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Willow Springs City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 9

OFF-STREET PARKING AND LOADING

9A-9-1: GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

  1. The duty to provide and maintain off-street parking spaces shall be the joint and/or separate responsibility of the operator and/or owner of the use and/or land for which such off-street parking space is required to be provided and maintained.
  2. An absence or deficiency of required parking facilities for any use that is otherwise in conformance with this Chapter at the effective date, August 9, 1990, of its adoption shall not be construed to render that use a nonconforming use; provided:
    1. The use was in conformance with the parking requirements in effect at the time of the establishment of the use.
    2. If the use is abandoned or is destroyed or damaged by any means out of the control of the owner to the extent that the cost of restoration to the condition in which it was before the occurrence shall exceed fifty percent (50%) of the cost of restoration of the entire structure new, it shall not be restored unless said structure and the use thereof shall conform to all the regulations of this Title.
    3. If such land, structures or uses are enlarged, expanded or changed, there shall be provided and maintained, for the increment of expansion only at least the amount of off-street parking space that would be required hereunder if the increment were a separate land, structure or use established or placed into operation after August 9, 1990.
  3. For all uses, established or placed into operation after August 9, 1990, there shall be constructed, provided and maintained the amount of off-street parking space hereinafter set forth.
  4. All off-street parking spaces, whether provided in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter or in accordance with the provisions of any former ordinance, shall be maintained as hereinafter required.
  5. Parking and loading spaces for certain types of uses may be provided either in garages or open parking areas conforming with the provisions of this Title.
  6. Municipal parking may be with or without charge.

9A-9-2: LOCATION

The following standards shall govern with respect to the location of off-street parking spaces:

  1. Same lot: Off-street parking shall be located on the same lot as the use for which it is provided, except as otherwise set forth herein.
  2. Structure: Enclosed buildings and carports containing off-street parking shall be subject to applicable yard requirements.
  3. In Yards: Off-street parking may be located in required yards, except in the following locations:
    1. Residence Districts: Required off-street parking spaces shall not be constructed in required front yards nor in corner side yards.
    2. Business Districts: Not within the first ten feet (10') of any required yard which either abuts a residential district or lies across a street from a residential district.
    3. Industrial Districts: Not within the first twenty feet (20') of a required front yard or corner side yard nor within the first fifteen feet (15') of a required rear or interior side yard; and not within any required yard which either abuts a residential district or lies across a street from a residential district.
    4. Parkway: No parking shall be permitted between the property line and the curb line or edge of the pavement.
    5. Trucks, Trailers, Boats and Recreational Vehicles: The parking of trucks, trailers, boats and recreational vehicles shall conform to any and all applicable requirements of this district.
    6. Within the B-1 Community Shopping District and the B-2 Commercial and Business Service District accessory parking to any principal use may be permitted to be located on a lot other than the principal zoning lot not to exceed a distance of two hundred feet (200') from the principal use measured from the closest lot line of the principal use to the closest point of the off-street parking area. This shall, however, not be interpreted to permit such off-street accessory parking within any other zoning district except the B-1 and B-2 Districts. The use of a remote lot or zoning lot for parking purposes shall be deemed to become part of the zoning lot for the principal use. Appropriate covenants and restrictions shall be prepared, subject to the approval of the Village Board, precluding a change of use of such parking lot, and parcel unless released by the Village Board based upon a finding that adequate off-street parking has otherwise been provided.

9A-9-3: SEPARATE OR COMBINED SPACE

  1. Where off-street parking spaces are combined and used jointly by two (2) or more uses having different parking space standards, for purposes of determining the total amount of off-street parking spaces required, parking spaces shall be adequate in number to meet the requirements of each individual use.
  2. Where off-street parking space is combined and used jointly by two (2) or more uses having the same standards for determining the amount of off-street parking space required, all such uses, for the purposes of this Section, shall be considered a single unit and the net floor area of all such uses in all structures on the same lot or the number of employees of all such uses in all structures on the same lot as fixed by the applicable standard, shall be taken as a single total for the purpose of determining the amount of off-street parking space required.

