Chapter 18.110
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 10%
Extracted standards
23 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Lighting
- Lighting shielding requirement
Be shielded so that the lighting source is not visible from off-site locations.
Other
- Compact car spaces percentage35 pct
Thirty-five percent of the required parking spaces shall be designed for compact or small cars.
- Cooperative parking reduction10 pct
This reduction may not exceed ten percent of the total number of spaces that would be required if each use was assessed independently.
- Covered bicycle parking requirement50 pct
If the automobile parking requirement is twenty spaces or more, one-half of the total bicycle parking required shall be covered.
- Pedestrian crosswalk requirement20 spaces
Parking areas containing twenty or more spaces shall establish pedestrian crosswalks across the parking lot
- Fractional parking rounding
Where the computation of required parking spaces produces a fractional result, fractions of one-third or greater shall require one full parking space.
- Loading area location restrictions
No service or loading areas shall be located within a required front yard, landscape or exterior yard setback. No loading or service area shall be situated in such a manner so as to face a state highway.
- Loading space requirement
One loading space shall be provided for the first ten thousand square feet of gross building floor area plus one additional space for each forty thousand square feet of gross floor area above ten thousand square feet for uses devoted to storage/warehousing, manufacturing, processing or research.
- Maximum ground cover heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.36 in
Ground cover and continuous evergreen hedging or shrub clusters, shall be maintained at a maximum height of thirty-six inches.
- Minimum bicycle parking space length6 ft
Each bicycle parking space shall be not less than six feet long by two feet wide
- Minimum bicycle parking space width2 ft
Each bicycle parking space shall be not less than six feet long by two feet wide
- Minimum driveway separation125 ft
Entries to driveways along arterial collectors and minor streets shall be separated by a minimum distance of one hundred twenty-five feet
- Minimum landscaped area per parking space10 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A minimum of ten square feet of landscaped area shall be provided for each parking space.
- Minimum loading space vertical clearance14 ft
All loading spaces shall have minimum dimensions of twelve feet by forty feet, with fourteen feet of vertical clearance.
- Minimum loading space length40 ft
All loading spaces shall have minimum dimensions of twelve feet by forty feet, with fourteen feet of vertical clearance.
- Minimum loading space width12 ft
All loading spaces shall have minimum dimensions of twelve feet by forty feet, with fourteen feet of vertical clearance.
- Minimum tree size15 gallon
The minimum tree size shall be fifteen gallon
- Reduction for non-auto use programs10 pct
The zoning administrator or commission may allow up to a ten percent reduction in parking requirements for commercial or industrial development if such development includes measures such as staggered work hours...
- Perimeter parking lot tree spacing30 ft
Perimeter parking lot landscaping shall include trees at thirty feet on center.
- ProhibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. parking locations
Required parking spaces shall not be located in the required front yard, any required landscape setback or area provided by an applicable specific plan or any required exterior side yard.
- Shared parking requirement
Off-street parking facilities may be shared by two or more commercial uses located on contiguous parcels located in the same zoning district provided that both uses receive a use permit...
- Tree ratio for double-loaded stalls6 spaces per tree
one tree per six parking spaces for double-loaded stalls
- Tree ratio for single-loaded stalls3 spaces per tree
one tree per three spaces for single-loaded stalls
From the ordinance
Off-street parking spaces and specified non automotive transportation and transportation/parking management programs for use by occupants, guests, clients, customers and visitors shall be provided on-site in accordance with Section 18.110.030