§ 16-536. Requirements for parking lots.

Where parking lots for more than 15 cars are permitted or required, the following provisions shall be complied with:

(1)

The lot may be used only for parking and not for any type of loading, sales, dead storage, repair work, dismantling or servicing, but shall not preclude convention exhibits or parking of rental vehicles.

(2)

All entrances, exits, barricades at sidewalks and drainage plans shall be approved and constructed before occupancy.

(3)

A strip of land five feet wide adjoining any street line or any lot zoned for residential uses shall be reserved as open space, guarded with wheel bumpers and planted in grass and/or shrubs or trees.

(4)

Only one entrance and one exit sign no larger than two square feet prescribing parking regulations may be erected at each entrance or exit.

(5)

Where parking or loading areas are provided adjacent to a public street, ingress and egress thereto shall be made only through driveways not less than nine feet, six inches nor more than 25 feet in width at the curb line of such street, except where the zoning administrator/building inspector finds that a greater width is necessary to accommodate the vehicles customarily using the driveway.

(6)

Where two or more driveways are located on the same lot, other than a mobile home park, the minimum distance between such drives shall be 30 feet or one-third of the lot frontage, whichever is greater.

(7)

No driveway shall be located closer than 25 feet to any street intersection.

(8)

Any lighting of parking areas shall be shielded so as to cast no light upon adjacent properties and streets.

(Ord. No. 95-008, § 13.3, 12-13-1995)