Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 5%
Extracted standards
13 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Lighting
- Lighting deflected away from abutting sites
If the loading area is illuminated, lighting shall be deflected away from abutting sites so as not to cause annoying glare to such sites.
Other
- Bumper rails required where needed
Bumper rails or other barriers shall be provided where needed for safety or to protect property, as determined by the public works director.
- Existing uses not nonconformingNonconformingLawful when built, but not compliant with the rules now in force; usually allowed to continue but not to expand. due to lack of parking
No existing use of land or structure shall be deemed to be a nonconforming use solely because of the lack of off-street parking facilities or off-street loading facilities prescribed in this chapter; provided, however, that facilities being used for off-street parking and off-street loading at the time of the adoption of the ordinance codified in this title shall not be reduced in capacity to less than the number of spaces or berths or reduced to less than the minimum standards prescribed in this chapter. Where an existing use is expanded, the parking requirements of this chapter shall apply only to the addition.
- Landscaped areas distributed throughout parking area
Landscaped areas shall be distributed throughout the parking area to the extent practical in consideration of the size and design of the parking area.
- Loading area not in required front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.
A loading area shall not be located in a required front yard. A loading area may be located in a required side or rear yard.
- No loading space required if served by public alley
No off-street loading space shall be required where buildings are served by a public alley.
- Minimum landscaping in parking areas5 pct
In an RM, PO, C or I district, not less than five percent of the interior of a parking area shall be landscaped with trees and other plant materials suitable for ornamentation.
- No commercial repair work in loading area
No commercial repair work or servicing of vehicles shall be conducted in an off-street loading area.
- Exception for vehicle parking districts
None of the provisions of this title which require the provisions of off-street parking and off-street loading spaces in connection with the use of property for commercial or industrial purposes shall apply to any parcel of property which is located within any vehicle parking district hereafter formed and existing under the provisions of any parking district act approved by the city council, and where parking and loading facilities provided by such district are determined by the city council to be adequate to serve the district.
- Screening required when C districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. parking adjoins certain districts
Where an off-street parking area in a C district adjoins a UR, RA, R, RM or PO district, an ornamental solid wall or fence, vine-covered open fence, or compact screening device, as may be required under 'Site Plan Review', Chapter 18.18 of this title, shall be located on the property line common to such districts, except in a required front yard.
Parking
- No reduction of parking/loading facilities
No off-street parking or off-street loading facilities provided for a use of land or structure in compliance with this chapter shall be reduced in capacity or in area without sufficient additional capacity or additional area being provided to comply with the regulations of this chapter.
- Parking within 400 feet in CC districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.400 ft
Within the central business district as located within the CC district, off-street parking facilities may be located within four hundred feet of the use for which the spaces are required, measured by the shortest route of pedestrian access.
- Parking on same site or adjoining
Off-street parking and off-street loading facilities shall be located on the same site with the use for which the berths are required or on an adjoining site.
From the ordinance
Off-street parking and off-street loading facilities shall be located on the same site with the use for which the berths are required or on an adjoining site, except that within the central business district as located within the CC district, off-street parking facilities may be located within four hundred feet of the use for which the spaces are required.