driveways (entrances and exits) so located as to result in no undue interference with or hazard to free movement of normal traffic and to prevent vehicles from backing into streets, other than residential driveways serving two-family dwellings or less. When possible, entrances and exits shall be developed on two (2) or more frontages to facilitate traffic movement on through streets and to minimize congestion.

(2)

The permissible number, arrangement and width of driveways (entrances and exits) is governed by the frontage of abutting private property. The number of driveways should be the minimum number required to adequately serve the needs of abutting property uses. Nonresidential uses of frontages of less than seventy-five (75) feet are limited to:

a.

One (1) two-directional driveway, or

b.

Two (2) one-directional driveways (minimum twelve (12) feet wide),

and must comply with all other requirements. Where two (2) drives are provided for one (1) frontage, the distance between drives measured along the right-of-way line shall not be less than:

Normally not more than two (2) drives shall be provided to any single property frontages or business establishment. When more than two (2) are necessary to facilitate operations, the minimum distance between drives shall be increased to one hundred (100) feet. In the case of a corner property with frontage on two (2) or more streets and requiring driveways on more than one (1) frontage, the minimum distance between two (2) drives on one (1) frontage may be reduced to seventy-five (75) feet but must meet all other requirements.

(3)

The driveway width should be adequate to handle properly the anticipated volume and type of traffic and shall conform within the range of dimensions below, measured at the narrowest point parallel to right-of-way.

Driveway Width

(4)

Radius of curves at the junction of a driveway and the street pavement must not be greater than the frontage boundary line clearance and shall be developed within the following dimensions:

Driveways shall be positioned to clear the frontage boundary lines (side lot line extension) by a distance equal to or greater than the radius of curve at the junction of the driveway and the street pavement.

(5)

Corner clearance at an intersecting street is the dimension measured along the edge of the pavement between a point opposite the intersection of the street right-of-way lines and the tangent projection of the nearest edge of the driveway, and shall be a twenty-foot minimum. The driveway radius shall in no case extend beyond the intersecting street right-of-way line. Entrances and exits from nonresidential properties opposite "T" intersections shall coincide with the intersecting streets or be offset one hundred twenty-five (125) feet from center line to center line. When a bridge culvert crossing an overpass, underpass, tunnel or similar obstruction occurs within the right-of-way from which a driveway has access, that driveway shall offset the obstruction by a minimum of one hundred and twenty-five (125) feet measured from the nearest point. If the number of paved driving lanes within the frontage right-of-way should increase or decrease, driveway curb openings shall not be permitted nearer to any part of that transition area than twenty-five (25) feet.

(6)

If this subsection is applicable to property with a lesser frontage dimension than needed to meet the minimum standards established in this subsection and such property was subdivided and held in separate ownership prior to the adoption of the ordinance from which this subsection derives, one (1) driveway access to the property shall be permitted upon approval of location by the zoning commission.

(7)

The following is a listing of major traffic routes:

Barataria Avenue

Barrow Street (U.S. Highway 90)

Bayou Black Drive (U.S. Highway 90)

Bayou Gardens Boulevard

Bond Street

Civic Center Boulevard

Country Club Drive (La. Highway 315)

Corporate Drive

Dunn Street

East Street

Enterprise Boulevard

Equity Boulevard

Glynn Avenue

Grand Caillou Road

Hollywood Road (North and South)

Honduras Street

Howard Avenue

Industrial Boulevard

LA Hwy 311

Lafayette Street

Little Bayou Black Drive (La. Highway 311)

Louisiana Highway 56

Louisiana Highway 661

Main Street, West and East (La. Highway 24)

Martin Luther King Boulevard

Mystic Boulevard

New Orleans Boulevard (U.S. Highway 90)

Park Avenue, West and East (La. Highway 659)

Polk Street

Prospect Avenue

Prospect Avenue Extension (proposed)

Savanne Road

St. Charles Street

St. Louis Cypress Canal Road

Tunnel Street, West and East

Valhi Boulevard

Van Street, South and North

Venture Boulevard

Westside Boulevard

Woodlawn Ranch Road

(h)

Special plan for location or sharing of facilities. Under the standard provisions of this chapter, off-street parking facilities are required to be provided on the same building site as the use or structure for which the facilities are provided and are required to be provided, in an amount based on the listed requirement for the individual use or structure. Pursuant to the procedure hereinafter set forth, either part or all of the required off-street parking facilities may be located on a site other than the one occupied by the use or structure for which the facilities are provided; also, two (2) or more uses may share the same off-street parking facilities, and each of such uses may be considered as having provided such shared space individually.

(1)

Limitations on sharing facilities. No use shall be considered as individually having provided off-street parking facilities which are shared with one (1) 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.

(2)

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

(3)

Review of application. Applications hereunder shall be reviewed by the office of zoning administration and either approved or disapproved within fifteen (15) days after receipt thereof; any approval may establish conditions and limitations.

(4)

Registration of special plan. Upon approval of a special plan, a copy of such plan shall be registered among the records of the office of zoning administration 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 the approvals thereof.

(5)

Amendment or withdrawal of special plan. 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.

(City Code 1965, App. A, art. VI, § A; Ord. No. 6322, 10-11-00; Ord. No. 7350, § I, 9-12-07; Ord. No. 8021, § I(Att. B), 8-10-11; Ord. No. 8492, § I(Att. A), 11-19-14)

State Law reference— Planning for vehicular parking, R.S. 33:107.

(a)

Provision and maintenance required. No structure shall be erected, altered, used or occupied, unless the off-street truck loading facilities required in this section are provided in at least the amount and maintained in the manner herein set forth; 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 the effective date of the ordinance from which this section derives unless, after such date, 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 herein required, at least the amount of off-street loading facilities that would be required hereunder if the increment were a separate structure. The provisions and maintenance of the off-street 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.

(b)

Size and location. For the purpose of this chapter there shall be considered to be two (2) sizes of off-street truck loading space, "large" and "small." Each "large" space shall have an overhead clearance of at least fourteen (14) feet, shall be at least twelve (12) feet wide and shall be at least fifty (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 (10) feet, shall be at least eight (8) feet wide and shall be at least twenty (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 hereinafter permitted may be located on another site not more than three hundred (300) feet from the structure for which they are provided.

(c)

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

(1)

Drainage and surfacing. They shall be properly graded for drainage, surfaced and maintained in good condition, free of weeds, dust, trash and debris;

(2)

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

(3)

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

(d)

Cooperative establishment and use of facilities. Requirements for the provision of off-street truck loading facilities with respect to two (2) 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 office of zoning administration 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.

(e)

Amounts of off-street truck loading facilities required. 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, office, professional purposes, hotels, multiple-family dwellings, hospitals, airports, railroad terminals and similar purposes; provided, however, that structures required to provide and maintain less than ten (10) off-street parking spaces shall be exempt from these requirements:

(f)

Loading area for day care center, nursery. Whenever a day care center or nursery is located along a major traffic route as prescribed by this chapter, a loading area of large enough size to accommodate a minimum of three (3) cars must be provided.

(City Code 1965, App. A, art. VI, § B)

State Law reference— Municipal day care activities, R.S. 33:7501(A).

Parking and loading schedule. Off-street parking and loading space in the C-1 district shall be provided in accordance with the following schedule:

(City Code 1965, App. A, art. VI, § C; Ord. No. 7419, § I, 2-13-08)

State Law reference— Vehicular travel on real property used by the public, R.S. 32:25.