§ 38-381. Off-street parking space layout, standards, construction and maintenance.

Wherever the off-street parking requirements in section 38-380 above require the building of an off-street parking facility, such off-street parking lots shall be laid out, constructed and maintained in accordance with the following standards and regulations:

(1)

No parking lot of more than three thousand (3,000) square feet in area shall be constructed unless and until a permit therefor is issued by the city building inspector and approved by the city engineer. Applications for a permit shall be submitted in such form as may be determined by the city engineer and shall be accompanied with two (2) sets of plans for the development and construction of the parking lot showing that the provisions of this section will be fully complied with.

(2)

Plans for the layout of off-street parking facilities shall be in accord with the following minimum requirements. Level of service "A" shall be used except as noted below. Level of service "A" is intended for shorter term uses such as shopping centers, retail services, medical office buildings, hospital visitor parking, restaurant, movies or theater facilities and for hotels/motels and other facilities servicing travelers or others who normally load or unload luggage or packages. Level of service "B" may be used for churches, staff parking areas (as long as an appropriate number of signed visitor spaces are available) and other locations as approved by the planning commission.

	Level of Service A		Level of Service B
Parking stall width	9′0″		8′6″
Parking stall length	18′4″		17′5″
Parking stripe length	17′0″		16′0″
Angle	Bay Width Between Walls or in Parking Structure	Bay Width Multiple Bays	Bay Width Between Walls or in Parking Structure	Bay Width Multiple Bays
90	62′0″	62′0″	60′10″	60′10″
75	60′2″	58′4″	57′5″	55′7″
70	59′0″	56′6″	56′3″	53′9″
65	57′10″	54′10″	55′0″	52′0″
60	56′8″	53′0″	53′10″	50′2″
55	55′0″	50′10″	52′2″	48′0″
50	53′3″	48′7″	50′7″	45′11″
45	51′7″	46′5″	48′11″	43′9″
Parallel	9′0″ by 22′4″ parking space		8′6″ by 21′5″
	43′0″	43′0″	40′0″	40′0″
Two-way end aisles	31′0″		28′0″
One-way end aisles	19′0″		17′6″

 

Bay widths may be reduced by one parking stall length when parking is provided on only one side of the drive aisle.

Gravel parking lots are to meet ninety-degree parking requirements.

(3)

All spaces shall be provided adequate access to means of maneuvering lanes. Backing directly onto a street or public right-of-way shall be prohibited.

(4)

Adequate ingress and egress to the parking lot by means of clearly limited and defined drives shall be provided for all vehicles. Ingress and egress to a parking lot lying in an area zoned for other than a single-family residential use shall not be across land zoned for single-family residential use.

(5)

All maneuvering lane widths shall permit one-way traffic movement except that the ninety (90) degree pattern may permit two-way movement.

(6)

Each entrance and exit to and from any off-street parking lot located in an area zoned for other than single-family residential use shall be at least twenty-five (25) feet distant from any adjacent property located in any single-family residential district.

(7)

The off-street parking area shall be provided with a continuous and obscuring wall not less than four (4) feet, six (6) inches in height measured from the surface of the parking area. This wall shall be provided on all sides where the next zoning district is designated as a residential district.

When a front yard setback is required, all land between said wall and the front property line or street right-of-way line shall be kept free from refuse and debris and shall be landscaped with deciduous shrubs, evergreen material and ornamental trees. The ground area shall be planted and kept in lawn. All such landscaping and planting shall be maintained in a healthy growing condition, neat and orderly in appearance.

(8)

Off-street parking areas shall be drained so as to dispose of all surface water accumulated in the parking area in such a way as to preclude drainage of water onto adjacent property or toward buildings, and plans shall meet the approval of the city engineer.

(9)

All lighting used to illuminate any off-street parking area shall be so installed as to be confined within and directed onto the parking area only.

(10)

In all cases where a wall extends to an alley which is a means of ingress and egress to an off-street parking area, it shall be permissible to end the wall not more than ten (10) feet from such alley line in order to permit a wider means of access to the parking area.

(11)

The board of appeals upon application by the property owner of the off-street parking area, may modify the yard or wall requirements where, in unusual circumstances, no good purpose would be served by compliance with the requirements of this section; provided, however, that where site plan approval of the planning commission is required, the commission may modify these requirements.

(Code 1977, § 5.81; Ord. No. 575, § 1, 1-19-99)