The intent and purpose of these regulations is to provide properly designed parking areas. Off-street parking facilities shall be provided incidental to new uses. The number of parking spaces shall be in proportion to the need created by the particular use.

Off-street parking shall be provided for any new building constructed and for any new use established; for any addition or enlargement of an existing building or use; and for any change in the occupancy of any building or the manner in which any use is conducted that would result in additional parking spaces being required, unless an equivalent substitute number of such spaces is provided and maintained conforming to the requirements of this title except as otherwise provided in this title.

When the use of any premises is changed, enlarged. altered, expanded or intensified such that additional parking is required, the additional parking to meet the requirements of this title shall be provided for the changed, enlarged, altered, expanded or intensified portion of the occupancy or use, except as otherwise provided in this title.

1. Location of Parking Spaces. The required parking spaces shall be located on the same building site except as otherwise provided by this title. Property within the ultimate right-of-way of a street or highway shall not be used to provide required parking or loading facilities, except as otherwise provided by this title.
2. Design and Maintenance. All off-street parking spaces and areas required by this title shall be designed and maintained to be fully usable for the duration of the use requiring such areas and spaces.
3. Tandem Spaces. Except for mobile homes, tandem spaces shall only by permitted for those spaces which exceed the requirements of this title.
4. Stall Dimensions. Each off-street parking stall shall consist of a rectangular area not less than nine feet wide by 19 feet long, except as otherwise provided in this title. End spaces where clear back-out space is restricted on one side shall be 11 feet in width.
5. Landscaping Requirements.
   1. A minimum of 15% of the total off-street open parking area shall be landscaped with a mixture of trees, shrubs, ground cover, other plant material and landscape material.
   2. All parking lot landscaping shall be maintained in perpetuity
   3. Parking Lot Hardscape Requirements. Parking lot dividers, islands, planters and planting areas shall be a minimum of four feet wide and four feet long. trees area to be planted a minimum of five feet from walls, walks or buildings. To protect hardscape and encourage deep root development, root barriers shall be installed during planting operations.
6. Perimeter Guard Requirements. Bumper guards or wheel stops shall be provided for all parking spaces abutting the perimeter of a parking area where such perimeter is within 15 feet of a building, structure, wall, public right-of-way or lot line, except spaces within a garage or carport.
7. Paving Requirements. All areas within the parking area not used for parking stalls or maneuvering areas shall be landscaped. All areas used for the movement, parking, loading, repair or storage of vehicles shall be paved according to City standards.
8. Drainage Requirement. All areas used for the movement, parking loading, repair or storage or vehicles shall be graded and drained to dispose of all surface water. drainage shall not be permitted across the surface of sidewalks or driveways.
9. Maneuvering Requirements. The off-street parking area shall be designed so that a vehicles within a parking area will not be required to enter a street to move from one location to another within the parking area.
10. Joint Use Parking. Dual use of parking may be allowed where the operation hours of the uses involved do not overlap. Joint use of parking shall not exceed sixty percent of the required spaces of any uses involved. The agreement for the joint use shall be in the form of a recorded covenant and shall be in a form acceptable to the City Attorney. The approval for the joint use can be granted only by the Planning and Zoning Commission.
11. Parking for the Handicapped. "Handicapped" spaces shall be provided in accordance with state and federal regulations and shall be considered in the calculation of required spaces.
12. Downtown Commercial Parking. The number of parking spaces required for properties which are zoned "MSC" (Main Street Commercial) shall be considered on a case by case basis, regardless of use. All other development standards shall remain as per this title.
    

In commercial districts, parking spaces required by the provisions of this title may be satisfied by the payment of a fee, per parking space to the off-street parking fund of the city prior to insurance of a building permit provided that the district in which the use is to be established is within an established parking district. Moneys placed into the off-street parking fund pursuant to the provisions of this title shall be used exclusively for the purpose of acquiring, developing and maintaining off-street parking facilities, limited insofar as practicable to the general vicinity of the promises for which in-lieu payments were made. The payment shall be in an amount set forth of City Council resolution.

