Madison County Unincorporated
City Zoning Code
City Zoning Code
OFF-STREET PARKING
AND LOADING
§ 93.140 PURPOSE.
The purpose of this subchapter is to alleviate or prevent 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. For all buildings and structures erected in all land uses established after the effective date of this zoning code, accessory parking and loading facilities shall be provided as required by this zoning code. No part of an off-street parking area required for any building or use for the purpose of complying with this zoning code shall be included as a part of an off-street parking or loading space similarly required for another building use.
(Ord. 2014-18, passed 4-16-2014)
§ 93.141 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS.
(A) Accessory uses. No motor vehicle repair work shall be permitted in conjunction with accessory off-street parking lots or areas provided in a residence district for a commercial or industrial use. The sale of gasoline and motor oil when permitted, in conjunction with accessory off-street parking areas shall be located with respect to residential properties so as not to create a nuisance.
(B) Computation. When determination of the number of off-street parking spaces required by this zoning code results in a requirement of a fractional space any fraction of one-half or less may be disregarded, while a fraction of or in excess of one-half shall be counted as one parking space.
(C) Damage or destruction. For any conforming building or use which is in existence on the effective date of this zoning code which is damaged or destroyed by fire, explosion, or other similar cause and which is reconstructed, reestablished, or repaired, additional off-street parking or loading facilities need not be provided, except the parking or loading facilities equivalent to any maintained at the time of the damage or destruction shall be restored or continued in operation. However, in no case shall it be necessary to restore or maintain parking or loading facilities in excess of those required by this zoning code for equivalent new uses or construction.
(Ord. 2014-18, passed 4-16-2014)
§ 93.142 DESIGN STANDARDS.
(A) Access aisle and parking space requirements. Each off-street parking space shall not be less than ten feet wide and 20 feet long, or equivalent.
(1) Aisles. Interior-parking aisles permitting two-way traffic shall be a minimum of 22 feet in width. One way aisles in conjunction with 60-degree parking shall be a minimum of 18 feet in width. Plans for other aisle widths with other angle parking shall be as approved.
(2) Access to off-street parking areas in all residential zone districts. Access to off-street parking areas in all residential zone districts shall be a minimum of ten feet wide except, if a driveway is longer than 100 feet or serves more than the required parking for four dwelling units, the minimum width shall be 20 feet or 2 one-way driveways each ten feet wide may be provided in lieu of one 20-foot driveway.
(3) Access to off-street parking areas in all commercial and manufacturing zones. Access to off-street parking areas in all commercial and manufacturing zones shall be a minimum width of 24 feet or two separate driveways, each 12 feet wide.
(4) Spacing. The spacing of materials or items on a lot parking storage, or display shall be such that fire lanes are provided and, space between large items shall be adequate to provide readily available access to public safety personnel. Spacing arrangements shall be approved by the Zoning Administrator at the direction of the Building and Zoning Committee.
(B) Design standards, ingress, and egress. All parking areas in any multiple family, business, manufacturing, or similar zone district shall be designed or arranged so that no vehicle can have direct access to or egress from any off-street parking space from a public right-of-way. In any instance stated in this section, ingress to an egress from a parking space shall be from an aisle, driveway, or similar arrangement by forward motion of the vehicle.
(1) No access way or lane shall be within 30 feet of any corner formed by the intersection of the right-of traffic signal or stop sign exists, such entrance or exit shall be located at a distance and in a manner so as not to cause or increase traffic hazards or undue congestion.
(2) The alignments of access ways shall be at right angles and off-gets are not to exceed 20 degrees.
(C) Design standards, lot lines. All parking aisles and parking spaces shall be entirely within the lot lines and not on a public right-of way. Parking spaces and loading spaces shall be so arranged that no part of any vehicle overhangs the public right of way.
(D) Design standards, screening and landscaping. All open automobile parking lots serving a commercial, industrial, institutional, or similar use shall provide a landscaped screen, wall, or fence along those property boundaries abutting a residential district. Such landscaped screen, wall, or fence shall be maintained by the owner or lessee and a maintenance agreement shall be filed with the Zoning Administrator. Plans for the landscaping, wall or fence shall be approved.
