The off-street parking and off-street loading
provisions of this Code shall apply as follows:
(A)
Required parking. Accessory off-street parking and
off-street loading facilities shall be provided as required by the
regulations of this Article, for all buildings and structures erected
and all uses of land established in each district, after the effective
date of this Code. However, where a building permit has been issued
prior to the effective date of this Code, and provided that construction
is begun within six months of such effective date and diligently prosecuted
to completion, parking and loading facilities in the amounts required
for the issuance of said building permit may be provided in lieu of
any different amounts required by this Code.
(B)
Increased intensity of use. When the intensity of
use of any building, structure, or premises shall be increased through
the addition of dwelling units, gross floor area, seating capacity,
or other units of measurement specified herein for required parking
or loading facilities, parking and loading facilities as required
herein shall be provided for such increase in intensity of use. However,
no building or structure lawfully erected or use lawfully established
prior to the effective date of this Code shall be required to provide
such additional parking or loading facilities unless and until the
aggregate increase in units of measurement shall equal not less than
15% of the units of measurement existing upon the effective date of
this Code, in which event parking or loading facilities as required
herein shall be provided for the total increase, provided, however,
that in the case of the expansion or alteration of residential buildings,
required parking or loading facilities shall be provided on the basis
of the total required units of measurement for the entire capacity
of the buildings.
(C)
New uses. Whenever the existing use of a building
or structure shall hereafter be changed to a new use, parking or loading
facilities shall be provided as required for such new use. However,
if the building or structure was erected prior to the effective date
of this Code, additional parking or loading facilities are mandatory
only in the amount by which the requirements for the new use would
exceed those of the existing use, if the latter were subject to the
parking and loading provisions of this Code.
Accessory off-street parking facilities in existence
on the effective date of this Code, and located on the same lot as
the building or use served shall not hereafter be reduced below, (or
if already less than shall not be further reduced below), the requirements
for a similar new building or use under the provisions of this Code.
Nothing in this Code shall be deemed to prevent
the voluntary establishment of off-street parking or loading facilities
(on the same lot as the establishment it serves) to serve any existing
use of land or buildings, provided that all regulations herein governing
the location, design, and operation of such facilities are adhered
to.
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(A)
Structure damage and parking. For any conforming or
legally nonconforming building or use which is in existence on the
effective date of this Code, which subsequently thereto is damaged
or destroyed by fire, collapse, explosion, or other cause, and which
is reconstructed, reestablished, or repaired, off-street parking or
loading facilities need not be provided, except that parking or loading
facilities equivalent to any maintained at the time of such damage
or destruction shall be restored or continued in operation. However,
in no case shall it be necessary to restore or maintain parking or
loading facilities in excess of those required by this Code for equivalent
new uses or construction.
(B)
Fire repair permit. Application for a fire repair
permit shall be made by the owner or the person or entity in or entitled
to possession of the premises where the repair work is to be done,
or by the agent of either, or by the engineer, architect or contractor
connected with such repair work.
(C)
Fee. The amount of the fee required to accompany the
application for a fire repair permit and to be paid to the Village
Treasurer shall be $100.
(D)
Work done without permit. Should any work for which
a permit is required be commenced or be done before such permit is
issued and obtained, the required permit may nonetheless be issued
for such and subsequent work; however, the amount of the required
fee as provided herein for all work, both that commenced before and
that proposed to be done after said permit is issued shall be double
that otherwise so provided; and issuance of such permit shall not,
and shall not be, and shall not be construed to be, an excuse from,
or waiver of, or defense to or absolution from any penalty, liability
or action otherwise provided for said Code or this chapter but shall
be cumulative of and in addition thereto.
In cases where parking facilities are permitted
on land other than the zoning lot on which the building or use served
is located, such facilities shall be in the same possession as the
lot occupied by the building or use to which the parking facilities
are accessory. Such possession may be either by deed or long-term
lease, the term of such lease to be determined by the Board. The owner
of the land on which the parking facilities are to be located shall
be bound by covenants, filed on record in the Office of the Recorder
of Deeds and the Village Clerk, requiring such owner, his or her heirs
and assignees to maintain the required number of parking facilities
for the duration of the use served or of the said lease, whichever
shall terminate sooner.
