ARTICLE XVII - OFF-STREET PARKING AND LOADING

Section 1700.Off-Street Parking.Off-street parking spaces, with proper access from a street, alley or driveway shall be provided in all districts in the amount indicated in Section 1701.Such parking space shall be provided on any lot on which a dwelling is hereafter erected - or in the case of any other use on or near the lot on which any main building is hereafter erected.Nothing in this Section shall be construed to prevent the collective provision of off-street parking facilities for two or more buildings or uses, PROVIDED that the total of such off-street parking facilities shall be not less than the sum of the requirements for various individual uses computed separately.In no case shall the number of parking spaces provided, or the area devoted to parking, be less than the minimum requirements of Section 1701.Any existing use may expand in ground floor area up to twenty-five (25) percent without complying with these regulations.This exemption shall be granted only one time per use or building after the enactment of this provision.

Section 1701.Off-Street Parking Space Requirements.

1. Business C Central Business Districts shall be exempt from all off-street parking with the exception of residential requirements listed below and the provisions of Section 1204-2.

2. Structures used in whole or in part for residential purposes shall have one (1) space for each dwelling unit EXCEPT as follows:

a. Residence B and Residence C-1, Residential Project Districts, shall have 1.5 spaces per dwelling unit, and Residence A-1 and Residence A Districts shall have two (2) spaces per dwelling unit.In the case of Residence A-1, Residence A and Residence B zones, a driveway shall constitute a parking space or spaces.

b. In the case of any multi-family dwelling specifically designed for the elderly, the minimum off-street parking requirement shall be one (1) space for each four (4) dwelling units; this provision shall apply to all districts.

c. Hotels, motels, and lodging houses shall have one (1) space for each rental room.

d. Hospitals shall have one (1) space for each two (2) hospital beds. Rest homes, convalescent and nursing homes, and residential rehabilitation centers shall have one (1) space for each seven (7) beds.

e. Dormitories shall have one (1) space for each four (4) dormitory beds.

3. School buildings, up to and including ninth grade, shall have one (1) parking space for each fifteen (15) units of classroom student capacity.

4. School buildings or college buildings, tenth grade and up, shall have one (1) parking space for each ten (10) units of classroom capacity.

5. Bank or library buildings shall have one (1) space for each two hundred fifty (250) square feet of floor area in public use, plus one (1) space foreach five hundred (500) square feet of floor area in other use.

6. Indoor place of assembly without fixed seats, including dance hall, skating rink, other places of amusement, shall have one (1) space for each two hundred (200) square feet of floor area in public use.

7. Indoor place of assembly with seating facilities including auditoriums, theaters, assembly halls, churches, arenas, shall have one (1) space for each five (5) seats.

8. Bowling alleys shall have three (3) spaces for each alley.

9. Restaurant or similar establishment shall have one (1) space for each fifty (50) square feet devoted to patron use PROVIDED that any restaurant serving food for consumption outside of the main building but on the premises, shall have at least forty (40) spaces.Restaurants serving food for consumption outside of the main building, but on the premises, shall have one (1) parking space for every eighty (80) square feet of patron space and shall have one (1) parking space for every twenty (20) square feet of food preparation area.

10. Retail sales of furniture, automobiles, nursery stock, etc. involving usually extensive display areas in relation to customer traffic shall have one (1) space for each eight hundred (800) square feet of gross floor area in such use.In the case of outdoor sales, one (1) space for each one thousand (1000) square feet of lot area in such use.

11. Other buildings for retail sales and services shall have one (1) space for each three hundred (300) square feet of gross floor area.

12. Professional offices, office building, office of a wholesale or jobbing establishment, including incidental sales space, shall have one (1) space for each five hundred (500) square feet of gross floor area.

13. Passenger transportation terminals shall have one (1) space for each three hundred (300) square feet of public and office area.

14. Building for manufacture, assembly, processing or packaging shall have one (1) space for each one thousand (1,000) square feet of gross floor area or one for each five (5) employees on the largest shift, whichever is the greater.

15. Storage, wholesale establishment, freight terminal and similar uses shall have one (1) space for each three thousand (3,000) square feet of gross floor area and/or lot area in such use.

16. Car wash establishment shall have sufficient parking space to prevent the use of adjoining public street for storage or holding of motor vehicles before or after servicing, but in no case less than five (5) space per washing bay.

17. Funeral establishment shall have ten (10) spaces for each reposing room.

18. Buildings or uses, other than specified above, shall have at least one (1) space for each one thousand (1,000) square feet of gross floor area, or lot area whichever is the greater.

