Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 5%
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Citywide
Extracted standards
11 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Parking
- Maximum driveway slope20 pct
Driveways used for ingress/egress or circulation shall have grades not exceeding 20% slope.
- Maximum handicap parking slope2.08 pct
Surface slopes of handicap parking spaces shall not exceed 1/4 inch per foot (2.083% slope).
- Loading space location
Loading spaces shall be set back min 25 ft from residentially-zoned property; not in required front/side yard.
- Parking area landscaping5 pct
Minimum 5% of open parking/driveway areas for 10-21 spaces; 10% for >21 spaces.
- Parking lot lighting
Minimum 0.2 footcandles, average 0.8 footcandles, uniformity ratio 4:1.
- Maximum parking area slope5 pct
Parking areas used exclusively for parking shall have grades not exceeding 5% slope.
- Planter adjacent to street10 ft
Minimum 10 ft wide landscape planter adjacent to public/private street where parking/circulation located.
- Screening parking from residential6 ft
Parking areas for 3+ cars abutting residential must have 10 ft landscaped strip and 6 ft high solid fence/wall.
- Speed bumps prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
Speed bumps are prohibited.
- Tree requirement in parking lots
One tree of at least 15 gallons per 10 parking spaces.
- Wall/berm adjacent to street30 in
Decorative masonry wall or bermed landscaping 30 inches high where vehicles parked adjacent to street.
From the ordinance
Parking design standards: stall dimensions, landscaping, lighting, slope, screening, location requirements.