9A-9-4: DESIGN, IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE

Every parcel of land hereafter used as a public or private parking area, including a commercial parking lot, and also automobile, vehicle or trailer sales lots, shall be designed, developed and maintained in accordance with the following requirements:

  1. No parking area shall be used for the repair, dismantling or servicing of any vehicles, equipment, materials or supplies.
  2. All parking areas shall be graded for proper drainage and provided with an impervious surface maintained at all times in a manner as to prevent the release of dust and to be free of dust, trash and debris.
  3. All parking areas shall be so designed that each required off-street parking space shall open directly upon an aisle or driveway of such width and design as to provide safe and efficient means of vehicular access to such parking space.
  4. All parking areas shall be designed with appropriate means of vehicular access to a street or alley in such a manner as to minimize interference with traffic movement.
  5. All parking areas shall be provided with entrances and exits not less than twelve feet (12') in width and not more than thirty five feet (35') in width.
  6. All parking areas shall be provided with wheel guards or bumper guards so located that no parked vehicle will extend beyond the parking space.
  7. Where hazards exist which can be eliminated or lessened by lighting, the Village Board may require lighting at such hours and in such a manner as deemed necessary in the interest of public safety and security. Such lighting facilities shall be arranged and operated so that they neither unreasonably disturb occupants of adjacent properties nor interfere with traffic.
  8. Each parking area may have not more than one attendant shelter building conforming to all setback requirements for structures in the district in which it is located.
  9. Each off-street parking space shall have an area of not less than one hundred and eighty (180) square feet exclusive of access drives or aisles, and shall be of usable shape and condition. Such space shall have a vertical clearance of at least seven feet (7') and a minimum width of at least nine feet (9').
  10. Drive-Through Facilities: All drive-through facilities shall be provided with an eight foot (8') queuing lane for each drive through facility with a minimum stacking capacity of eighty feet (80') for each lane. Queuing lanes shall be independent of other access drives and parking areas for the drive through facility.

9A-9-5: UNITS OF MEASUREMENT

For purposes of this Section, the following units of measurement shall apply:

  1. Fractions: When units of measurement result in the requirement of a fractional space, any fraction shall require one parking space.

9A-9-6: SPACES REQUIRED

Off-street parking spaces shall be provided in accordance with the requirements as hereinafter set forth:

  1. Residential Uses, as follows:
    1. Single-Family Dwellings and Two-Family Dwellings: Two (2) parking spaces for each dwelling unit. No required parking shall be allowed in the required front yard.
    2. Multiple-Family Dwellings (including Apartment-Hotels): Two and one-half (2 1/2) parking spaces for every dwelling unit. For lodging rooms located in an apartment hotel, one parking space for each lodging room.
    3. Housing for the Elderly: One parking space for each two (2) dwelling units, plus one space for each employee. At least ten percent (10%) of all spaces shall be for handicapped and disabled drivers.
    4. Motels and Hotels: One parking space for each guest room, sleeping room or suite, plus one additional space for each employee, plus spaces as applicable for accessory uses such as restaurants, theatres, and similar uses.
    5. Lodging, Rooming and Boarding Houses: One parking space for each lodging room, plus one space for the owner or manager and each employee.
  2. Retail and Service Uses as follows:
    1. Retail Stores: Five (5) parking spaces for each one thousand (1,000) square feet of gross floor area.
    2. Banks and Other Financial Institutions: Four (4) parking spaces for each one thousand (1,000) square feet of gross floor area.
    3. Automobile Laundry (Car Wash): One parking space for each two (2) employees plus one parking space for each manager. Reservoir stacking spaces for wash racks shall be determined by the Plan Commission, subject to the approval of the Village Board of Trustees.
    4. Bowling Alleys: Five (5) parking spaces for each alley, plus additional spaces as may be required herein for affiliated uses-bars, restaurants and the like.
    5. Eating and Drinking Establishments:
      1. Fast Food Restaurant: Twenty five (25) parking spaces for each one thousand (1,000) square feet of gross floor area.
      2. Fast Food Restaurant with Drive-through Facilities: Twenty (20) parking spaces for each one thousand (1,000) square feet of gross floor area. Reservoir stacking spaces for drive-through facilities shall be determined by the Plan Commission, subject to the approval of the Village Board of Trustees.
      3. Conventional Sit-Down Restaurant: Sixteen (16) parking spaces for each one thousand (1,000) square feet of gross floor area
      4. Carry-out Restaurant: Six (6) spaces per one thousand square feet of gross floor area.
    6. Furniture and Appliance Stores, Household Equipment or Furniture Repair Shops: Two and one-half (2 1/2) parking spaces for each one thousand (1,000) square feet of gross floor area.
    7. Shopping Center: According to the following:

