Oberlin City Zoning Code
CHAPTER 1349
Off-Street Parking and Loading
1349.01 PROVISIONS APPLYING TO PARKING AND LOADING.
(a) Purpose. The purpose of the requirements in this chapter is to further the appropriate provision and design of off-street parking and loading areas that will:
(1) Provide access for occupants, employees, customers, clients and visitors to land uses in a community dependent on automobile and truck transportation.
(2) Foster safe and efficient circulation of vehicles and pedestrians both on private property and on adjacent public streets.
(3) Minimize nuisances in residential areas from on- or off-street parking of large numbers of, or incompatible types of, vehicles.
(b) Applicability.
(1) Off-street parking and loading spaces shall be provided in conformance with the requirements of Tables 1, 2, 3 and 4 and other provisions herein for:
A. All new uses, and
B. All existing uses that are:
l. Enlarged or expanded, or
2. Otherwise changed in density, intensity, capacity or other measure that determines parking or loading requirements hereunder, or
3. Changed to any other use to which different parking requirements herein apply.
(2) The requirements of this chapter apply to any provision, removal, enlargement or alteration of any off-street parking or loading spaces or areas that are accessory to any building or structure and either:
A. Are existing as of the effective date of these regulations, or
B. Are new spaces or areas required to be provided hereunder or voluntarily provided in excess of the requirements herein.
These provisions shall likewise apply to parking that is the principal use of a parcel. Open sales lots for motor vehicles shall not be considered as parking spaces for purposes of this chapter.
No additional spaces shall be required for expansion or change of an existing use if the standards herein would require an increase over the spaces already provided on the site of less than fifteen percent (15%).
(Ord. 88-86AC. Passed 12-5-88.)
(c) Prerequisite for Permits.
(1) Building Permit/Zoning Certificate. Prior to issuance of a building permit or zoning certificate, the City Manager or his/her designee shall determine the application therefor exhibits compliance with:
A. All applicable provisions of these and other City regulations from which a variance has not been approved as provided therein, and
B. All conditions to which any approval thereunder has been made subject. (Ord. 89-85AC. Passed 12-4-89.)
(2) Certificate of occupancy. Either prior to issuance of a certificate of occupancy or within such period of time thereafter as the Planning Commission may have approved, he or she shall likewise determine either:
A. That parking and loading facilities required herein have been fully installed and improved in conformance with:
l. All currently applicable approved applications for City permits, certificates or approvals, and
2. Any conditions to which approval thereof was made subject, and
3. All provisions of this and other applicable City ordinances from which a variance has not been approved, or
B. That financial sureties approved by the Law Director have been provided guaranteeing such installation and improvement.
(d) Exception for C-l Commercial District. In recognition of the existing character and pedestrian orientation of the City's older downtown business area, no off-street parking or loading shall be required for individual uses located entirely within the C-l Commercial District and that are also located entirely within the area bounded by Lorain, Pleasant, Vine and Professor Streets.
This exception is made to minimize curb cuts disruptive to safe and efficient pedestrian circulation and to encourage provision of off-street parking in centralized locations that serve multiple uses.
(e) Variances. The Planning Commission may approve a variance to the parking or loading requirements herein on the basis either:
(1) Of criteria provided in the general regulations governing variances in this chapter, or
(2) Of submission of parking and demand studies, documented industry standards or other evidence satisfactory to the Commission that the nature of the use requires fewer spaces than required herein.
(Ord. 88-64. Passed 10-3-88.)
Notice of the variance request shall be sent by regular mail to all property owners within 200 feet of the property in question at least fourteen (14) days prior to the Planning Commission meeting. (Ord. 14-65 AC CMS. Passed 12-15-14.)
(f) Preservation and Replacement of Existing Spaces. No off-street parking or loading spaces or areas provided in full or partial conformity with the provisions of these or previous regulations shall be reduced in size, number or other characteristics below the requirements herein, or further below such requirements, so long as the use they serve continues in operation.
Residential garages shall not be converted into nonparking use unless parking requirements herein will be met after such conversion.
A use that undergoes a reduction in floor area or other measure specified herein for determining the number of required spaces may nonetheless reduce the number of spaces to those required herein for the downsized use.
