White Settlement City Zoning Code

ARTICLE XI

VEHICLE PARKING

Sec. 111-289.- Parking regulations.

Except as hereinafter provided, no building or structure or part thereof shall be erected, altered or converted for any use permitted in the district in which it is located unless there shall be provided, on the lot or immediately adjacent lots within 150 feet of such building or structure, off-street vehicle parking in the following ratio of vehicle spaces for the uses specified in the designated districts and no existing vehicle parking in connection with the use at the effective date of the ordinance from which this chapter is derived may be reduced below the minimum number of spaces as hereinafter required.

(1)

Parking table. Except as otherwise provided in this section, off-street parking spaces shall be provided as follows:

Schedule of Parking Requirements

Land Use	Requirements	Additional Requirements
Residential
Single-family attached and detached units	2 per unit	Enclosed
Duplex	2 per unit	1 enclosed
Townhouse, condominium, triplex, quadruplex or row house	2 per unit	1 covered per unit
Multifamily (MF)	2 per unit	1 covered per unit
Mobile home unit	2 per unit	None
Boardinghouse or roominghouse, hotel or motel/residence motel or inn	1 per residential unit	1 additional space for 200 sq. ft. of exhibit or ballroom space, plus 1 space per 100 sq. ft. of meeting rooms, plus 1 space per 2.5 seats in restaurant and lounge
Retirement housing: ambulatory independent residents	1.5 per unit	None
Retirement housing: nursing home facilities	1 per 2 beds	None
Dormitory	1.5 per 2 occupants for designed occupancy	None
Fraternity, sorority, or lodge	1 per 115 sq. ft.	None
Institutional
Community center	1 per 4 persons	None
Schools
Elementary	1 per 25 students	None
Junior high or middle	1 per 18 students	None
Senior high	1 per 5 students	None
Trade	1 per 4 students	None
Public assembly hall	1 per 3 seats	None
College or university	1 per 4 day students	None
Church	1 per 4 seats in the sanctuary or auditorium	None
Day care or day nursery	1 per 5 pupils	None
Hospital	1.5 per bed	None
Mortuary or funeral home	1 per 4 seats in chapel	None
Recreational
Theater	1 per 4 seats	None
Bowling alley	4 per lane	None
Pool hall, arcade, other indoor commercial amusement	1 per 100 sq. ft. of floor area	None
Outdoor commercial amusement	1 per 500 sq. ft. of site area exclusive of building	None
Ballpark or stadium	1 per 4 seats	None
Lodge or fraternal organization	1 per 115 sq. ft. of floor area	None
Driving range	1 per 10 linear ft. of designated tee area	None
Miniature golf	1 per tee	None
Bingo facility	1 per 2.5 seats	None
Personal Services and Retail
Personal service shop	1 per 250 sq. ft. of floor area up to 5,000 sq. ft., then 1 per 200 sq. ft.	None
Indoor retail store or shop	1 per 250 sq. ft. of floor area up to 5,000 sq. ft., then 1 per 200 sq. ft.	None
Outdoor retail sales	1 per 500 sq. ft. of site area, exclusive of building	None
Furniture, appliance sales or repair	1 per 600 sq. ft. of floor area	None
Coin-operated or self-service laundry or dry cleaner	1 per 200 sq. ft. of floor area	None
Shopping center, malls and multi-occupancy uses (3—50 acres)	1 per 250 sq. ft. of floor area	None
Shopping centers, mall and multi-occupancy use (over 50 acres)	1 per 300 sq. ft. of floor area	None
Food and Beverage Services
Eating or drinking establishment (no drive-through service)	1 per 2.5 seats	None
Eating or drinking establishment (with drive-through service and all others)	1 per 150 sq. ft.	None
Business Services
Bank and savings and loan or other similar institution	1 per 300 sq. ft. of floor area	None
Medical, dental clinic or office	1 per 150 sq. ft. of floor area	None
Veterinary clinic	1 per 300 sq. ft. of floor area	None
Other office or professional business	1 per 250 sq. ft. of floor area	None
Automotive and Equipment
Service station	Minimum of 6	None
Auto repair garage or shop	1 per 350 sq. ft. of floor area	None
Auto repair accessory sales	1 per 300 sq. ft. of floor area	None
Vehicle or machinery sales (indoors)	1 per 500 sq. ft. of floor area	None
Vehicle or machinery sales	1 per 500 sq. ft. of floor area	None
Car wash (self-serve or automatic)	2 per wash bay	(stacking spaces awaiting machine wash bay)
Storage, Wholesale and Manufacturing
Brick or lumber yard	1 per 3 employees or 1 per 1,000 sq. ft. of floor area	(whichever results in more spaces)
Manufacturing or warehousing	1 per 3 employees or 1 per 1,000 sq. ft. of floor area	(whichever results in more spaces)
Outside storage	1 per 5,000 sq. ft. of floor area	None
Mini-warehouse	1 per 3,000 sq. ft. of floor area	None
Repackaging	1 per 500 sq. ft. of floor area	None

