A.    Use of Off-Street Parking Facilities. Off-street parking facilities accessory to residential use and development in any residential district in accordance with the requirements of this chapter shall be used solely for the parking of passenger automobiles or commercial vehicles of not more than five tons gross weight owned by occupants of the dwelling structures to which such facilities are accessory or by guests of the occupants. Notwithstanding anything contained in this paragraph to the contrary, self-propelled vehicles designed or used as a tractor to pull one or more semi-trailers shall not be allowed on off-street parking facilities in residential zoning districts except for reasonable periods of time necessary for loading or unloading for the use and benefit of the residential premises served.

    B.    1. Joint Parking Facilities. Off-street parkingfacilities for different buildings, structures or uses, or for mixed uses, may be provided collectively in any zoning districts in which separate off-street parking facilities for each constituent use would be permitted, provided that the total number of spaces so located together is not less than the sum of the separate requirements for each use.

    2.    C-1 and C-2 Districts Only. In the C-1 neighborhood business district, and C-2 general business district, joint parking facilities shall not be more than one hundred (100) feet from the lot on which the main building is located.

    In any other district, joint parking facilities shall not be more than three hundred (300) feet from the lot on which the main building is located.

    In any case, where the required parking spaces are not located on the same lot with the building or use served, or where such spaces are collectively or jointly provided and used, a written agreement thereto assuring their retention for such purposes shall be properly drawn and executed by the parties concerned, approved as to form and execution by an attorney, and shall be filed with the application for a building permit.

    C.    Not more than fifty (50) percent of the parking spaces required for: (a) theaters, and places ofamusement; and up to one hundred (100) percent of the parking spaces required for a church or school may be provided and used jointly by: (b) banks, offices, retail stores, repair shops, service establishments, and similar uses not normally open, used or operated during the same hours as those listed in (a); provided, however, that written agreement assuring the retention for such purpose shall be properly drawn and executed by the parties concerned, approved as to form and execution by an attorney, and shall be filed with the application for a building permit.

    D.    Control of Off-Site Facilities. When required accessory off-street parking facilities are provided elsewhere than on the lot on which the principal use served is located, they shall be in the same possession, either by deed or long-term lease, as the property occupied by such principal use, and the owner shall be bound by covenants filed of record in the office of the county recorder, requiring the owner and his or her heirs and assigns to maintain the required number of off-street parking spaces during the existence of such principal use.

    E.    Permitted Districts for Accessory Parking.

    1.    Accessory parking facilities provided elsewhere than on the business zoning lot with the principal use served in accordance with the requirements of this section may be located in any other business zone district.

    2.    No parking facilities accessory to a business or manufacturing use shall be located in a residential zone district.

    F.    Design and Maintenance.

    1.    Parking Space--Description. A required off-street parking space shall be an area of not less than one hundred eighty (180) square feet nor less than ten feet wide by eighteen (18) feet long, being measured perpendicular to the sides of the parking space exclusive of access drives or aisles, ramps, columns or office and work areas, accessible from streets or alleys or from private driveways or aisles leading to streets or alleys and to be used for the storage or parking of passenger automobiles or commercial vehicles under one and one-half ton capacity. Aisles between vehicular parking spaces shall be not lessthan twelve (12) feet in width when serving automobiles parked at a forty-five (45) degree angle in one direction, nor less than twenty-four (24) feet in width when serving automobiles parked perpendicularly. Under any circumstances, parking areas shall have a minimum gross area of two hundred eighty (280) square feet per vehicle.

    2.    Measurement of Space. When determination of the number of required off-street parking spaces results in a requirement of a fractional space, any fraction up to and including one-half shall be disregarded and fractions over one-half shall be interpreted as one parking space.

    3.    Access. Parking facilities shall be designedwith appropriate means of vehicular access to a street or alley in such manner as will least interfere with the movement of traffic. No driveway or curb cut in any district shall exceed twenty-five (25) feet in width.

    4.    Signs. Other than in the C-3 highway business district, no signs shall be displayed in any parking area except as may be necessary for the orderly use of the parking facilities. Signs are permitted, as provided for in the street graphics control ordinance, in the C-3 district parking area.

    5.    Striping. All parking spaces shall be properly marked by durable paint in stripes a minimum of four inches wide and extending the length of the parking space.

    6.    Required Setbacks. No parking spaces nor portion thereof established on a zoning lot without a building shall be located closer to any street line than the established building line on adjacent properties nor closer than the front yard setback required for the district in which the parking lot is located. Further, any wall, fence or hedge developed around any parking area shall be subject to the front yard setback requirements of this code in the same manner as a building or structure.

    7.    C-2 District Only. Except in the C-2 general business district where parking spaces shall be set back three feet from any property line abutting a public right-of-way, and parking spaces when established on a zoning lot adjacent to a residential use shall be set back three feet from that established property line.

    G.    Surfacing. All open off-street parking areas, except those accessory to single-family dwellings, shall be improved with a compacted macadam base, not less than four inches thick, surfaced with not less than one and one-half inches of asphaltic concrete or some other comparable all-weather dustless material.

    H.    Lighting. Any lighting used to illuminate an off-street parking area shall be so arranged as to reflect the light away from all adjoining properties.

    I.    Stormwater. Adequate stormwater drainage facilities shall be installed in order to insure that stormwater does not flow onto abutting property or abutting sidewalks in such a way or quantity that pedestrians using the sidewalk would be detrimentally affected or inconvenienced. The municipal engineer shall approve all such facilities. (Ord. 1715 § 1, 1999; Ord. 743 § 1 (part), 1989: prior code § 40-10-3(B))