      Gross Leasable Area (GLA)
      Spaces per 1,000 sq. ft. GLA
      400,000 square feet or less
      4.0
      4000,001 to 600,000 sq. ft.
      4.5
      6,000,001 sq. ft. or more
      5.0
    8. Motor Vehicle Repair: Five (5) parking spaces for each one thousand (1,000) square feet of gross floor area. All storage, including overnight storage of motor vehicles in operable condition and motor vehicles in inoperable condition, shall be within completely enclosed buildings or effectively screened with a solid wall or fence not less than six feet (6') nor more than eight feet (8') in height.
    9. Open Sales Lots: The Plan Commission shall determine the specific parking requirements.
    10. Theaters (Indoor): One parking space for each two and one-half (2 1/2) seats based on rated design capacity.
    11. Undertaking Establishments, Funeral Parlors: Four (4) parking spaces for each one thousand (1,000) square feet of gross floor area, plus one parking space for each funeral vehicle maintained on the premises.
  3. Offices; Business, Professional and Governmental and Office/Research: Four (4) parking spaces for each one thousand (1,000) square feet of gross floor area.
  4. Medical or Dental Clinics or Offices: Five (5) parking spaces for each one thousand (1,000) square feet of gross floor area.
  5. Wholesale Establishments (but not including Warehouses and Storage Buildings other than Accessory): Three (3) parking spaces per each one thousand (1,000) square feet of gross floor area up to four thousand (4,000) square feet. One parking space for each six hundred (600) square feet of gross floor area in excess of four thousand (4,000) square feet.
  6. Manufacturing Uses or Any Establishments Engaged in Production; Processing, Cleaning, Servicing, Testing, or Repair of Materials, Goods or Products: One space for each one thousand (1,000) square feet of gross floor area.
  7. Warehouses and Storage Buildings: One space for each one thousand (1,000) square feet of gross floor.
  8. Community Service Uses:
    1. Church, School, College, and Other Institutional Auditoriums: One parking space for each three (3) auditorium seats. Adequate space shall also be provided for buses used in connection with the activities of the institution, and all loading and unloading of passengers shall take place upon the premises.
    2. Business, Professional and Trade Schools: One parking space for each employee and one parking space for each two (2) students based on the minimum number of students attending classes on the premises at any one time during any twenty four (24) hour period.
    3. Health Centers, Government Operated: Five (5) parking spaces for each staff and visiting doctor plus one parking space for each employee.
    4. Hospitals: One parking space for each two (2) hospital beds, plus one parking space for each two (2) employees (other than staff doctors), plus one parking space for each doctor assigned to the staff.
    5. Libraries, Art Galleries and Museums-Public: Two (2) parking spaces for each one thousand (1,000) square feet of gross floor area.
    6. Municipal or Privately Owned Recreation Buildings or Community Centers: One parking space for each employee, plus spaces adequate in number, as determined by the Plan Commission, to serve the visiting public.
    7. Public Utility and Public Service Uses: One parking space for each employee on the shift with the maximum work force, plus spaces adequate in number, as determined by the Plan Commission to service the public.
    8. Schools; Elementary, Junior High, and High:
      Elementary and Junior High: One parking space for each employee, plus one parking space for each ten (10) students based on the design capacity of the facility.
      Junior Schools: One parking space for each employee, plus one parking space for each five (5) students based on the design capacity of the facility.
  9. Places of Assembly, as follows:
    1. Stadiums, Arenas, Auditoriums (Other than Church, College, or Institutional Schools) Convention Halls, Dance Halls, Exhibition Halls, Skating Rinks, and Other Similar Places of Assembly: Parking spaces equal in number to thirty three percent (33%) of the capacity in persons. The Plan Commission shall determine the specific parking spaces for any one of these above uses.
  10. Miscellaneous Uses, as follows:
    1. Fraternities, Sororities and Dormitories: Five (5) parking spaces shall be provided per each one thousand (1,000) square feet of gross floor area.
    2. Private Clubs and Lodges (without sleeping facilities for guests): Parking spaces equal in number to fifty percent (50%) of the membership in persons shall be provided.
    3. Rest Homes, Nursing Homes, Institutions for the Care of the Insane or Feeble-Minded, Sanitariums, Convalescent Homes, or Institutions for the Aged or for Children. One parking space for each four (4) beds, plus one space for each employee (other than staff doctors) based on the largest shift, plus one parking space for each doctor assigned to the staff.
    4. For the following uses, parking spaces shall be provided in adequate number, as determined by the Plan Commission, to serve persons employed or residing on the premises, as well as the visiting public:
      Airports or aircraft landing fields; and heliports.
      Convents and monasteries.
      Crematories or Mausoleums.
      Fraternal or religious institutions.
      Outdoor amusement establishments-fairgrounds, permanent carnivals kiddie parks, and other similar amusement centers.
      Rectories and parish houses.
      Swimming pools.
  11. Other Uses: For uses not listed heretofore in this schedule of parking requirements, parking spaces shall be provided on the same basis as required for the most similar listed uses, or as determined by the Plan Commission.

