To reduce street congestion and traffic hazards in Kaysville City by incorporating adequate, attractively designed facilities for off-street parking and loading as an integral part of every use of land in the City.

1.

General. There shall be provided at the time of erection of any main building or at the time any main building is enlarged or increased in capacity, minimum off-street parking space with adequate provision for ingress and egress by standard-size automobiles in accordance with the requirements herein. Parking for each use shall be provided within the same zone district as the use. Only parking for permitted or conditional uses in the residential zone districts is allowed in residential zone districts.

2.

Size. For the purpose of this Section, one (1) parking space shall be assumed to be two hundred (200) square feet, exclusive of adequate interior driveways.

3.

Access. Adequate ingress and egress to all users shall be provided as follows:

a.

Access for all uses except residential shall be by a maximum of one (1) driveway for each one hundred feet (100') of frontage on a public street, such driveways to be not over thirty-eight feet (38') in width. The City Engineer may allow wider driveways or more driveways based upon a traffic study, anticipated large truck traffic or high traffic volumes or other applicable factors.

b.

Access for residential uses shall be by a maximum of two (2) driveways for each seventy feet (70') of frontage on a public street, such driveways to be not over forty feet (40') in width, or less than ten feet (10') in width.

c.

Access driveways shall not be closer to each other than twelve feet (12').

d.

No residential driveway shall be closer than twenty feet (20') measured along the property lines to the point of intersection of two (2) property lines at any corner.

e.

In a commercial zone, no driveway shall be closer to an intersection of two (2) streets than forty feet (40'). Combined driveway widths shall not cover more than fifty percent (50%) of the lot frontage.

f.

Height, location, structural specifications, maximum and minimum curb radii permitted, and minimum roadway approach angles to the center line of the street are subject to City standards.

4.

Floor Area Defined. Floor area in the case of offices, merchandising or service types of uses shall mean the gross floor area.

5.

Alternatives to On-Site Parking. For any new use, structures, or building other than a dwelling, required off-street parking which due to the size or location cannot be provided on the premises may be provided on other property not more than five hundred feet (500') distant from the nearest point of the parcel, or for a use in a CC Commercial District, not more than six hundred feet (600') distant.

6.

Parking Areas, Development and Maintenance. Every parcel of land hereafter used as a public or private parking area, including a commercial parking lot and also an automobile, farm equipment, or other open-air sales lot, shall be developed and maintained in accordance with the following requirements:

a.

Public parking areas in all zones except Professional Business (PB), General Commercial (GC), Central Commercial (CC), and Light Industrial (LI) shall be separated from the property lines abutting streets by landscaped buffers of not less than four feet (4'). Public parking areas within ten feet (10') of residential uses shall be separated from property lines abutting residential uses by a screening fence.

Public parking areas in the Professional Business (PB), General Commercial (GC), Central Commercial (CC) and Light Industrial (LI) Zones shall be separated from the property lines abutting streets by landscaped buffers of not less than ten feet (10').

Public parking areas in the General Commercial (GC) and Light Industrial (LI) Zones shall be separated from property lines abutting residential districts by landscaped buffers of not less than ten feet (10'). Such landscape buffers shall include at least one (1) two inch (2") caliper tree for every thirty linear feet (30') of landscaping. Public parking areas abutting residential districts shall also be adequately screened for noise and air pollution. Such screening may include a solid wall as determined by the City.

At least ten (10) square feet of landscaping for each parking space shall be provided within off-street parking areas. Such landscaping shall be in addition to the required landscaped setback areas and consist of at least fifty percent (50%) live plant materials. The remaining fifty percent (50%) may include mineral or nonliving organic permeable material such as rock or bark mulch.

The landscaping requirements of this subsection shall apply to the development of a new parking area, the expansion of an existing parking area, or an existing parking area where the building which uses the parking area is being expanded by fifty percent (50%) or more.

b.

Parking areas shall be graded for proper drainage.

c.

Every parcel of land hereafter used as a public parking area shall be paved with an asphalt cement concrete or portland cement concrete surface; shall have appropriate bumper guards where needed; and shall be so arranged and marked as to provide the orderly and safe loading or unloading and parking and storage of vehicles.

d.

Lighting used to illuminate a parking area shall enhance the safe circulation of pedestrians and vehicles and reflect light away from any adjoining properties or uses. Lighting of pedestrian ways is recommended.

(Ord. 19-07-02, 7/2/2019)

1.

For every building or part thereof having a gross floor area of ten thousand (10,000) square feet or more, which is to be occupied by a commercial or industrial use, to or from which delivery of materials or merchandise are regularly made by motor vehicle, there shall be provided and maintained, on the same lot, with such building, at least one (1) off-street loading space plus one (1) for each additional twenty thousand (20,000) square feet or major fraction thereof.

2.

Each loading space shall be not less than fourteen feet (14') in width, twenty-five feet (25') in length, and fifteen feet (15') in height.

3.

Such space may occupy any required yard or court except that if it shall be located closer than fifty feet (50') to any lot in any R-District, it shall be enclosed by a brick or stone wall or landscaping not less than six feet (6') in height.

1.

Lanes for drive-through windows shall be at least twelve feet (12') wide.

2.

Garages for storage of automobiles and commercial parking lots shall be permitted in the CC Central Commercial District, as provided in KCC 17-20.

1.

Except as may be provided elsewhere in this Title, there shall be provided at the time of erection of any building or at the time any main building is enlarged or increased in capacity, minimum off-street parking space with adequate provisions for ingress and egress by standard-sized automobiles. If any land, structure, or use is changed from one use to another which requires more off-street parking spaces as specified in Subsection (2), there shall be provided such additional off-street parking for the new use as is required by this Chapter.

2.

Specific Requirement for Each Land Use. Required off-street parking shall be provided for each use as listed below. Requirements calculated on floor areas shall be based upon KCC 17-32-2(4). Parking for uses not specifically listed below shall be provided in the same ratio as the use most nearly approximating the characteristics of the unlisted use, as determined by the Planning Commission. Parking shall be provided as follows, with spaces based upon one (1) or a combination of uses listed:

TABLE OF PARKING LOT DIMENSIONS
(Letters refer to the diagram below)