All required off-street parking spaces shall be located behind all building setback lines in any agricultural, single-family, or duplex district. All required parking spaces shall be located behind the required front building setback line in the MF-1 District.

Required off-street parking shall be provided on the same site as the use it is to serve.

No required parking shall be allowed except on a paved concrete or asphalt parking space or other impervious surface.

To prevent nuisance situations, all parking area lighting shall be designed and operated so as not to reflect or shine on adjacent properties.

For safety and firefighting purposes, free access through to adjacent parking areas shall be provided where practical.

Parking spaces shall be permanently and clearly identified by stripes, buttons, tiles, curbs, barriers, or other approved methods. Nonpermanent type marking, such as paint, shall be regularly maintained to ensure continuous, clear identification of the space.

Each standard off-street surface parking space shall measure not less than nine feet by twenty feet (9' x 20'), exclusive of access drives and aisles, and shall be of usable shape and condition. Where it is possible for a vehicle to overhang the front of a parking space above a paved, stoned, mulched, or grassed area other than a sidewalk, street right-of-way or adjacent property, the length of the standard space length may be reduced to eighteen feet (18').

All parking, loading spaces, and vehicle sales areas on private property shall have a vehicle stopping device installed so as to prevent motor vehicles from being parked on any required landscape area or from overhanging a public right-of-way or sidewalk. An extra-wide sidewalk on private property may be permitted so as to allow encroachment of vehicle overhang while maintaining an unobstructed three-foot (3') minimum sidewalk width. The requirement shall apply only where spaces are adjacent to the walks, right-of-way, and landscaping. Parking shall not be permitted to overhang public right-of-way in any case.

Refuse storage facilities placed in a parking lot shall not be located in a required parking or loading space. Each refuse facility shall be maintained so as to comply with all public health and sanitary regulations. Each refuse facility shall be located so as to facilitate pickup by refuse collection agencies and shall be screened according to Section 25.

No required parking shall be allowed except on a paved concrete or asphalt parking space or other similar impervious surface.

All retail, commercial, and industrial structures having five thousand (5,000) square feet or more of gross floor area shall provide and maintain off-street parking facilities for the loading and unloading of merchandise and goods at a ratio of at least one (1) space for the first twenty thousand (20,000) square feet of gross floor area and one (1) space for each additional twenty thousand (20,000) square feet of gross floor area or fraction thereof. A loading space shall consist of an area of a minimum of twelve (12) by thirty (30) feet. All drives and approaches shall provide adequate space and clearances to allow for the maneuvering of trucks off-street.

Kindergartens, day schools, and similar child training and care establishments shall provide one (1) paved off-street loading and unloading space on a through “circular” drive for each ten (10) children, except when otherwise provided for when a Specific Use Permit has been granted (also see Section 21.3).

Loading docks for any establishment which customarily receives goods between the hours of 10:00 P.M. and 7:00 A.M. and is adjacent to a residential use or district shall be designed and constructed so as to fully enclose the loading operation, in order to reduce the effects of the noise of the operation on adjacent residences.

Where adjacent to residential uses or districts, off-street loading areas shall be screened from view of the residential use or district.

In all Districts (except all Single-Family, Duplex, and Multifamily Districts) building plans shall provide for entrance/exit drive(s) appropriately designed and located to minimize traffic congestion or conflict within the site and with adjoining public streets as approved by the City. Where based upon analysis by the City, projected volumes of traffic entering or leaving the proposed development are likely to interfere with the projected peak traffic flow volumes on adjoining streets, additional right-of-way, and paving in the form of a deceleration lane or turn lane may be required to be furnished by the developer in order to reduce such interference.

In the approval of a Site Plan (for specific use permits), consideration shall be given to providing entrance/exit drives which extend into the site to provide adequate queuing of vehicles on the site. Such drives shall have curbs or other barriers to prohibit access from parking areas and other drives.

The radius of all drive approaches shall be constructed so that the curb return shall not extend beyond any projection of the property line which the drive does not cross, except by written agreement of both property owners filed for record with the County Clerk with proof supplied to the City Council.

Vehicular access to nonresidential uses shall not be permitted from alleys serving residential areas.

Parking space configuration, location, arrangement, size and circulation in all Districts shall be constructed according to Illustrations 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5.

Auto laundry: One (1) space per five hundred (500) square feet of gross floor area

Bank, Savings and Loan or similar institutions: One (1) space per three hundred (300) square feet

Bowling alley: Six (6) parking spaces for each alley or lane

Business or professional office (general): One (1) space per three hundred (300) square feet of gross floor area, except as otherwise specified herein

Church or other place of worship: One (1) parking space for each three (3) seats in the main auditorium

College or University: One (1) space per each day student

Community Center, Library, Museum, or Art Gallery: Ten (10) parking spaces plus one (1) additional space for each three hundred (300) square feet of floor area in excess of two thousand (2,000) square feet. If an auditorium is included as a part of the building, its floor area shall be deducted from the total and additional parking provided on the basis of one (1) space for each four (4) seats that it contains

Commercial Amusement: One (1) space per three (3) guests or one (1) space per one hundred (100) square feet of gross floor area, whichever is greater

Dance Hall, Assembly or Exhibition Hall Without Fixed Seats: One (1) parking space for each one hundred (100) square feet of floor area

