The purpose of this section of the zoning ordinance is to alleviate or prevent congestion of the public streets, and so 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.

SECTION 9.2-1 Procedure. An application for a building permit for a new or enlarged building, structure or use, shall include therewith a plat plan, drawn to scale, and fully dimensioned, showing any parking or loading facilities to be provided in compliance with the requirements of this ordinance.

SECTION 9.2-2 Extent of Control. The off-street parking and loading requirements of this ordinance shall apply as follows:

A.

All buildings and structures erected or enlarged and land uses initiated after the effective date of this ordinance shall provide accessory off-street parking or loading facilities as required hereinafter for the use thereof, except that a building or structure for which a building permit has been issued prior to the effective date of this ordinance shall not be required to furnish parking or loading facilities if construction is begun thereon within six months of the effective date of this ordinance and diligently prosecuted to completion.

B.

When a building or structure erected or enlarged prior to or after the effective date of this ordinance shall undergo a decrease in number of dwelling units, gross floor area, seating capacity, number of employees, or other unit of measurement specified hereinafter for required parking or loading facilities, and further, when said decrease would result in a requirement for fewer total parking or loading spaces through application of the provisions of this ordinance thereto, parking and loading facilities may be reduced accordingly provided that existing parking or loading facilities shall be so decreased only when the facilities remaining would at least equal or exceed the parking or loading requirements resulting from application of the provisions of this ordinance to the entire building or structure as modified.

C.

When a building or structure shall undergo any increase in number of dwelling units, gross floor area, seating capacity, or other unit of measurement specified hereinafter for required parking or loading facilities, and further, when said increase would result in a requirement for additional total parking or loading spaces through application of the provisions of this ordinance thereto, parking and loading facilities may be increased accordingly, provided that existing parking or loading facilities shall be so increased that the facilities would at lease equal or exceed the parking or loading requirements resulting from application of the provisions of this ordinance to the entire building or structure as modified.

SECTION 9.2-3 Existing Parking and Loading Spaces. Accessory off-street parking and loading spaces in existence on the effective date of this ordinance may not be reduced in number unless already exceeding the requirements of this section for equivalent new construction; in which event, said spaces shall not be reduced below the number required herein for such equivalent new construction.

SECTION 9.2-4 Permissive Parking and Loading Spaces. Nothing in this section shall prevent the establishment of off-street automobile parking or loading facilities to serve any existing use of land or buildings, subject to full compliance with the provisions of this section, except that off-street parking areas accessory to existing multiple-family structures cannot be located off the premises containing the main use, unless on a lot adjacent thereto, without authorization by the Board of Trustees.

SECTION 9.2-5 Damage or Destruction. Any building, structure or use which is in existence and is a conforming use on the effective date of this ordinance and which subsequently shall be damaged or destroyed by fire, collapse, explosion or other cause may be reconstructed, re-established or repaired with or without off-street parking or loading facilities, 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. However, it shall not be necessary to restore or maintain parking or loading facilities in excess of those required by this ordinance for equivalent new construction.

SECTION 9.2-6 Schedule of Requirements.

SECTION 9.2-6-1 Tables for Required Parking and Loading. Requirements governing the number and location of off-street parking and off-street loading facilities in relation to the use of property are established hereinafter in sub-sections of this ordinance. The parking and loading requirements for any use not specified therein shall be the same as for a similar specified use, as determined by Section 9.6.

SECTION 9.2-6-2 Floor Area. The term "floor area" as employed in this parking and loading section in the case of office, merchandising or service types of use shall mean the gross floor area of a building or structure used or intended to be used for service to the public as customers, patrons, clients, patients or tenants, including areas occupied by fixtures and equipment used for display or sale of merchandise. "Floor area" for the purpose of this section shall not include any area used for:

a)

Storage accessory to the principal use of a building;

b)

Incidental repairs;

c)

Processing or packaging of merchandise;

d)

Show windows, or offices incidental to the management or maintenance of a store or building;

e)

Rest rooms;

f)

Utilities;

g)

Dressing, fitting or alteration rooms.