(g) Use of Parking and Loading Areas. Except as otherwise provided herein, required off-street parking shall be used solely for parking for patrons, occupants, guests, visitors or employees of the premises on the same lot.
No sales, dead storage of any kind, nor motor vehicle dismantling, repair or servicing work except for emergency services, is permitted in any open off-street parking or loading area except as an accessory use to single-family detached or attached dwellings or as otherwise provided herein or as may be approved by Council.
(h) Access. Except for uses required hereunder to provide four or fewer spaces, each required off-street parking space and loading space shall open directly upon an aisle or driveway of such width and design as to provide a safe and efficient means of vehicular access. Each space shall have vehicular access to a public thoroughfare in a manner that will least interfere with traffic movement thereupon. Division of aisles and driveways shall be as provided in Table l.
(i) Grading and Drainage. All parking and loading areas shall be graded for proper drainage and the volume of storm water runoff that exceeds that existing prior to the installation of such areas shall be discharged into the City storm sewer system or in another manner approved by the Director of Public Works.
(j) Maintenance. All parking and loading areas shall be maintained free of dust, trash and debris. The surfacing, curbing, lighting fixtures, marking, signage and related appurtenances shall be maintained in good condition so long as such areas are used for parking or loading purposes.
(k) Signs. All signs relating to off-street parking and loading areas shall conform to the provisions on signs in Chapter 1351.
(Ord. 88-64. Passed 10-3-88.)
(l) Illumination. Uses required herein to provide over four (4) parking spaces or one or more loading spaces shall provide, for such spaces as are intended to be commonly used at night, lighting facilities that comply with the regulations contained in Section 1357.10(c)(9) of the Code.
(Ord. 14-65 AC CMS. Passed 12-15-14.)
(Ord. 14-65 AC CMS. Passed 12-15-14.)
(m) Landscaping and Screening. All uses providing ten or more off-street parking spaces or any loading spaces shall screen such spaces from the view of the street and from adjacent residential property. Such screening shall take the form of a uniformly painted solid fence, wall, landscape screen or combination thereof that provides year-round opacity and that conform to the following requirements:
Location of Parking or Loading Area | Minimum Height (a) of Screening in Feet (b) | Location of Screening |
Within 100 feet of a public street (c) | Along entire length of abutting street line except for access ways. | |
Parking spaces | 3 | |
Loading spaces | 5 | |
Abutting a residential district (d) | 5 | Along entire length of property line between parking or loading area and the residential district except for access ways. |
(a) Height shall be fence height as defined herein.
(b) At time of installation.
(c) Maximum height of screening within thirty feet of an at-grade street or railroad intersection shall be three feet.
(d) Maximum height of screening at any time shall be seven feet.
(Ord. 88-64. Passed 10-3-88.)
The Planning Commission may approve a landscaping and screening plan which deviates from the requirements herein, upon a showing that strict adherence to such screening and landscaping requirements will have a detrimental effect upon the safety and welfare of the residents of the City.
All screening and landscaping plans shall be reviewed by and receive the written approval of the City Grounds Director prior to approval of the Commission.
(Ord. 88-86AC. Passed 12-5-88.)
1349.02 OFF-STREET PARKING PROVISIONS.
(a) Small Car Parking Spaces. Up to twenty-five percent (25%) of required off-street parking spaces may be of small car parking space dimensions as provided in Table l, provided that such spaces are clearly identified by signs and pavement markings as intended for small cars only.
(b) Collective Provision. Required parking spaces for different uses may be provided collectively. Except as provided herein under subsections (c) and (f), the total number of spaces so provided shall not be less than the sum of the spaces required for each separate use and no parking space shall serve as the required space for more than one use.
A binding written agreement approved as legally sufficient by the Law Director shall be filed with an application for a building permit, guaranteeing the intended users of collective parking spaces the right to their use.
(c) Parking for Shopping Centers. The number of parking spaces required for retail and personal service uses located in a shopping center shall be as provided for shopping centers in Table 4 rather than the sum of the spaces required for the individual uses.
Except that the number of spaces for restaurants, taverns and drive-in facilities located in a shopping center and for any establishment occupying over fifty percent (50%) of the net floor area of the center, shall be as provided in Table 4 for these individual uses. This number shall be added to the number of spaces required by Table 4 for shopping centers for the balance of the uses in the center.