Off-street parking facilities for motor vehicles
shall be provided in accordance with regulations set forth hereinafter.
(A)
Use. Accessory off-street parking facilities required
as accessory to uses listed herein, shall be solely for the parking
of vehicles of patrons, occupants, or employees. (When bus transportation
is provided for patrons, occupants or employees of a specific establishment,
additional open or enclosed off-street parking spaces for each bus
to be parked on the premises shall be provided in accordance with
regulations hereafter for access, in yards, design and maintenance
and area in accordance with size of buses.)
(B)
Computation. When determination of the number of off-street
parking spaces required by this Code results in a requirement of a
fractional space, any fraction of 1/2 or less may be disregarded while
a fraction in excess of 1/2 shall be counted as one parking space.
(C)
Collective provision. Off-street parking facilities
for separate uses may be provided collectively if the total number
of spaces so provided is not less than the sum of the separate requirements
for each such use and provided that all regulations governing location
of accessory parking spaces, in relation to the use served, are adhered
to. Further, no parking spaces or portion thereof shall serve as a
required space for more than one use unless otherwise authorized by
the Board in accordance with procedures set forth herein in the variance
section of this Code.
(D)
Area. A required off-street parking space shall be
at least 10 feet in width and at least 20 feet in length, exclusive
of access drives or aisles, ramps, columns, or office or work areas.
Enclosed and covered parking spaces shall have a vertical clearance
of at least seven feet.
(E)
Access. Each required off-street parking space shall
open directly upon an aisle or driveway of such width and design as
to provide safe and efficient means of vehicular access to such parking
space. All off-street parking facilities shall be designed with appropriate
means of vehicular access to a street or alley in a manner which will
least interfere with traffic movement. No driveway across public property
at the right-of-way line shall exceed a width of 25 feet.
(F)
In yards. Off-street parking spaces, open to the sky, may be located in any yard except a front yard except as specified in Section 40-4-4(A)(4). Corner lots shall be considered to have two front yards for purposes of parking regulations.
(G)
Design and maintenance.
(1)
Open, covered and enclosed parking spaces. Accessory
parking spaces may be open to the sky, covered by roofing, or enclosed
in a building.
(2)
Surfacing. All open off-street parking areas
containing four or more parking spaces shall be improved with a compacted
base, and a permanent wearing surface with a compacted base, and a
permanent wearing surface as approved by the designated Village Engineer.
Further, these parking areas shall be graded, tiled, and drained so
as to dispose of all surface water without causing a nuisance to surrounding
property owners.
(3)
Screening and landscaping. All open or covered
parking areas, containing more than four parking spaces, located less
than 40 feet from a property line shall be effectively screened on
each side adjoining or fronting on any property situated in a residential
district or any institutional premises by a uniformly finished wall,
fence or densely planted compact hedge, not less than five feet in
height, maintained in good condition. Chain linked (except with 100%
slatting), any form of barbed wired, or other wire or mesh fences
shall not be considered to be adequate screening.
(4)
Lighting. Any lighting used to illuminate off-street
parking areas shall be directed away from residential properties in
such a way as not to create a nuisance, and in a parking area containing
40 or more parking spaces such lighting shall be extinguished 1/2
hour after the close of business except as may otherwise be permitted
or required by the Board for maintaining illumination with less candle-power
after the time specified above.
(5)
Repair and service. No commercial motor vehicle
repair work or service of any kind shall be permitted in conjunction
with any parking facilities. No gasoline or motor oil shall be sold
in conjunction with any accessory parking facilities unless such accessory
parking facilities are enclosed in a building, in which case gasoline
and motor oil may be sold within such building to the users of said
accessory parking facilities, provided that no sign advertising the
sale of same is visible from outside, and provided further that all
gasoline pumps shall be effectively screened from view from the public
way.