Section 9.3-1 Use of Parking Facilities. Off-street parking facilities accessory to residential use and developed in any residential district in accordance with the requirements of this section shall be used solely for the parking of passenger automobiles owned by occupants of the dwelling structures to which such facilities are accessory or by guests of said occupants. Under no circumstances, shall required parking facilities accessory to residential structures be used for the storage of commercial vehicles or for the parking of automobiles belonging to the employees, owners, tenants, visitors, or customers of business or manufacturing establishments, except as permitted in Sub-section 9.3-5.

SECTION 9.3-2 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.

SECTION 9.3-3 Control of Off-Site Facilities. When required accessory off-street parking facilities are provided elsewhere than on the lot on which the principal use served is located, they shall be in the same possession, either by deed or long-term lease, as the property occupied by such principal use, and the owner shall be bound by covenants filed of record in the office of the Recorder of Deeds or the Registrar of Titles of McHenry County, requiring the owner and his or her heirs and assigns to maintain the required number of parking spaces during the existence of said principal use.

SECTION 9.3-4 Permitted Districts for Accessory Parking. Accessory parking facilities provided elsewhere than on the same zoning lot with the principal use served in accordance with Sub-section 9.6-4 may be located in any zoning district except as follows:

a)

No parking facilities accessory to an apartment use shall be located in an R-1, R-2, R-5 or R-6 District.

b)

No parking facilities accessory to a business or manufacturing use shall be located in a Residential District, except when authorized by the Board of Trustees as prescribed hereinafter.

c)

No parking facilities accessory to a manufacturing use shall be permitted in a B-1 or B-2 District.

SECTION 9.3-5 Non-Residential Parking in Residential Districts. Accessory off-street parking facilities serving non-residential uses of property may be permitted in an R-4 District when authorized by the Board of Trustees, subject to the following requirements in addition to all other relevant requirements of this section:

a)

The parking lot shall be accessory to, and for use in connection with, one or more non-residential establishments located in adjoining districts or in connection with one or more existing professional or institutional office buildings or institutions.

b)

Said parking lot shall be used solely for the parking of passenger automobiles.

c)

No commercial repair work or service of any kind shall be conducted on said parking lot.

d)

No sign of any kind other than signs designating entrances, exists, and conditions of use, shall be maintained on said parking lot.

e)

The parking lot may be open from 7:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M. and shall be closed at all other times, provided, however, that when supervised by one or more full-time attendants, the parking lot may be kept open until 12:00 midnight.

f)

Each entrance to and exit from said parking lot shall be at least twenty (20) feet distanc[e] from any adjacent property located in any Residential District, except where ingress and egress to the parking lot is provided from a public alley or public-way separating the residential areas from the proposed parking lot.

g)

In addition to the foregoing requirements, such parking lots shall conform to any further requirements and conditions as may be prescribed by the Board of Trustees for the protection of properties adjacent to and in the vicinity of the proposed parking lot.

SECTION 9.3-6 Design and Maintenance.

SECTION 9.3-6-1 Parking Space - Description. A required off-street parking space shall be an area of not less than one-hundred and sixty-two square feet nor less than eight and one-half (8;ftrax;1;2;) feet wide by nineteen feet long, exclusive of access drives or aisles, ramps, columns, or office and work areas, accessible from streets or alleys or from private driveways or aisles leading to streets or alleys and to be used for the storage or parking of passenger automobiles or commercial vehicles under one and one-half (1½) ton capacity, except in the R-1, R-2 and R-3 Residential Districts where off-street parking shall be solely for the parking of private passenger automobiles. Aisles between vehicular parking spaces shall [not be] less than twelve (12) feet in width when serving automobiles parked at a forty-five (45) degree angle in one (1) direction nor less than twenty (20) feet in width when serving automobiles parking perpendicular to the aisles and accommodating two-way traffic.

SECTION 9.3-6-2 Measurement of Space. When determination of the number of required off-street parking spaces results in a requirement of a fractional space, any fraction up to and including one-half (½) shall be disregarded, and fractions over one-half (½) shall be interpreted as one parking space.

SECTION 9.3-6-3 Open and Enclosed Spaces. Parking areas may be open or enclosed except that when parking facilities accessory to a multiple dwelling are located in a Residential or Business 1 or Business 2 District elsewhere than on the same zoning lot with the principal use served, such parking facilities shall be open to the sky.

SECTION 9.3-6-4 Access. Parking facilities shall be designed with appropriate means of vehicular access to a street or alley in such a manner as will least interfere with the movement of traffic. No driveway or curb cut in any district shall exceed twenty-five (25) feet in width.

SECTION 9.3-6-5 Signs. No signs shall be displayed in any parking area within any residential district, except such as may be necessary for the orderly use of the parking facilities.

SECTION 9.3-6-6 Required Setbacks. No parking space nor portion thereof established on the same zoning lot with a building shall be located within a required front yard. No parking spaces nor portion thereof established on a zoning lot without a building shall be located closer to any street line than the established building line on adjacent properties nor closer than the front yard setback required for the district in which the parking lot is located. Further, any wall, fence or hedge developed around any parking area shall be subject to the front yard setback requirements of this ordinance in the same manner as a building or structure.

SECTION 9.3-6-7 Surfacing. All open off-street parking areas and driveways, except those accessory to single family dwellings, shall be improved by constructing with either:

a)

Six (6) inches of compacted gravel base surfaced with two (2) inches of asphaltic concrete, or

b)

Five inches of concrete, laid over a firm base.

c)

Drainage of all parking areas and driveways shall be provided and shall not encroach upon the [ad]joining property.

SECTION 9.3-6-8 Screening and Landscaping. All open off-street parking areas for six (6) or more cars shall be effectively screened by a wall, a solid fence, or a densely planted compact hedge along any side which adjoins or is directly across a street or alley from a property in a residential district or an institutional property. Such wall, fence, or hedge, shall be at least four(4) feet, but not more than six (6) feet, in height and shall be maintained in good condition.

SECTION 9.3-6-9 Lighting. Any lighting used to illuminate an off-street parking area shall not reflect onto adjoining property.

SECTION 9.4-1 Design

SECTION 9.4-1-1 Loading Berth - Description. An off-street loading berth shall be a hard-surfaced area of land, open or enclosed, other than a street or a public-way, used principally for the standing, loading or unloading of motor trucks, tractors and trailers so as to avoid undue interference with the public use of streets and alleys. A required loading space shall be not less than ten feet in width, forty-five feet in length, and fourteen feet in height, exclusive of access aisles and maneuvering space, except as otherwise specifically dimensioned hereafter.

SECTION 9.4-1-2 Location. No permitted or required loading berth shall be closer than fifty feet to any property in a residential district unless completely enclosed by building walls, or a uniformly painted solid fence or wall, or any combination thereof not less than six (6) feet in height. No permitted or required loading berth shall be located within twenty-five (25) feet of the nearest point of intersection of any two (2) streets. Loading berths open to the sky may be located in any required yards.

SECTION 9.4-1-3 Measurement of Berth. When determination of the number of required off-street loading berths results in a requirement of a fractional berth, any fraction up to and including one-half (½) shall be disregarded, and fractions over one-half (½) shall be interpreted as one loading berth.

SECTION 9.4-1-4 Surfacing. All open off-street loading berths shall be improved with a compacted macadam base, not less than seven (7) inches thick, surfaced with not less than two (2) inches of asphaltic concrete or some comparable all-weather dustless material.

SECTION 9.5-1 Extent of Control. Off-street automobile parking facilities shall be located as hereinafter specified; where a distance is specified, such distance shall be walking distance measured from the nearest point of the parking area to the nearest entrance of the building that said parking area is required to serve.

SECTION 9.5-1.1 For one and two-family dwellings - on the same lot with the building they are required to serve.

SECTION 9.5-1.2 For three and four-family dwellings not over two (2) stories in height - on the same lot or parcel of land as the building they are required to serve. For the purpose of this requirement, a group of such uses constructed and maintained under single ownership or management shall be assumed to be on a single lot or parcel of land.

SECTION 9.5-1.3 For apartment houses containing four or more dwelling units on the same lot or parcel of land as the building they are required to service, or on a separate lot or parcel of land not more than three hundred (300) feet from the nearest entrance to the main building being served, provided the lot or parcel of land selected for the parking facilities is located in an apartment district or a less restricted district.

SECTION 9.5-1.4 For rooming houses, lodging houses, clubs, hospitals, sanitariums, orphanages, homes for the aged, convalescent homes, dormitories, sorority and fraternity houses, and for other similar uses, the off-street parking facilities required shall be on the same lot or parcel of land as the main building or buildings being served, or upon properties contiguous to the zoning lot upon which is located the building or buildings they are intended to serve.

SECTION 9.5-1.5 For uses other than those specified above, off-street parking facilities shall be provided on the same lot or parcel of land as the main building being served, or on a separate lot or parcel of land not over one thousand (1,000) feet from the entrance of the main building, measured from the nearest point of the parking area, provided the separate lot or parcel of land intended for the parking facilities is located in the same district as the principal permitted use or in a less restricted district.

SECTION 9.6-1 For one and two-family dwellings - one (1) parking space for each family dwelling unit.

SECTION 9.6-2 For three or more family dwellings - ratio of 1.75 parking spaces per dwelling unit shall be required.

SECTION 9.6-3 For hotels and clubs - one parking space for each six (6) guests or sleeping rooms and suites, plus such additional space as shall be deemed necessary by the Building Inspector because of any supplementary parking-generative activities such as bars, ballrooms, dining rooms, nightclub facilities and the like.

SECTION 9.6-4 For tourist homes, cabins, or motels - one (1) parking space for each guest or sleeping room or suite, plus one additional space for the owner or manager on the premises.

SECTION 9.6-5 For lodging, rooming and boarding houses - one (1) parking space for each two (2) guests, plus one (1) additional space for the owner or manager on the premises.

SECTION 9.6-6 For private clubs or lodges (without sleeping rooms) parking spaces equal in number to twenty-five (25) percent of the total membership.

SECTION 9.6-7 For fraternities, sororities and dormitories - one (1) parking space for each five (5) active members, plus one (1) additional space for housemother or manager.

SECTION 9.6-8 For hospitals - one (1) parking space for each three (3) hospital beds, plus one (1) parking space for each fifteen hundred (1,500) square feet gross floor area in residents' quarters, plus one (1) additional space for each staff or visiting doctor.

SECTION 9.6-9 For sanitariums, convalescent homes, or homes for the aged - one space for each six (6) patient beds, plus one (1) additional space for each staff or visiting doctor.

SECTION 9.6-10 For medical or dental clinics - three (3) parking spaces per doctor engaged at clinic.

SECTION 9.6-11 For mortuaries or funeral parlors - five (5) parking spaces for each room used as a chapel or parlor, plus one (1) space for each funeral vehicle maintained on the premises, plus one (1) space for each family residing on the premises.

SECTION 9.6-12 For bowling alleys - two (2) parking spaces for each alley, plus one (1) parking space for each three hundred (300) feet of floor area devoted to affiliated uses such as bars, restaurants and the like.

SECTION 9.6-13 For convention halls, dance halls, skating rinks, assembly halls, exhibition halls, or other places of assembly - one (1) parking space for each one hundred (100) square feet of floor area used for assembly.

SECTION 9.6-14 Stadia, sports arena, auditorium and gymnasium (other than incidental to a school) - one (1) parking space for each eight (8) seats.

SECTION 9.6-15 For theatres -

a)

(Indoor) - one (1) parking space for each ten (10) seats up to five hundred (500), plus one (1) parking space for each five seats above five hundred.

b)

(Outdoor) - reservoir space equal to ten (10) percent of the capacity.

SECTION 9.6-16 For church, high school, college, and university auditoriums - one parking space for each twelve seats provided in said buildings or structures.

SECTION 9.6-17 For airports, railroad passenger stations, bus depots, or other passenger terminal facilities (Special Uses) - such parking space as the Board of Trustees, shall deem to be adequate for employees, passengers, spectators, visitors and others.

SECTION 9.6-18 For banks, business or professional offices, or public administration buildings - one (1) parking space for each four hundred (400) square feet of floor area.

