(A)

Scope of regulations. The off-street parking and loading provisions of this subchapter shall apply as follows:

(1)

For all buildings and structures erected and all uses of land established after the effective date of this subchapter, accessory off-street parking and loading facilities shall be provided as required in this subchapter. However, where a building permit has been issued prior to the effective date of this subchapter, and provided that construction is begun within six months of such effective date and diligently prosecuted to completion, parking and loading facilities in the amounts required for the issuance of that building permit may be provided in lieu of any different amounts required by this subchapter.

(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 intensity of use and for 100 percent of any existing deficiency in parking or loading facilities.

(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 the new use.

(4)

Uses not specified shall conform on the same basis as the most similar use as determined by the plan commission.

(B)

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

(C)

Permissive parking and loading facilities. Nothing in this subchapter shall be deemed to prevent the voluntary establishment of off-street parking or loading facilities to serve any existing use of land or buildings, provided that all regulations herein governing the location, design, and operation of such facilities are adhered to.

(D)

Damage or destruction. For any conforming building or use which is in existence on the effective date of this subchapter, which subsequently is damaged or destroyed by fire, collapse, explosion, or other cause, and which is reconstructed, reestablished, or repaired, off-street parking or loading facilities equivalent to any maintained at the time of the damage or destruction shall be restored or continued in operation. Any nonconforming building or use damaged or destroyed as described above where the loss exceeds 50 percent of its use will have parking deficiencies made up. However, in no case shall it be necessary to restore or maintain parking or loading facilities in excess of those required by this subchapter for equivalent new uses or construction.

(E)

Submission of plot plan. Any application for a building permit, or for an occupancy certificate where no building permit is required, shall include therewith a plot plan drawn to scale fully dimensioned, showing any off-street parking or loading facilities to be provided in compliance with this subchapter.

(F)

Floor area. The term "floor area" as employed in this parking and loading subchapter shall mean the gross floor area of all levels, above and below grade inside the exterior wall line. However, where the building is devoted solely to retail sales the term "floor area" shall mean the gross floor area open to the general public for shopping.

(Ord. 86-442, passed 7-16-86)

(A)

Area. 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 work areas. Enclosed parking spaces shall have a vertical clearance of at least seven feet.

(B)

Access. Each required off-street parking space shall open directly upon an aisle or driveway or such width and design as to provide safe and efficient means of vehicular access to the parking space. All off-street parking facilities shall be designed with appropriate means of vehicular access to a street or alley in a manner which shall least interfere with traffic movement. No driveway across public property at the right-of-way line shall exceed a width of 25 feet.

(C)

In yards (residential zoning districts). Off-street parking spaces, open to the sky, may be located in any yard except a front yard adjoining a street. Enclosed buildings and carports containing off-street parking spaces shall be subject to applicable yard requirements.

(D)

Design and maintenance.

(1)

Spaces open or enclosed. Accessory parking spaces may be open to the sky or enclosed in a building.

(2)

Surfacing. All open off-street parking spaces and access drives shall be surfaced within 12 months of occupancy so that they will remain free from dust or litter particles, and be adequately drained so that they will not retain water. All materials and methods of installing surfacing shall be in accordance with village standards.

(3)

Screening, landscaping, and barriers. All open off-street parking areas containing more than four parking spaces, located less than 40 feet from the nearest property line of a lot in a residence district, shall be effectively screened on each side adjoining or fronting on the property line by a densely planted compact hedge, not less than five feet nor more than eight feet in height. There shall be installed a substantial barrier adjacent to the lot line along all open off-street parking spaces. This barrier shall be so located that no portion of any vehicle parked on the lot shall extend over the lot line.

(4)

Lighting. Any lighting used to illuminate off-street parking areas shall be directed away from residential properties in such a way as not to create a nuisance. In a parking area containing four or more parking spaces the lighting shall be extinguished one-half hour after the close of business, except as may otherwise be permitted or required by the village for maintaining illumination after the time specified above.

(5)

Motor vehicle repair and service. No motor vehicle repair work or service of any kind shall be permitted in conjunction with any parking facilities. No gasoline or motor oil shall be sold in conjunction with any accessory parking facilities.

(6)

Cleaning. All sidewalks within or adjoining off-street parking spaces shall be kept free from dirt, ice, sleet, and snow, and maintained in a safe condition for pedestrian travel.

(7)

Identification and marking. Required off-street parking areas for three or more automobiles shall have individual spaces marked, and shall be designed, maintained, and regulated so that no parking or maneuvering incidental to parking shall be on any public street or walk.

(E)

Location. All parking spaces required to serve buildings or uses erected or established after the effective date of this subchapter shall be located on the same lot as the building or use served. Buildings or uses in any district except single-family and two-family dwellings existing on the effective date of this subchapter which are subsequently altered or enlarged so as to require the provision of parking spaces under this subchapter, and new uses established in any business district, may be served by parking facilities located on land other than the lot on which the building or use served is located, provided such facilities in the local business and general business districts are within 500 feet walking distance of a main entrance to the use served.

