The P-1, vehicular parking district is intended to permit the establishment of areas to be used solely for off-street parking of private passenger vehicles as a use incidental to a principal use. This district will generally be provided by petition or request to serve a use district which has developed without adequate off-street parking facilities.

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Premises in the vehicular parking district shall be used only for an off-street vehicular parking area and shall be developed and maintained subject to such regulations as are hereinafter provided.

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The following use limitations are applicable in the vehicular parking districts:

(1)

The parking areas shall be accessory to, and for the use in connection with one or more business or industrial establishments, or in connection with one or more existing professional or institutional office buildings or institutions.

(2)

The parking area shall be used solely for parking of private passenger vehicles, for periods of less than one day.

(3)

No commercial repair work or service of any kind, or sale or display thereof, shall be conducted in such parking area.

(4)

No signs of any kind, other than signs designating entrances, exits and conditions of use, shall be maintained on such parking areas.

(5)

No building other than those for shelter of attendants shall be erected upon premises and they shall not exceed 14 feet in height.

(6)

Such parking lots shall be contiguous to an O-1, O-2, B-1, B-2, I-1, or I-2 district. Parking areas may be approved when adjacent to such districts, or on the end of a block where such areas front on a street which is perpendicular to that street servicing the district. There may be a private driveway or public street or public alley between such P-1 district and such O-1, O-2, B-1, B-2, B-3, I-1 or I-2 district.

(7)

Applications for P-1 district rezoning shall be made to the planning commission by submitting a layout of the area requested showing the intended parking plan.

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Off-street parking lots shall be laid out, constructed, and maintained in accordance with the standards and regulations as noted in section 78-272.

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Where the P-1 district is contiguous to side lot lines of premises within a residentially zoned district, the required wall shall be located on the property line.

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Where the P-1 district is contiguous to a residentially zoned district which has a common frontage on the same block with residential structures, or wherein no residential structures have been yet erected, there shall be a setback equal to the required residential setback for the residential district, or a minimum of 25 feet, or whichever is greater. The required wall shall be located on this minimum setback line.

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(a)

The parking area shall be provided with an obscuring screen in accordance with the provisions of sections 78-272 and 78-203. Whenever such obscuring screen is required, and where land exists between such screen and boundaries of the P-1 district it shall be kept free from refuse and debris and shall be landscaped with deciduous shrubs, evergreen material and ornamental trees. Ornamental trees shall be planted at 30-foot intervals, six feet from the screen. The ground area shall be planted and kept in lawn.

(b)

All such landscaping and planting shall be maintained in a healthy, growing condition, neat and orderly in appearance.

(c)

All planting plans shall be in accordance with the provisions of this section and in accordance with sections 78-203.

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The entire parking area, including parking spaces and maneuvering lanes, required under this section, shall have asphaltic or concrete surfacing in accordance with specifications approved by the city engineer. Such facilities shall be so provided with underground drains so as to dispose of all surface water in the parking area. The parking area shall be surfaced within six months of the date of rezoning for P-1 vehicular parking use if the parking area is to serve an existing use or uses.

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All lighting used to illuminate a P-1 district off-street parking area shall not exceed 20 feet in overall height above ground level and shall be so installed as to be confined within and directed on the parking area only.

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(a)

The planning commission may modify the yard and obscuring screen requirement where, in unusual circumstances, no good purpose would be served by compliance with the requirements of the article.

(b)

In all cases where an obscuring screen extends to an alley which is a means of ingress and egress to a parking area, it shall be permissible to end the obscuring screen not more than ten feet from such alley line in order to permit a wider means of access to the parking area.

(c)

In addition to the above requirements, such parking area shall comply with such further requirements or conditions as may be prescribed by the planning commission for the protection of the residential district abutting such parcel or parcels in which the parking area is to be located.

(Ord. of 10-6-03)