5-2-040 Number of Parking Spaces Required

Regulations of General Applicability: Off-Street Parking A. When calculating the floor area of a building to establish parking requirements, reasonable reductions for hallways, closets & storage space, restrooms, kitchens and mechanical equipment may be deducted. B. Business or Professional Offices:One parking spacefor each two hundred (200) square feet of net usable or leasable floor area. C. Churches with Fixed Seating:One parking space foreach three and one-half (3.5) fixed seats, or one parking space for each seven (7) feet of linear pew, whichever is greater. D. Churches without Fixed Seats, Sports Arenas, Auditoriums, Theaters, Assembly Halls, Meeting Rooms:One parking space foreach three (3) seats of maximum seating capacity. E. Dwellings: Two parking spaces for each dwelling unit. F. Event Center:one space for each 3 persons, based on occupancy as determined by the architect, or one space per 100 sq. ft. of the building, whichever is greater. G. Furniture and Appliance Stores: One parking space for each six hundred (600) square feet of floor area. H. Hospitals and Clinics:Two parking spaces for each bed, and/or examining room. I. Hotels, Motels, Motor Hotels:One space for each living or sleeping unit, plus parking space for all accessory uses as herein specified. J. Nursing Homes:Four parking spaces, plus one (1) space for each five (5) beds. K. Restaurants, Taverns, Private Clubs, and all other similar dining and/or drinking establishments: 1. One parking space for each three and one-half (3.5) seats or 1 parking space for each 100 square feet of floor area, whichever is greater. 2. In addition, drive-in facilities shall provide stacking area for at least six (6) cars in a drive through lane. L. Retail Stores: 1. One parking space for each hundred (100) square feet of retail floor space. Regulations of General Applicability: Off-Street Parking 2. In addition, convenience stores which sell gasoline shall provide stacking area for six (6) cars in lanes serving the gas pumps, which stacking area may be considered to help fulfill basic parking requirements. M. