In order to prevent undue congestion in the
street and to insure the traffic carrying capacity of City streets,
offstreet parking and loading shall be provided for all new buildings
or uses established, for any addition or enlargement of an existing
building or use, or for any change to a use which has a height parking
requirement other than the previous use, subject to the following
regulations:
B.
Wherever fractional equations are used to determine
the total number of parking spaces, all parking space requirements
resulting in a fraction of one-half space or greater shall be rounded
up to the next higher whole number and all parking space requirements
resulting in a fraction of less than one-half shall be rounded down
to the next lower whole number.
C.
The off-street parking requirements of section 24-16 do not apply to nonresidential uses within a mandatory parking district established by the City. For residential uses within a mandatory parking district, the parking requirements are one space per unit.
D.
Common parking facilities may be provided in lieu of individual requirements; provided, that the common parking facilities have a total number of parking spaces not less than the total number of individual requirement of the zone in which they are located except as permitted for planned unit developments under Article VI.
E.
Open or enclosed parking areas may not be located in any required yard abutting a street, but in a single unit residential district when all off-street parking requirements of this chapter have been met, persons may park in the required yard up to two passenger vehicles, vans and pick-up trucks, up to one ton, but may not park therein any vehicle described in section 24-62.
F.
Open or enclosed parking areas shall be located on
the same lot containing the use for which they are required. However,
they may be located on separate lots, if the lot is held in unified
ownership or control and are located within two hundred feet of the
lot they serve in residential districts or within three hundred feet
of the lot they serve in business and industrial districts. The ownership
or control of any off-site parking must continue for as long as it
is required for the proposed use.
A.
The City council may defer construction and provision
of up to twenty percent of the off-street parking spaces required
by this chapter if an applicant demonstrates that the unusual character
of the use lowers anticipated need for off-street parking, and data
from similar uses establishes that there is not present need for parking
(e.g. drive-in banking facilities which may reduce the need for on-site
parking).
B.
The City council may reduce by up to seventy percent
the number of parking spaces required by this chapter for governmentally
sponsored or guaranteed elderly housing projects.
All off-street parking spaces shall meet the
minimum size as indicated in the following table, parking space design
standards:
|
Parking Space Design Standards
| |||
|---|---|---|---|
|
Angle of Parking
|
Aisle Space
|
Stall Length
|
Stall Width
|
|
30
|
11'
|
16'9”
|
10'
|
|
45
|
13'5”
|
19'4”
|
10'
|
|
60
|
18'5”
|
20'7”
|
10'
|
|
70
|
19'5”
|
20'8”
|
10'
|
|
80
|
24'
|
20'2”
|
10'
|
|
90
|
24'
|
19'
|
10'
|
|
Parallel Spaces
|
23'
|
10'
| |
Parking areas shall conform to the following
standards:
A.
There shall be a definite and logical system of drive
lanes to serve the parking areas, which shall have a minimum twenty-two
foot clearance for two-way traffic and eleven foot clearance for one-way
traffic, except where the planning director finds that the parking
stalls to be served require a greater or lesser width. Vertical curbs
may be required in order to separate parking from the travel lanes.
B.
All parking dimensions shall conform to the parking
space design standards of this chapter.
C.
A system of lighting shall be provided for parking
lots twenty stalls or more that are to be used after dark.
D.
No parking stalls shall be located so as to block
access by emergency vehicles.
E.
Except for parking areas provided for single-family
dwellings, all parking areas shall be paved with asphalt, concrete
or other similar dust-free, permanent surfaces. Any existing unpaved
parking area except for residential uses in the single-family zones
shall be paved within three years of the date of adoption of this
section (September 12, 1984).
F.
Except for parking areas provided for single-family
units, suitable curbs or barriers shall be provided to protect public
sidewalks and to prevent parking in areas where parking is not permitted.
G.
All open off-street parking areas with five or more
spaces shall be screened from any adjoining residentially zoned lot
or public street by a solid wall at least forty-two inches in height
or by a buffer strip at least four feet wide planted with trees, shrubs
or hedges that will form a compact screen when fully grown and that
are maintained in good condition at all times or replaced by a solid
wall as herein required.
H.
Driveways parallel to public sidewalks shall be separated
from such walks by an eight-foot landscaped area or a solid wall at
least forty-two inches in height.
I.
Wheel or bumper guards shall be so that no part of
a vehicle extends beyond the parking area boundary lines, intrudes
on pedestrian ways or contacts walls, fences or plantings.
J.
Turn-arounds shall be provided for dead-end parking
bays of eight stalls or more.
