Shannon City Zoning Code
CHAPTER 4
OFF STREET PARKING AND LOADING
10-4-1: OFF STREET PARKING REGULATIONS:
A. Parking Plan Required For Building Permit Or Certificate Of Occupancy Issuance: A plan of parking facilities shall accompany each application for a building permit or a certificate of occupancy. The completion of the improvements for parking, according to such plan, shall be a requisite for the validity of the permit or certificate.
B. General Parking Space Requirements: For the purpose of this section, two hundred (200) square feet of lot or floor area, which has a means of ingress or egress from an alley or street, shall be deemed parking space for one vehicle. Such space, where open, may be included as part of a required open space for front, side or rear yards. Such parking spaces and access driveways shall be paved or otherwise surfaced with an all weather material. Such parking spaces shall be reserved for the sole use of the occupants of the building or lot and the visitors thereto.
C. Joint Use:
1. Churches, theaters, stadiums, auditoriums and other places of assembly may make arrangements for the joint use of parking spaces as hereinafter specified.
2. Joint use of parking facilities may be permitted in cases where major parking demands occur on different days of the week or during different hours; provided, that parking spaces will be available for each use in accordance with the standards of this section and that the owner or owners agree, in writing, that any subsequent sale or division of the property, or change in use thereof, will not interfere with the joint use of the parking facilities.
D. Reduction In Number Of Spaces: Parking spaces required under this section may be reduced at a time when the capacity or use of the building is changed in such a manner that a new use or capacity would require less spaces than before the change. Such reduction shall not be below the standards set forth in this section.
E. Prohibited Use Of Loading Areas For Parking Requirements: Loading or unloading areas shall not be considered as parking areas.
F. Required Number Of Spaces: In any district, except as noted below, every building built, or structurally altered, enlarged or increased in capacity, and every land use initiated subsequent to the effective date hereof shall be provided with minimum off street parking facilities as follows:
Type Of Use | Required Number Of Parking Spaces |
Type Of Use | Required Number Of Parking Spaces | |
Churches, auditoriums, gymnasiums, stadiums, theaters, and other places of public or private assembly with fixed seats | 1 for each 5 seats or bench seating spaces based upon maximum seating capacity. For the purpose of this type of use, parking spaces already provided for off street parking requirements for stores, office buildings and industrial establishments or off street parking facilities provided by the village lying within 300 feet of the place of public assembly as measured along the line of public access and not normally in use between the hours of 6:00 P.M. and 12:00 midnight and are made available for other parking may be used to satisfy the requirements hereof | |
Dance halls, skating rinks, bowling alleys and private clubs | 1 for each 300 square feet of floor area to be provided on the premises or within 300 feet of the entrance to the same | |
Funeral homes | 15 on the premises, plus 5 for each area which can be used as a parlor | |
Hospitals | 1 for each 3 hospital beds | |
Hotels, rooming houses, clubs and fraternal homes | 1 for each 2 guest sleeping rooms | |
Industrial or manufacturing establishments | 1 for each 5 employees, based on the greatest number of employees at work at one time, to be provided on the premises or at other off street locations within 1,000 feet of the main entrance | |
Lodging houses | 1 for each transient sleeping room offered for tourist accommodation in addition to spaces required for permanent residents of the building | |
One- and two-family dwellings and multiple-family dwellings | 1 for each dwelling unit | |
Tourist courts and motels | 1 for each lodging unit | |
For all uses in the C business and light industry district, except those which are covered by the foregoing portion of this subsection | 1 on the premises for each 5 employees | |
(Ord. 78b, 7-1-1958)
10-4-2: OFF STREET LOADING REGULATIONS:
On the same lot with every building or part thereof erected hereafter to be used for other than exclusive dwelling purposes or as an accessory use for dwelling purposes, there shall be provided on the lot adequate space for motor vehicles in order to avoid undue interference with the public use of streets or alleys. Such space, unless otherwise adequately provided, shall include a ten foot by twenty five foot (10' x 25') loading space with a fifteen foot (15') height clearance, and one such space shall be provided for each twenty thousand (20,000) square feet or fraction thereof of floor or lot area used for other than residential purposes. (Ord. 78b, 7-1-1958)