Off-street automobile parking spaces shall be provided on every lot on which any building, structure, or use is hereafter established in all use districts, except as otherwise specifically exempted by this Ordinance. Required parking spaces shall be available for the parking of operable passenger vehicles for residents, customers, patrons, and employees, as appropriate given the subject use.

All parking spaces required by this Ordinance shall be provided on the same lot with the main building or use that it serves. Upon demonstration that the parking spaces required are not available and cannot reasonably be provided on the same lot as the building, structure or use it serves, the Planning Commission may permit the required parking spaces to be provided on any lot, of which a substantial portion is within 400 feet of such building, structure, or use. This provision shall require submittal of evidence of ownership or valid agreement to lease the parking area off-site that is intended to be used to comply with this article.

Before any building or land use permit is issued, the proposed parking lot layout and area must be found by the Planning Commission to be in compliance with all requirements of this Ordinance. A parking plan, for all but detached single-family uses, shall be submitted for approval by the Planning Commission. Occupancy of the land or use of a building shall not occur until the Planning Commission and City Council determines that parking facilities are available in accordance with the approved plan.

On each lot where a building, structure, or use exists, hard surfaced and maintained off-street parking shall be provided according to Table 1. In the interests of reducing impacts and minimizing impervious surfaces at Sky Valley, shared/joint/mixed or consecutive parking to reduce the number of parking spaces is encouraged. No existing facility used for off-street parking shall be reduced in capacity to less than the minimum required number of spaces, or altered in design or function to less than the minimum standards.

Where a fractional space results during the calculation of required parking, the required number of parking spaces shall be construed to be the next highest whole number. Where the parking requirement for a particular use is not described in this article, and where no similar use is listed, the Planning Commission shall determine the number of spaces to be provided based on requirements for similar uses, location of the proposed use, the number of employees on the largest shift, the total square footage, potential customer use, and other expected demand and traffic generated by the proposed use.

When more than one use is provided on a lot, and such uses operate more or less simultaneously, the total requirements for off-street parking spaces shall be the sum of the requirements for the various uses computed separately. The Planning Commission may authorize (and will encourage) a reduction in the total number of required off-street parking spaces for two or more uses jointly providing parking facilities when their respective hours of need of maximum parking do not normally overlap, provided that the developer submits sufficient data to demonstrate that the hours of maximum demand for parking at the respective uses do not normally overlap. The required spaces assigned to one use may not be assigned to another use at the same time, except that one-half of the parking spaces required for churches, theaters or assembly halls whose peak attendance will be at night or on Sundays may be assigned to a use which will be closed at night or on Sundays.

On the same lot with every building, structure or part thereof, erected or occupied for storage, market, hotel, or retail business, there shall be provided and maintained adequate space for the standing, loading and unloading of such materials to avoid undue interference with public use of streets, alleys, and parking areas.

Unless otherwise approved by the Planning Commission, loading spaces shall be a minimum of 14 feet wide, 40 feet long, with 14 feet of height clearance. Said loading area shall be located to the rear of the building unless site design precludes a rear location, in which case loading shall be to the side of a building.

One off-street loading space for the first 5,000 square feet of gross floor area or fractional part thereof for retail or other nonresidential use for which a loading space is required. One additional space shall be required for each additional 10,000 square feet of gross floor area or fractional part thereof for retail or other nonresidential use.