A.   Regulation: Off street parking and loading spaces conforming to the provisions of this title shall be provided in all zoning districts and subdistricts, when a building or structure is constructed, erected or enlarged, when the capacity of a building or structure is increased or when the use of a building or structure is changed.

   B.   Distance For Private Off Street Parking: The required off street parking location shall be located not more than the following distances measured along the sidewalk or a walkway available for public use from the primary entrance of the premises to the nearest entrance of the parking lot:

      1.   For retail or commercial customer parking, medical-dental clinics, religious facilities, restaurants, bars, entertainment facilities and residential use, three hundred fifty feet (350').

      2.   Employee parking for uses stated in subsection B1 of this section, five hundred feet (500').

   C.   Common Facilities For Joint And Mixed Uses: Joint or mixed use of off street parking facilities shall be as follows:

      1.   Mixed Uses: Total requirements for off street parking spaces shall be the sum of the requirements for various uses.

      2.   Joint Uses: The joint use of off street parking facilities is allowed provided:

         a.   The applicant shows that there is no substantial conflict in the principal operating hours of the building, structure or use for which the joint use of parking facilities is proposed;

         b.   The parking facility for such proposed joint use is not farther than three hundred fifty feet (350') for customers and five hundred feet (500') for employees from the building, structure or use required to provide off street parking; and

         c.   The parties concerned in the joint use of off street parking facilities shall submit a written agreement in a form to be recorded for such joint use, approved by the city attorney as to form and content and such agreement, when approved as conforming to the provisions of this chapter, shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder.

   D.   Commercial Or Manufacturing Uses: In addition to any off street parking required herein, all commercial or manufacturing uses in the RP or LI zoning districts and subdistricts shall provide adequate off street loading and unloading areas. As a minimum, any building over ten thousand (10,000) square feet shall provide one off street loading space which shall not measure less than forty feet by twelve feet (40' x 12') and shall have an unobstructed height of fourteen feet six inches (14'6") and shall be made permanently available for such purposes and shall be surfaced, improved and maintained as required in subsection 17.11.040B of this title. Additional spaces meeting the same standards may be required by the council upon recommendations of the administrator. Maneuvering for loading and unloading on public right of way, excluding alleys, shall be prohibited for buildings constructed after the adoption date hereof.

   E.   Insufficient Width: Whenever any developer is allowed by the council to plat, map or construct a public or private trafficway without sufficient width for on street parking, the adjacent property shall provide, in addition to the off street parking requirements of this chapter, off street parking equal to the amount of on street parking so eliminated. (Ord. 542, 2007)

   A.   Whenever off street parking is required by this code a parking layout drawing shall be submitted to and approved by the city engineer. The layout shall show a sketch of all parking spaces, access aisles, entrances to the site and exits from the site drawn to scale and the dimensions of each item shown and shall indicate all information necessary to determine the employee and customer parking requirements. The entrances to and/or exits from the parking site shall conform to the requirements of this code for driveway approaches. Parking spaces shall have a minimum size of nine feet by twenty feet (9' x 20'), or if parallel to the access aisle, nine feet by twenty three feet (9' x 23'), or if compact car space, seven feet six inches by fifteen feet (7'6" x 15') or if parallel to access aisle, seven feet six inches by eighteen feet (7'6" x 18').

   B.   Backing a vehicle from an off street parking space directly into a public trafficway creates a traffic hazard. Parking layouts requiring this maneuver shall not be approved by the city engineer except for residential uses exiting onto a local trafficway of low traffic volume. (Ord. 542, 2007)

   A.   Minimum Number Of Spaces: Whenever off street parking is required by this title the minimum number of off street parking spaces to be provided shall be as follows except in the parking overlay districts:

      REQUIRED NUMBER OF SPACES

 

   B.   Floor And Display Areas: For the purposes of this section, "floor area" shall mean the sum of the areas of each building story. The dimensions used to calculate the area of each building story shall be measured to the outside face of all exterior walls excluding architectural features. "Floor and display area" shall mean the floor area plus any area outside the building used to display merchandise.

   C.   Staff Determination: The planning administrator shall determine parking space requirements for a use not specifically provided by this chapter, but the space shall be the same as a use which has similar traffic generating characteristics.

   D.   Compact Car Spaces: An allowance of thirty five percent (35%) of the total number of spaces required may be identified and used as compact car spaces. These spaces shall be conveniently located and provided with adequate above grade signage.

Except as otherwise approved by the city engineer for special conditions, parking aisles and access aisles shall have a minimum width for various parking angles as shown in the following chart:

            MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR PARKING LOT DESIGN

 

            MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR COMPACT VEHICLES

 

 

(Ord. 542, 2007)

The purpose of the parking overlay districts is established to accommodate the need for off street parking development alternatives in accordance with traffic patterns, ultimate densities and coordinated use of lands within the city. It is intended that the respective districts with which the parking district is combined shall have requirements particular to the land and uses that warrant off street parking variables to be applied.

The following regulations of this chapter shall apply to all land classified as a "parking district" (P). All uses are subject to the provisions of those districts. If any of the regulations specified in this section differ from corresponding regulations specified for a district with which the P district is combined, then the regulations of this district shall govern. (Ord. 542, 2007)