1. Residential land uses

2. General services land uses

3. Government/business services land uses

4. Retail land uses

5. Manufacturing land uses

6. Regional land uses

7. Recreational/cultural land uses

8. Resource land uses

9. Essential public facilities land uses.

Each table has two or three columns. The first column describes the land use. The second column specifies the parking requirement of the land use. The third column, if any, specifies the supplemental off-street parking requirements of the land use. Parking requirements are set forth on a per unit or per square foot basis.

A. The provisions of this section shall take precedence over other provisions of Chapter 14.235 SMC.

B. Off-street parking shall be required for the construction or addition of new building floor area.

C. For new building area containing commercial, retail, and service uses, one off-street parking space shall be provided for each 400 gsf.

D. No building in existence on August 4, 1998 and situated within the Historic Business District land use designation shall be required to provide additional off-street parking as a condition of the following:

E. No off-street parking in existence on May 27, 2010 that satisfies the off-street parking requirements of this Code shall be eliminated unless replaced/relocated as otherwise allowed. (Ord. 2188, 2010)

A. The provisions of Chapter 14.212 SMC shall take precedence over conflicting provisions of Chapter 14.235 SMC for development and land uses within the Pilchuck District land use designation.

B. All other provisions of Chapter 14.235 SMC shall apply. (Ord. 2213, 2011)

A. The off-street parking requirements of SMC 14.214.480 shall take precedence over conflicting provisions of this chapter for development and land uses within the Midtown District land use designation.

B. All other provisions of this chapter shall apply. (Ord. 2425, 2022)

A. Parking requirements contained within this chapter may be modified for projects meeting the applicability standards and general provisions of Chapter 14.285 SMC.

B. The location, use, and construction of parking areas shall comply with all appropriate requirements described in this chapter.

C. Review and approval of parking modifications pursuant to this section shall follow the procedures in SMC 14.285.060. (Ord. 2143, 2008; Ord. 2154, 2008; Ord. 2480, 2024)

A. Up to 50 percent of the parking facilities required by this chapter for primarily nighttime uses, which may include theaters, bowling alleys, bars, restaurants and related uses, may be supplied by other types of buildings or uses which are primarily daytime uses such as banks, offices, retail, personal service shops, clothing, food, furniture, manufacturing or wholesale and related uses.

B. Up to 20 percent of the parking facilities required by this chapter for primarily daytime uses may be supplied by primarily nighttime uses.

C. Up to 100 percent of the parking facilities required by this section for a church or for an auditorium incidental to a public or parochial school may be supplied by the off-street parking facilities provided by uses primarily of a daytime nature.

D. Multiple family uses having at least 5 units and motels having at least 10 units shall be considered nighttime uses for the purpose of shared parking calculations; however no more than 10 percent of their required parking may be provided by daytime uses.

A. The applicant shall show that there is no substantial conflict in the principal operating hours of the two (2) buildings or uses for which joint use of off-street parking facilities is proposed.

B. In the instance of uses located on separate legal parcels, the applicant shall present a properly drawn legal agreement substantially in the form provided by the City that will ensure the availability of the parking for the uses involved, which agreement has been reviewed and approved by the City Attorney. The agreement shall, at a minimum:

C. The Planning Director may require the agreement to be recorded with the Snohomish County Auditor’s office. (Ord. 2381, 2019)

A. Parking facilities for all single-family residences, mobile home parks, and multi-family dwellings shall be located on the same lot with the building they serve or on a lot within one hundred (100) feet from the nearest boundary and in the same ownership of the lot on which such structure is located.

B. Parking facilities for all hospitals, sanitariums, homes for the aged, asylums, orphanages, rooming houses, boarding houses, hotels, and community clubs shall be located not more than two hundred (200) feet from the building they serve.

C. For uses other than those specified above, parking facilities shall be located not over three hundred (300) feet from the building they are required to serve; provided, that for buildings situated within the Historic Business land use designation, off-street parking facilities may be provided up to one thousand (1,000) feet from the building.

A. Location, dimensions, and area of parking lot

B. The number of parking stalls

C. Locations and dimensions of existing and proposed points of ingress and egress

D. Arrangement and dimensions of parking stalls

E. Means of delineating parking stalls

F. Traffic directional information

G. Type and location of all traffic-control devices

H. Location and dimension of walk-ways

I. Inlet and drainage system

J. Lighting

K. Landscaping

L. Screening

M. Other pertinent information.

The parking plan shall be approved by the City Planner prior to the issuance of a building permit in accordance with the requirements outlined in this section. In those instances when a parking area for three or more vehicles is being developed and no building permit is required, the developer shall make application for, and obtain a use permit from the City Planner before any preparatory work is started. A parking plan as previously described will be required before the use permit is issued.

A. When parking standards require ten (10) or more parking spaces, up to 40 percent of the off-street parking spaces required by this chapter may be designated for compact cars in accordance with Table 10 and Table 11.