19. No sales or servicing or dead storage of automobile or automotive equipment shall be carried on in any parking space.

20. Any business establishment, such as but not restricted to a bank or restaurant, with a drive-up service window will provide a vehicular storage lane for no less than five (5) cars.

21. Bed & Breakfast Homes must provide off-street parking at a ratio of one (1) space per guest room, either on-site or by long term lease at an off-site location within three hundred (300) feet of the premises. This requirement is in addition to the number of parking spaces required for the dwelling unit itself. The required spaces may not be located in the front yard. Existing parking areas may not be expanded more than twenty percent (20%) in order to meet this requirement. In the case of any expansion, the screening requirements of Section 1702(4) shall be applied regardless of the number of spaces created.

Section 1702.Location and Layout.

1. Location.Required parking shall be provided on the same lot with the main use it is to serve or, in Business and Industrial Districts, on a lot that is in the same ownership as, and located within, three hundred (300) feet of the main use.Parking required for two or more buildings or uses may be provided in combined facilities where it is evident that such facilities will continue to be available for the several buildings or uses.

2. Size.In a parking lot or parking building at least fifty (50) percent of the parking bays must be 8-1/2 feet by 18 feet in size.The remaining parking bays may have a reduced bay size of 8 feet by 16 feet to accommodate smaller cars.These bay sizes are exclusive of adequate driveways and aisles which must have direct access to a street or alley.Bumper or wheel guards will be provided when needed.

3. Lighting.All artificial lighting used to illuminate any parking space or spaces shall be so arranged that all direct rays from such lighting fall entirely with such parking space or spaces.

4. Screening.In the case of any use in a Residence District for which five (5) or more parking spaces are required, all parking spaces not within a building shall be provided with a suitable fence, wall, or evergreen planting at least five (5) feet in height, designed to screen noise, odors, visibility and headlight glare, and located between such parking spaces and any other lot in a Residence District that abuts directly or across a street.

5. Landscaping.All open air surface parking areas shall be landscaped in the following manner in order to facilitate traffic channelization and control, to minimize heat and glare, to increase the supply of oxygen and to promote urban amenities:

a. Parking areas with a capacity of twenty-five (25) parking spaces or less shall be excluded from the provisions of this subsection.

b. Parking areas with a capacity of more than twenty-five (25) and less than seventy-five (75) parking spaces shall be landscaped a minimum of three (3) feet wide around the perimeter of any lot abutting a street.In addition, adequate bumpers or berms shall be installed to prohibit projection of vehicles over public areas.

c. Parking areas with a capacity of more than seventy-five (75) parking spaces shall have minimum of five (5) percent of the gross lot area devoted to landscaped open space within the parking area.In addition, adequate bumpers or berms shall be installed to prohibit projection of vehicles over public areas.All landscaped areas in paragraphs (b) and (c) must contain live shade and/or ornamental trees with adequate spaces being left unpaved for their growth.

6. Surface and Maintenance.All of-street parking facilities required by the Article shall be surfaced with bituminous concrete or its equal, drained, and periodically maintained by the owner or operator, and such facilities shall be arranged for convenient access and safety of pedestrians and vehicles.

Section 1703.Off-Street Loading.Adequate off-street loading and unloading space with proper access from a street, highway, common service driveway, or alley shall be provided on any lot which a business or institutional use is located.In no case shall the required space be less than requirements in Section 1704.

Section 1704.Off-Street Loading Space Requirements.

1. Every department store, freight terminal, railroad yard, hospital or sanitarium, industrial plant, manufacturing establishment, retail establishment, storage warehouse or wholesale establishment, which has an aggregate floor area of twenty-five thousand (25,000) square feet or more, arranged, intended or designed for such use, shall provide off-street loading spaces in accordance with the following table:

2. Every auditorium, convention hall, exhibition hall, funeral home, hotel, multi-family dwelling, office building, restaurant, sports arena or institutional use, which has an aggregate floor area of one hundred thousand (100,000) square feet or more arranged, intended or designed for such use, shall provide off-street loading space in accordance with the following table:

3. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to prevent the joint use of off-street loading space for two 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 the various individual uses computed separately.

Section 1705.Layout of Loading Facilities.

1. Each required loading space shall be not less than ten (10) feet in width, fourteen (14) feet in height, and of such length that a truck or trailer occupying such a space shall be located entirely on the lot with the building it is to serve, and shall not extend into sidewalks or the street.

2. Loading spaces may not include any of the required parking area.However, access ways and aisles may be used in common approaches to both parking areas and loading areas where approaches to both parking areas and loading areas are adequate for both.