[Amended 10-11-1993 by Ord. No. 1569; 4-10-1995 by Ord. No. 1591]
A. Each parking space shall be a minimum of nine feet by 20 feet and
have adequate ingress and egress.
B. All parking spaces required under §
470-62 hereof and driveways providing access thereto shall be paved with a permanent impervious surface, provided that existing parking spaces and driveways that are in place prior to the enactment of this amendment shall be exempted from the requirements of this section. Single and duplex residential uses in all districts are exempt from the paving requirements.
C. Parking and driving areas shall be graded to shed surface water to
a street, alley or public stormwater system. No drainage onto adjacent
properties will be permitted.
D. Any parking area of three or more spaces adjoining a residential
use shall be screened from the residential area by a thick hedge or
solid fence a minimum of four feet high.
E. Any parking area containing lighting shall have the lighting designed
in such a way as to not cause glare on adjoining properties.
F. Any parking area of over 50 spaces shall contain perimeter and/or
site landscaping of at least 5% of the total lot.
G. Parking areas adjacent to a street shall have, between the street
right-of-way and the parking area, a planting strip 10 feet in width
with a tree planted every 50 feet of lineal frontage. Breaks may be
permitted for entrances and exits with no greater combined width than
20 feet per each 50 feet.
[Amended 5-18-1989 by Ord. No. 1549; 5-10-1993 by Ord. No. 1563]
Schedule of parking spaces required according to use.
A. Residential uses.
(1) All residential uses, except elderly housing: one for each dwelling
unit.
(2) Elderly housing: 0.3 for each dwelling unit.
(3) Group home: 0.5 for each resident.
(4) Hospital, nursing home, institutional home: one for each bed.
(5) Home occupation: two plus one for each dwelling.
(6) Group elderly housing with common dining facilities: 0.5 for each
resident; one per employee, based on the number of employees on the
maximum working shift.
B. Public/semipublic uses.
(1) Government facility: one for each employee plus one for each 500
square feet of floor area.
(2) Church, synagogue or other place of worship: one for each five units
in seating area.
(3) School, college, day nursing school (auditoriums require additional
parking): one for each 20 seats in an elementary school; one for each
10 seats in all other schools.
(4) Places of public assembly, such as a theater, auditorium, etc.: one
for each five seats.
(5) Membership clubs: one for each 400 square feet of gross floor space.
C. Commercial uses.
(1) Retail or personal services establishment: one for each 300 square
feet of gross floor area.
(2) Office establishments: one for each 500 square feet of gross floor
area.
(3) Eating and/or drinking establishments: one for each four units of
seating capacity.
(4) Hotel/motel: one for each sleeping room plus one for each five seating
units of restaurant.
(5) Recreation facilities (except bowling alleys): one for each 400 square
feet of gross floor area.
(6) Bowling alleys: five for each alley.
(7) Mortuary or funeral homes: 15 for each chapel, plus two for each
dwelling unit plus one for each employee.
(8) Wholesale, warehouse and industrial establishment: one for each employee
based on the number of employees on the maximum working shift.
D. Uses not covered. For any uses not specifically named, the Zoning
Administrator shall determine the most appropriate use category based
on similarity of the proposed use to those uses listed.
[Amended 10-11-1993 by Ord. No. 1569; 8-13-2001 by Ord. No. 1660; 10-8-2001 by Ord. No. 1662;4-17-2006 by Ord. No. 1736; 10-15-2018 by Ord. No. 1910]
A. Residential district.
(1) Driveways and turnaround areas in any residential district may be
allowed in the front, side, and rear yards.
(2) Parking spaces in front yard.
(a)
Parking spaces in any residential district shall not be located
in the front yard except under the following conditions:
[1]
The lot contains two or more street frontages; or
[2]
The lot has side yards or a rear yard too narrow to permit vehicular
passage.
(b)
In said circumstances, parking spaces may be allowed in a front yard when located behind the average setback line of the block. Said spaces may be enclosed in a structure complying with the requirements of Chapter
470, Article
IV, §
470-15B, of the Code of the City of Warren.
(3) Parking spaces and parking areas in any residential district shall
be related to the use of the property and shall not provide parking
spaces for other uses, except that public/semipublic uses with allowable
accessory parking spaces may provide parking spaces for other uses.
(4) Parking may be allowed by special exception on properties separated
from an associated public/semipublic use by an accepted public street
right-of-way of a width of less than 20 feet with the number of parking
spaces on such property not to exceed the minimum number of parking
spaces required by the Zoning Ordinance for the public/semipublic
use.