(d) Surfacing of Parking Areas. All open off-street parking areas and related vehicular access drives and aisles, including residential driveways and widenings thereof, shall be surfaced as follows:
Use | Required Surfacing |
Single-family detached dwellings or conversions of such dwellings to rooming houses, accessory apartments or multi-family units | l. Crushed stone, gravel or similar material, or |
2. Any surface required for other uses below. | |
(Ord. 11-22 AC CMS. Passed 4-18-11.) | |
All other uses | Asphalt, concrete, brick, paving block or similar durable, dustless surface including pervious pavement surfaces installed and maintained in accordance with industry and manufacturers’ standards. |
(Ord. 14-65 AC CMS. Passed 12-15-14.) | |
The Planning and Development Director may waive the requirement for surfacing herein for a parking area located no less than 400 feet from a residential district that serves a use located in an M Industrial District.
(Ord. 11-22 AC CMS. Passed 4-18-11.)
(Ord. 11-22 AC CMS. Passed 4-18-11.)
(e) Marking. All off-street parking spaces for uses required to provide over four spaces shall be marked by durable painted lines, thermoplastic or similar markings, curbs or other means that clearly designate individual spaces.
(Ord. 14-65 AC CMS. Passed 12-15-14.)
(f) Shared Parking. Off-street parking spaces provided for one use may be credited by the Planning and Development Director toward the spaces required herein for another use that normally operates during different hours. This provision shall apply only to spaces either provided for or to be credited to the following uses and only up to the applicable percentage specified of the total spaces required:
Percentage of Required Spaces that May Be Shared Parking | Use |
100 | Church Auditorium or school auditorium |
50 | Bowling alley Dance hall Restaurant Tavern or night club Theater |
To be credited, such spaces shall be:
(1) Included within a parking area that is located no further from the use to which the spaces are to be credited than the walking distances specified in the provision on subsection (i) hereof.
(2) Not reserved on a twenty-four hour basis for particular individuals, occupants or organizations.
(3) Included in a written agreement filed with the Code Administrator and approved as legally sufficient by the Law Director that:
A. Specifically allows the use of such spaces by the use to which they are to be credited, and
B. Specifies the type of establishment and normal operating hours - or hours during which parking spaces proposed for crediting are normally used--seven days a week for all uses sharing such spaces.
If the Planning and Development Director determines that any uses sharing spaces would regularly utilize such spaces during all or some of the same hours, he or she may disallow the crediting of such spaces.
(g) Wheel Guards or Curbing. Where parking spaces are so located that vehicles parked therein might extend beyond the parking surface, such as onto streets, sidewalks or landscaped areas, there shall be installed wheel guards, bumper guards, curbing or other means of restraint to prevent such encroachment. This requirement shall not apply to uses providing four or fewer parking spaces.
(h) Forward Vehicular Motion. Except for dwellings having individual garages or driveways, off-street parking areas shall be designed to enable vehicles to enter or leave such areas moving in a forward direction.
(i) Location of Parking Spaces.
(1) On same or separate lot. Required off-street parking for single-family detached and attached dwellings and manufactured homes on individual lots shall be provided on the same lot as the use served. Parking spaces within garages or carports and on driveways shall be counted as required spaces for such dwellings.
Required parking for other uses--including rooming houses, dormitories, single-family dwellings with accessory apartments and multifamily dwellings--may also be provided on a separate lot that is in the same possession by deed, lease or other written certification approved as legally sufficient by the Law Director that confirms its availability to the use. No parking on a separate lot for any nonresidential or nonlodging use shall be separated from the use by any residentially-zoned property not in the same possession as the use.
Required parking shall be located within the following walking distances from the nearest point of the parking area to the nearest pedestrian entrance to the use served:
Use | Feet |
Manufactured homes in manufactured home parks, Rooming houses, accessory apartments in single-family dwellings and multi-family residential: | 200 |
Commercial and institutional: | 400 |
Office and industrial: | 1,000 |
(2) In yards.
A. Single-family and townhouses.
1. In required yards. Open off-street parking for single-family detached and attached, duplex and townhouse dwellings-- and for such dwellings that have been converted to rooming houses, dwellings with accessory apartments or multifamily dwellings--may be located in required front, side and rear yards except as otherwise provided herein.
