New Concord City Zoning Code
CHAPTER 1165
Off-Street Parking and Loading Requirements
1165.01 OFF-STREET PARKING - GENERAL REQUIREMENTS.
In all districts, in connection with every industrial, business, institutional, recreational, residential, or other use, there shall be provided, at any time any building or structure is erected or is enlarged or increased in capacity, off-street parking spaces for automobiles in accordance with the following requirements:
(a) Each off-street parking space shall have an area of not less than one hundred eighty (180) square feet exclusive of access drives or aisles, and shall be of usable shape and condition.
(b) There shall be adequate provision for ingress and egress to all parking spaces. Where a lot does abut on a public or private alley or easement of access, there shall be provided an access drive not less than eight (8) feet in width ln the case of a dwelling, and not less than twenty (20) feet in width in all other cases, leading to the parking or storage or loading or unloading spaces required hereunder.
(Ord. K-5-94-2. Passed 5-9-94.)
1165.02 NUMBER OF SPACES REQUIRED.
The number of off-street parking spaces to be provided shall not be less than the following:
Use | Parking Spaces Required |
Dwellings, including 1, 2, and 3 families, multiple dwellings, summer cottages and mobile homes. | One (1) for each dwelling unit, if a single or two family dwelling, and one and one-half (1½) spaces for each dwelling in multiple dwelling unit. |
Rooming or boarding house, tourist home. | One (1) for each sleeping room or suite. |
Hotel or motel. | Five (5) parking spaces plus one (1) parking space for each sleeping room or suite. These spaces shall be in addition to the parking spaces that shall be provided for any portion of the hotel that is used for office, business, or commercial purposes including the lobby, but not including corridors giving access to sleeping rooms. |
Private club, golf club or lodge. | One (1) for each four (4) members. |
Golf course. | Forty (40) for each nine (9) holes plus one (1) for each employee. |
Church or temple. | One (1) for each five (5) seats in main auditorium. |
School (except high school or college). | One (1) for each five (5) seats in auditorium or main assembly room, or two (2) for each classroom, whichever is greater. |
College or high school. | One (1) for each six (6) seats in main auditorium or four (4) for each classroom, whichever is greater. |
Community center, library, museum or art gallery. | Ten (10) plus one (1) additional for each three hundred (300) square feet of floor area in excess of two thousand (2,000) square feet. |
Convenience store | One (1) space for each two hundred (200) square feet of gross floor area |
Health care facility - medical offices | One (1) space per two hundred fifty (250) square feet of gross floor area - or two (2) spaces per each examination or treatment room, and one (1) space per each employee (whichever is greater) |
Hospital. | One (1) for each bed. |
Sanitarium, convalescent home, home for the aged or similar institution. | One (1) for each four (4) beds. |
Offices and professional services. | One (1) for every one hundred (100) square feet of floor space |
Retail business or business service establishment. | One (1) for each two hundred fifty (250) square feet of floor space and one for each two (2) employees on the maximum working shift. |
Use | Parking Spaces Required |
Theater or auditorium (except school auditorium), sports arena, stadium or gymnasium. | One (1) for each five (5) seats or bench seating spaces. |
Bowling alley. | Five (5) for each alley, plus one (1) additional space for each two hundred (200) square feet of area used for eating, drinking or other recreation. |
Mortuary or funeral home. | One (1) for each fifty (50) square feet of floor space in slumber rooms, parlors, or individual funeral service rooms. |
Restaurants, nightclubs, cafes or similar establishment. | One (1) space for each for (4) seats, or (1) space for each one hundred (100) square feet (including outside seating). |
Furniture or appliance store, hardware store, wholesale establishment, machinery or equipment sales and services | Two plus one (1) additional space for each six hundred (600) square feet of floor area over one thousand (1,000) square feet. |
Manufacturing, industrial or mining establishment, research or testing laboratory, creamery, bottling plant, or warehouse similar establishment. | One for each two (2) employees on the maximum working shift plus space to accommodate all trucks and other vehicles used in connection therewith. |
Recreation or amusement establishments, dance halls, assembly or exhibition halls without fixed seats. | One (1) space for every five (5) persons of maximum occupancy capacity of building or assembly place. |
Warehouse | One-half (0.5) space per one thousand (1,000) square feet and one (1) space per two (2) employees |
(Ord. K-5-94-2. Passed 5-9-94.)
1165.03 INTERPRETATION.
The following rules shall govern the determination of spaces required:
(a) "Floor area" shall mean the gross floor area of the specified use.
(b) Fractional numbers shall be increased to the next whole number.
(c) The parking space requirement for a use not specifically mentioned herein shall be the same as required for a use of similar nature.