(E) Setback. Where two lanes of off-street parking are provided between any building and a street, in order to accommodate pedestrian and vehicular traffic, the building shall be set back at least 75 feet from the lot line. A six-inch vertical curb or other approved device shall be provided to separate such off street parking areas from the public right of way. Similar parking in the rear of a building shall require a setback of at least 64 feet.
(Ord. 2014-18, passed 4-16-2014; Ord. 2024-01, passed 3-5-2024)
§ 93.143 SURFACING, PARKING, STORAGE AND DISPLAY AREAS.
(A) Any lot or lots used as a motor freight terminal or off-street parking, storage, and display areas shall be properly graded for drainage and maintained in good condition free from trash and debris.
(B) All properties including freight terminals, off-street parking lots, and storage and display areas which accommodates heavy trucks and other vehicles, such as restaurants, motels, service stations, etc. shall be surfaced with aggregate, bituminous, concrete or other similar materials and maintained in such manner that dust, if any, emanating from such use, shall be controlled and treated periodically so as not to become a nuisance to adjacent uses. Calcium chloride may be used as a dust abatement material.
(Ord. 2014-18, passed 4-16-2014)
§ 93.144 EXISTING PARKING; LOADING FACILITIES AND USES.
(A) 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 zoning code or were provided voluntarily after such effective date shall not hereafter further be reduced below, or if already less than, shall not further be reduced below the requirements of this zoning code for a similar new building or use. 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 herein for the new use. However, if the building or structure was erected before the effective date of this zoning code, 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 provision of this zoning code.
(B) When the intensity of use of any building, structure, or premises shall be increased through addition of dwelling units, gross floor area, seating capacity, or other units or measurements specified herein for required parking or loading facilities, parking and loading facilities as required herein shall be provided for the increase in intensity of use.
(Ord. 2014-18, passed 4-16-2014)
§ 93.145 JOINT PARKING FACILITIES.
Off-street parking facilities for different buildings, structures, or uses, or for mixed uses, may be provided collectively in any zoning district in which separate parking facilities for each constituent use would be permitted, provided that the total number of spaces so located together shall not be less than the sum of the separate requirements for each use.
(Ord. 2014-18, passed 4-16-2014)
§ 93.146 LOCATION OF OFF STREET PARKING FACILITIES.
(A) General; distances. 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 from a main entrance of the use served to the nearest point of the parking facility.
(B) For uses in residence districts. Parking spaces accessory to dwellings shall be located on the same zoning lot as the use served and may be located in any yards except required front yards but shall be permitted in the driveway. The private parking area shall be used solely for the parking of passenger automobiles or the vehicles owned or operated by the occupants of the dwelling structures. When two or more parking spaces are required there shall be an unobstructed parking space for each vehicle such as a double garage, double driveway, or separate parking stalls. In no instance shall a vehicle used, or designed to be used, as a commercial, governmental, or other business type purpose, exceeding one-ton capacity be parked in a residential area, except for normal loading, unloading, or service, except by a special use permit. A special use permit shall be required for a parking lot that serves an adjacent commercial or related use, or a commercial use on a lot across the street but not more than 200 linear feet from the use served. This use shall meet the requirements of §§ 93.162 and 93.178.
(C) For uses in business and manufacturing districts. All required parking spaces shall be within 1,000 feet of the use served, except that spaces accessory to dwelling units (other than those located in a transient hotel) shall be within 300 feet of the use served. However, no parking spaces accessory to a use in a business or manufacturing district shall be located in a residence district, except that private, free, and off-street parking accessory to such uses, may be allowed by special use permit within 500 feet of an adjacent to any business or manufacturing district.
