Off-street parking and loading requirements and regulations are hereby established in order to achieve, among others, the following purposes:

   (a)   To relieve congestion on streets so that streets can be utilized more fully for the movement of traffic;

   (b)   To promote the safety and convenience of employees, guests and shoppers by locating parking areas so as to lessen car movements in areas of congestion; and

   (c)   To promote the general convenience, welfare and prosperity of institutional, residential, retail business and industrial developments, which depend upon off-street parking and off-street loading facilities.

(Ord. 98-3-19. Passed 4-7-98.)

   For the purpose of determining accessory off-street parking requirements, definitions and standards shall be as follows:

   (a)   "Accessory parking space" means an open or enclosed area accessible from a street for the parking of motor vehicles of owners, occupants, employees, customers or tenants of the main building or use.

   (b)   "Board" means the Board of Zoning and Building Appeals.

   (c)   "Employees" means a unit of measurement representing the optimum employment capacity of a business or other use at one time or shift.

   (d)   "Floor area" means the total area of all floors in a building measured from the exterior face of the building.

   (e)   "Seat" means the unit capacity of a building to accommodate people and, in a building designed for group assembly, such as a church or auditorium, the unit of measurement shall be seven square feet of the portion of the building designed for seating accommodation.

(Ord. 98-3-19. Passed 4-7-98.)

   In computing required minimum parking spaces, where the computation results in a fractional unit, one additional off-street parking space shall be provided.

    Accessory off-street parking facilities, including access driveways, shall be determined in conformance with the schedule, for the various institutional, residential, business, office laboratory and production-distribution buildings and uses, and shall be provided in conformance with the other provisions of this chapter as a condition precedent to the occupancy of such building or use. Facilities shall be provided for the entire building or use as follows:

   (a)   Whenever a building is constructed or a new use established.

   (b)   Whenever the use of an existing building is changed to a use requiring more parking facilities.

   (c)   Whenever an existing building is altered and there is an increase in the number of dwelling units, seating capacity or floor areas of a building.

(Ord. 98-3-19. Passed 4-7-98.)

   (a)   All off-street parking facilities, or those required as necessary to a use of a proposed or altered building, shall continue unobstructed in operation, shall not be used for automobile service or repair and shall not be reduced below the required size as long as the main use remains, unless an equivalent number of spaces is provided for the use in another approved location.

   (b)   In order to insure the continued use for automobile parking purposes of any areas established therefor, the Board, before approval of such parking areas, may require evidence in writing that the owner(s) of the land to be included in such automobile parking areas have by covenant agreed to continue the use of such land for off-street parking accessory to the residential, institutional, business or industrial use for which such parking areas are required. The covenant shall be filed among the records of Cuyahoga County.

(Ord. 98-3-19. Passed 4-7-98.)

    Off-street parking spaces shall be required as follows:

   (a)   Building or Use.               Number of Parking Spaces Required

      (1)   Residential

         A.   One and two-family dwellings   2 spaces per dwelling unit

         B.   Apartments   2.5 spaces per dwelling unit of which 1 space shall be enclosed

         C.   Condominiums   3 spaces per dwelling unit of which 1 space shall be enclosed

      (2)   Institutional 

         A.   Public, parochial or private schools   1space per classroom or office, plus 1 space per ten seats in an auditorium or athletic stadium

         B.   Clinics, health and medical centers   1 space per 125 square feet of gross floor area

         C.   Public administration buildings   1 space per 200 square feet office floor area

         D.   Religious institutions   1 space per ten seats in main hall of assembly

         E.   Senior citizens' homes   1 space per suite

         F.   Hospitals   2 spaces per bed

      (3)   Business 

         A.   Medical and dental offices   5 per doctor or dentist or medical practitioner

         B.   Business and professional offices, including banks   1 space per 200 square feet for each individual floor

         C.   Retail stores and service   1 space per 150 square feet

            establishments, including those with no on-site   ground floor area, per 350 square feet

            consumption of food or drink    upper floor area

         D.   Restaurants, bars, taverns   1 space per 50 square feet of gross floor area or 1 space per 2 seats, whichever is greater, with a minimum of 50 spaces

         E.   Motels, hotels   1-1/2 spaces per guest unit

         F.   Club, lodge or other   1 space per 100 square feet

            assembly hall   of floor area

         G.   Funeral home or mortuary   1 space per thirty square feet of assembly room, or 35 per parlor, whichever is greater, providing that in no case shall there be less than 70 spaces for any funeral home or mortuary

         H.   Indoor theater, arena, auditorium    1 space per four seats

         I.   Dance hall, skating rink, swimming pool   1 space per fifty square feet of area in activity use

         J.   Bowling alley   6 spaces per lane

         K.   Gymnastics, dance school,   1 space per 225 square feet of
            gymnastics training school and body conditioning   floor area

      (4)   Manufacturing and Service 

          A.   Warehouse and bulk storage,    1-1/2 spaces for each employee

            manufacturing and service plants   or 600 square feet of floor space, whichever is greater

         B.   Executive, sales and research offices   1-1/2 spaces for each employee or 600 square feet of floor space, whichever is greater

   (b)   Off-Street Parking. Off-street parking facilities shall be prorated on the premises as follows:

      (1)   For each 200 square feet of gross space, one parking space; and

      (2)   For each 1,100 square feet of gross warehouse space, one parking space.

   For both gross office and gross warehouse space, in the event there is more than one employee per 200 feet of office space and 1,000 feet of warehouse space, the parking space requirement will be one parking space for each one and one-half employees, computed on the basis of the greatest number of persons employed at any one period during the day or night. Such parking yards shall be concrete or asphalt and adequately drained so that surface waters are not permitted to discharge over or onto public sidewalks or roadways or onto other premises. All parking yards shall be behind the building line.

(Ord. 98-3-19. Passed 4-27-98 ; Ord. 2004-12-7. Passed 12-7-04 .)

   In industrial districts, wherever the application of the standards set forth in Section 1270.05(a)(5)A. as to "number of employees" results in a lesser number of parking spaces than required by the application of such standard as to "square feet of building", the Board of Zoning and Building Appeals may permit the construction of the lesser number of spaces, provided, however, that the additional area required to provide the number of spaces under the "square feet of building" standard shall be reserved and held as open area, along with all required yard areas, for future construction of parking spaces until the use of the building is changed to a classification having a greater number of employees in relation to the building area.

(Ord. 98-3-19. Passed 4-27-98.)

   (a)   A building containing one use shall provide off-street parking spaces as required for the specific use. A building, or group of buildings, containing two or more uses, operating normally during the same hours, and which have different off-street parking requirements, shall provide spaces for not less than the sum of the spaces required for each use.

   (b)   Institutions, as set forth in Section 1270.05, may assume that up to, but not more than, fifty percent of their requirements may be shared in adjacent parking areas which are accessory to business establishments and which normally have different hours of operation. However, where there is a sharing of facilities by different owners, there shall be a contract covering a period of time as may be required by the Board and should any of the uses be changed or the facilities discontinued, then the required spaces for the use remaining shall be provided elsewhere as a condition precedent to the continued use of the building or buildings.

(Ord. 98-3-19. Passed 4-27-98.)