(2)

Mixed use buildings. When a building or a site contains two or more uses, the off-street parking requirement shall be computed as the sum of the required off-street parking spaces for each individual use with the exception of shopping centers and multiuse purposes.

(3)

Drive lane widths and parking space sizes. Drive lanes and parking space sizes shall be required as shown in the following illustration. A driveway for access to any nonresidential, single parking space or to a parking lot shall not measure less than that shown in the parking layout illustration. All drive approach widths shall be no less than 15 feet. All two-way drive lanes shall be a minimum of 24 feet in width. Parking spaces shall be nine feet wide by 18 feet deep for all 90-degree parking spaces. Angled spaces shall be as shown in the illustration.

Parking Layouts

(4)

Disabled parking spaces. In each parking facility in zones MF-16, MF-24, MF-24-A, C-O, C-N, C-C, I-L and I-H, a portion of the total parking shall be specifically designed, located, and reserved for vehicles licensed by the state for use by the disabled. These spaces will be provided according to the following schedule:

Standards for Disabled Parking Spaces

Total Spaces in Parking Lot	Required Disabled Spaces
1 to 100	1 per 25 spaces
101 to 200	Additional 1 per 50 spaces
201 to 500	Additional 1 per 100 spaces
Over 500	2% of total

Each parking space designated for use by the disabled shall consist of a rectangular area not less than 13 feet wide by 18 feet long with a vertical clearance of 7½ feet. Van-accessible spaces must be eight feet wide with an eight-foot-wide accessible space adjacent for a total of 16 feet wide.

Each designated disabled parking space shall be located in an area not exceeding two percent slope, and shall be located near and convenient to a level or ramped entrance accessible to disabled persons.

Parking spaces for the disabled shall be signed in accordance with state law and restricted for use by the disabled only.

Care in planning shall be exercised so that individuals in wheelchairs and individuals using braces and crutches are not compelled to wheel or walk behind parked cars.

All applicable ADA requirements for parking spaces must be met.

(5)

Special off-street parking regulations.

In computing the parking requirements for any building or development, the total parking requirements shall be the sum of the specific parking space requirements for each class of use included in the building or development.

For hotels, office buildings, restaurants and establishments, off-street loading facilities shall be provided in accordance with the following schedule:

Schedule of Off-Street Loading Facilities

Square Feet of Gross Floor Area in Structure	Maximum Required Spaces
0 to 10,000	None
10,001 to 50,000	1
50,001 to 100,000	2
100,001 to 200,000	3
Each additional 200,000	1 additional

(6)

Design standards. All design regarding construction and installation for off-street parking shall comply with Traffic Engineering Design Standards and Policy Guidelines as originally adopted and amended by the City of Fort Worth and adopted by the city by reference.

(7)

Exceptions. All single-family R-5 and R-6 residential units with a minimum age of three years shall be exempt from the requirement under this section of having two enclosed parking spaces. The following conditions, however, shall be imposed on this exemption:

The single-family residential unit shall have provided a minimum of two off-street parking spaces on an improved surface within the existing driveway location or within another approved location shown on a site plan.

The enclosure of an existing garage structure requires a building permit, including a site plan indicating the proposed materials of the exterior wall covering, and all work must conform to the most current adopted International Residential Code.

The exterior of the enclosure shall match the existing wall covering of the house with the exception that the garage door may be left in place when the garage door can be properly weather-sealed, insulated and all current building and fire codes complied with.

In all situations the building official shall ensure that the minimum off-street parking requirements and the garage enclosure wall covering material conforms to the architecture of the single-family residence and to that of the neighborhood.

(Code 2004, ch. 14, § 39; Code 2008, § 54-267; Code 2019, § 111-267; Ord. No. 2171-01, 7-24-2001; Ord. No. 2197-02, 4-9-2002; Ord. No. 2198-02, 4-23-2002; Ord. No. 2261-04, § III, 11-23-2004; Ord. No. 2375-09, § I, 12-8-2009; Ord. No. 2020-02-002, § 6, 2-4-2020)