(d) Whenever a building or use constructed or established after the effective date of this Ordinance is changed or enlarged in floor area, number of employees, number of dwelling units, seating capacity or otherwise, to create a need for an increase of ten (10) percent or more in the number of existing parking spaces, such spaces shall be provided on the basis of the enlargement or change. Whenever a building or use existing prior to the effective date of this Ordinance is enlarged to the extent of fifty (50) percent or more in floor area or in the area used, said building or use shall then and thereafter comply with the parking requirements set forth herein.
(e) Upon application, the Planning Commission may approve shared parking arrangements provided there is a written agreement binding involved property owners. (Ord. K-5-94-2. Passed 5-9-94.)
1165.04 SPECIAL PARKING PROVISIONS.
Every parcel of land hereafter used as a public, commercial or private parking lot shall be developed and maintained in accordance with the following requirements.
(Ord. K-5-94-2. Passed 5-9-94.)
1165.05 SCREENING.
Off street parking areas for more than five (5) vehicles shall be effectively screened on each side that adjoins or faces premises situated in any residential zoning district by a fence or hedge not less than four (4) feet or more than six (6) feet in height and shall be maintained in good condition without any advertising thereon. The space between such wall or fence and the lot line of the adjoining premises in any "R" District shall be landscaped with grass, hardy shrubs, or evergreen ground cover and maintained in good condition. In lieu of such wall or fence, a strip of land not less than six (6) feet in width and planted and maintained with an evergreen hedge or dense planting of evergreen shrubs not less than four (4) feet in height may be substituted.
(Ord. K-5-94-2. Passed 5-9-94.)
1165.06 PARKING LOT LANDSCAPING.
Whenever an off-street parking lot includes twenty (20) or more parking spaces, at least one (1) deciduous tree of at least two and one-half (2 1/2) inch caliper shall be provided for every ten (10) parking spaces (including the first 20). Such trees shall be located within parking islands or within five (5) feet of the edge of the parking lot. A minimum distance of three (3) feet shall be established between proposed tree or shrub plantings and the edge of curbing and pavement, or property line. (Ord. K-5-94-2. Passed 5-9-94.)
1165.07 DUMPSTERS AND WASTE RECEPTACLE SCREENING.
Dumpsters, including waste receptacles and compactors, shall be designed, constructed and maintained according to the following.
(a) Dumpster location and details of construction shall be shown on site plans.
(b) Dumpsters shall be located in the rear yard or non-required side yard, unless otherwise approved by the Planning Commission and shall be no less than twenty (20) feet from any adjacent residential district, or existing residence.
(c) Dumpsters shall be easily accessed by refuse vehicles without potential damage to automobiles parked in designated parking spaces.
(d) Dumpsters shall have an enclosing lid or cover.
(Ord. K-5-94-2. Passed 5-9-94.)
1165.08 PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIONS IN PARKING LOTS FROM THE ROW TO ENTRANCES.
Parking lots shall provide and maintain specific defined spaces for pedestrian movement. All principal buildings featuring a customer or general public entrance, shall delineate areas for pedestrian movement between the public sidewalk the principal customer entrance in the parking lot. This pedestrian space shall be distinguished from driving surfaces with the use of durable, low-maintenance surface materials such as brick pavers, scored concrete, stamped concrete, pavement textures or painted surfaces to define places of pedestrian movement.
(Ord. K-5-94-2. Passed 5-9-94.)
1165.09 SURFACING.
Any off-street parking area for more than five (5) vehicles shall be graded for proper drainage to an approved system and paved with brick, concrete or asphalt so as to provide a durable and dustless surface.
(Ord. K-5-94-2. Passed 5-9-94.)
1165.10 LIGHTING.
Any lighting used to illuminate any off-street parking area shall be so arranged as to reflect the light away from adjoining premises in any "R" District.
(Ord. K-5-94-2. Passed 5-9-94.)
1165.11 OFF-STREET LOADING REQUIREMENTS.
In any district, in connection with every building or part thereof hereafter erected and having a gross floor area of ten thousand (10,000) square feet or more, which is to be occupied by manufacturing, storage, warehouse, retail store, wholesale store, market, hotel, hospital, mortuary, dry cleaning or other uses similarly requiring the receipt or distribution by vehicle of material or merchandise, there shall be provided and maintained on the same lot with such building at least one (1) off-street loading space, plus one (1) additional such loading space for each additional twenty thousand (20,000) square feet or major fraction thereof of gross floor area when required because of the volume or receipt or distribution by vehicle of material or merchandise.
(Ord. K-5-94-2. Passed 5-9-94.)
1165.12 LOCATION OF LOADING SPACES.
No loading spaces shall be located closer than fifty (50) feet to any lot in a residential district, unless wholly within a completely enclosed building or unless enclosed on all sides facing lots in any residential district by a wall or fence not less than six (6) feet in height.
(Ord. K-5-94-2. Passed 5-9-94.)