Where because of the slope of a lot, location of a garage outside of the required front or corner side yard would necessitate a driveway slope greater than twelve percent (12%), the garage may be located within the required yard a minimum of six feet from the street line.
2. In actual yards. One motor vehicle that is not a commercial or recreational vehicle as defined herein may be parked within an actual front or corner side yard. Additional such vehicles may be so parked provided that coverage of the actual front yard by parking shall not exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of front yard area. All such vehicles not enclosed within a building or carport shall be parked entirely upon a driveway or comparably surfaced widening thereof and shall not encroach upon any public sidewalk.
Any additional motor vehicles shall be parked outside of such yards, provided that coverage of the actual rear yard by parking shall not exceed fifty percent (50%) of yard area. Except that where the dimensions of actual side yards and the absence of an alley preclude vehicular access to the side and rear yards, this restriction shall not apply.
B. Other uses. Open off-street parking for other uses, including multifamily residential, may be located in required side and rear yards, but not in required front yards.
No off-street parking for any such use is permitted within any required yard abutting or across an alley from property in a Single- Family Residential District. No parking for any nonresidential use is permitted within any required yard abutting or across an alley from property in any residential district.
(j) Parking for Single-Family Conversions. Parking requirements for rooming houses, multiple-family dwellings and other uses to which single-family dwellings have been lawfully converted may be satisfied by, among other measures, any of the following:
(1) Widening of an existing driveway surface, subject to location and maximum coverage provisions in subsection (i) hereof.
(2) Establishment of a parking pad in a side yard.
(3) Written agreement with the owner thereof that allows use of an available parking space on a nearby property and that is approved as legally sufficient by the City
Law Director
.
(Ord. 11-22 AC CMS. Passed 4-18-11.)
(Ord. 11-22 AC CMS. Passed 4-18-11.)
(k) Recreational Vehicles. The present regulations in this subsection are hereby repealed and replaced with the regulations noted below:
(1) In residential districts. A single recreational vehicle as defined herein per dwelling unit may be parked or stored in a residential district provided that:
A. The parking or storage of a recreational vehicle must be in a garage or similar enclosed structure or the rear yard area of a residential lot;
B. Any recreational vehicle parked or stored in the rear yard of a residential lot be located on an improved surface (including gravel) as referenced in Section 1349.02(d) of the Zoning Code, and shall be adequately screened from view by landscaping or fencing or walls that create an opaque barrier;
C. For any recreational vehicle parked or stored in a rear yard area of a residential lot, the recreational vehicle shall be located a minimum setback distance of 3.0 feet from any side or rear lot line;
D. Any recreational vehicle shall not be used for living or sleeping purposes unless a permit has been issued by the Oberlin Police Department. A maximum of six (6) permits may be issued for a property in one calendar year. Each permit is valid for a maximum of four (4) consecutive days;
E. Fixed connections to electricity, water, sanitary or gas services are not permitted.
F. Parking of a recreational vehicle on a City street overnight is prohibited.
G. A recreational vehicle may only be parked in a driveway for loading or unloading purposes for a period of not more than twelve (12) hours in any consecutive thirty (30) day period; and
H. A recreational vehicle may be parked in a driveway for loading or unloading purposes under subsection (k)(1)G. above and only in that part of the driveway located outside of the public street.
(Ord. 14-65 AC CMS. Passed 12-15-14.)
(2) In other districts. There shall be no restrictions on parking of recreational vehicles in nonresidential districts, other than those concerning outdoor storage.
(Ord. 11-22 AC CMS. Passed 4-18-11.)
(Ord. 11-22 AC CMS. Passed 4-18-11.)
(l) Parking of Commercial Vehicles.
(1) In residential districts. No commercial vehicle as defined under Section 1321.97 of the Zoning Code and weighing more than 8,000 pounds unloaded may be parked or stored in a residential district other than in a completely enclosed garage except for loading or unloading of household belongings between 6:00 am. and midnight for the purpose of moving a personal residence or for deliveries, repairs, construction, maintenance or service calls. Alternatively such commercial vehicles may be parked on an improved surface (including gravel) in the rear yard area of the lot, shall be setback a minimum distance of 3.0 feet from any side or rear lot line, and shall screened from view of abutting residential properties by an opaque barrier (fencing or landscaping).
