Whenever any ordinance, regulation, or plan enacted or adopted by the city council is for the purpose of providing off-street automobile parking spaces or of establishing requirements that such spaces be provided within any section or sections of the city, then such plan or requirements shall govern within such sections. Otherwise off-street automobile parking spaces shall be provided as follows, applicable to buildings hereafter erected and uses hereafter established, to such nonconforming uses as may be required to conform to the regulations hereof, and to extensions and enlargements of buildings and uses:
(1) Where a building or a site contains two (2) or more uses, the off-street parking requirement shall be computed as the sum of the required off-street parking spaces for each individual use.
(2) Each business, commercial, manufacturing or industrial use having deliveries made by truck more than once a day between the hours of nine o’clock (9:00) a.m. and five o’clock (5:00) p.m., or where the time of loading and unloading materials or goods exceeds ten (10) minutes between those hours, shall provide off-street truck loading space on the lot, such space to be not less than thirty-five feet (35') in length, twelve feet (12') in width, and fifteen feet (15') in height.
(3) For the purpose of this section, one parking stall shall be not less than one hundred eighty (180) square feet in area, together with whatever area is required for means of ingress and egress thereto, except that in the case where attendants perform the act of parking in defined and adequate stalls then each such stall shall be considered a parking stall as required herein.
(4) A driveway for access to any single parking space or to a parking lot shall be not less than eleven feet (11') in width nor more than thirty feet (30') in width at the property line along the street and shall be so located as to minimize traffic hazard and congestion.
(5) All required parking stalls shall be located on the premises to which such requirement applies or within an off-street space distance not more than five hundred feet (500') from such premises, provided that such stalls as are required for employees and proprietors of any premises may be located within an off-street space distance not more than one thousand feet (1,000') from such premises except as otherwise provided in this section or other sections of this article.
(6) Provision of parking stalls shared jointly by several persons in the same block or in the same vicinity is permissible, in which case the number of stalls required shall be the sum total of the individual requirements, provided that where it is found by the board of appeals, upon application thereto, that the parking demand generated by the different uses included in any joint arrangement to provide parking stalls required herein occurs at distinctly different times, as in the case of a theater generating demand for parking during such daytime hours, and in similar cases, the board may reduce the total number of parking stalls to be jointly provided.
(7) All parking spaces required for any use and provided in compliance with the provisions of this section on the same lot or plot as that occupied by such use shall be considered to be required spaces for the use or uses to which appurtenant and shall not be reduced or encroached upon in any manner.
(8) The surface of parking stalls and aisles, truck standing spaces, and access driveways therefor shall be treated, prepared and maintained for adequate drainage and the elimination of dust, dirt, and mud, according to city specifications.
(9) In a case where existing off-street parking facilities have unused parking capacity and where such facilities are open to the use of the public free of charge or at reasonable rates, the board may reduce the parking space requirements for any use distance not more than eight hundred feet (800') from such facility or facilities, provided that the total number of stalls in such reduction shall be not greater than the total number of stalls of unused capacity.
(10) In a case where any public or private off-street parking facility, to be open to the use of the public free of charge or at a reasonable rate, is planned or is in process of development and where the board has reasonable assurance that such development will be carried to completion and will, when completed, relieve the parking demand in an area within five hundred feet (500') thereof in some measure or in full measure, the board may establish a reasonable time period within which any use or uses within such area shall provide required space for parking stalls. Upon completion of all or a portion of such development, the provision of subsection
(11) of this section may be applied by the board.
(11) In a case where it is clearly shown by the applicant to the satisfaction of the board that the provision of the amount of space required herein for parking stalls, due to the particular nature of the proposed use or other condition, would be an unnecessary hardship, the board may reduce such requirement.
(12) Surfaces of parking areas and vehicular use areas for all zoning districts must be asphalt or concrete except gravel or similar all-weather surface is permitted if:
(A) Property is zoned I-1 - Light Industrial District or I-2 - Heavy Industrial District and the parking area is screened and not visible from the right-of-way.
(B) Property is zoned SF-E - Single-Family Estate Residential District, SF-1 - Single-Family 1 Residential District, SF-2 - Single-Family 2 Residential District, and SF-3 - Single-Family 3 Residential District and the parking area is screened and not visible from the right-of-way.
(13) A minimum of two off-street improved parking spaces be [are] required in addition to minimum garage parking requirements for all single-family residential land uses.
(14) That duplexes be [are] required to have a minimum of a one car garage for each two bedroom duplex unit and a two car garage for each three bedroom or more duplex unit. Each duplex unit would also be required to have two off-street parking spaces in addition to required garage parking.
(1993 Code, sec. 10-4-1; Ordinance 470-14-2022, sec. 11, adopted 1/27/22; Ordinance 300-11-2016, ex. A, adopted 9/12/16)