(H)
Location. All parking spaces required to serve buildings or uses erected or established after the effective date of this Code shall be located on the same lot as the building or use served. Buildings or uses existing on the effective date of this Code which are subsequently altered or enlarged so as to require the provision of parking spaces under this Code, or new uses established in any business district may be served by parking facilities located on land other than the lot on which the building or use served is located, provided such facilities are within 300 feet walking distance of a main entrance to the use served and provided that a special parking lot permit is obtained, as required under Article V, Section 40-5-2(C).
(I)
Employee parking. Parking spaces required on an employee
basis shall be based on the maximum number of employees on duty or
residing, or both, on the premises at any one time.
(J)
Maximum number of spaces. The total number of accessory
parking spaces provided for a single-family, two-family, or multiple-family
dwelling shall not exceed that required by this Code for such use
or for an equivalent new use by more than 50% or four spaces, whichever
number is greater.
(K)
Required spaces. Off-street parking spaces accessory
to designated uses shall be provided as follows:
(1)
Dwelling and lodging uses.
(a)
Hotels and apartment hotels: at least one parking
space for each three separate lodging rooms and one parking space
for each dwelling unit in an apartment hotel.
(b)
Lodging houses: at least two parking spaces
plus one parking space for each three lodging rooms.
(c)
Motels, tourist homes, or tourist courts: at
least one parking space for each dwelling unit and one parking space
for each sleeping room.
(d)
Multiple-family dwelling: at least two parking
spaces for each dwelling unit.
(e)
Single-family dwellings: at least two parking
spaces for each dwelling, plus one additional parking space for each
two roomers or lodgers accommodated; but no more than four parking
spaces for each single-family dwelling.
(f)
Tourist camps or parks: Automobile parking spaces
equal in number to the number of trailers permitted shall be provided.
(g)
Two-family dwellings: two parking spaces for
each dwelling unit.
(2)
School, institution, auditorium, or other places
of assembly uses.
(a)
Colleges, junior colleges, and universities:
One parking space shall be provided for each six students, based upon
the maximum number of students that can be accommodated in accordance
with design capacity.
(b)
Convalescent homes, nursing homes, rest homes,
institutions for the care of the aged and for children, and sanitariums:
One parking space shall be provided for each four beds, plus one parking
space for each two employees (other than staff doctors), plus one
parking space for each doctor assigned to the staff.
(c)
Fraternities, sororities, and dormitories in
conjunction with colleges, junior colleges, and universities: One
parking space shall be provided for each three active members or dormitory
residents, plus one parking space for the manager.
(d)
Gymnasiums, stadiums, and grandstands: One parking
space shall be provided for each six seats or for each 108 inches
of seating space.
(e)
Hospitals: at least one parking space for each
two hospital beds, plus one parking space for each two employees,
other than doctors, plus one parking space for each doctor assigned
to the staff.
(f)
Libraries and museums: at least one parking
space for each 800 square feet of floor area.
(g)
Medical and dental clinics: at least three parking
spaces for each examining or treatment room, plus one for each doctor
and employee in the building.
(h)
Meeting halls, convention halls, and exhibition
halls: not less than the number of parking spaces equal to 30% of
the maximum number of people that can be accommodated in accordance
with design capacity.
(i)
Private clubs and lodges: at least one parking
space for each lodging room and one parking space for each six seats
in accordance with design capacity of the main meeting room.
(j)
Schools, commercial or trade, and music, dance,
or business: One parking space shall be provided for each two employees,
plus one space for each five students, based on the maximum number
of students that can be accommodated in accordance with design capacity.
(k)
Schools, high: public or private: at least one
parking space for each seven students in accordance with design capacity
of the building.
(l)
School and institutional auditoriums: at least
one parking space for each two persons employed on the premises, and
an additional parking space for each six seats, or for each 108 inches
of seating space in the main auditorium or assembly hall.
(m)
Schools, nursery, elementary or junior high:
public or private: at least one parking space for each three faculty
members and other full-time employees.
(n)
Auditoriums (other than incidental to a school),
arenas, race tracks of all kinds, or other places of assembly: Parking
spaces equal in number to 30% of the capacity in persons shall be
provided.
(3)
Recreational uses — commercial
or noncommercial.
(a)
Bowling alleys: at least seven parking spaces
for each alley, plus such additional spaces as may be required herein
for affiliated uses such as restaurants and the like.
