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Van Meter City Zoning Code

165.23 PARKING

AND LOADING AREAS.

   1.   Off-Street Loading Space. In any district, every building or part hereafter erected, having a gross floor area of 4,000 square feet or more, which is to be occupied by manufacturing, storage, warehouse, goods display, retail store, wholesale store, market, hotel, hospital, mortuary, laundry, dry cleaning or other uses similarly requiring the receipt or distribution by vehicles of material or merchandise, there shall be provided and maintained on the same lot with such building, at least one off-street loading space plus one additional such loading space for each 20,000 square feet or major fraction thereof of gross floor area so used in excess of 4,000 square feet. Each loading space shall be a minimum of 10 feet in width, 35 feet in length.
   2.   Off-Street Parking Area.
      A.   In all districts, except C-2 Commercial, space for off-street parking and storage of vehicles shall be provided in accordance with the following minimum schedules:
         (1)   Automobile sales and service garage: 100 percent of gross floor area.
         (2)   Bowling alleys: five spaces for each alley.
         (3)   Churches and schools, funeral home, mortuary: one space for each five seats in the principal auditorium.
         (4)   Dwelling: one and one-half spaces for each dwelling unit.
         (5)   Hospitals and nursing homes: one space for each four beds.
         (6)   Hotels, apartment hotels - one and one-half spaces for each unit.
         (7)   Manufacturing plant: one space for each three employees.
         (8)   Motels: one space for each unit.
         (9)   Retail markets, supermarkets, etc. - 250 percent of gross floor area.
         (10)   Any development in the BP-1 Zoning District - not less than one parking space for each employee based on the maximum number of employees projected to be present at any time, plus 20 percent, rounded to the nearest whole number; except for less than 25 employees the minimum number of parking stalls shall be five more than the maximum number of employees projected to be present at any time.
         (11)   Any development in the MU Zoning District.
            a.   Any development where one or more vehicles are regularly present at the facility for more than one hour per day the development must provide four designated parking stalls, except if the maximum number of vehicles projected to be present at any time on the site is greater than three the minimum number of parking stalls shall be based on the maximum number of vehicles projected to be present at any time plus two stalls.
            b.   For any development where vehicles are not present on a regular basis for more than one hour per day, designated parking stalls are not required provided the maximum number of vehicles can be accommodated on a paved or granular surface with all vehicles being located a minimum of 10 feet from any property line.
      B.   All public or private parking areas shall be developed or maintained in accordance with the following requirements:
         (1)   No part, except entrance and exit, or any parking lot, shall be closer than five feet from any street right-of-way, alley line, or residential lot line.
         (2)   Any off-street parking area for five or more vehicles shall be hard surfaced with asphalt concrete or Portland cement concrete or other similar material of a permanent nature.