In all districts and in connection with every use, there shall be provided, at the time any use or building is erected, enlarged, extended, or increased, off-street parking stalls for vehicles in accordance with the following:

(1)

Size of parking spaces. The size of each parking space shall be not less than 180 square feet exclusive of the space required for ingress and egress.

(2)

Location of parking spaces. The location shall be on the same lot as the principal use and no parking stall or driveway except in residential districts shall be closer than 50 feet to a residential district lot line.

(3)

Surfacing; drainage; design and improvements; landscaping. All open off-street parking areas except parking spaces accessory to single-family and two-family dwellings shall be surfaced with a bituminous or concrete pavement in accordance with the village standards and specifications within 15 months from the date of occupancy of the building or premises. Such parking areas shall be graded so as to dispose of all surface waters and no significant surface waters shall be allowed to drain across public sidewalks or unto adjacent property. Such parking areas shall be arranged and marked to provide for orderly and safe parking and storage of vehicles, and shall be improved with curbs, wheel stops, or bumper guards to prevent encroachment into adjacent lots or public ways. All public off-street parking areas which are created or redesigned and rebuilt subsequent to the adoption of the ordinance from which this section is derived shall be provided with accessory landscape areas totaling not less than five percent of the surfaced parking area. Except in the B-3 District minimum size of each landscape area shall be no less than 75 square feet. Each such parking area shall be bounded by a greenbelt of at least ten feet in width between the parking area and all property boundaries. The location of landscape areas and plant materials and the protection afforded the plantings, including curbing and provision for maintenance, shall be subject to approval by the plan commission. All plans for such proposed parking areas shall include a topographic survey showing the grade and location of improvements. Existing trees, shrubs, and other natural vegetation in the parking area may be included in the required minimum landscape area.

(4)

Number of parking spaces. The following guide shall be used in the provision of parking spaces keeping in mind the need for future growth of the business/industry/agency:

Combinations of any of the above uses shall provide the total of the number of stalls required for each individual use. The zoning administrator shall enforce off-street parking requirements as defined in this chapter.

(5)

Off-street parking is not permitted in front yards of residential districts except in an established driveway.

(Code 1980, § 17.0601; Ord. No. 2010-7 VB, 12-13-2010)

On every lot on which a business, trade, or industrial use is established, space with access to a public street or alley shall be provided on the premises as indicated in the district regulations for the loading and unloading of vehicles.

(Code 1980, § 17.0602)

No obstructions such as structures, automobile parking, or vegetation shall be permitted in any district between heights of 2½ feet and seven feet above the mean curb grades within the triangular (vision clearance) space formed by any two existing or proposed intersecting street or alley right-of-way (property) lines and a line joining points on such lines located a minimum of 15 feet from their intersection. In the case of arterial streets intersecting with other arterial street or railways, the corner cutoff distances establishing the triangular vision clearance space shall be increased from 15 to 25 feet.

(Code 1980, § 17.0603)

All driveways installed, altered, changed, replaced, or extended after the effective date of the ordinance from which this chapter is derived shall meet the following requirements:

(1)

Islands between driveway openings shall be provided with a minimum of 20 feet between all driveways and ten feet at all lot lines.

(2)

Openings for vehicular ingress and egress shall meet county or state requirements where applicable but in no case shall exceed 20 feet at the right-of-way line and 25 feet at the roadway in residential districts or 30 feet at the right-of-way line and 35 feet at the roadway in all other districts.

(3)

All driveways in multifamily, commercial, industrial, and institutional uses shall be paved.

(4)

Vehicular entrances and exits to drive-in banks, motels, funeral homes, and vehicular sales, service, washing and repair stations, garages, or public parking lots shall be not less than 200 feet from any pedestrian entrance or exit to a school, college, university, church, hospital, park, playground, library, public emergency shelter, or other place of public assembly.

(Code 1980, § 17.0604)

No direct private access shall be permitted to the existing or proposed right-of-ways of freeways, expressways, and any other controlled access arterial street, without permission of the agency having access control jurisdiction. In addition:

(1)

No direct public or private access shall be permitted to the existing or proposed right-of-ways of freeways, interstate highways, and their interchanges or turning lanes, nor to intersections or interchanging streets within 1,500 feet of the most remote end of the taper of the turning lanes.

(2)

No direct public or private access shall be permitted to existing or proposed right-of-ways within 150 feet of the intersection of the right-of-way lines of arterial streets intersecting another arterial street.

(3)

Access barriers such as curbing, fencing, ditching, landscaping, or other topographic barriers may be required by the plan commission to prevent unauthorized vehicular ingress or egress to the above-specified streets or highways.

(4)

Temporary access to the above right-of-ways may be granted by the village board after review and recommendation by the highway agencies having jurisdiction. Such access permit shall be temporary, revocable, and subject to any conditions required, and shall be issued for a period not exceeding 12 months.

(Code 1980, § 17.0605)