SECTION 9.6-19 For establishments handling the sale and consumption on the premises of alcoholic beverages, food or refreshments having more than fifteen hundred (1,500) square feet of floor area under one (1) roof devoted to such use or uses - one parking space for each three hundred (300) square feet of floor area over fifteen hundred square feet.

SECTION 9.6-20 For retail stores and service shops (individual or in groups) under one roof having a total floor area of two thousand (2,000) square feet devoted to retail sales - one (1) parking space for each three hundred (300) square feet of retail floor area over and above two thousand (2,000) feet.

SECTION 9.6-21 For furniture and appliance stores, motor vehicle sales, wholesale stores, household equipment or furniture repair shops, or machinery sales, having more than two thousand (2,000) square feet of floor area under one roof (individual stores or groups of stores in one building) - one (1) parking space for each six hundred (600) square feet of floor area over and above two thousand (2,000) square feet.

SECTION 9.6-22 For manufacturing and industrial uses; research and testing laboratories; laundry and dry-cleaning plants; printing, binding, publishing and issuing of newspapers, periodicals, books and other reading matter; warehouses and storage buildings; engraving shops; assembly of materials and products; and other similar uses - one parking space for each four employees, based upon the maximum number of persons to be employed at any one work period during the day or night, plus such additional parking facilities as shall be required for all vehicles used in the conduct of the enterprise.

In all districts where property uses include the loading and unloading of materials or merchandise from vehicles, off-street loading and unloading facilities shall be provided in accordance with the following requirements:

SECTION 9.7-1 For hotels or apartment-hotel buildings wherein there are contained exhibition halls, convention halls, auditoriums, office facilities or retail shops - one (1) off-street loading and unloading space for the first forty thousand (40,000) square feet of gross floor area, plus one (1) additional off-street loading space for each one hundred fifty thousand (150,000) square feet of gross floor area or fraction thereof of gross floor area in excess of forty thousand (40,000) square feet.

SECTION 9.7-2 For hospitals or sanitariums containing forty thousand (40,000) to one hundred thousand (100,000) square feet of gross floor area, one (1) off-street loading and unloading space, plus one (1) additional such space for each additional one hundred thousand (100,000) square feet of gross floor area or fraction thereof in excess of one hundred thousand (100,000) square feet.

SECTION 9.7-3 For buildings containing bowling alleys, taverns, restaurants or any retail shops and having ten thousand (10,000) to one hundred thousand (100,000) square feet of gross floor area, one off-street loading and unloading space, plus one (1) additional such space for each additional one hundred thousand (100,000) square feet of gross floor area or fraction thereof in excess of one hundred thousand (100,000) square feet.

SECTION 9.7-4 For banks, business or professional offices or public administration buildings containing forty thousand (40,000) to one hundred thousand (100,000) square feet of gross floor area, one (1) off-street loading and unloading space, plus one (1) additional such space for each additional one hundred thousand (100,000) square feet of gross floor area or fraction thereof in excess of one hundred thousand (100,000) square feet.

SECTION 9.7-5 For buildings containing furniture and appliance stores, motor vehicle sales, wholesale stores, household equipment or machinery sales and having eight thousand (8,000)to twenty-five thousand (25,000) square feet of gross floor area, one (1) off-street loading and unloading space, plus one (1) additional space for each additional twenty-five thousand (25,000) square feet of gross floor area or fraction thereof in excess of twenty-five thousand (25,000) square feet.

SECTION 9.7-6 For buildings containing manufacturing uses; research and testing laboratories; laundry and dry cleaning establishments; printing, binding, publishing and issuing of newspapers, periodicals, books and other reading matter; warehouse and storage facilities; engraving shops; assembly of materials and products; processing and distribution of materials and products, and other similar uses, having more than ten thousand square (10,000) feet of gross floor area, exclusive of basement area, and less than forty thousand (40,000) square feet of gross floor area, one (1) off-street loading and unloading space, plus one (1) additional such space for each additional sixty thousand square (60,000) feet of gross floor area in excess of forty thousand (40,000) square feet.