A.
The T-P District is intended to provide compact areas to meet customer
and employee parking needs of commercial, institutional and manufacturing
or industrial uses while creating a transitional zone between such
uses and nearby residential uses and avoiding the traffic and parking
congestion and hazards in residential areas which frequently result
from inadequate parking in neighboring nonresidential districts. The
district is intended to prevent the expansion of industrial and commercial
uses into their districts and, by requiring setbacks and landscaping,
to assure attractive parking facilities that are compatible with adjoining
residential uses.
B.
The T-P District existed under the 1975 Zoning Ordinance to provide
areas for customer and employee parking for manufacturing and commercial
uses adjacent to residential areas. Although there is no T-P District
included under this chapter, certain areas will retain the T-P designation
on the adopted Zoning Map and will be subject to the requirements
of this Appendix until such time as the zoning designation changes.
C.
The T-P District shall be mapped on the Zoning Map. No new T-P District
shall be established and no existing T-P District shall be expanded.
A.
No T-P District shall be created having an area less than 20,000
square feet in one contiguous, compact area.
B.
No T-P District shall be created unless such district abuts, or is
directly across a street from, a C-2 or C-3 Commercial District, an
Institutional Planned Development District or an M-1 Industrial District
for a distance of not less than 40 feet.
A.
Maximum height permitted. No portion of a building or structure located
in a T-P District and separated from the district boundary line by
only a required yard or a right-of-way, or both, shall exceed the
maximum height permitted in the adjacent district nearest to such
building or structure. Any portion of a building or structure separated
from all T-P District boundary lines by a distance greater than the
aforesaid yard and right-of-way shall not exceed the maximum height
permitted in the nearest district plus one foot for each foot of said
distance.
B.
Minimum yard requirements.
(1)
Front yards:
(a)
Fronting directly on:
[1]
An R District boundary line: lot, 10 feet; garage,
20 feet.
[2]
A C District boundary line: lot, 10 feet; garage,
10 feet.
[3]
An O-S District boundary line: lot, 10 feet; garage,
20 feet.
[4]
A PD District boundary line: lot, 10 feet; garage,
20 feet.
[5]
Any other district: lot, five feet; garage, five
feet.
(b)
Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, any parking lot or garage
located on a frontage, which lot or garage is directly adjacent to
any property on the same frontage zoned in a residential district,
shall maintain a front yard line equal to the average front yard line
existing or required, whichever is less, for all property on such
frontage included in any residential district.
(2)
Other yards:
(a)
Abutting a commercial or industrial district boundary line:
zero feet.
(b)
Abutting a railroad right-of-way other than at a residential
district boundary line: zero feet.
(c)
Abutting an O-S District boundary line: 10 feet or 1/2 the building
height, whichever is greater.
(d)
Abutting any street: same as front yard.
(e)
All others: five feet or 1/3 of the building height, whichever
is greater. Where property abuts a railroad right-of-way at a residential
district boundary line, the setback shall be measured from such boundary
line.
Personal wireless telecommunication facilities regulations applicable in the T-P District are set forth in § 120-143 of this chapter.
The following conditions and limitations shall apply to, and
be complied with by, all uses and structures located in the T-P District:
A.
Parking lots and garages in the T-P District shall be used exclusively
for parking of passenger vehicles.
B.
Parking lots and garages in the T-P District shall be equipped and
controlled to a degree sufficient to discourage illegal parking, vandalism
and other unlawful or nuisance-creating activities. When so equipped
and controlled, such lots and garages may be operated 24 hours a day.
C.
Parking lots and garages in the T-P District shall be subject to all the provisions of § 120-173 of this chapter relating to the design and maintenance of parking lots and garages.
D.
No commercial repair work or services shall be conducted in any T-P
District except as expressly authorized in a special permit issued
in accordance with this section.
E.
No vehicular entrance or exit shall be located across the street
from any property located in any residential district, and each entrance
to and exit from any parking lot or garage shall be at least 20 feet
from any property located in any residential district, except that,
with the consent of the owners and residents of the affected property,
which should be submitted in writing with the application, this requirement
may be waived by City Council in cases of unusual physical or topographical
conditions.
[Amended 6-17-2003 by Ord. No. 2003-183]