B. Compact car parking stalls shall be individually marked in the parking plan and shall be clearly signed for use by “compact cars only”. Parking at any angle is permitted, provided the width of the stalls and aisles is adjusted by interpolation between the specified standards.

A. Minimum Dimensions. The size and dimensions of individual parking stalls shall be eight and one-half feet wide and 18 feet long, and shall include an additional 100 square feet of maneuvering area, except in residential developments where parking stall width shall not be required to exceed eight feet. Parking areas including more than four stalls of parking shall comply with the parking area dimensions as described in Figure 1 in SMC 14.235.280 and Figure 2 in SMC 14.235.290.

B. Driveway Dimensions. When off-street parking is provided, the access driveway or lane shall be paved and have a minimum width of eight feet. The City Planner shall have the discretionary authority to require driveways to have a minimum of two eight-foot moving lanes when unusual site problems, access for vehicles, or high traffic usage requires such. Driveway widths and construction standards within the public right-of-way shall be determined by the City Engineer. Shared and two-track driveway designs are allowed.

C. Required Access and Fire Lanes. The Fire Marshal shall determine when access for fire lanes shall be required. Such access and fire lanes shall be designed with not less than 25 feet in width, forming a continuous route or loop connecting at both ends with streets, or as stipulated by the Fire Marshal.

D. Required Traffic Control Devices. All traffic control devices, such as parking stripes designating car stalls and directional arrows, shall be completed and installed as shown on the approved plans. Hard-surfaced parking areas shall use paint or similar devices to delineate car stalls and directional arrows.

E. Requirements for Pedestrian Walks. Pedestrian walks shall be required in parking lots of over 10 stalls and shall be for the use of foot traffic only. They shall be delineated in a manner acceptable to the City. When wheel stops or bumper stops are provided, sidewalks may be constructed on grade with the parking lot.

F. Border Barricades. All parking areas and car sales areas that are not separated by a fence or landscaped buffer from any street or alley upon which they abut shall be provided with a suitable concrete curb not less than six inches in height, located not less than four feet from the street or alley. The curb or barrier shall be securely installed and maintained; provided, that no such curb or barrier shall be required across any driveway or entrance to such parking area.

G. Backing into Streets. Parking facilities for all uses shall be so designed that vehicles are not required to back from the parking facility into any street. Such requirement shall be mandatory for all uses except for detached single-family residential uses and vehicles entering local access or collector streets from the driveway of an individual duplex structure.

H. Ingress and Egress Provisions. The City Engineer shall have the authority to fix the location, width and manner of approach of vehicular ingress or egress from a building or parking area to a street or alley and to alter existing ingress and egress as may be required to control street traffic in the interest of the public safety and general welfare.

I. Surfacing. All off-street parking areas and vehicle sales areas, including ingress and egress lanes, shall be paved with a hard-surfaced material that may include permeable concrete or asphalt pavement. Marked, unpaved parking areas are permitted in the parks, open space and public zones, when a professional parking study or other reliable data shows the area will be for parking spaces in excess of those required pursuant to this chapter. Existing, legally established gravel surfacing in existing designated parking areas may count for up to six required parking spaces under this chapter for residential development only.

J. Surface Water Runoff. All off-street parking areas and car sales areas shall be graded and drained in order to dispose of surface water runoff, subject to the approval of the City Engineer. All hard-surface areas shall be drained to an approved catch basin within the confines of the lot and disposed of through a drainage system as approved by the City Engineer. The use of low impact development technology in the construction of such areas is encouraged by the City, providing it produces a surface that can be safely walked upon, can be marked to define parking spaces and other necessary information, and has been determined to be as serviceable as conventional asphalt paving.

K. Illumination. All lights provided to illuminate any public parking area, any semi-public parking area, or car sales area permitted by this title shall be arranged so as to direct the light away from any dwelling unit and the public right-of-way.

L. Maintenance of Off-Street Parking Areas. Maintenance of all areas provided for off-street parking shall include removal and replacement of dead and dying trees, maintenance of landscaping grass, shrubs and trees, removal of trash and weeds, and repair of traffic-control devices, signs, light standards, fences, walls, surfacing material, curbs and railings.

M. Tandem Parking. Tandem parking is permitted for all residential development. (Ord. 2315, 2016; Ord. 2379, 2020; Ord. 2495, 2024; Ord. 2509, 2024)

A. Off-street loading space is required for the following uses:

B. Off street loading space must be on the same site and provide adequate space for standing, loading and unloading services in order to avoid undue interference with the public use of the streets or alleys. Each off-street loading space shall contain a minimum of two hundred fifty (250) square feet of space, which is appropriately identified and which meets with the requirements of this section. Off-street loading spaces shall have a minimum height clearance of fourteen (14) feet and shall be so situated that trucks or vans using the space shall not project into the public right-of-way. All truck loading doors on buildings shall have adjacent truck loading spaces. Such truck loading spaces may be used for vehicle parking of employees of the businesses using the spaces however such spaces will not be counted for customer parking.