9A-9-7: OFF-STREET LOADING

The provisions of this Section shall apply in all zoning districts as appropriate. Off-street loading space shall be required and maintained according to these standards set forth in this Section.

  1. General Requirements:
    1. The duty to provide the off-street loading space herein required shall be the joint and/or separate responsibility of the operator and owner of the structure or structures for which off-street loading space is required to be provided.
    2. An absence or deficiency of required loading facilities for any use that is otherwise in conformance with this Chapter at the effective date of its adoptions shall not be construed to render that use a nonconforming use; provided:
      1. The use was in conformance with the loading requirement in effect at the time of the establishment of the use.
      2. If the use is abandoned or is destroyed or damaged by any means out of the control of the owner to the extent that the cost of restoration to the condition in which it was before the occurrence shall exceed fifty percent (50%) of the cost of restoration of the entire structure, it shall not be restored unless said structure and the use thereof shall conform to all the regulations of this Title. If such land, structures or uses are expanded or changed, there shall be provided and maintained, for the increment of expansion only, at least the amount of off-street loading space that would be required hereunder, if the increment were a separate land, structure or use established or placed into operation after the effective date of this Title.
    3. For all uses established or placed into operation after the effective date of this Section, there shall be constructed, provided, preserved and maintained the amount of off-street loading space hereinafter required.
    4. All off-street loading space, whether provided in accordance with the provisions of this Section or in accordance with the provisions of any former ordinance, shall be maintained as hereinafter required.
    5. Loading spaces for all types of uses may be provided either in garages or open parking areas conforming with the provisions of this Title.
  2. Location:
    1. Off-street loading space shall be located on the same lot as the structure for which it is provided.
    2. Off-street loading space may be located in any required yard, other than the front yard or corner side yard, provided it conforms with all applicable requirements for screening and setbacks.
    3. Setbacks: All loading areas shall conform to the applicable requirements for setbacks from lot lines.
    4. No permitted or required loading berth shall be located within thirty five feet (35') of the nearest point of intersection of any two (2) streets.
    5. Trucks: The parking of trucks as an accessory use, when used in the conduct of a permitted use shall be limited to vehicles of not over one and one-half (1 1/2) tons capacity when located within one hundred fifty feet (150') of a residence district boundary line.
  3. Design, Improvement and Maintenance: Every parcel of land hereafter used for off-street loading space shall be designed, developed and maintained in accordance with the following requirements:
    1. No loading area shall be used for the repair, dismantling or servicing of any vehicles, equipment, materials or supplies.