(F)

Employee parking. 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.

(G)

Computation. When determination of a number of off-street parking spaces required by this subchapter results in a requirement of a fractional space, any fraction shall be counted as one parking space.

(H)

Collective provisions. Off-street parking facilities for separate uses may be provided collectively if the total number of spaces so provided is not less than the sum of the separate requirements for each use, and provided that all regulations governing location of accessory parking spaces, in relation to the use served, are adhered to. Further, no parking spaces or portion thereof shall serve as a required space for more than one use unless otherwise authorized by the village in accordance with the procedures set forth elsewhere in this subchapter.

(I)

Parking requirements, churches and temples. A church or temple requiring parking area at times when nearby uses do not need their parking facilities, may, by agreement approved by the village, utilize those facilities in lieu of providing their own parking facilities.

(Ord. 86-442, passed 7-16-86)

Off-street parking spaces shall be provided for the specific parking classes as set forth in the table below. Parking spaces for accessory uses not enumerated within a parking class shall be assumed to be included in the principal (permitted or special) use requirement. If, for any reason, the classification of any use, for the purpose of determining the number of off-street parking spaces, is not readily determinable hereunder, the parking class of that use shall be fixed by the village. When "students" or "employees" or both are specified as the basis for determining the number of off-street parking spaces, e.g., "1 per each employee plus 1 per six students," the number of students or employees or both shall be determined on the basis of the design capacity of the facility. Where the design capacity of the facility is not readily determinable because of the absence of design standards for a particular use, the maximum daily number of students or employees or both occupying the premises during the regular operating day during the year preceding the adoption of this subchapter shall be used as the basis for determining the number of off-street parking spaces.

Off-Street Parking Table (Parking Classes)

(Ord. 86-442, passed 7-16-86)

(A)

Location. All required loading berths shall be located on the same zoning lot as the use served. All motor vehicle loading berths which abut a residence district or an intervening alley separating a residence district from a business or industrial district shall be completely screened therefrom by building walls, or by a uniformly painted solid noncombustible fence, wall, or door, or densely-planted mature shrubbery, or any combination thereof not less than five feet in height. No permitted or required loading berth shall be located within 50 feet of the nearest point of intersection of any two streets. No loading berth shall be located in a required front or side yard, and any loading berth located in a required rear yard may be open to the sky.

(B)

Size and computation of number of berths.

(1)

Unless otherwise specified, a required off-street loading berth shall be at least ten feet in width by at least 25 feet in length, exclusive of aisle and maneuvering space, and shall have vertical clearance of at least 14 feet. An off-street loading berth shall be a paved surfaced area of land, open or enclosed, other than a public street or 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.

(2)

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 shall be disregarded, and any fractions over one-half shall be interpreted as one loading berth.

(C)

Access. Each required off-street loading berth shall be designed with appropriate means of vehicular access to a street or alley in a manner which will least interfere with traffic movement, and shall be subject to approval by the building inspector.

(D)

Surfacing. All open off-street loading berths shall be surfaced with a compacted gravel base and bituminous asphalt surface in compliance with village standards, and must be completed within one year of occupancy.

(E)

Repair and service.

(1)

Residence districts. No motor vehicle repair work or service of any kind shall be permitted in conjunction with loading facilities provided in any residence district, except emergency repair service necessary to start vehicles.

(2)

Business districts. No motor vehicle repair work or service of any kind shall be permitted in conjunction with loading facilities provided in local or general business districts, except emergency repair service necessary to start vehicles.

(3)

Industrial districts. No motor vehicle repair work or service of any kind shall be permitted in conjunction with loading facilities provided in an industrial district if such loading facilities are within 500 feet of a residence district.

(F)

Utilization. Space allocated to any off-street loading use shall not, while so allocated, be used to satisfy the space requirements for any off-street parking facilities or portions thereof.

(G)

Central loading. Central loading facilities may be substituted for loading berths on the individual zoning lots provided the following conditions are fulfilled:

(1)

Each zoning lot served shall have direct access to the central loading area without crossing streets or alleys at grade.

(2)

Total off-street loading berths provided shall meet the minimum requirements herein specified, based on the sum of the several types of uses (area of types of uses may be totaled before computing number of loading berths).

(3)

No zoning lot served shall be more than 500 feet removed from the central loading area.

(4)

The tunnel or ramp connecting a central loading area with the zoning lot served shall be not less than seven feet in width and have a clearance of not less than seven feet.

(H)

Minimum facilities. 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 accessible by motor vehicle off any adjacent alley, service drive, or open space on the same zoning lot.

(Ord. 86-442, passed 7-16-86)

(A)

Commercial uses. Loading and unloading berths shall be provided on the lot as follows:

(B)

Industrial uses. Loading and unloading berths shall be provided on the lot as follows:

(Ord. 86-442, passed 7-16-86)

Any property in a commercial, business or industrial district which abuts property in a residence district shall contain a fence along the boundary with the residence district. The fence shall be not less than six feet in height and shall be solid, opaque and view-screening.

(Ord. 95-671, passed 3-15-95)