Lee County Unincorporated
City Zoning Code
City Zoning Code
CHAPTER 11
PARKING AND LOADING
10-11-1: REQUIREMENTS:
General parking and loading requirements are set out in this section and shall control except to the extent inconsistent with this chapter. To the extent a particular use is not described in this section, the zoning administrator may make a determination as to the required parking, off street parking or loading by referring to the SIC codes on file in the county planning office and incorporated herein by reference, and applying the parking requirements applicable to similar uses under the same SIC code.
A. Parking Standards: These parking standards supplement the text requirements of this chapter. The requirements set out herein are cumulative and not in the alternative.
Use Type | Use | Parking Space Required |
Use Type | Use | Parking Space Required |
Commercial and office uses | Automobile and trailer sales | 1 space per 600 square feet of gross floor area |
Automobile laundry | 30 stacking spaces per wash rack; 1 space per employee | |
Automobile service stations | 1 space per employee; 2 spaces per service bay | |
Bowling alleys | 4 spaces per alley; additional spaces as required for ancillary uses | |
Food service establishments | 1 space per 200 square feet of gross floor area | |
Funeral homes | 10 spaces for each chapel or parlor; 1 space per funeral vehicle on site | |
Furniture or appliance stores, household equipment or furniture repair shops | 1 space per 600 square feet of gross floor area | |
Manufacturing, assembly, production, processing, cleaning, servicing, testing or repair of materials, goods or products | 1 space for each 2 employees; 1 space for each vehicle used in the business; 1 space per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area for guest parking | |
Office and professional office | 1 space per 100 square feet of gross floor area | |
Retail stores and banks | 1 space per 200 square feet of gross floor area; 10 stacking spaces per teller or drive-in window at banks or other drive-ins | |
Theaters, indoor | 1 space for each 3 seats | |
Wholesale (excluding warehousing and storage) | 1 space per 600 square feet of gross floor area in excess of 4,000 square feet | |
Community services uses | Church, school, college and other institutional auditoriums | 1 space for each 3 auditorium seats; adequate bus parking; loading and unloading facilities on site |
Colleges, universities and business, professional and trade schools | 1 space per employee; 1 space per 4 students (based on maximum number of students attending classes at any one time during any 24 hour period) | |
Hospitals | 1 space for each 2 hospital beds; 1 space per employee; 1 space for each staff doctor | |
Libraries, art galleries, museums | 1 space per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area | |
Medical clinics and healthcare facilities | 1 space per employee or doctor; 1 space per 200 square feet of gross floor area | |
Public or private community centers or recreational buildings | 1 space per each 2 employees; adequate spaces to serve the public as determined by the zoning administrator | |
Public utility and public service uses | 1 space per employee; adequate spaces to serve the public as determined by the zoning administrator | |
Discretionary parking standards | For the following uses spaces shall be determined by the zoning administrator taking into consideration the needs of the public, the number of employees and visitors and any other persons residing on the property. Any decision of the zoning administrator can be appealed in the manner provided in subsection 10-2B-2B of this title: | |
Adult entertainment establishment | ||
Airports, aircraft landing areas, heliports | ||
Convents and monasteries | ||
Crematories and mausoleum | ||
Fraternal or religious institutions | ||
Outdoor amusements establishments | ||
Outdoor amusements establishments, fairgrounds, carnivals, kiddie parks, and other such uses, temporary or permanent | ||
Penal or correctional institutions | ||
Public swimming pools | ||
Rectories or parish houses | ||
Miscellaneous uses | Fraternities, sororities and dormitories | 1 space per employee; 1 space for each 3 residents |
Institutional buildings | 1 space per employee; 1 space per doctor or other professional; 1 space for each 4 beds | |
Nursing homes | 1 space per employee; 1 space for each staff doctor; 1 space for each 4 beds | |
Private clubs and lodges (nonresidential) | Spaces equal to 25 percent of the capacity in persons | |
Theaters, drive-in | Reservoir spaces equal to 10 percent of the automobile capacity of the facility | |
Places of assembly | Stadiums, arenas, auditoriums (other than church, college or institutional schools), dance halls, exhibition halls, skating rinks, convention halls and other similar places of assembly | Spaces equal to 20 percent of the capacity in persons |
Residential uses | Club or lodge, private | 1 space per dwelling/unit; 1 space per employee |
Hotel or boarding house | 1 space per dwelling/unit; 1 space for staff | |
One- and two-family dwellings | 2 spaces per dwelling/unit | |
Schools, public or private | Auditoriums, gymnasiums and similar uses | Spaces equal to 20 percent of the capacity in persons |
Elementary or junior high school | 1 space per employee; 1 space for each 10 students (based upon 30 students per classroom); 1 space for each motor vehicle used in the conduct of the school | |
High schools | 1 space per employee; 1 space for each 5 students; 1 space for each motor vehicle used in the conduct of the school | |
Nursery school | 1 space per employee; 3 spaces for visitors; 1 space for each motor vehicle used in the conduct of the school | |
B. Loading Requirements: These loading standards supplement the text requirements of this chapter. The requirements set out herein are cumulative and not in the alternative.