K.
Driveways shall be at ninety degree angles when they
enter a public street.
L.
All parking areas with twelve or more parking stalls
shall have a one hundred-square foot planting area (including one
deciduous tree) separating every twelve stalls.
M.
Except for single-family residences, off-street parking
areas shall be designed so that it will not be necessary for vehicles
to back into any road or public right-of-way.
[Amended by Ord. No. 90-21; 12-16-2008 by Ord. No. 08-07]
The parking requirement for restaurants, bars,
churches, auditoriums, theaters, mortuaries and funeral chapels shall
be the greater of one space for every three seats or the parking space
to floor area ratio of the zone in which the structure is located.
The parking requirement for lodging facilities shall be 1.25 parking
spaces for each guest room. In addition, the parking requirement for
accessory uses such as restaurants, banquet and catering services,
bars and similar accessory uses which are directly related to the
lodging facility use shall be a minimum of one parking space for every
three seats associated with the accessory use.
A.
No person conducting a business or industrial use
shall fail to provide as an accessory use an off-street loading space
of five hundred square feet with no one dimension less than twelve
feet.
B.
No person conducting a business or industrial use
of over twenty-five thousand square feet of floor area shall fail
to provide one additional loading space for each additional twenty-five.
thousand square feet of floor area.
C.
No part of any off-street loading space shall occupy
any part of a public alley, driveway or walkway.
No person shall park, store, or use travel trailers,
tent trailers, pick-up campers or coaches, motorized dwellings, boats
and boat trailers, snow vehicles, cycle trailers, utility trailers
and vans, horse trailers and vans and similar vehicular equipment
in a residential district unless the parking or storage area meets
the following:
A.
The vehicular equipment shall not be stored or parked
on private property closer than eighteen inches to any existing public
sidewalk and in no instance shall it project into the public right-of-way;
B.
On corner lots, any vehicular equipment that extends
thirty-six inches in height shall not be parked in the triangular
area formed by three points established by the intersection of property
lines at the corner, and the points thirty feet back from this intersection
on each property line;
C.
Travel trailers, tent trailers, pick-up campers or
coaches, motorized dwellings and vans shall not be used for the conduct
of business or for living or housekeeping purposes except when located
in an approved mobile home park or in a campground providing adequate
sanitary facilities;
D.
Travel trailers, tent trailers, detached pick-up campers
or coaches, boats and boat trailers, cycle trailers, utility trailers
and vans, horse trailers and vans, parked or stored out-of-doors shall
be adequately blocked or tied down or otherwise secured so that such
vehicles do not roll off the lot and are not moved about by high winds;
and
E.
No vehicular equipment regulated by this section shall
be stored out-of-doors on a residential lot unless it is in condition
for safe and effective performance of the functions for which it is
intended.
A.
Vehicular access to property shall be controlled in
such a manner as to protect the traffic-carrying capacity of the street
upon which the property abuts as well as to protect the value of the
adjacent property.
B.
Each parcel of land under one ownership at the time
of its annexation will be reviewed in terms of access as one parcel
(regardless of subsequent sales of a portion) unless the property
is subdivided.
C.
Any proposed curb cut on a designated state highway
must receive a permit from the Wyoming State Highway Department prior
to being issued a building permit. Any other curb cut must receive
a permit from the public works director or his authorized representative
and be designed and spaced in accordance with the following standards
and specifications:
(1)
Curb cuts shall be located at not less than one hundred
foot intervals. No entrance or exit shall be located nearer than five
feet to any adjacent property line, except where it is possible to
provide one access point that will serve both properties. Where adherence
to these requirements would leave a parcel of property without vehicular
access, either or both of the setback requirements or the spacing
requirements may be reduced to permit a single vehicular access point.
(2)
On arterial streets, acceleration-deceleration lanes
shall be required when the public works director finds they are necessary
to preserve the traffic capacity of the existing street. The director
shall determine the length of the required acceleration-deceleration
lane.
(3)
No residential structures shall have direct access
onto an arterial. If no alternative street access is possible, however,
a curb cut may be permitted with the spacing and acceleration-deceleration
lanes determined necessary by the public works director to preserve
safety and traffic flow on the arterial.
(4)
Exceptions to this section may be made by the public
works director upon recommendation from the planning and zoning commission
in order to provide for safe and reasonable access.
(5)
Driveways from business or industrial zones shall
not pass through residential zones.
(6)
Curb cuts shall not exceed twenty-four feet in width
for residential districts and forty feet in width in commercial and
industrial districts.