(2) In commercial districts. No commercial vehicle as defined herein may be parked or stored in a commercial district other than in a completely enclosed garage or in an off-street parking facility open to the public unless it is used in a business located on the same premises or is being parked temporarily by a customer, supplier, contractor or visitor or for loading, unloading, moving or construction, maintenance or repair of the premises.
The parking or storage of an unhitched semi-trailer or tractor is prohibited.
The parking or storage of commercial vehicles with refrigeration equipment within 50 feet of a residential zoning district is prohibited.
(Ord. 14-65 AC CMS. Passed 12-15-14.)
(m) Handicapped Parking. All uses providing over twenty-five parking spaces shall mark at least one space as reserved for the handicapped One space shall be so marked for the first fifty spaces and one additional space shall be marked for every 100 spaces thereafter.
All such spaces shall be as close as possible to a building entrance accessible to the handicapped and shall offer barrier-free access thereto. Such spaces shall have sufficient width to allow for wheelchair access to a passenger car or passenger van parked therein.
(Ord. 11-22 AC CMS. Passed 4-18-11.)
1349.03 OFF-STREET LOADING PROVISIONS.
(a) Location of Loading Spaces. All required loading spaces shall have adequate ingress from and egress to a public street or alley and shall be located:
(1) On the same lot as the use to be served, except when collectively provided as central loading facilities in conformance with the requirements herein, and
(2) Outside of required front and side yards, and
(3) In such a manner that no portion of a vehicle shall project across a public sidewalk or into a street.
(b) Surfacing of Loading Areas. All open off-street loading spaces and related vehicular access drives and aisles shall be surfaced with a hard-surfaced all-weather pavement with a load-bearing capability approved by the Director of Public Works.
(c) Collective Provision. Loading spaces required for individual lots may be collectively provided in central facilities provided that all of the following requirements are met:
(1) The number of spaces provided is not less than that required by the total floor space for each category of use served.
(2) Each lot served has direct access to the central facilities without crossing streets at grade.
(3) The central facilities are not more than 500 feet from any lot they serve.
(4) Any tunnel or ramp between the central facilities and any lot served is at least nine feet wide and has a vertical clearance of at least seven feet.
(5) Written covenants and easements approved as legally sufficient by the
Law Director
and recorded with the County provide for the retention, maintenance and use of such facilities.
(Ord. 88-64AC. Passed 10-3-88.)
TABLE 1: PARKING AND LOADING DIMENSIONS
Parking Space | Loading Space (g) | |||
For Small Cars (a) | For Other Cars | For Tractor Trailers | For Other Trucks (c) | |
Minimum depth in feet | 15(b) | 18(b) | 60 | 25 |
Minimum width in feet | 7.5 | 9 | 14 | 10 |
Minimum vertical clearance in feet | 7 | 7 | 14 | 14 |
Minimum aisle width in feet: | ||||
Angle of spaces: 0 degrees (d) | 13 | 13 | ||
30 degrees | 12 | 12 | ||
45 degrees | 13 | 13 | ||
60 degrees | 18 | 18 | ||
90 degrees (e) | 24 | 24 | ||
DRIVEWAY WIDTH (f) in feet:
Residential Districts | Other Districts | |||
Minimum | Desired | Minimum | Desired | |
One-way traffic | 9 | 12 | 10 | 14 |
Minimum driveway distance to street intersection in feet: 50
(a) Up to twenty-five percent (25%) of required spaces may be for small cars.
(b) Parallel parking spaces shall be 22 feet deep.
(c) Permitted for uses not normally serviced by tractor-trailers.
(d) Zero degrees parking refers to parallel parking.
(e) Aisle width for 90 degree parking allows for two-way traffic.
(f)
Radii shall be approved by the Planning and Development Director in compliance with standards established by the Director of Public Works.
(g) Requirements apply to uses required to provide one or more loading spaces by Table 2.
(h) The Planning Commission may approve to vary these requirements with just cause.
(i) All driveway widths shall be measured at the right-of-way line and shall maintain at least the minimum required width the entire distance of the driveway.
(Ord. 11-22 AC CMS. Passed 4-18-11.)
