The regulations codified in this chapter are established to increase safety and lessen congestion in the public streets, to adequately provide for parking needs associated with the development of land and increased automobile usage, to set standards for the requirements of off-street parking according to the amount of traffic generated by each use, and to eliminate the on-street storage of vehicles.

(Res. 1-1 §6(part), November 16, 1982)

The following required off-street parking spaces for the particular use are minimum requirements:

Amusement parks - one per each five hundred (500) square feet of lot area for public use;

Apartment, hotels - one per dwelling unit;

Aquariums - one per eight hundred (800) square feet of floor area;

Art galleries - one per eight hundred (800) square feet of floor area;

Auction houses - one per each five (5) seats;

Auditoriums - one per five (5) seats;

Automobile service stations - one per each two employees, plus one per owner or manager plus two spaces per service stall;

Beauty and barber shops - one per each two employees, plus two per each chair;

Boarding and lodging houses - one, plus one per each two persons for whom living accommodations are provided;

Bowling alleys - five per each alley, plus three per each ten persons accommodated by affiliated uses;

Business offices and banks - one per each five employees, plus one per two hundred (200) square feet of floor area for customer, client, or patron use;

Business schools - one per each two employees, plus one per each one hundred (100) square feet of instruction space;

Churches - one per five seats;

Community centers - three per each ten persons accommodated;

Cultural and civic institutions - one per two employees, plus one per each eight hundred (800) square feet of public area;

Dance halls - three per each ten persons accommodated;

Dancing schools - one per each two employees, plus one per each one hundred (100) square feet of instruction space;

Dental offices or clinics - one per each examining or treatment room, plus one per doctor, plus one per each three other employees;

Dwelling units - one per dwelling unit;

Eating and drinking establishments - one per each one hundred (100) square feet of floor area for public use;

Elementary schools - one per classroom;

Fraternity and sorority houses - one, plus one per each two persons for whom living accommodations are provided;

Funeral parlors - one per funeral vehicle maintained on premises, plus ten per chapel or parlor;

Gymnasiums - one per five seats;

Governmental offices - one per each five employees, plus one per two hundred (200) square feet of floor area for customer, client, or patron use;

Health institutions other than hospitals or clinics - one per each four beds, plus one per each staff doctor, plus one per each other two employees;

High schools - three per classroom;

Hospitals - one per each three beds, plus one per staff doctor plus one per each four employees;

Hotels - one, plus one per each two persons for whom living accommodations are provided;

Junior high school - one per classroom;

Libraries - one per eight hundred (800) square feet of floor area;

Medical offices or clinics - one per each examining or treatment room, plus one per doctor, plus one per each three other employees;

Manufactured home parks - one per manufactured home;

Modeling schools - one per each two employees plus one per each one hundred (100) square feet of instruction space;

Motels - one per dwelling unit;

Museums - one per eight hundred (800) square feet of floor area;

Music schools - one per each one hundred (100) square feet of instruction space;

Non-business clubs - one per each three members;

Nursing homes - one per each four beds, plus one per each staff doctor, plus one per each other two employees;

Nursery schools - one off-street parking space per every two employees;

Private clubs and lodges - one plus one per each two persons for whom living accommodations are provided;

Professional offices - one per each five employees, plus one per two hundred (200) square feet of floor area for customer, client or patron use;

Retail sales - one per three employees and one per two hundred (200) square feet devoted to the public;

Savings and loan associations - one per each five employees, plus one per two hundred (200) square feet of floor area for customer, client, or patron use;

Stadiums and grandstands - one per five seats;

Swimming pools - three per each ten persons accommodated;

Theaters, indoor - one per each six seats up to four hundred (400), plus one per each five seats over four hundred (400);

Tourist homes and cabins - one per dwelling unit;

Trade schools - one per each two employees, plus one per each one hundred (100) square feet of instruction space;

Transient trailer camps - one per dwelling unit;

Truck terminals - one per two employees;

Undertaking establishments - one per funeral vehicle maintained on premises, plus ten per chapel or parlor;

Wholesale, manufacturing, and industrial plants - one per three employees plus one space per company vehicle;

Wholesale offices - one per each five employees, plus one per two hundred (200) square feet of floor area for customer, client, or patron use.

(Res. 13 Exh. A (part), June 11, 2002; Res. 1-1 §6 (1), November 16, 1982)

In any determination of total parking requirements, any fraction less than one-half (½) may be dropped and any fraction of one-half (½) or more shall be counted as one (1) parking space.

(Res. 1-1 §6 (2), November 16, 1982)

An accessory off-street parking space must be at least eight and one-half (8½) feet wide and be at least eighteen (18) feet long having a minimum loading area of one hundred fifty-three (153) square feet, exclusive of access drives, aisles, ramp columns, or work areas. On areas surfaced, the parking stalls shall be marked with paint or other equivalent method. In lots containing eight (8) or more required spaces, provision of up to fifty (50) percent of the parking stalls with seven and one-half (7½) by sixteen (16) feet parking spaces will be permitted if each of the smaller parking spaces is equally convenient to the use being served as the larger spaces, if each of the parking stalls is double lined painted, and if each of the smaller spaces is signed "Small Cars Only." The zoning administrator shall determine what is equally convenient and what is not.

Handicapped parking spaces must be a minimum of twelve and one-half (12½) feet in width and eighteen (18) feet in length.

(Res. 16a §20, November 19, 1985; Res. 1-1 §6 (3), November 16, 1982)

If groups of buildings contain uses which vary in their parking requirements, the number of parking spaces shall be the sum of the individual requirements for each use. However, where peak parking requirements occur at distinctly different times of the day or at different times of the week as determined by the zoning administrator, joint parking facilities may be shared by two or more uses.

(Res. 1-1 §6 (3), November 16, 1982)

1. All parking facilities and access ways to the parking areas shall, at a minimum, be improved with a bituminous seal coat. Parking areas located between a public street and the principal building on the lot shall be paved. Any lighting shall be arranged and maintained so that it does not shine directly upon any adjacent residence or street and does not produce excessive glare. Uncovered parking spaces must be at least three (3) feet from a side street right-of-way line and five (5) feet from a front property line.
2. Each off-street parking facility shall be provided with an appropriate means of vehicular access to a street or alley in a forward manner only, except for single-family and duplex residences.

(Res. 15, March 11, 1997; Res. 16a §6, November 19, 1985; Res. 1-1 §6 (5), November 16, 1982)

All uses involving receipt or distribution of goods by vehicles shall have space on the premises for the pickup, delivery and service vehicles necessary for normal daily operation. These spaces shall be in addition to the parking spaces required as set forth in Section 17.50.020, and shall be subject to Section 17.50.060.

(Res. 1-1 §6 (6), November 16, 1982)

Off-street parking spaces shall be located on the same zoning lot as the use served. However, uses other than single-family or two-family dwellings which are in existence on the effective date of this ordinance may be served in accordance with the requirements of this ordinance by parking facilities located on land other than the zoning lot on which the building or use served is located, provided such parking facilities are located within three hundred (300) feet walking distance from the main entrance to the use served and are located in the same or a less restrictive district.

(Res. 15, March 11, 1997; Res. 1-1 § 6 (7), November 16, 1982)

Garbage trucks, construction machinery or other motor vehicles which have an adverse impact on residential areas shall not be stored on residentially zoned lots. Residents shall be allowed to have one commercial vehicle of not more than a two-ton capacity kept on a residentially zoned lot.

(Res. 15, March 11, 1997; Res. 1-1 § 6 (8), November 16, 1982)