Day Nursery: One (1) space per ten (10) pupils plus one (1) space per teacher

Dwellings (except MF): Two spaces per individual unit

Dwellings, Multifamily: Two (2) spaces per each one- and two-bedroom units and two and one-half (2-1/2) spaces per each three-bedroom unit

Fraternity, Sorority, or Dormitory: One (1) parking space for each two (2) beds

Furniture or Appliance Store, Hardware Store, Wholesale Establishments, Machinery or Equipment Sales and Service, Clothing or Shoe Repair or Service: Two (2) parking spaces plus one (1) additional parking space for each three hundred (300) square feet of floor area over one thousand (1,000)

Gasoline Station: Minimum of six (6) spaces

Golf Course: Three (3) parking spaces per hole

Hospital: One (1) space per employee on the largest shift, plus one and one-half (1-1/2) spaces per each bed

Hotel: One (1) parking space for each sleeping room or suite plus one (1) space for each two hundred (200) square feet of commercial floor area contained therein

Library or Museum: Ten (10) spaces plus one (1) space for every three hundred (300) square feet

Lodge or Fraternal Organization: One (1) space per two hundred (200) square feet

Manufacturing or Industrial Establishment, Research or Testing Laboratory, Creamery, Bottling Plant, Warehouse, Printing or Plumbing Shop, or Similar Establishment: One (1) parking space for each employee on the maximum working shift plus space to accommodate all trucks and other vehicles used in connection therewith, but not less than one (1) parking space for each one thousand (1,000) square feet of floor area

Medical or Dental Office: One (1) space per one hundred seventy-five (175) square feet of floor area

Mini-Warehouse: Four (4) spaces per complex plus (1) one per five thousand (5000) square feet of storage area

Mobile Home Park: Two (2) spaces for each mobile home plus additional spaces as required herein for accessory uses

Mortuary or Funeral Home: One (1) parking space for each fifty (50) square feet of floor space in slumber rooms, parlors or individual funeral service rooms

Motel: One (1) parking space for each sleeping room or suite plus one (1) space for each two hundred (200) square feet of commercial floor area contained therein

Motor Vehicle Salesrooms and Used Car Lots: One (1) parking space for each five hundred (500) square feet of sales floor for indoor uses, or one (1) parking space for each one thousand (1,000) square feet of lot area for outdoor uses

Nursing Home: One (1) space per five (5) beds and one (1) parking space for each one thousand (1,000) square feet of lot area for outdoor uses

Country Club or Golf Club: One (1) parking space for each one hundred fifty (150) square feet of floor area or for every five (5) members, whichever is greater

Retail Uses or Personal Service Establishments, Except as Otherwise Specified Herein: One (1) space per two hundred (200) square feet of gross floor area

Restaurant, Private Club, Nightclub, Cafe or Similar Recreation or Amusement Establishment: One (1) parking space for each one hundred (100) square feet of floor area

Rooming or Boarding House: One (1) parking space for each sleeping room

Sanitarium, Convalescent Home, Home for the Aged or Similar Institution: One (1) parking space for each five (5) beds

School, Elementary: One (1) parking space for each fifteen (15) students (design capacity)

School, Secondary or Middle: One (1) parking space for each fourteen (14) students (design capacity)

School, High School: One space for each 1.5 students, faculty and staff

Theater, Auditorium (except school), Sports Arena, Stadium, or Gymnasium: One (1) parking space for each three (3) seats or bench seating spaces

Warehouse, Wholesale, Manufacturing and Other Industrial Type Uses: One (1) space for one thousand (1,000) square feet of gross floor area

“Floor Area” shall mean the gross floor area of the specific use.

Where fractional spaces result, the parking spaces required shall be constructed [construed] to be the nearest whole number.

The parking space requirement for a use not specifically mentioned herein shall be the same as required for a use of similar nature.

Whenever a building or use constructed or established after the effective date of this Ordinance is changed or enlarged in floor area, number of employees, number of dwelling units, seating capacity or otherwise, to create a need for an increase of ten percent (10%) or more in the number of existing parking spaces, such spaces shall be provided on the basis of the enlargement or change. Whenever a building or use existing prior to the effective date of this Ordinance is enlarged to the extent of fifty percent (50%) or more in floor area or in the area used, said building or use shall then and thereafter comply with the parking requirements set forth herein.

In the case of mixed uses, the parking spaces required shall equal the sum of the requirements of the various uses computed separately. Up to sixty percent (60%) of the parking spaces required for a theater or other place of evening entertainment, or for a church, may be provided and used jointly by banks, offices, and similar uses not normally open, used, or operated during evening hours if specifically approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission. Such approval may be rescinded by the City Council and additional parking shall be obtained by the owners in the event that the City Council determines that such joint use is resulting in a public nuisance by providing an inadequate number of parking spaces or otherwise adversely affecting the public health, safety, or welfare.

Where an increase in the number of spaces is required by a change or enlargement of use or where such spaces are provided collectively or used jointly by two (2) or more buildings or establishments, the required spaces may be located not to exceed three hundred (300) feet from an institutional building served and not to exceed six hundred (600) feet from any other nonresidential building served.

In any case, where the required parking spaces are not located on the same lot with the building or use served, or where such spaces are collectively or jointly provided and used, a written agreement thereby assuring their retention for such purposes, shall be properly drawn and executed by the parties concerned, approved as to form by the City Attorney and shall be filed with the application for a building permit.