§ 4.3. Off-street parking and loading.

Off-street parking, storage, standing and loading space shall be provided as hereafter established.

4.3.1. The size of each required parking space shall be three hundred (300) square feet, including access aisles thereto, but excluding driveways. Turning space except in R-1, 2, 3, districts shall be provided so that no vehicle will be required to back onto a street. Such space shall be provided, with access to a street or public alley, to meet the following requirements:

Residential:
Single-Family Homes	2.0/dwelling unit
Multifamily:
Efficiency	1.0/dwelling unit
One and two bedrooms	1.5/dwelling unit
Three and more apartments	2.0/dwelling unit
Doromitories, sororities, fraternities	0.5/units
Hotels and motels	1.0/dwelling unit
Commercial:
Offices and banks	3.0/1000 s.f. GFA
Business and professional services	3.3/1000 s.f. GFA
Commercial recreational facilities	8.0/1000 s.f. GFA
Bowling alleys	4.0/alley
Regional shopping centers	4.5/1000 s.f. GFA
Community shopping centers	5.0/1000 s.f. GFA
Neighborhood centers	6.0/1000 s.f. GFA
Restaurants	0.3/seat
Educational:
Elementary and junior high schools	1.0/teacher and staff
High schools and colleges	1.0/2—5 students
Medical:
Medical and dental offices	1.0/200 s.f. GFA
Hospitals	1.0/2—3 bed
Convalescent and nursing homes	1.0/3 bed
Public Building:
Auditoriums, theaters, stadiums	1.0/4 seats
Museums and libraries	1.0/300 s.f. GFA
Public utilities and offices	1.0/two employees
Recreation:
Beaches	1.0/100 s.f.
Swimming pools	1.0/30 s.f.
Athletic fields and courts	1.0/3000 s.f.
Golf courses	1.0/acre
Industrial:
Industrial manufacturing	1.0/2—5 employees
Churches:
Churches	1.0/4 seats

 

4.3.2. When the required off-street parking space cannot reasonably be provided on the same lot as the building it serves, such space may be provided on another property. Such property shall be located within four hundred (400) feet of the premises of which it is appurtenant as measured along the nearest and shortest pedestrian route.

4.3.3. No part of an off-street parking area required for complying with the provisions of this ordinance shall be included as part of an off-street parking area similarly required for another building or use. However, nothing in this ordinance shall be construed to prevent the joint use of off-street parking space for two (2) or more buildings or uses if the total of such spaces, when used together, shall not be less than the sum of the requirements for various individual uses or buildings computed separately.

4.3.4. Every structure hereafter constructed and used for commercial, wholesale, terminal or manufacturing purposes shall provide space for loading and unloading vehicles. The size of each loading space shall be five hundred (500) square feet. Such space cannot be on a public right-of-way or public alley. However, it shall have access to a street or public alley and meet the following requirements:

Commercial businesses and services: One (1) space for each three thousand (3,000) square feet of floor area or part thereof.

Wholesale and manufacturing: One (1) space for each ten thousand (10,000) square feet of floor space or part thereof.

Bus and truck terminals: One (1) space for the maximum number of buses or trucks to be stored, stopped, loaded or unloaded at the terminal at one time.

4.3.5. Vegetation/landscaping.

(a)

Commercial-industrial development. In the development and or redevelopment of commercial and or industrially zoned property, all applications for building permits shall be accompanied by a plot plan outlined in the site and development plans. In the establishment of parking areas required to serve commercial and industrial property, there shall be presented by the developer of such property a plot plan on which is shown those trees twelve (12) inches and above in caliber diameter to be removed and those which shall remain after installation of the parking facilities. In order to encourage developers to preserve existing trees, trees that are twelve (12) inches and above in caliper diameter that the developer proposes to remain on the property will diminish the planting requirements.

(b)

Minimum trees and planted shrubbery required in parking facilities. There shall be required within the overall landscape plan of any commercial or industrial parking lot development a minimum of one (1) approved tree (section 14.39.a-1, definitions) for every ten (10) parking spaces contained in the developed parking lot, with a minimum of one (1) approved tree for each business establishment served by the parking lot, and a minimum of ten (10) per cent of lot to be plantings, shrubbery, which may include planted detention area and planted buffer zones. Approved tree twelve (12) inches and above in caliper diameter that remain on the property will fulfill the planting requirements as follows. Every existing approved tree twelve (12) inches and above in caliper diameter will fulfill the planting requirements of two (2) trees, and every existing tree twenty-four (24) inches and above will fulfill the planting requirement of three (3) trees.

(c)

Substitution of trees. If, due to development conditions beyond control of the developer of any commercial or industrial property within the city, there does not exist the minimum number of approved trees required in subsection (b) of this section, the developer owner of the property shall ensure the installation and continued maintenance of the required number of approved trees as directed by the planning and zoning department of the city or in the alternative the developer owner shall install and maintain shrubbery and or planting as directed by the planning and zoning department of the city up to the value of the approved trees required to be installed under the terms and conditions of this article. All approved trees required to be installed under the conditions of this section shall be a minimum of eight (8) feet in height at time of installation, one such caliper, and comply with the American Standard for Nursery Stock, on file in the planning and zoning building department office.

(d)

Paving around trees. No pavement consisting of concrete, asphalt or other impervious material shall be permitted within three (3) feet of the outside diameter of any tree located in any tree located in any parking lot area within the city.

(Ord. No. 03-14, 8-21-2003; Ord. No. 03-15, 6-5-2003)