(5) The following standards shall apply to all parking areas, driveways,
and turnarounds in all residential zoning districts:
(a)
A permit for construction of each parking area, driveway, and
turnaround shall be required.
(b)
No residential use parking area shall exceed 440 square feet,
exclusive of required maneuvering space.
(c)
The width of a parking area, driveway, or turnaround area shall
not extend across the front of the dwelling more than 1/2 the width
of the dwelling.
(d)
No driveway shall be wider than 18 feet at the street right-of-way.
(e)
No driveway, parking area, and turnaround area combined shall
be wider than 30 feet.
(f)
Turnaround areas shall conform to the following additional specifications:
[1]
The turnaround area shall not be used as a permanent parking
area.
[2]
The turnaround area shall not exceed 10 feet in width and 15
feet in length.
B. Commercial district.
(1) Property which is used for nonresidential purposes within a commercial
or industrial zoning district may contain allowable parking spaces,
parking areas, driveways, and turnaround areas within the front, side,
and rear yard areas.
(2) Within a commercial or industrial district property proposed for
new development, parking spaces shall be a minimum of 10 feet from
any abutting street right-of-way.
(3) Residential parking spaces in front yards.
(a)
Residential use parking spaces in any commercial or industrial
district shall not be located in the front yard, except in the following
conditions:
[1]
The lot contains two or more street frontages.
[2]
The lot has side or rear yards that are too narrow to permit
vehicular passage.
(b)
In said circumstances, parking spaces may be allowed behind the average setback line of the block in a front yard. Said spaces may be enclosed in a structure complying with the requirements in Chapter
470, Article
IV, §
470-15B of the Code of the City of Warren.
In the conversion of existing properties to residential use,
including single-family to multifamily and the upper floors of commercial
buildings, if there is not sufficient land area to provide required
parking on site, 50% of the on-site parking requirement shall be waived.
[Amended 7-11-1983 by Ord. No. 1358; 10-11-1993 by Ord. No. 1569]
A. Private parking lot. Where there is not adequate land on site, off-street
parking spaces within 500 feet of the site may be counted to meet
the parking requirements. Off-street parking spaces are defined as
parking spaces located on a private parking lot and meeting the parking
requirements of this chapter. Said spaces shall be owned by the applicant
or available by a current written agreement.
B. Public parking lot. Where there is not adequate land on site, public
parking lot spaces within 500 feet of the site may be counted to meet
the parking requirements. Public parking lot spaces are defined as
unreserved spaces within a municipal parking lot. This definition
does not include on-street parking spaces.
[Added 10-11-1993 by Ord. No. 1569]
A. Major recreational equipment, as defined for purposes of these regulations,
includes travel trailers, pickup campers or coaches, motorized dwellings,
tent trailers, boats and boat trailers, motorcycles, snowmobiles,
all-terrain vehicles and the like, and cases or boxes used for transporting
recreational equipment, whether occupied by such equipment or not.
No major recreational equipment shall be stored on any public right-of-way.
B. Occupancy. No such equipment shall be used for living, sleeping or
housekeeping purposes, except as provided for under the following
conditions: travel trailers, pickup campers or coaches, motorized
dwellings and tent trailers may be temporarily parked and occupied
for sleeping purposes by visitors and house guests only and in accordance
with the following provisions:
(1) The temporary parking and occupancy period shall not exceed 48 hours.
(2) Such vehicles and/or trailers shall have adequate off-street parking
areas to the rear of the principal building.
C. Permanent parking and storage of camping and recreational equipment.
Permanent storage of such equipment shall be limited to the interior
of automobile garages or other available on-lot accessory buildings
or to that portion of the lot behind the principal building.
D. Spacing. Major recreational equipment six feet or more in average
height above the ground shall be governed as to spacing with respect
to buildings on the lot as though it were a building.
E. Lot coverage. Major recreational equipment six feet or more in height
shall be included on the same basis as buildings for regulations of
lot coverage by all buildings, with area covered computed on the basis
of the largest horizontal area covered by such equipment.
F. Derelicts. No major recreational equipment shall be stored outside
on residential premises unless it is in condition for safe and effective
performance of the function for which it is intended or can be made
so at a cost not exceeding the value of the equipment in its existing
state. In no case shall any such equipment be so stored for a period
of more than six months if not in condition for safe and efficient
performance of the function for which it is intended.