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Willard City Zoning Code

24.16 OFF-STREET

PARKING REQUIREMENTS

24.16.010 Off-Street Parking Required

At the time any building or structure is erected or enlarged or increased in capacity or any use is established, there shall be provided off-street parking spaces for automobiles in accordance with the following requirement:

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 2025-06 on 2/13/2025

24.16.020 Size

The dimensions of each off-street parking space shall be at least nine feet by twenty feet for diagonal or ninety-degree spaces; or nine by twenty-two feet for parallel spaces, exclusive of access drives or aisles, provided that in parking lots of not less than twenty parking spaces the building inspector may approve a design allowing not more than twenty percent of such spaces to be not less than seven and one-half feet by fifteen feet to be marked and used for compact automobiles only.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 2025-06 on 2/13/2025

24.16.030 Access To Individual Parking Space

Except for single-family and two-family dwellings, access to each parking space shall be from a private driveway and not from a public street.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 2025-06 on 2/13/2025

24.16.040 Number Of Parking Spaces

The number of off-street parking spaces required shall be as follows:

  1. Business or professional offices. One parking space for each 100 square feet of floor area.
  2. Churches with fixed seating. One parking space for each 3.5 fixed seats, or one parking space for each seven feet of linear pew, whichever is greater.
  3. Churches without fixed seats, sports arenas, auditoriums, theaters, assembly halls, meeting rooms. One parking space for each three seats of maximum seating capacity.
  4. Dwellings. Two parking spaces for each dwelling unit.
  5. Furniture and Appliance Stores. One parking space for each 600 square feet of floor area.
  6. Hospitals. Two parking spaces for each bed.
  7. Hotels, Motels, Motor Hotels. One space for each living or sleeping unit, plus parking space for all accessory uses as herein specified.
  8. Nursing Homes. Four parking spaces, plus one space for each five beds.
  9. Restaurants, Taverns, Private Clubs, and all other similar dining and/or drinking establishments. As determined by conditional use permit or by planned unit development requirements, if applicable, or by the Planning Commission, but in no case fewer than one space for each employee projected for the highest employment shift.
  10. Retail stores, shops, except as provided in subsection E above. One parking space for each 100 square feet of retail floor space.
  11. Wholesale establishments, Warehouses, Manufacturing Establishments, and all Industrial uses. As determined by conditional use permit or by planned unit development requirements, if applicable, or by the Planning Commission, but in no case fewer than one space for each employee projected for the highest employment shift.
  12. Shopping centers or other groups of uses not listed above. As determined by conditional use permit or planned unit development procedure, if applicable, or by the Planning Commission, but in no case less than one parking space for each 100 square feet of total floor space.
  13. All other uses not listed above. As determined by the zoning administrator, based on the nearest comparable use standards.
HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 2025-06 on 2/13/2025

24.16.050 Access Requirements

Adequate ingress and egress to and from all uses shall be provided as follows:

  1. Residential Lots. For each residential lot not more than two driveways, each of which shall be a maximum of twenty feet wide at the street lot line, and such driveways shall not be closer than twelve feet to each other.
  2. Other Than Residential Lots. Access shall be provided to meet the following requirements:
    1. Not more than two driveways shall be used for each one hundred feet or fraction thereof of frontage on any street.
    2. No two of said driveways shall be closer to each other than twelve feet, and no driveway shall be closer to a side property line than three feet.
    3. Each driveway shall be not more than thirty five feet wide, measured at right angles to the center line of the driveway, except as increased by permissible curb return radii. The entire flare of any return radius shall fall within the right-of-way.
    4. No driveway shall be closer than ten feet to the point of intersection of two property lines at any corner as measured along the property line, and no driveway shall extend across such extended property line.
    5. In all cases where there is an existing curb and gutter or sidewalk on the street, the applicant for a permit shall provide a safety island along the entire frontage of the property, except for the permitted driveways. On the two ends and street side of each such island shall be constructed a concrete curb, the height, location, and structural specifications of which shall be approved by the local surveyor or engineer.
    6. Where there is no existing curb and gutter or sidewalk, the applicant may at his option install such safety island and curb, or, in place thereof shall construct along the entire length of the property line (except in front of the permitted driveways) a curb, fence, or pipe rail not exceeding two feet or less than eight inches in height.
HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 2025-06 on 2/13/2025

24.16.060 Location Of Gasoline Pumps

Gasoline pumps shall be set back not less than eighteen feet from any street line to which the pump island is vertical, and twelve feet from any street line to which the pump island is parallel, and not less than ten feet from any residential or agricultural district boundary line. If the pump island is set at an angle on the property, it shall be so located that the automobiles stopped for service will not extend over the property line.

HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 2025-06 on 2/13/2025

24.16.070 Maintenance Of Parking Lots

Every parcel of land used as a public or private parking lot shall be developed and maintained in accordance with the following requirements:

  1. Surface. Each off-street parking lot shall be surfaced with an asphaltic or Portland cement or other binder pavement so as to provide a dustless surface. The parking area shall be so graded as to dispose of all surface water. If such water is to be carried to adjacent streets, it shall be piped under sidewalks.
  2. Screening. The sides and rear of any off-street parking lots which face or adjoin a residential district shall be screened from such district by a masonry wall or solid visual barrier fence not less than four or more than six feet in height.
  3. Landscaping. Each parking lot shall be adequately landscaped and permanently maintained.
  4. Lighting. Lighting used to illuminate any parking lot shall be arranged to reflect the light away from adjoining premises in any R or A district, and from street traffic.
HISTORY
Adopted by Ord. 2025-06 on 2/13/2025

2025-06