TABLE 2: REQUIRED NUMBER OF OFF-STREET LOADING SPACES
Type of Use | Building Size (Sq. ft.)* | Number of Spaces ** |
Offices | ||
Public uses | 10,000 - 100,000 | 1 |
Institutional uses | ||
Manufacturing | ||
Warehousing and storage | 5,000 - 40,000 | 1 |
Cartage & express | 40,001 - 100,000 | 2 |
Retail and service | 5,000 - 10,000 | |
10,001 - 25,000 | 2 | |
25,001 - 40,000 | 3 | |
40,001 - 100,000 | 4 | |
* Building size measured by Net Floor Area, as defined herein
** One additional space shall be provided for every 100,000 square feet over 100,000 square feet, with fractional spaces rounded to the nearest integer.
No space shall at the same time fully or partially serve to meet the requirement for both off-street parking and loading facilities.
Uses smaller than the smallest values given for each category shall be provided with other receiving facilities for motor vehicles judged adequate by the Planning and Development Director.
Requirements of this table shall not apply to C-1 Commercial District as provided under Section 1349.01(d).
(Ord. 11-22 AC CMS. Passed 4-18-11.)
(Ord. 11-22 AC CMS. Passed 4-18-11.)
TABLE 3: REQUIRED NUMBER OF OFF-STREET PARKING SPACES FOR RESIDENTIAL AND LODGING USES
RESIDENTIAL (a) | Minimum Number of Spaces Required Per Dwelling or Lodging Unit |
Efficiency units | 1.25 |
1-Bedroom units | 1.5 |
All other units | 2.0 |
Small existing Lots (e) | 0 |
LODGING (b) (d) | |
Bed and Breakfast Inn | 1(g) |
Hotel | 1(c) |
Motel | 1(c) |
Apartment hotel | 1 |
Rooming house | 0.5 |
Dormitories (f) | |
For students allowed to park cars at dormitories | 0.5 |
For all other students | 0 |
See also Table 4 for required spaces for other uses.
Fractional spaces shall be rounded to the nearest integer.
Requirements of this table shall not apply to the C-1 Commercial District as provided under Section 1349.01(d)
(a) Includes single-family detached or attached, townhouses, duplexes, apartments and manufactured homes. Required spaces include .25 spaces per unit for visitor parking but shall be increased by 1 space for each roomer or lodger. No more than 4 spaces shall be provided per dwelling or lodging unit.
(b) Plus 1 parking space per owner, manager or employee on largest shift.
(c) Plus spaces for restaurant, retail and meeting rooms, if any, as provided in Table 4.
(d) One space for each truck or business vehicle employed by an establishment on the premises shall be provided in addition to the number of spaces indicated in this table.
(e) Single-family detached dwelling units of any size on existing lots of record as of the effective date of these regulations having a lot width of 40 feet or less and lacking access to an alley.
(f) Requirement is number of spaces per bed, not per unit.
(g) Plus 2 spaces for the host dwelling unit.
(Ord. 88-64AC. Passed 10-3-88; Ord. 14-65 AC CMS. Passed 12-15-14.)
(h) Bicycle parking standards are also applicable to multiple-family residential, college and other institutional uses other than in the downtown district defined under Section 1349.01(d) of this Code.
(Ord. 14-65 AC CMS. Passed 12-15-14.)
