10.34.030 General provisions.
(a) It shall be a continuing obligation of the owner of property, for which parking spaces are required by this chapter, to provide the required off-street parking and loading facilities. Building permits or other permits will be issued only after receipt by the building official of a site plan drawn to scale showing the location of permanent parking and loading facilities.
(b) Required parking spaces shall be available for parking of vehicles of residents, customers, patrons and employees only, as the case may be, and shall not be used for storage of vehicles or materials or for the parking of vehicles used in conducting the business or use to which the property is put, and shall not be used for the sale, repair or servicing of any vehicle.
(c) Off-street parking and loading facilities shall be provided prior to occupancy of any structure hereafter built or enlarged, or prior to a change in the use of any land.
(d) Any use of property which, on the effective date of this chapter is nonconforming as to the regulations relating to off-street parking facilities, may continue to be used in the same manner as if the parking facilities were conforming. Such existing parking facilities shall not be further reduced.
(e) Off-street parking spaces existing on the effective date of this chapter and actually being used for the parking of automobiles or other motor vehicles in connection with the use of an existing building shall not be reduced in number or size during the entire life of such building or land use below that which would be required for a new building or land use of a similar type constructed or commenced after the effective date of this chapter.
(f) The required front yard in the multiple-family residential (R-3) zone shall not be utilized for off-street parking unless the three-foot strip nearest the front property line is landscaped and a two-foot-high concrete, masonry or decorative block wall or wood fence or solid landscaping screen is provided.
(g) Parking space shall mean a space meeting the design standards set forth in Table 34-A.
(h) Requirements for a building or use not specifically listed in this schedule shall be determined by the administrative official based upon the requirements of the most current edition of the Institute of Transportation Engineers Parking Generation Manual and similar uses.
(i) In computing the number of required or available spaces to determine compliance with requirements of this section the following means of computation shall be applied:
(1) Computation of Required Spaces. When a building or use is planned or constructed in such a manner that a choice of parking requirements could be made, the use which requires the greatest number of parking spaces shall govern.
(2) Fraction. If the number of off-street parking spaces required contains a fraction, such number shall be changed to the nearest higher whole number.
(3) Mixed Uses. When several uses occupy a single structure or lot the total required parking spaces shall be the sum of the requirements of the individual uses, or the applicant may request that the administrative official utilize the mixed-use/multi-use parking demand data of the Institute of Transportation Engineers to propose a modified parking standard.
(4) Dual Uses. None of the provisions of this chapter shall be construed or applied so as to prevent the dual use of parking facilities for the times during which uses are not conflicting. For the purpose of computing the number of parking spaces available through the dual use of parking facilities, the following considerations, rules and regulations shall be applied:
(A) The building or use for which the application is made for authority to utilize existing off-street parking facilities provided by another building or use shall be located within three hundred feet of such parking facilities.
(B) The applicant shall show that there is no substantial conflict in the principal operating hours for the buildings or uses for which the dual use of off-street parking facilities is proposed.
(C) Parties concerned in the dual use of off-street parking facilities shall file with the city written evidence of an agreement for dual use.
(D) Up to fifty percent of the parking facilities required by this chapter for a use considered to be primarily a daytime use may be provided by a use considered to be primarily a nighttime use; up to fifty percent of the parking facilities required by this chapter for a use considered to be primarily a nighttime use may be provided by a use considered to be primarily a daytime use; provided, up to one hundred percent of the parking facilities required by this chapter for a church or for an auditorium incidental to a public or parochial school may be supplied by parking facilities of a use considered to be primarily a daytime use. For purposes of this subsection, and as a standard for applying the provisions of this section, the following uses are considered to be primarily daytime uses: banks, business and financial offices, manufacturing uses, and the following uses are considered to be typical nighttime and/or Sunday uses: auditoriums, incidental to a public or parochial school, church, dance hall and theater.
(E) Compact Car Parking. For parking areas with ten or more required parking spaces, up to fifteen percent of the required number of off-street parking spaces may be designed for compact car parking. Compact spaces shall be no less than eight by seventeen feet and each space must be laveled individually with appropriate signage, and a durable pavement marking "compact." (Ord. 2065, § 2 (Exh. A), 2019; Ord. 1634, § 129, 2004.)