§ 16-538. Minimum parking requirements.

(a)

The number of exclusive off-street residential parking spaces required by this section shall be provided on the same lot or a contiguous (or immediately across the street from) lot with the principal use and the required number of off-street parking spaces specified for each use shall be considered as the absolute minimum. For purposes of this article an off-street parking space shall be no less than 160 square feet in area, and no less than nine feet wide, plus adequate ingress and egress provided for each off-street parking space. Parking spaces required for uses within the business districts must be provided within 1,000 feet of the use for which they are required, and they must be located within a business district.

OFF-STREET PARKING REQUIREMENTS IN ALL DISTRICTS

Uses	Required Parking
Single- and two-family dwellings	3 spaces per dwelling up to 4 bedrooms; ½ space per each additional bedroom, rounded upwards to the next whole number.
Boardinghouses, bed and breakfast, and guesthouses	One space for each two persons housed in the structure.
Other multifamily dwellings	1.5 spaces per dwelling unit. One space per bedroom.
Hotels and motels	One space for each guest bedroom. Space must be provided on the lot on which the hotel is situated or within 500 feet thereof on property under the same ownership as the hotel lot.
Theaters, auditoriums and similar uses involving the assembling of persons to view theatrical or other performances of exhibitions at scheduled times	One space for each four seats or similar accommodations provided in such theater or place of assembly for the patrons thereof.
Restaurants or other eating places	One space for each four seats.
Office buildings	One space for each 200 gross square feet of building area in the same lot as that of the principal use, which must be in a nonresidential district. The gross square feet of building area is the total area of all floors of the principal structure obtained by measuring the outside thereof on each interior floor excluding non-enclosed and unroofed area.
Grocery stores, drug stores, variety stores, banks, apparel stores, specialty shops, department stores, personal service stores, gift stores, gaming arcades, and similar types of business	One space for each 200 gross square feet of gross commercial floor area. The parking areas of such spaces shall be within 100 feet of the use to which they pertain or within 200 feet in the cases containing more than 75 spaces.
Furniture stores, appliance stores, and similar types of business	One space for each 500 square feet of gross commercial floor area. The parking areas of such spaces shall be within 200 feet of the use to which they pertain, or within 400 feet in the case of areas containing more than 75 spaces, plus one space for each four anticipated simultaneous patrons.

 

(b)

Parking requirements for marinas is set forth in section 16-245.

(Ord. No. 95-008, § 13.5, 12-13-1995)