CHAPTER 5
PARKING
DISTRICT PROVISIONS
Table of Contents
500. Purposes
501. Principal
Uses
502. Accessory
Uses
503. Bulk and Area Requirements
504.
General
Use Conditions
SECTION 500. PURPOSES
OF THE PARKING DISTRICTS
The purpose of the Parking District is:
A. To permit the established off-street parking areas
(passenger vehicles) to reduce congestion of the public streets and to enhance
the efficiency and convenience of institutional, multifamily, office,
commercial, and industrial uses which would be served by the off-street parking
areas.
B. To promote a compatible relationship between off-street
parking facilities and other land uses by establishing bulk and area, design,
screening and sign requirements and limitations.
SECTION 501. PRINCIPAL
USES PERMITTED IN THE PARKING DISTRICTS
The principal uses permitted in the
Parking District are designated by use units. The use units are groupings of
individual uses and are fully described, including their respective
requirements and other use conditions in Chapter 12. The use units permitted in
the Parking District are set forth below in Table 1.
Table 1
Use
Units Permitted in the Parking Districts*
*X = Use by Right
E = Special Exception
SECTION 502. ACCESSORY
USES IN THE PARKING DISTRICT
A. Accessory
Uses Permitted
Accessory
uses customarily incident to a principal use permitted in a Parking District
shall be permitted in such district. In addition, the uses set forth in Table 2
shall be permitted as accessory uses.
Table 2
Accessory Uses Permitted In The Off-Street Parking
District
1. One (1)
identification sign may be erected on each street frontage of a permitted use.
The sign shall not exceed two-tenths
(2/10) of a square foot of display surface area per lineal foot of
street frontage; provided that in no event shall the sign be restricted to less
than thirty-two (32) square feet nor be permitted to exceed one hundred fifty
(150) square feet of display surface area. The sign shall not exceed twenty
(20) feet in height, and illumination, if any, shall be by constant light.
2. The use of an
attendant building shall be limited to the customary activities incidental to
the management and operation of a parking facility. The building shall not
exceed one-story in height nor five percent (5%) lot coverage.
SECTION 503. BULK
AND AREA REQUIREMENTS IN THE PARKING DISTRICT
Table 3
Bulk
and Area Requirements in the Off-Street
Parking District
*Plus 2 feet of setback for each
1-foot building height exceeding 15 feet.
A. A minimum of ten percent (10%) of the lot shall
remain pervious and be landscaped.
B. Unenclosed parking areas which are contiguous to an R District shall be
screened by the erection of a six (6) foot screening wall or fence on the lot
line or lines in common with an R District. Unenclosed parking areas that are
separated from an R District only by a nonarterial
street shall be screened by the erection and maintenance of a screening wall,
fence or landscaped berm or combination thereof three
(3) feet in height along the property line opposite the adjacent R District.
C. Additional design standards shall apply as set forth in Section 1303 of
this Code.
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