Use | Gross Floor Area In Square Feet | Required Number/Minimum Horizontal Dimensions Of Berths |
Use | Gross Floor Area In Square Feet | Required Number/Minimum Horizontal Dimensions Of Berths |
Auditoriums, convention halls, exhibition halls, sports arenas, stadiums | 10,000 to 20,000 20,000 to 100,000 | 1 - 12' x 30' 1 - 12' x 60' |
Banks and offices, business, professional and governmental | 10,000 to 100,000 For each additional 100,000 or fraction thereof, to 500,000 For each additional 500,000 or fraction thereof | 1 - 12' x 30' 1 additional 12' x 30' 1 additional 12'x 30' |
Bowling alleys | For each additional 100,000 or fraction thereof | 1 additional 12' x 60' |
Establishments engaged in production, processing, cleaning, servicing, or repair of materials, goods or products | 5,000 to 10,000 10,000 to 40,000 40,000 to 100,000 | 1 - 12' x 30' 1 - 12' x 60' 2 - 12' x 60' |
Food service establishments | 10,000 to 25,000 25,000 to 40,000 | 2 - 12' x 30' 2 - 12' x 60' |
Hospitals, nursing homes and other institutional uses | 10,000 to 200,000 | 1 - 12' x 30' |
Hotels, clubs and lodges (in addition to requirements below) | For each additional 200,000 or fraction thereof | 1 additional 12' x 30' |
Hotels, clubs and lodges, when containing any of the following: retail shops, convention halls, business or professional offices (other than accessory auditoriums or exhibition halls) | 10,000 to 20,000 20,000 to 150,000 For each additional 150,000 or fraction thereof | 1 - 12' x 30' 1 - 12' x 60' 1 additional 12' x 60' |
Motor vehicle and machinery sales | 40,000 to 100,000 | 3 - 12' x 60' |
Retail stores | 5,000 to 10,000 | 1 - 12' x 30' |
Theaters | 8,000 to 25,000 For each additional 50,000 or fraction thereof | 1 - 12' x 30' 1 additional 12' x 30' |
Warehouse and storage buildings | For each additional 100,000 or fraction thereof | 1 additional 12' x 60' |
Wholesale establishments (but not including warehouse and storage buildings other than accessory) | For each additional 200,000 or fraction thereof | 1 additional 12' x 60' |
C. Off Street Parking Design Requirements:
1. Screening: Five feet (5') minimum height (see chapter 13 of this title).
2. Lighting: Directed inward (see section 10-15-1 of this title).
3. Surface: All weather (see definition of parking space).
4. Landscaping: Landscaping shall be provided within all open parking lots containing twenty (20) or more parking spaces. Parking lot plantings should divide spaces, create shade and reduce glare and heat from pavement surfaces.
5. Each parking row, regardless of length, begins and ends with a landscape island constructed with barrier curbs. Landscape islands shall maintain a thirty inch (30") clear area measured from face of curb to vehicular overhang. Clear area may be sodded or be a permanent surface carriage walk. (Ord. 06-05-002, 6-21-2005; amd. Ord. 2025-05-006, 5-22-2025)
10-11-2: ADDITIONAL PARKING REGULATIONS:
A. Use Of Parking Facilities: Off street parking facilities accessory to residential use and existing in any residential district shall be used solely for the parking of passenger automobiles and not more than one light duty truck used by occupants of the dwellings to which such parking facilities are accessory. Under no circumstances shall required parking facilities accessory to residential dwellings be used for the storage of commercial motor vehicles or for the parking of motor vehicles belonging to the employees, owners, tenants, visitors or customers of office, commercial or industrial establishments.
B. Joint Parking Facilities: Off street parking facilities for different buildings, structures or uses, or for mixed uses, may be provided collectively in any district in which separate parking facilities for each constituent use would be permitted, provided that the total number of spaces located together shall not be less than the sum of the separate requirements for each use.