(D) Off-site parking facilities. When required parking facilities are provided on land other than the zoning lot on which the building or use served by such facilities is located, they shall be and remain in the same possession or ownership as the zoning lot occupied by the building or use to which the parking facilities are accessory. No off-site parking facilities shall be authorized and no building permit shall be issued where the plans call for parking facilities other than on the same zoning lot until and unless the Zoning Administrator has reviewed the plans, and heard the applicant, and made findings that the common ownership or possession of the zoning lot and 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 use or building.
(E) Other uses, parking. For uses not listed in this schedule of parking requirements, parking spaces shall be provided on the same basis as required for the most similar listed use as determined by the Zoning Administrator and as approved by the Building and Zoning Committee.
(Ord. 2014-18, passed 4-16-2014; Ord. 2024-01, passed 3-5-2024)
§ 93.147 PARKING SPACES REQUIRED.
(A) For the following uses accessory off-street parking spaces shall be provided as required hereinafter. 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 one time. When employee parking is required, it shall be provided on the basis of one space for each one and one-half employees.
Types of Uses | Number of Spaces |
Types of Uses | Number of Spaces |
Residential, Civic, Educational, Institutional | |
Apartments, hotels | Two for each dwelling unit same as apartments. Employee parking required. |
Churches and auditoriums | One per four seats for the largest seating area. |
Elementary and Junior High Schools | One per 500 square feet of classroom area. Employee parking required. |
Libraries and Museums | One for each 500 square feet of total floor area. |
Lodging houses | One for each dwelling unit or lodging room; two for the owner or manager. Employee parking required. |
Mobile home park or court | Two for each mobile home. |
Multiple-family dwelling; two bedrooms and above | Two for each dwelling unit. |
Multiple-family efficiency and multi-family one bedroom | One and a half per dwelling unit. |
Municipal buildings | Municipal buildings |
Private clubs, lodges, and dormitories with sleeping facilities for guests | One for each lodging room: in dormitories, each 100 square feet shall be considered equivalent to a lodging room. |
Senior high school | One for each 200 square feet of classroom area. Employee parking required. |
Single-family dwelling | Two for each dwelling unit. |
Two-family dwelling | Two for each dwelling unit. |
Retail and Services Uses | |
Automobile car wash | On review. |
Automobile service stations | On review. |
Banks | On review. |
Bowling alleys | Four parking spaces shall be provided for each alley, plus additional spaces as maybe required herein for affiliated uses - bar, restaurant, and the like. |
Drive-in restaurants | On review. |
Furniture and appliances stores, household equipment or furniture repair stores | Three times the net retail floor area in square feet. |
Home occupations | Two spaces for each 200 square feet of floor space utilized in addition to the parking requirements of the dwelling units. |
Motor vehicle sales and machinery sales | Employee parking required. Customer parking on review. |
Municipal or privately owned recreation building or community centers | On review. |
Restaurants/taverns | One parking spot shall be provided for each five seats, or for each 50 square feet of floor area used for assembly or seating purposes, whichever gives the greater number of spaces. |
Retails stores, freestanding | One parking spot shall be provided for each 200 square feet of floor area. |
Shopping centers and combined commercial, or service use | Five and one-half spaces per 100 square feet of gross leasable area. |
Theaters (indoor) and stage | One parking space shall be provided for each four seats. |
Theater, automobile drive-in | At least ten stacking spaces or at least 8 for each entrance at the ticket booth. |
Undertaking establishments, funeral parlors | Ten parking spaces shall be provided for each chapel or parlor, or one space for each five seats, whichever is greater, plus one parking spot for each funeral vehicle kept on the premises. Employee parking required. |
Office Uses | |
Business, professional, governmental offices | Three parking spaces shall be provided for each 1,000 sq. ft. of floor area plus one space for each company or business vehicle. |
Industrial Uses | |
Industrial uses of all types, except warehousing and transportation terminals, less than 250,000 sq. ft. of gross area: | |
Company vehicles | One parking space to accommodate each company owned or leased |
Employee parking | One parking space per one and one-half employees on maximum shift or not less than one parking space for each 500 square feet of gross floor area; when more than one shift is employed, parking for both shifts hall be provided, unless sufficient time is allowed between shifts to provide for the maximum use of required parking. |
Visitor parking | One parking space for each 25 employees on main shift, with a minimum of two parking spaces and a maximum of 20 required visitor parking spaces. |
Industrial uses of all types, except warehousing and transportation terminals, more than 250,000 sq. ft. of gross area: | |
Company vehicles | One parking space to accommodate each company owned truck or vehicle usually found on the premises; size of parking shall be approved by the Zoning Administrator. |
Employee parking | One parking space per one and one-half employees on site at maximum shift, or not less than one for each 500 square feet; then one parking space for each 1,000 square feet of floor area. |
Visitor parking | One parking space for each 25 employees on main shift, with a minimum of two parking spaces and maximum of 20 required visitor parking spaces. |
Transportation or trucking yard terminals: | |
Company vehicles | One parking space to accommodate each company owned truck or vehicle usually found on the premises; size of parking shall be approved by the Zoning Administrator. |
Employee parking | One parking space for each 1,000 square feet of warehousing, shop area, or loading area and one parking space for each driver of a company vehicle, which is dispatched from the terminal. |
(Ord. 2014-18, passed 4-16-2014)
§ 93.148 OFF-STREET LOADING.
