Minerva City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 1155

Off-Street Parking and Loading

1155.01 LOADING SPACES.

In any district, in connection with every building hereafter erected, having a gross floor area of 10,000 square feet or more, which is to be occupied by manufacturing, storage, warehouse, goods, display, retail store, wholesale store, market, hotel, hospital, mortuary, laundry, dry cleaning or other uses similarly requiring the receipt or distribution by vehicles of materials or merchandise, there shall be provided and maintained on the same lot with such buildings, at least one off-street loading space plus one additional such loading space for each 20,000 square feet or major fraction thereof of gross floor area so used in excess of 20,000 square feet.

(a) Each loading space shall be not less than ten feet in width, twenty-five feet in length and fourteen feet in height.

(b) Such space may occupy all or any part of any required yard or court space.

(c) No such space shall be located closer than fifty feet to any other lot in any R District unless wholly within an area completely enclosed on all sides by a wall or uniformly painted board fence not less than six feet in height.

(Ord. 11-71. Passed 5-25-71.)

1155.02 PARKING SPACE SCHEDULE; ACCESS; SCREENING; LIGHTING.

(a) In all districts, in connection with every industrial, commercial, business, trade, institutional, recreational or dwelling use, and similar uses, space for parking and storage of vehicles shall have an area as defined in Section 1133.01(17) and shall be provided in accordance with the following schedule:

Automobile sales and service

garages 100% of floor area

Banks, business and professional

offices, except medical and dental 100% of floor area

Medical and dental offices 200% of floor area

Bowling alleys 5 spaces for each alley

Churches and schools 1 space for each 8 seats in a principal auditorium or 1 space for each 17 classroom seats, whichever is greater

Dance halls, assembly halls 200% of floor area used for dancing or assembly

Dwelling 2 parking spaces for each family or dwelling unit

Funeral homes, mortuaries 4 spaces for each parlor or 1 space for each 50 sq. ft. parlor floor area, whichever is greater

Furniture and appliance stores,

household equipment or furniture

repair, over 1,000 sq. ft. floor

area 75% of floor area

Hospitals 1 space for each 4 beds

Hotels, lodging houses 1 space for each 2 bedrooms

Manufacturing plants 1 space for each 4 employees on the maximum working shift or 25% of floor area, whichever is greater

Restaurants, night clubs over

1,000 sq. ft. floor area 200% of floor area

Retail stores, super markets, etc.,

over 2,000 sq. ft. floor area 200% of floor space

Retail stores, shops, etc., under

2,000 sq. ft. floor area 100% of floor area

Sports arena, auditoriums other

than in schools 1 parking space for each 6 seats

Theaters, assembly halls with

fixed seats 1 parking space for each 6 seats

Wholesale establishments or

warehouses 1 space for each 2 employees or 10% of floor area, whichever is greater

(b) In the case of any building, structure or premises, the use of which is not specifically mentioned herein, the provisions for a use which is so mentioned and to which such use if similar, shall apply.

(d) Where a lot does not abut on a public or private alley or easement of access there shall be provided an access drive not less than eight feet in width in the case of a dwelling, and not less than eighteen feet in width in all other cases leading to the loading or unloading spaces and parking or storage areas required hereunder in such a manner as to secure the most appropriate development of the property in question, except where provided in connection with a use permitted in a residence district, such easement of access or access drive shall not be located in any residence district.

(e) Every parcel of land hereafter used as a public or private parking area, including a commercial parking lot, shall be developed and maintained in accordance with the following requirements:

(1) Off-street parking areas, including commercial parking lots, for more than five vehicles shall be effectively screened on each side which adjoins or faces premises situated in any R District, or institutional premises, by a masonry wall and/or compact evergreen hedge. Such wall or hedge shall be not less than four feet or more than six feet in height and shall be maintained in good condition without any advertising thereon. The space between such wall or hedge and the side lot line of adjoining premises in any R District shall be maintained in good condition.

(2) Any off-street parking area, including any commercial parking lot, for more than five vehicles shall be surfaced with an asphaltic or Portland cement-type binder pavement so as to provide a durable and dustless surface, shall be so graded and drained as to dispose of all surface water accumulation within the area, and shall be so arranged and marked as to provide for orderly and safe loading or unloading and parking and storage of self-propelled vehicles.

(3) Any lighting used to illuminate any off-street parking area, including any commercial parking lot, shall be so arranged as to reflect the light away from adjoining premises in any R District.

(4) All entrances and exits to and from such area shall open on or lead directly to a major thoroughfare insofar as practicable.

(f) The Board of Zoning Appeals may also authorize, subject to the provisions of Section 1161.09(b), the establishment and operation of off-street parking areas in any A or R District that adjoins a B or M District, subject to the following conditions and limitations:

(1) It shall provide parking space for twenty-five or more self-propelled vehicles.

(2) Such parking shall be accessory to and for the use of one or more business or industrial establishments located in the adjoining B or M District.

(3) It shall be located on premises having an area of not less than 10,000 square feet, which shall abut at least fifty feet on a B or M District.

(4) Entrances and exits shall be located within the adjoining business or industrial districts.

(5) The application shall be accompanied by the names and addresses of all property owners within 200 feet of the premises in question so they may be given the opportunity to be heard in connection with the consideration of such application.

(6) In addition to the above, the Board may prescribe further requirements or conditions deemed necessary or desirable in respect to surfacing, marking, lighting, wall, fencing or planting for protection of the adjacent property.

(7) A zoning certificate issued for such accessory parking areas under the above provisions shall be revocable, subject to continued compliance with the requirements and conditions.