C. Computation: When the required number of off street parking spaces results in a fractional space, any fraction of less than one-half (1/2) shall be disregarded while a fraction in excess of one-half (1/2) shall be counted as one parking space.
D. Open And Enclosed Parking Spaces: Accessory parking spaces may be open to the sky or enclosed in a building or structure. Accessory parking spaces located in a residential district other than on the same lot occupied by the use served shall be open to the sky except when otherwise allowed as a special use.
E. Surfacing: All open off street parking areas shall be improved in accordance with the provisions of title 11 of this code. (Ord. 06-05-002, 6-21-2005; amd. Ord. 2025-05-006, 5-22-2025)
10-11-3: LOCATION OF ACCESSORY PARKING:
The location of off street parking spaces in relation to the use served shall be regulated as follows. All distances specified are walking distances as measured between such parking spaces and the main entrance to the use served along public sidewalks or roadways.
A. For Uses In A Residential District: Parking spaces accessory to dwellings shall be located on the same lot as the use served.
B. For Uses In Office, Commercial And Industrial Districts: All required parking spaces shall be within one thousand feet (1,000') of the use served, except for spaces accessory to dwelling units (except those located in a hotel or boarding house, which shall be within three hundred (300) feet of the use served). No parking spaces accessory to a use in an office, commercial or industrial district shall be located in a residential district, except that private, free off street parking accessory to such uses may be allowed by temporary or special use permit in any residential district within two hundred feet (200') of and adjacent to any office, commercial or industrial use. (Ord. 06-05-002, 6-21-2005; amd. Ord. 2025-05-006, 5-22-2025)
10-11-4: OFF STREET PARKING AND LOADING REQUIREMENTS:
A. Scope Of Regulations: The off street parking and loading provisions shall apply as follows:
1. For all buildings and structures erected and all uses of property established after the effective date hereof, accessory parking and loading facilities shall be provided as required herein or in section 10-11-1 of this chapter.
2. When the intensity of use of any building, structure or premises shall be increased through addition of dwelling units, gross floor area, seating capacity (eighteen (18) inches per seat), or other units of measurement specified herein, additional parking or loading facilities as required herein shall be provided for such increase in intensity of use.
3. Whenever the existing use of a building or structure shall hereafter be changed to a new use, parking or loading facilities shall be provided as required for such new use.
4. If the building or structure was constructed, or the use was in effect, prior to the effective date hereof, additional parking or loading facilities required under sections 10-11-2 and 10-11-3 of this chapter shall only be required to the extent that such additional requirements exceed fifteen percent (15%) of the parking and loading requirements in effect as of the effective date hereof.
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 hereof, or were provided voluntarily after such effective date shall not hereafter be reduced below, or if already less than, shall not further be reduced below, the requirements of this zoning ordinance for a similar new building or use.
C. Permissive Parking And Loading Facilities: The voluntary establishment of off street parking or loading facilities to serve any existing use of property or buildings is encouraged, provided that all regulations set out in this title or title 11 of this code governing the location, design, improvement and operation of such facilities are adhered to.
D. Damage And Destruction: For any conforming or legally nonconforming building or use which is in existence on the effective date hereof, which subsequent hereto is damaged or destroyed by fire, collapse, explosion or other cause, and which is reconstructed, reestablished or repaired, off street parking or loading facilities need not be provided, except that parking or loading facilities equivalent to any maintained at the time of such damage or destruction shall be restored or continued in operation. In no case, however, shall it be necessary to restore or maintain parking or loading facilities in excess of those required by this title for equivalent new construction or a new use.
E. Control Of Off Site Parking Facilities: When required parking facilities are provided on property other than the lot on which the building or use served by such facilities is located, they shall be and remain in the same ownership or possession as the lot occupied by the building or use to which the parking facilities are accessory. No such off site parking facilities shall be authorized and no occupancy permit shall be issued for any building or structural alteration where the plans call for parking other than on the same lot until and unless the zoning hearing officer has reviewed the plans, held a hearing and has made findings that the common ownership or possession of the lot, and that the site of the parking facilities, are reasonably certain to continue, and that the off site parking facilities will be maintained, at all times during the life of the proposed building or use.
F. Submission Of Sketch Plan: Any application for a building permit, or for a certificate of occupancy where no building permit is required, shall include therewith a sketch plan (drawn to scale and fully dimensioned) depicting any parking or loading facilities provided in compliance with this title and title 11 of this code. Any such sketch plan shall indicate access to the area and traffic patterns in the adjoining roadways and alleys. (Ord. 06-05-002, 6-21-2005; amd. Ord. 2025-05-006, 5-22-2025)