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Lewiston City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 11

PARKING AND LOADING SPACE

10-11-1: OFF STREET PARKING REQUIRED:

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 of ingress and egress by standard sized automobiles as hereinafter provided. (Ord. 18-01, 1-16-2018)

10-11-2: PARKING SPACE FOR DWELLINGS:

In all zones there shall be provided in a private garage, or in an area properly located for a future garage, a hard surfaced space for the parking of one automobile for the first six hundred (600) square feet or fraction thereof of gross floor area in a new dwelling, plus one extra parking space for each additional eight hundred (800) square feet or fraction thereof, plus one additional parking space for each six hundred (600) square feet of such space added in the case of the enlargement of an existing building. In no case shall there be less than one such parking space nor more than three (3) such parking spaces required for each dwelling unit. There shall be no change of use without the attendant space to accommodate the increased off street parking needs. A minimum parking space shall be at least nine feet by twenty feet (9' x 20'). (Ord. 18-01, 1-16-2018)

10-11-3: PARKING SPACE FOR BUILDINGS OR USES OTHER THAN DWELLINGS:

   A.   For a new building, or for any enlargement or increase in seating capacity, floor area or guest rooms of any existing main building, there shall be at least one permanently maintained parking space of not less than one hundred eighty (180) square feet net area (9' x 20') as follows:
      1.   For church, school, college and university auditoriums and theaters, general auditoriums, stadiums and other similar places of assembly, at least one parking space for every five (5) fixed seats provided in said buildings or structures.
      2.   For hospitals, at least one parking space for each two (2) beds, including infants' cribs and children's beds. For medical and dental clinics, at least fifteen (15) parking spaces; provided, that three (3) additional parking spaces shall be provided for each doctor or dentist having offices in such clinic in excess of three (3) doctors or dentists.
      3.   For tourists courts and apartment motels, at least one parking space for each individual sleeping or living unit; for hotels and apartment hotels, at least one parking space for each two (2) sleeping rooms up to and including the first twenty (20) sleeping rooms, and one parking space for each three (3) sleeping rooms over twenty (20) sleeping rooms.
      4.   For boarding houses, lodging houses, dormitories, fraternities or sororities, at least one parking space for every one and one- half (11/2) persons for whose accommodation the building is designed or used.
      5.   For restaurants or establishments that serve meals, lunches or drinks to patrons either in their cars or in the building, for retail stores selling directly to the public, and recreational places of assembly, at least one space for each one hundred (100) square feet of floor space in the building, and one space for each two (2) employees working on the highest employment shift, or five (5) parking spaces, whichever requirement is the greater.
      6.   For mortuaries, at least thirty (30) parking spaces; for liquor stores, at least twenty (20) parking spaces.
      7.   For all business or industrial uses not listed above, not providing customer services on the premises, one parking space for each two (2) employees working on the highest employment shift.
   B.   In no case shall a building be constructed, altered or increased where, if the foregoing parking provisions are inadequate to provide sufficient spaces for all employees and customers combined, the provision of adequate parking spaces shall supersede any and all foregoing formulas. (Ord. 18-01, 1-16-2018)

10-11-4: LOCATION OF PARKING SPACE:

Parking space as required above shall be on the same lot with the main building or, in the case of buildings other than dwellings, may be located not farther than five hundred feet (500') therefrom. (Ord. 18-01, 1-16-2018)

10-11-5: PARKING LOT REGULATIONS:

Every parcel of land hereafter used as a parking lot shall be paved with a surfacing material of oil, asphalt or concrete composition and shall have appropriate bumper guards where needed as determined by the building inspector. Any lights used to illuminate the lot shall be so arranged as to reflect the light away from adjoining premises in any residential zone. (Ord. 18-01, 1-16-2018)

10-11-6: OFF STREET TRUCK LOADING SPACE:

On the same premises with every building, structure or part thereof, erected and occupied or increased in capacity after the effective date hereof, for manufacturing, storage, warehouse, goods display, department store, grocery, hotel, hospital, mortuary, laundry, dry cleaning or other use similarly involving the receipt or distribution by vehicle of materials or merchandise, there shall be provided and maintained on the lot adequate space for standing, loading and unloading services in order to avoid undue interference with public use of streets, or alleys. (Ord. 18-01, 1-16-2018)