(b)
Health salons, swimming pools, skating rinks,
and dance halls, commercial: at least one parking space for each three
persons, based upon the maximum number of persons that can be accommodated
at the same time in accordance with design capacity, and one parking
space for each three employees.
(c)
Parks, recreation areas, or community centers:
private, semipublic, or public: At least one parking space shall be
provided for each three employees, plus spaces in adequate number
as determined by the Village Board to serve the visiting public.
(4)
Business, commercial and manufacturing uses.
(a)
All business and commercial establishments,
except those specified hereafter: at least one parking space for each
300 square feet of floor area.
(b)
Auto laundries: One parking space shall be provided
for each three employees, plus one space for the owner or manager,
and in addition, reservoir parking spaces — equal
in number to five times the maximum capacity of the auto laundry — for
automobiles awaiting entrance to the auto laundry shall be provided.
"Maximum capacity," in this instance, shall mean the greatest number
possible of automobiles undergoing some phase of laundering at the
same time.
(c)
Automobile service stations: at least one parking
space for each employee, plus two for each service stall.
(d)
Banks: at least one parking space for each 300
square feet of floor area.
(e)
Business, professional and administration or
service office buildings: at least one parking space for each two
persons employed based upon the designed maximum employee capacity
of the building.
(f)
Cartage, express, parcel delivery and freight
terminal establishments: at least one parking space for each two employees,
as related to the working period when the maximum number of persons
are employed on the premises, and one parking space for each vehicle
maintained on the premises.
(g)
Establishments handling the sale and consumption
on the premises of food and refreshment: at least one parking space
for each three persons based upon the maximum number of persons that
can be accommodated at the same time in accordance with design capacity.
(h)
Furniture and appliance stores, motor vehicle
sales, wholesale stores, stores for repair of household equipment
of furniture: at least one parking space for each 400 square feet
of floor area.
(i)
Production, processing, assembly, cleaning,
servicing, testing, or repairing or materials, goods, or products:
at least one parking space for each three employees, as related to
the working period when the maximum number of persons are employed
on the premises.
(j)
Theaters: at least one parking space for each
six seats up to 400 seats plus one parking space for each four seats
over 400.
(k)
Undertaking establishments and funeral parlors:
at least eight parking spaces for each chapel or parlor, plus one
parking space for each funeral vehicle maintained on the premises.
(l)
Warehouse, storage, wholesale and mail order
establishments: at least one parking space for each two employees,
as related to the working period when the maximum number of persons
are employed on the premises.
(5)
Miscellaneous uses.
(a)
Planned developments: Parking spaces shall be
provided on the basis of the required spaces for each individual use.
(b)
Public utility and public service uses: at least
one parking space for each two employees, plus spaces in adequate
number as determined by the Board to serve the visiting public.
There shall be provided at the time any building
is erected or structurally altered off-street loading spaces, logically
and conveniently located for bulk pickups and deliveries, of a size
and number as to accommodate the delivery vehicles expected, and accessible
to such vehicles even when off-street parking spaces are filled. Required
off-street loading space is not to be included as off-street parking
space in computation of required off-street parking space.
Where off-street loading spaces are provided
they shall be built in accordance with the following regulations:
(A)
All loading spaces shall be located on the same zoning
lot as the use served.
(B)
All motor vehicle loading spaces which abut a residential
district shall be completely screened therefrom by building walls,
densely planted compact hedge, or a uniformly painted solid fence,
wall or any combination thereof, not less than eight feet in height.
(C)
No loading space shall be located in a required front
or side yard.
(D)
Off-street loading spaces shall be at least 10 feet
in width by at 25 feet in length, exclusive of aisle and maneuvering
space, and shall have a vertical clearance of at least 14 feet.
(E)
Each off-street loading space shall be designed with
appropriate means of vehicular access to a street in such manner as
to minimize interference with traffic movement, but in no case shall
a loading space have an entrance onto a street located within 30 feet
of the nearest point of the intersection of any two streets.
(F)
All open off-street loading spaces shall be improved
with a compact base surfaced with an all-weather dustless material
as approved by the Village Engineer.