TABLE 4: REQUIRED NUMBER OF OFF-STREET PARKING SPACES FOR NONRESIDENTIAL AND NONLODGING USES
Minimum Nunmber of Spaces Required (a) | |||
Per Employee (b) | Per 1,000 square feet Floor Area | Required (a) Per Person Design Capacity (c) | |
SCHOOLS | |||
Elementary
| 1 | -- | --– |
Junior high | 1 | --– | -- |
High school | 1 | --– | .25(d) |
College or university | 1 | -- | (m) |
Commercial | 1 | -- | .25(d) |
RECREATIONAL | |||
Indoor theater | -- | -- | .25 |
Bowling alley | |||
Per lane | -- | -- | --(h) |
Restaurant/bar | -- | 3 | -- |
Arena or stadium | -- | -- | .25 |
Auditorium (nonschool) | .25 | ||
Health club | -- | 5.0 | -- |
Skating rink | --– | 5.0 | -- |
Swimming pool | --– | -- | .25 |
Dance or meeting hall | -- | -- | .25 |
Community center | -- | -- | .25 |
Club or lodge | -- | 5.0 | -- |
INSTITUTIONAL | |||
Church | -- | -- | .25 |
Public utility and service | -- | 1 | -- |
Institution office or meeting hall | 1 | -- | -- |
Library, museum or gallery | -- | 2.5 | --– |
Nursing home | 1 | -- | --(f) |
Child day care center | -- | 2 | -- |
Government offices | -- | 3.5 | -- |
MEDICAL | |||
Hospital | 1 | -- | --(e) |
Clinic | -- | 4.0 | -- |
Animal hospital | -- | 2.5 | -- |
AUTOMOTIVE | |||
Auto laundry | 1 | -- | --(i) |
Service station | 1 | -- | --(k) |
Vehicle sales | -- | 2.5 | -- |
OFFICE BUILDING(1) | -- | 3.5 | -- |
SHOPPING CENTER: | |||
Under 400,000 square feet | -- | 4 | -- |
400,000 - 600,000 square feet | -- | 4.5 | -- |
Over 600,000 square feet | -- | 5 | -- |
DEPARTMENT STORE | -- | 4 | -- |
SUPERMARKET or Food Store | -- | 4 | -- |
HARDWARE store | -- | 3.5 | --- |
BANK or financial institution | -- | 5 | --(g) |
RESTAURANT: | |||
Carry out only | -- | 16 | -- |
Drive in and eat in | -- | 20 | --(g) |
Eat in, no drive in | -- | 20 | -- |
TAVERN | -- | 10 | -- |
MORTUARY | 1 | 10 | -- |
CONTRACTOR or Construction office | 1 | -- | -- |
FURNITURE AND APPLIANCE | |||
Sales or repair store | -- | 1.5 | -- |
OTHER RETAIL | |||
and personal service | -- | 4.5 | --(g) |
INDUSTRIAL | |||
Cartage and express firms | 1 | -- | -- |
Warehousing and wholesaling | 1 | .5 | --(j) |
Radio or TV station or studio | 1 | -- | -- |
Manufacturing, research, testing | 1 | 1.5 | --(j) |
NOTES FOR TABLE 4
Unless otherwise provided herein, required parking is the sum of the requirements in all columns of this Table.
See also Table 3 for required spaces for residential and lodging uses.
Parking for uses not listed shall be as provided for the most similar listed use as determined by the Planning Commission
Requirements of this table shall not apply to the C-1 Commercial District as provided under Section 1349.01(d).
Floor area shall be Net Floor Areas as defined herein. All required space figures shall be prorated for each establishment. Fractional spaces shall be rounded to the nearest integer.
(a) One space for each truck or business vehicle employed by an establishment on the premises shall be provided in addition to the number of spaces specified.
(b) Maximum number of full- and part-time employees on duty on the premises at any one time.
(c) Per seat in main auditorium or meeting room or per person of design capacity of the facility. Eighteen inches of seating space shall be considered a seat for purposes of this requirement where individual seats are not discernable.
(d) Capacity in full-time students attending classes at any one time.
(e) Plus 0.5 spaces per bed, excluding bassinets.
(f) Plus 0.25 spaces per bed.
(g) Plus 5 stacking spaces per drive-in window.
(h) 5 spaces per bowling lane.
(i) Plus stacking spaces equal to 5 times the capacity of the car wash. The capacity shall be calculated as the number of vehicles that can be accommodated at any one time in any phase of the washing or waxing process.
(j)
Employment standard or floor space standard, whichever is greater, shall be used. If employment is not known when plans are drawn, floor space standard may be used. If upon occupancy the employment standard yields a greater number of required spaces, the Planning and Development Director may require the provision of additional parking before granting a certificate of occupancy.
(k) Plus 2 spaces per service bay.
(l) Applies to offices generally attracting employees but not customers. Offices that regularly attract customers such as real estate, insurance, tax preparation and the like shall meet the standard for other retail and personal service uses.
(m) Planning Commission shall determine parking requirements, including such institutional buildings as libraries and auditoriums.
(Ord. 11-22 AC CMS. Passed 4-18-11.)
(n) Bicycle parking standards are also applicable to multiple-family residential, college and other institutional uses other than in the downtown district defined under Section 1349.01(d) of this Code.
(Ord. 14-65 AC CMS. Passed 12-15-14.)
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