    2. Each loading area shall be graded for proper drainage and provided with an impervious surfacing material capable of bearing a line load of two hundred (200) pounds per square foot and shall be maintained at all times in such a manner as to prevent the release of dust and to be free of dust, trash and debris.
    3. Off-street loading spaces that adjoin or are across the street from property zoned for any residential used shall be screened so as not to be visible from such residential property.
    4. Each loading space shall be provided with entrances and exits not less than twelve feet (12') in width and so designed and located as to minimize traffic congestion.
    5. Each loading berth shall be so located that no portion of a vehicle shall project into a street or alley while being loaded or unloaded.
    6. Unless otherwise specified, a required off-street loading berth shall be at least twelve feet (12') in width by at least thirty feet (30') in length, exclusive of aisle and maneuvering space, and shall have a vertical clearance of at least fourteen feet (14').
    7. Space allocated to any off-street loading berth shall not, while so allocated, be used to satisfy the space requirements for any off-street parking facilities or portions thereof.
    8. Uses for which off-street loading facilities are required herein, but which are located in buildings of less floor area than the minimum prescribed for such required facilities, shall be provided with adequate receiving facilities, accessible by motor vehicle, from any adjacent alley, service drive or open space on the same zoning lot.
  4. Spaces Required: At least the following amounts of off-set loading space shall be provided, plus an area or means adequate for maneuvering, ingress and egress.
    1. Auditoriums, Banks, Business and Professional Offices, Public Administration Buildings, Bowling Alleys, Hospitals, Schools, College, Sanitariums, and Other Similar Institutional Uses, Hotels, or Private Clubs and Lodges: For such a building containing ten thousand (10,000) to one million (1,000,000) square feet of floor area or fraction thereof in such a building, one loading space. For each additional one hundred thousand (100,000) square feet of floor area or fraction thereof in such a building, one additional loading space.
    2. Manufacturing, Production or Processing, Warehousing, Storing, Cleaning, Servicing, Testing, and Repairing Establishments: For such a building containing five thousand (5,000) to forty thousand (40,000) square feet of floor area, one loading space. For such a building containing forty thousand (40,000) to one million (1,000,000) square feet of floor area, two (2) loading spaces plus one additional loading space for each additional one hundred thousand (100,000) square feet of floor area or fraction thereof.
    3. Establishments Engaged in Retail or Wholesale Trade and Establishments Handling the Sale and Consumption of Food on the Premises: Loading Spaces in accordance with the following schedule:

      Square Feet of Floor Area
      Minimum No.
      5,000 to 10,000
      1
      10,000 to 25,000
      2
      25,000 to 40,000
      3
      40,000 to 100,000
      4
      For each additional one hundred thousand (100,000) square feet of floor area or fraction thereof in such a building, one additional loading berth.
  5. Other Uses: Off-street loading spaces shall be provided in accordance with requirements determined by the Board of Trustees based upon requirements heretofore set forth for the most similar cases.

(90-0-18, 8-9-90)