Off-street parking and loading requirements are hereby established within the classes of zoning districts as now or hereafter established by Section 1141.01 of the Planning and Zoning Code to promote the general convenience, welfare and prosperity of the community; provided, however, that the provisions of this chapter shall not apply in a U-5A District covered by Chapter 1149 of this Planning and Zoning Code. More specific purposes are:

   Accessory off-street parking facilities, including accessways, shall be provided as a condition precedent to occupancy of a residential, institutional, business, commercial or manufacturing development in all of such classes of zoning, in conformance with the following provisions of this chapter:

      (Ord. 1961-38. Passed 1-23-62.)

   All existing off-street parking facilities or those required as accessory to a proposed or altered building or use shall continue unobstructed in operation and shall not be reduced below required size as long as the main building use remains, unless an equivalent number of spaces is provided for such facilities in another location, subject to provisions of Section 1181.09 of this chapter. (Ord. 1961-38. Passed 1-23-62.)

   Detailed drawings of off-street parking or loading facilities shall be submitted for approval by the Planning Commission before an application for a building permit is granted. Such drawings shall show number of spaces and locations, dimensions and descriptions of all features enumerated in Sections 1181.01 to 1181.16, inclusive.

(Ord. 1961-38. Passed 1-23-62.)

   (Ord. 2022-167. Passed 1-10-23.)

   A building containing one use shall provide the off-street parking spaces as required for the specific use. A building or group of buildings containing two or more uses, operating normally during the same hours, and which have different off-street parking requirements, shall provide spaces for not less than the sum of the spaces required for each use; provided, however, where the two or more uses do not operate normally during the same hours and there is a combined use of facilities, building or area, there shall be a contract between the parties so operating the two or more uses, covering a period of time as may be required by the Planning Commission, and providing for the use of the parking area; provided further that, should either of the combined uses be changed or discontinued, then the required spaces for the use remaining shall be provided as a condition-precedent to the continued use of such remaining building, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. (Ord. 1961-38. Passed 1-23-62.)

   In one-family residential districts, the sum of the open and enclosed (permanent) accessory parking facilities shall not exceed three spaces per dwelling unit on lots of 12,000 square feet or less, and not more than four spaces per dwelling unit on lots of more than 12,000 square feet.

   In residential districts, one truck not exceeding three-fourths tons in rated capacity may be stored in a garage only, provided such truck is used solely by the occupant.

(Ord. 1961-38. Passed 1-23-62.)

   (c)    Accessory parking facilities shall be provided on the same lot as the building served or on lots contiguous thereto.

(Ord. 1973-45. Passed 8-28-73.)

   The location and width of entrance and exit driveways to accessory parking facilities, except for dwellings, shall be planned in such a manner as to interfere as little as possible with the use of adjacent residential property and with pedestrian and vehicular traffic on adjacent streets. Whenever possible, such access driveways shall be not less than seventy-five feet, measured from the center line, from a street intersection or spaced at less than 150-foot intervals. A one-way driveway shall be not less than nine feet or more than twelve feet wide, and a two-way driveway shall be not less than eighteen feet or more than twenty-two feet wide. The aforesaid location and width regulations shall also regulate driveways for gasoline service stations and "drive-in" roadside businesses. (Ord. 1961-38. Passed 1-23-62.)

   All parking facilities and accessways shall have a smoothly graded, stabilized and dustless surface (oil treatment prohibited) with adequate drainage so they will not cause injury to adjacent properties. Appropriate bumper guards or curbs shall be provided where needed in order to define parking spaces or limits of paved areas. (Ord. 1961-38. Passed 1-23-62.)

   (a)   Where off-street parking is required, parking space shall not be located less than five feet from the street line and not less than ten feet from an abutting property line, except that when the off-street parking abuts a residential district, parking space shall not be located less than twenty-five feet from an abutting property line.

   (b)   Accessory off-street parking areas having a capacity of more than six automobiles, when adjacent to or surrounded by a U-1 District, shall have bumper guards or curbs placed on aforesaid yard (limits of parking area) lines, and the area between yard lines and lot lines shall be landscaped. The location and type of structural or landscape features, such as bumper guards, curbs, wads, fences, shrubs, ground cover or hedges shall be approved by the Planning Commission. Such landscaping and structural features shall be maintained adequately at all times.

   (c)   Where commercial and/or retail accessory off-street parking areas are adjacent to or surrounded by a U-1 District, the open storage or parking of any commercial vehicle or trailer is prohibited if said commercial vehicle or trailer is located within 500 feet of a residential property line. For purposes of this section, "open storage or parking" means openly locating any commercial vehicle or trailer in a commercial and/or retail accessory off-street parking area for a period exceeding two days. (Ord. 1995-10. Passed 10-10-95.)

   Parking areas shall be thoroughly illuminated whenever the public street lights are lit and when the buildings served are in operation. Such illumination shall be so designed and located that light sources shall be shielded from adjoining U-1 District and streets and shall not be of excessive brightness. Flickering, moving or intermittent illumination shall not be permitted. (Ord. 1961-38. Passed 1-23-62. )

   Loading or unloading facilities shall be provided, in addition to off-street parking, for all business, commercial or manufacturing buildings hereafter erected or altered to such uses. Such facilities shall be not less than twelve feet wide and located not less than fifty feet from the front property line when facing the main street, and when alongside a building or alley, such facilities shall be located so that a standing truck, loading or unloading, of a size generally serving such purpose will not interfere with vehicular or pedestrian traffic.

   At least one off-street loading space shall be provided for each 20,000 square feet of gross floor area, or fraction thereof, of manufacturing, storage, wholesale or retail buildings and shall be maintained as long as such building is occupied or unless an equivalent number of spaces is provided in conformance with these requirements. (Ord. 1961-38. Passed 1-23-62.)

   Reference in this chapter to uses which may now or hereafter be prohibited within the Municipality is not to be construed as authorizing such uses but rather is intended to establish off-street parking requirements for such uses which may now exist.

(Ord. 1961-38. Passed 1-23-62.)

   The Planning Commission may, in specific cases, vary or permit exceptions to the off-street parking and loading requirements set forth in this chapter if it finds that such variance or exception will not violate the spirit or intent of this chapter and that a more harmonious, beneficial and useful development will result. (Ord. 1976-17. Passed 6-8-76.)