The purpose of this subchapter is to alleviate or prevent the congestion of the public streets and to promote the safety and welfare of the public by establishing minimum requirements for the off-street parking and loading and unloading of motor vehicles in accordance with the use to which property is put.

(1983 Code, § 9-10-1) (Ord. 09-07, passed 9-8-2009)

      (1)   For all buildings and structures erected and all uses of land established after the effective date of this subchapter, accessory parking and loading facilities shall be provided as required by the regulations and the district in which the building or uses are located; however, where a permit has been issued prior to the effective date of this subchapter, and provided that construction has begun within 90 days of the effective date, and completed within a year, parking and loading facilities as required hereinafter need not be provided.

      (2)   When the intensity of use of any building, structure or premises shall be increased through the addition of dwelling units, gross floor area, seating capacity or other units of measurement specified herein for required parking or loading facilities, parking and loading facilities as required herein shall be provided for such increase in the intensity of use.

      (3)   No building or structure lawfully erected or use lawfully established prior to the effective date of this subchapter shall be required to provide such additional parking or loading facilities, unless and until the aggregate increase in units of measurement shall equal not less than 15% of the units of measurement existing upon the effective date of this subchapter, in which event parking or loading facilities are required shall be provided for the total increase.

      (4)   Whenever the existing use of a building or structure shall be changed hereafter to a new use, parking and loading facilities shall be provided as required for the new use. If the building or structure was erected prior to the effective date of this subchapter, additional parking or loading facilities are mandatory only in the amount by which the requirements for the new use would exceed those for the existing use if the latter were subject to the parking and loading provisions of this subchapter.

   (B)   Existing parking and loading facilities. Accessory off-street parking or loading facilities which are located on the same lot as the building or use served and which were in existence on the effective date of this subchapter or were provided voluntarily after the effective date shall not hereafter be reduced below, or if already less than, shall not further be reduced below, the requirements of this subchapter for a similar new building or use.

(1983 Code, § 9-10-2) (Ord. 09-07, passed 9-8-2009)

      (1)   A required off-street parking space shall be at least nine feet in width and at least 20 feet in length, exclusive of access drives or aisles, ramps, columns or office or work areas. The space shall have a vertical clearance of at least seven feet.

      (2)   Aisle widths shall be less than the following, perpendicular parking 20 feet; angle parking two-way traffic 16 feet, one-way 12 feet.

(1983 Code, § 9-10-3) (Ord. 09-07, passed 9-8-2009)

      (1)   No motor vehicle repair work of any kind shall be permitted in conjunction with accessory open off-street parking facilities provided in a residence district, except when approved as part of a planned development.

      (2)   The sale of gasoline and motor oil in conjunction with accessory off-street parking facilities is not permitted in any residence district.

(1983 Code, § 9-10-4) (Ord. 09-07, passed 9-8-2009)

   The location of off-street parking spaces in relation to the use served shall be as prescribed hereinafter. All distances specified shall be walking distances between the parking spaces and main entrance to the use served.

(1983 Code, § 9-10-5) (Ord. 09-07, passed 9-8-2009)

   For the following uses, accessory off-street parking shall be provided as required hereinafter. If the use falls under division (B)(1) below ("retail stores and banks"), on-street parking within one block of the premises may be used to satisfy the accessory off-street parking requirements. Parking spaces required on an employee basis shall be based on the maximum number of employees on duty, or residing, or both, on the premises at any one time.

      (9)   Undertaking establishments, funeral parlors. Twenty parking spaces shall be provided for each chapel or parlor plus one parking space for each funeral vehicle kept on the premises; in addition there shall be provided stacking space for not less than ten automobiles for funeral processional assembly.

      (1)   Airports or aircraft landing fields; heliports;

      (2)   Convents and monasteries;

      (3)   Crematoriums and mausoleums;

      (4)   Fraternal or religious institution;

      (5)   Outdoor amusement establishments - fairgrounds, permanent carnivals, kiddie parks and other similar amusement centers;

      (6)   Penal and correctional institutions;

      (7)   Rectories and parish houses; and

      (8)   Swimming pools.

   (F)   Mixed uses. When two or more uses are located on the same zoning lot within the same building, parking spaces equal in number to the sum of the separate requirements for each use shall be provided. No parking space or portion thereof shall serve as a required space for more than one use unless otherwise authorized by the Planning and Zoning Commission.

      (1)   Space allocated to any off-street berth shall not, while so allocated, be used to satisfy the space requirements for any off-street parking facilities or portions thereof.

      (2)   For special exceptions other than prescribed for hereinafter, loading berths adequate in number and size to serve the uses, as determined by the Zoning Administrator, shall be provided.

      (3)   Uses for which off-street loading facilities are required herein but which are located in buildings of less floor area than the minimum prescribed for such required facilities shall be provided with adequate receiving facilities off any adjacent alley, service drive or open space on the same lot which is accessible by motor vehicle.

(1983 Code, § 9-10-7) (Ord. 09-07, passed 9-8-2009)

   For the uses listed in this Schedule of Loading Requirements table, off-street loading berths shall be provided on the basis of gross floor area of buildings or portions thereof devoted as such uses in the amounts shown herein.

 

 

(1983 Code, § 9-10-8) (Ord. 532, passed 5-14-1974; Ord. 09-07, passed 9-8-2009)