Woodland Hills City Zoning Code

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

1. Relieve congestion so the streets can be utilized more fully for movement of vehicular traffic;
2. Promote the safety and convenience of pedestrians by locating parking areas so as to lessen car movements in the vicinity if intensive pedestrian traffic;
3. Protect adjoining residential neighborhoods from on-street parking;
4. Provide regulations and standards for the development of accessory off-street parking and loading facilities in accordance with the objectives of the general plan of the city.

HISTORY:

(Ord. 1993-05, 6-16-1993)

Accessory off-street parking facilities shall be provided as a condition precedent to occupancy of all residential and institutional uses in conformance with the provisions of this chapter:

1. Whenever a building is constructed or a new use established;
2. Whenever an existing building is altered and there is an increase in the number of dwelling units, seating capacity, the floor area of building; and
3. Whenever the use of an existing building is changed to a more intensive use which requires more off-street parking facilities, except certain nonconforming uses may continue as provided in section 10-14-9 of this title.

HISTORY:

(Ord. 1993-05, 6-16-1993)

1. Application For Providing Facilities: Any application for a permit to construct a building or parking area, or for a certificate of occupancy for a change in use of land or building, shall include a site plan drawn to scale and fully dimensioned showing the proposed design of the parking area and loading facilities to be provided in compliance with the provisions of chapter 12, Site Plan Review, of this title.
2. Determination Of Required Parking Facilities: The minimum number of spaces required for accessory off-street parking shall be determined by applying the parking area design standards in subsection C of this section, the schedule of parking requirements for the various uses in section 10-16-4 of this chapter, and any other applicable provisions of this title. Where the computation results in a fractional space, it shall be counted as one additional space required.
3. Parking Area Design Standards: The plan for parking spaces of a parking area included with an application to construct a building or parking area, or change in use, shall be designed and dimensioned in accordance with the following:
4. A parking space shall be not less than nineteen feet (19') in length by nine feet (9') in width.
5. All parking spaces shall be permanently surfaced of either blacktop or asphaltic concrete in accordance with construction standard as required by the city.
6. All parking areas shall include appropriate access roads between spaces in accordance with this title.

HISTORY:

(Ord. 1993-05, 6-16-1993)

Accessory off-street parking facilities shall be provided in quantities not less than set forth in the following schedule:

HISTORY:

(Ord. 1993-05, 6-16-1993)

Off-street parking facilities accessory to an existing use on the effective date hereof shall be continued and maintained in operation, and shall not be reduced below the requirements of this title during the period that the main use is maintained.

HISTORY:

(Ord. 1993-05, 6-16-1993)

1. Accessory parking facilities shall be provided at locations as set forth herein, except as modified.
2. Residential districts and uses:
3. Accessory, enclosed or open parking facilities as required, shall be provided on the same lot as the dwelling unit served.
4. No boat, tractor truck, trailer, recreation vehicles or other equipment and supplies may be parked and/or stored on a residential lot unless they are parked and/or stored as provided for in section 10-11-14 and 10-11-15 of this title.

HISTORY:

(Ord. 1993-05, 6-16-1993)

Parking areas and access driveways shall be designed, graded, constructed, altered and maintained as follows:

1.  Grading And Pavement: Parking areas and access driveways shall be graded and drained so that surface water shall not be allowed to flow onto adjacent properties. Parking areas and driveways shall be improved with asphaltic concrete or portland cement pavement, in accordance with the standards established in the city subdivision regulations.
2. Design Of Areas: Parking areas shall be so arranged and marked to provide for orderly and safe parking and storage of vehicles in accordance with the aforesaid parking area design standards.
3. Features: The city may also require landscape features such as a compact evergreen hedge, shrubs or screening by a substantially solid fence between such parking areas and a side or rear lot line of a residential district in accordance with standards established in other sections of this title.
4. Signs: Signs located on or related to parking areas shall be limited to those indicating the operator, purpose or use served, or instructions for parking.

HISTORY:

(Ord. 1993-05, 6-16-1993)

Parking areas shall be illuminated whenever the planning commission determines that such illumination is necessary to ensure the public safety. Lighting fixtures shall be designed and located so as not to cast direct rays of excessive brightness upon adjoining residential districts or cause a glare hazardous to pedestrians or auto drivers on adjacent public streets.

HISTORY:

(Ord. 1993-05, 6-16-1993)

1. Location, Width, Number: The location, width and number of entrance and exit driveways serving accessory parking facilities, shall be planned in such a manner as to interfere as little as possible with the use of adjacent property, and the flow of traffic on the streets to which they connect.
2. Areas Up To Twenty Spaces: Parking areas of up to twenty (20) spaces shall have at least one (1) two (2) lane driveway located at least fifty feet (50') from the right-of-way line of the nearest intersecting street, except as modified by the planning commission.
3. More Than Twenty Spaces: Parking areas of more than twenty (20) spaces should, if possible, have two (2) two (2) lane driveways located not less than fifty feet (50') from the right-of-way line of the nearest intersecting street, except as modified by the planning commission.
4. Width: Entrance or exit driveways shall not exceed three (3) lanes in width and be designed so that all cars can be driven forward into the street. The width of such driveways, measured at the street right-of-way line, shall conform with the following schedule, except as modified by the planning commission:

1. Angle: The angle of intersection between the driveway and the street shall be between seventy degrees (70°) degrees and ninety degrees (90°). The radii of the edge of the driveway apron shall be at least twenty feet (20').

HISTORY:

(Ord. 1993-05, 6-16-1993; Amd. Ord. 2025-21, 04-22-2025; Amd. Ord. 2025-23 05-27-2025)

1. Detailed Drawings: Detailed drawings of accessory off-street parking and loading facilities shall be submitted in accordance with all the provisions of this chapter for review by the planning commission.
2. Structural Or Landscape Features: The planning commission may require structural or landscape features, such as bumper guards, curbs, walls, fences, shrubs, ground cover or hedges to further carry out the objectives of the general plan and of this title before an application is approved and a building permit or certificate of occupancy may be issued.

HISTORY:

(Ord. 1993-05, 6-16-1993)