In all districts, off-street automobile parking spaces and truck
loading areas for the various permitted uses shall be required at
the time any of the main buildings or structures for such uses are
constructed or altered as provided in this article.
The minimum cumulative number of spaces shall be determined
by the amount of dwelling units, bedrooms, floor area, members, equipment,
employees and/or seats contained in new buildings or structures or
added by alteration of buildings or structures, and such minimum number
of spaces shall be maintained by the owner of such buildings or structures
as follows:
A. Office, business and commercial uses.
(1) For retail business or service: one space for each 200 square feet
of customer floor area.
(2) For office, including professional, personal service, public utility
or public: one space for each 200 square feet of gross office floor
area.
(3) For car washing stations: five waiting spaces for each bay.
(4) For restaurant, bar or nightclub: one space for each 50 square feet
of customer floor area or one space for each five seats or a combination
thereof.
(5) For any commercial use: one space for each company vehicle in addition
to other required spaces.
(6) For drive-in restaurants or eating establishments: 15 spaces plus
those required for customer floor area or seats.
(7) For motel and vacation resort: one space for each bedroom plus one
space for each four employees.
B. Industrial uses.
(1) One space for each 400 square feet of floor area devoted to manufacture,
including printing, publishing and laundry or dry-cleaning plants,
plus one space for each employee. If shiftwork is practiced, then
the most populous shift employee number shall determine.
(2) One space for each 2,000 square feet of area devoted to outside storage,
including used car lots and equipment rental or sales yards.
(3) For any industrial use: one space for each company vehicle in addition
to other required spaces.
C. Public and semipublic uses.
(1) For places of public assembly (including churches): space for 80%
of seating capacity.
(2) For elementary school or day nursery: two spaces for each classroom.
(3) For high school or college: one space for each employee.
(4) For museum, art gallery, institutional or philanthropic use: one
space for each 800 square feet of gross floor area.
(5) For clinic, sanitarium, nursing or convalescent home: one space for
each bed.
(6) For club: one space for each 200 square feet of gross floor area
or one space for each three seats, whichever is greater.
D. Recreational uses.
(1) For dance hall: one space for each 50 square feet of dance floor
area.
(2) For golf course or bowling alley: eight spaces for each tee or alley.
(3) For skating rinks: one space for each 250 square feet of area available
for skating.
E. Residential uses.
(1) For dwellings: two spaces for each dwelling unit, to be provided
on a buildable portion of the lot.
(2) For home occupation: one space for each employee.
(3) For boardinghouse: one space for each bedroom.
F. For uses not listed herein: as established by the Board of Appeals.
In the case of combination of uses, the total requirements for
off-street automobile parking spaces shall be the sum of the requirements
for the various uses, unless it can be proven that staggered hours
of use would permit modification. Whenever a fraction of a space is
required, a full space shall be provided.
Every such space provided shall be at least 10 feet wide and
20 feet long, and every space shall have direct and usable driveway
access to a street or alley with minimum maneuver area between spaces
as follows:
A. Parallel curb parking: five feet end to end with twelve-foot aisle
width for one-directional flow and twenty-four-foot aisle width for
two-directional flow.
B. Thirty-degree parking: thirteen-foot aisle width for one-directional
flow and twenty-six-foot aisle width for two-directional flow.
C. Forty-five-degree parking: sixteen-foot aisle width for one-directional
flow and twenty-six-foot aisle width for two-directional flow.
D. Sixty-degree parking: twenty-one-foot aisle width for one-directional
flow and twenty-six-foot aisle width for two-directional flow.
E. Perpendicular parking: twenty-six-foot aisle width for one-and two-directional
flow.
Parking areas shall be paved with an all-weather surface and
suitably drained. The individual spaces shall be visibly marked with
paint or other durable material. Parking areas to be used at night
shall be lighted. All lights shall be shaded or so directed as to
not cause glare on adjoining residential properties and shall be so
directed as not to cause a traffic hazard due to glare or color.
At least 10% of the area of the lot usable for off-street parking
shall be devoted to landscaping with lawn, trees, shrubs or other
plant material. All loading berths and parking areas of three or more
spaces that abut a residential lot line, and any parking lot for more
than 20 cars shall be screened by a six-foot high solid masonry wall
or compact evergreen hedge or a landscaped strip of trees and shrubs
so designed as to form a visual screen from the adjoining property.
All parking areas and landscaping shall be properly maintained thereafter
in a sightly and well kept condition.