Every hospital, institution, hotel, motel, commercial or industrial building hereafter erected or established, shall have and maintain loading spaces as provided subject to the following standards:

1. Each loading berth shall be not less than 45 feet in length and 12 feet in width exclusive of aisle of maneuvering space, and shall have an overhead clearance of not less than 14 feet.
2. Sufficient room for turning and maneuvering vehicles shall be provided on the site so that vehicles shall cross a property line only by driving forward.
3. Entrance from and exits to streets and alleys shall be designed to minimize traffic congestion.
4. The loading area, aisles, and access drives shall be paved so as to provide a durable, dustless surface and shall be so graded and drained so as to dispose of surface water without damage to private of public property, streets or alleys.
5. Bumper rails shall be provided at locations where needed for safety or to protect property.
6. No repair work or servicing of vehicles shall be conducted in a loading area.
7. Off-street loading facilities shall be located on the same site with the use for which the berths are required.
8. If more than one use is located on a site, the number of loading berths provided shall be equal to the sum of the requirements prescribed in this title for each use. If more than one use is located on a site and the gross floor area of each use is less than the minimum for which loading berths are required but the aggregate gross floor area is greater than the minimum for which loading berths are required, off-street loading berths shall be provided as if the aggregate gross floor area were used for the use requiring the greatest number of loading berths.
9. Off-street loading areas for a single use shall be considered as providing required off-street loading facilities for any other use as long as sufficient spaces are provided to meet the requirements of all uses.
10. At the time of initial occupancy, major alterations or enlargement of a site, or of completion of construction of a structure or of a major alteration or enlargement of a structure, there shall be provided off-street loading berth requirements. The number of loading berths provided for a major alteration or enlargement of a site or structure shall be in addition to the number existing prior to the alteration or enlargement.
11. Space allocated to any off-street loading berth shall not be used to satisfy the space requirements for any off-street parking facility.
12. No loading space which is provided for the purpose of complying with the provisions of this title shall hereinafter be eliminated, reduced, or converted in any manner below the requirements established in this title, unless equivalent facilities are provided elsewhere, conforming to this title.
13. The following off-street loading spaces shall be provided for all hospitals, institutions, hotels, commercial and industrial uses: 

     
    

    Total Square Feet of Building Space (Gross Floor Area)
    Commercial and Industrial Buildings
    Less than 6,000	0
    6,000 - 15,000	1
    15,001 - 40,000	2
    40,001 and over	3
    Hospitals and Institutions
    Less than 10,000	0
    10,000 - 50,000	1
    50,001 - 100,000	2
    100,001 and over	3
    Hotels/Motels	1

1. Business or professional offices. One parking space for each five hundred (500) sq. ft. of floor area.
2. Dwellings, single-family, two-family and cluster (townhouse and condominium). Two parking spaces for each dwelling unit.
3. Dwelling, Multi-family. Two parking spaces for each unit plus one guest space shall be provided for each five (5) dwelling units.
4. Hotels, Motels, Motor Hotels. One space for each living or sleeping unit, plus parking space for all accessory uses as herein specified.
5. Commercial & Retail stores. One parking space for each five hundred square feet of retail floor space.
6. Commercial Storage Units. One parking space for each thirty feet of building frontage storage space.
7. Wholesale establishments, Warehouses, Manufacturing Establishments, and all Industrial uses. As determined by conditional use permit or by Planned Development requirements, if applicable, or by the City of Milford Planning and Zoning Commission, but in no case fewer than one space for each employee projected for the highest employment shift.
8. Handicapped and Motorcycle Parking. Every multi-car parking lot shall allow for proper and reasonable access to a vehicle by a person with a disability.
9. All other uses not listed above. As determined by the City of Milford Planning and Zoning Commission, based on the nearest comparable use standards.