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(a) Off-street parking space layout, standards, construction and maintenance. Whenever the off-street parking requirements in section 24-492 require the installation of an off-street parking facility, such off-street parking lots shall be laid out, constructed, and maintained in accordance with the following standards and regulations:

(1) No parking lot shall be constructed or altered unless and until a permit is issued by the building commissioner. Applications for a permit shall be submitted to the building department in such form as may be determined by the building commissioner and shall be accompanied with two (2) sets of development plans for the development and construction of the parking lot showing that the provisions of this section will be fully complied with.

(2) Plans for the layout of off-street parking facilities comply with the following minimum requirements:

Parking Pattern

Maneuvering Lane Width

Parking Space Width

Parking Space Length

°(Parallel parking)

12 ft.

8.5 ft.

23 ft.

30° to 53°

12 ft.

9 ft.

20 ft.

54° to 74°

24 ft.

10 ft.

20 ft.

75° to 90°

24 ft.

10 ft.

20 ft.

(3) All spaces shall be provided adequate access by means of maneuvering lanes. Backing directly onto a street or frontage road is prohibited.

(4) Adequate ingress and egress to the parking lot by means of clearly limited and defined drives shall be provided for all vehicles.

(5) All maneuvering lane widths shall permit one-way traffic movement, any 90° pattern may permit two-way traffic movement.

(6) Each entrance and exit to and from any off-street parking lot located in an area zoned for other than single-family residential use shall be at least twenty-five (25) feet from adjacent property located in any single-family residential zoning district. A landscaped area fifteen (15) feet in width shall be provided within the twenty-five (25) feet area.

(7) The off-street parking area shall be provided with a continuous and obscuring wall not less than five (5) feet in height measured from the surface of the parking area. This wall shall be provided on all sides where the adjacent zoning district is designated as a residential zoning district. The wall must adhere to allowable building facade materials. i) When a front yard setback is required, all land between the wall and the front property line or street right-of-way line shall be kept free from refuse and debris and shall be landscaped with deciduous shrubs, evergreen material and ornamental trees. The ground area shall be planted and kept in grass. All such landscaping and planting shall be maintained in a healthy, growing condition, neat and orderly in appearance.

(8) The off-street parking area shall have perimeter landscaping and interior landscaping as required by article XII.

(9) The parking area finish coat shall be surfaced within one year of the date the occupancy permit is issued.

(10) Off-street parking areas shall provide on-site retention or detention as necessary and be drained so as to dispose of all surface water accumulated in the parking area in such a way as to preclude drainage of water onto adjacent property or toward buildings.

(11) All lighting used to illuminate any off-street parking area shall be so installed as to be confined within and directed onto the parking area only.

(12) In all cases where a wall extends to an alley which is a means of ingress and egress to an off-street parking area, it shall be permissible to end the wall not more than ten (10) feet from such alley line in order to permit a wider means of access to the parking area.

(13) All open off-street automobile parking areas either created or redesigned or rebuilt subsequent to the adoption of this chapter shall be improved with a six and one-half (6½) inch stone base, a two (2) inch binder and a one and one-half (1½) inch paved surface, marked with appropriate strips and lines to indicate parking stalls and circulation ways.

(Ord. No. 1483, § 1, 1-15-09)