GENERAL REQUIREMENTS AND REGULATIONS. In any district where required, space for the parking, storage and loading of vehicles shall be subject to the following regulations:

A. Plot Plans: Plot plans showing the proposed development and use of the property, shall be submitted to the Administrative Official who may disapprove such plans if he finds that they are inconsistent with the parking requirements, as provided for in this Chapter.

B. Parking Area Limitations: A required parking area shall be used exclusively for vehicle parking in conjunction with a permitted land use and shall not be reduced or encroached upon in any manner.

C. Parking Area Dimensions: The plot plan submitted shall show a detailed functional parking arrangement, which indicates the dimensions of spaces and adequate access thereto.

D. Combined Parking Area: Parking facilities may be provided collectively for two (2) or more buildings or uses; provided, that the total area of such facilities shall not be less than the combined requirements for the individual uses.

E. Ownership of Parking Area: Property on which required parking is established shall be under the same ownership as the use it is intended to serve. Any joint ownership resulting from the establishment of collective parking facilities, as provided in subsection D above, will be construed as complying with this provision.

F. Whenever a building or use constructed or established after the effective date of this Title or amendment of this Title is changed or enlarged in floor area, number of employees, number of dwelling units, seating capacity or otherwise, to create a need for an increase in the number of existing parking spaces, such spaces shall be provided on the basis of the enlargement or change.

G. No access way to any parking area shall be located within 30 feet of any corner formed by the intersection of the rights-of-way of two or more streets. At intersections where traffic control devices are installed, the Administrator may increase this requirement as necessary to prevent hazards.

PARKING SPACE REQUIREMENTS. The parking spaces required for each type of use shall be as follows:

LOCATION OF REQUIRED PARKING FACILITIES. Parking shall be located on the same lot or premises of the principal structure, provided, however, that no off-street facilities for a business or industrial use shall be located in a residential district.

Where an increase in the number of spaces is required by a change or enlargement of use or where such spaces are provided collectively by two or more establishments, the required spaces may be located within 300 feet from the nonresidential building served. [See Section 17.5.]

The required parking spaces for residences shall be located in the side, rear or front yard on driveways only. No driveway access located in a front yard shall exceed 20 feet in width, and a circle drive shall have a minimum radius of 40 feet.

No vehicle or recreational trailer in excess of 35 feet shall be parked in residential districts. Recreational trailers may be parked in a rear yard, provided, however, that they are not used as living quarters while so parked.

Inoperable or unlicensed vehicles, including those used for racing, derby, or demolition derby purposes, shall be parked within an enclosed structure or within an enclosed rear yard. The total number of vehicles on a premises, including recreational vehicles and trailers, shall not exceed four for any one residential unit.

DIMENSIONS OF PARKING AND ACCESS AREAS.

A. Minimum size parking space: nine feet by eighteen feet (9'x18').

B. Minimum aisle widths:

30 degree parking	12 feet
45 degree parking	15 feet
60 degree parking	18 feet
90 degree parking	24 feet

 

C. Driveway entrances and exits:

Driveways used to serve no more than one dwelling unit, nine feet (9').

Driveways used to serve two (2) or more dwelling units, eighteen feet (18').

Single lane entrance and exit driveways for all uses except residential, twelve feet (12').

Combined entrance and exit driveways for all uses except residential, twenty-four feet (24').

COLLECTIVE FACILITIES FOR SEPARATE USES. Off-street parking facilities for separate uses may be provided collectively if the total number of spaces so furnished is not less than the sum of the spaces required for all such separate uses, and provided that all regulations covering the location of accessory parking spaces in relation to the use served are observed. A written agreement covering such collective uses shall be filed with the Administrative Official.

CIRCULATION REQUIREMENTS. Circulation within the parking lot shall be such that a car entering the parking lot need not enter the street to reach another aisle, and a car need not enter a public street backwards. If circulation is not possible otherwise, a twenty-four foot (24') turn-around will suffice. Directional signs are required in lots using more than one aisle.

SIZE AND DESIGN STANDARDS. Any area developed for the parking of vehicles (parking lots) shall be developed and maintained as hereinafter set forth. For the purpose of this Chapter, one hundred sixty-two (162) square feet (9'x18') of lot or floor area, which has a means of egress and ingress from an alley or street, shall be deemed parking space for one vehicle. Such parking spaces and access driveways, required in all districts when used in compliance with the provisions of this Chapter, shall be paved or otherwise surfaced with an all-weather, dust-proof material. That part of the driveway connecting from the curb line to the property line shall be paved with concrete or asphaltic materials. Parking areas shall be hard surfaced and graded so as to drain off all surface water to storm sewer inlets.

A. Bumpers: Bumper guards are required, wherever needed, to protect adjacent property or vehicles.

B. Fences, Walls and Screens: When such parking areas or lots abut upon adjacent residential properties, there shall be provided a masonry wall, solid screen planting of appropriate shrubs or an opaque wooden fence of a height of not less than four feet (4'), along the entire boundary, common to both the residential and parking areas. Lights used to illuminate such parking lots shall be so arranged as to reflect lighting away from the adjoining premises of the residential district.

C. Marking: All required spaces shall be marked on the paving surface.

LOADING REQUIREMENTS. There shall be provided at the time any building is erected or structurally altered, off-street loading space in accordance with the following requirements:

A. All commercial uses--one space for each 15,000 square feet of floor area, or fraction thereof in excess of 5,000 square feet. Where such place is located in a manner that a truck must back directly from a major street into the loading space, a maneuvering space of not less than 49 feet shall be provided.

B. Manufacturing or industrial use–one space for each 10,000 square fee of floor area or fraction thereof in excess of 5,000 square feet. Where such space is located in a manner that a truck must back directly from a major street into the loading space, a maneuvering space of not less that 49 fee shall be provided.

C. Enlargements and extensions. No building or part thereof heretofore erected which is used for any of the purposes specified above, shall hereafter be enlarged or extended unless off street loading space is provided in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter.

DESIGN STANDARDS.

A. Location: All required loading berths shall be off-street and shall be located on the same lot as the building to be served. No permitted or required loading berth shall be located within a required front or side yard.

B. Area: Unless otherwise specified in this Chapter, a required loading berth shall be at least ten feet (10') in width by at least twenty-five feet (25') in length, exclusive of aisle and maneuvering space, and shall have vertical clearance of at least fourteen feet (14').

C. Access: Each required loading berth shall be served by appropriate means of vehicular access to a street or alley in a manner which will not unreasonably interfere with traffic movement.

D. Surfacing: All open loading berths shall be graded and paved or otherwise improved with bituminous concrete or Portland cement concrete.

E. Storage, Repair and Service: No storage of any kind, nor motor vehicle repair work or service of any kind, shall be permitted within any required loading berth.

F. Drainage: All loading berths shall be provided with adequate drainage facilities to carry surface and storm waters into storm sewers or drainage ditches.

G. Space Allocated: Space allocated to a required loading berth shall not be used to satisfy any requirement of this Chapter for off-street parking spaces.

EXEMPTION.

Exemption: The area known as the Downtown Business Strip, described as businesses located on East North Avenue and West North Avenue between State Street and Sycamore Street, is exempted from the requirements of this Chapter.