Saratoga City Zoning Code
CHAPTER 18
45 OFF-STREET PARKING AND LOADING
§ 18.45.010 Off-street parking requirements.
Off-street parking spaces for the parking of passenger vehicles shall be provided pursuant to the provisions of this section.
A.
Individual Parking Spaces. Parking areas shall be marked off with parking spaces, each with a minimum width of nine feet and a minimum length of twenty feet, exclusive of driveways and turning areas. Such spaces shall be paved.
B.
Design Standards.
1.
All off-street automobile parking facilities shall be designed with appropriate means of vehicular access to a street or alley as well as maneuvering areas. No driveway or curb cuts in any district shall exceed twenty feet in width.
2.
Parking areas shall be used for automobile parking only, with no sales, dead storage, repair work, dismantling or servicing of any kind permitted.
3.
If lighting is provided, it shall be arranged to reflect away from any residential area.
C.
Minimum Requirements for Accessory Garages or Parking Areas. Minimum requirements for accessory garages or parking areas are as indicated in the following schedule:
Building Type | Minimum Parking Spaces Required | For Each |
|---|---|---|
Boarding or lodging house, tourist home | 1 | Guest bedroom and resident family |
Single-and two-family residential dwelling | 2 | Dwelling unit |
Mobile home | 1 | Dwelling unit |
Multiple dwellings | 1 1/2 | Dwelling unit |
Hotel, motel | 1 | Guest bedroom plus 1 space for 3 employees |
Membership club | 1 | 6 members |
Professional office in a residential building | 1 | 100 sq. ft. net floor space used by such office |
Auditorium, theater, stadium, convention hall, church or similar place of public use | 1 | 4 seats (Note: Bench capacity computed at 1 seat for each 20 in.) |
Bowling lane | 3 | Lane |
Drive-in restaurant or stand | 1 | 500 sq. ft. lot area |
Hospital | 1 | 3 beds |
Industrial wholesale distribution | 1 | 3 employees |
Medical office building | 1 | 150 sq. ft. of gross floor space |
Offices and office buildings | 1 | 500 sq. ft. of gross floor space |
Public library, gallery, museum | 1 | 500 sq. ft. of gross floor space |
Research institute or laboratory | 1 | 2 employees |
Business development, retail store, shop, bank | 1 | 500 sq. ft. of gross floor space |
Elementary and junior high school | 1 | 1/2 classroom (in addition to parking space required for auditorium) |
Restaurants, bars, cafés | 1 | 6 seats |
D.
Public Parking Adjacent to Property. Public parking spaces, one-half or more of which are immediately adjacent to a property, shall be counted toward satisfaction of the number of parking spaces required in subsection C of this section.
E.
Other Uses Not Specifically Listed. The same requirements as for the most similar use listed in subsection C of this section.
F.
Mixed Uses. The total parking spaces required shall equal the sum of the individual uses listed in subsection C of this section.
G.
Fractional Spaces. In all districts when the required parking area or number of parking spaces results in the requirement of a fractional space, any fraction under one-half may be disregarded and any fraction one-half and over shall be construed as requiring a full space.
(Ord. 399 § 1(328-40), 1980; Ord. 502, 1987; Ord. 567, 1992)
§ 18.45.020 Required off-street truck loading spaces.
A.
Every building or structure, lot or land hereafter put into use for business or industrial purposes or for a hospital and which has a total floor area of four thousand eight hundred square feet or more in any non-residential district or fifteen thousand square feet or more in any residential district where such uses are permitted, shall be provided with off-street truck loading spaces in accordance with the following schedule:
Square Feet of Total Floor Area Devoted to Such Use | Required Number of Off-Street Truck Loading Spaces |
|---|---|
4,800 to 25,000 sq. ft. in any industrial district | 1 |
15,000 to 25,000 sq. ft. in residential districts | 1 |
25,001 to 40,000 sq. ft. in all districts | 2 |
40,001 to 100,000 sq. ft. in all districts | 3 |
Each additional 60,000 sq. ft. all districts | 1 additional |
B.
Size of Individual Truck Loading Space. An off-street truck loading space shall have a minimum width of ten feet, a minimum length of twenty-five feet and a minimum clear height of fourteen feet including its access from the street.
(Ord. 399 § 1(328-41), 1980)
§ 18.45.030 Access driveways.
All access driveways for a public garage, public parking area, filling station, service station or car washing station, located on the same lot may be used for separate or combined entrance and exit. Every separate entrance or exit access driveway shall have a minimum unobstructed width of ten feet. Every combined entrance and exit access driveway shall have a minimum total unobstructed width of twenty feet.
(Ord. 399 § 1 (328-42), 1980)
§ 18.45.040 Applicability of provisions to existing buildings.
A.
The provisions of Section 18.45.010 shall not apply to any building, structure or use lawfully in existence on July 6, 1992, whether continued as a permitted or a nonconforming use or thereafter converted or changed without physical enlargement to a different use.
B.
The provisions of Section 18.45.020 shall not apply to any building, structure or use lawfully in existence at the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter, whether continued as a permitted or a nonconforming use or thereafter converted or changed without enlargement to a different lawful use.
(Ord. 399 § 1(328-43), 1980; Ord. 568, 1992)