(A) Designation; vehicular access. Each required off-street loading space shall be designed with appropriate means of vehicular access to a street or alley in manner, which will least, interfere with traffic movements. Such access way shall be at least 12 feet in width.
(B) Below minimum floor area. Uses for which off-street loading facilities are required therein but which are located in buildings of less floor area than the minimum for which such facilities are required shall be provided with adequate receiving facilities as determined by the Zoning Administrator.
(C) Buffer strips. Loading space for vehicles more than two ton capacity shall not be closer than 50 feet to any property in a residential district unless completely enclosed by building walls, a solid fence, wall or foliage buffer not less than ten feet in height and width.
(D) Location. All permitted or required loading spaces shall be located on the same zoning lot as the use served, shall not be located within 50 feet of the intersection of any two streets, and shall not be located within required front yards.
(E) Not for parking. Space allocated to any off-street loading berth shall not, while so allocated, be used to satisfy the space requirements for any off-street parking facilities or portions thereof.
(F) Size. Unless otherwise specified, a required loading space shall be at least ten feet in width by at least 25 feet in length and shall have a vertical clearance of at least 14 feet, or as determined by the Zoning Administrator such greater distances as are needed to accommodate vehicles so that no vehicle overhangs into the public right-of-way or interferes with internal circulation. Reasonably adequate turning and maneuvering space shall be provided in addition to the minimum size loading berth requirements.
(G) Repair and service. No motor vehicle repair work or service of any kind shall be permitted in conjunction with loading facilities provided in any R Residence District.
(H) Special use, other uses. For special uses and uses other than prescribed in this zoning code, loading spaces, adequate in number and size to serve such use, as determined by the Zoning Administrator and approved by the Building and Zoning Committee shall be provided.
(I) Surfacing. All open off-street loading space shall be improved with a compacted stone base, not less than seven inches thick, surfaced with not less than two inches of bituminous concrete or some comparable material with comparable construction.
(Ord. 2014-18, passed 4-16-2014; Ord. 2024-01, passed 3-5-2024)
§ 93.149 LOADING SPACES REQUIRED.
For the uses listed in the following table, off-street loading space shall be provided on the basis of gross floor area of building or portions thereof devoted to such uses in the amounts shown herein.
Total Square Feet of Gross Floor Area per Building | Loading Spaces Required |
Total Square Feet of Gross Floor Area per Building | Loading Spaces Required |
Commercial office and industrial uses to 2,999 (see § 93.148(B)): | One |
3,000 to 19,999 | One |
20,000 to 49,999 | Two |
50,000 to 100,000 | Three |
Above 100,000 | On review |
Hospitals, institutions, and similar uses: | |
To 9,999 (see § 93.148(B)) | |
10,000 to 49,999 | One |
50,000 to 100,000 | Two |
Above 100,000 | On review |
(Ord. 2014-18, passed 4-16-2014)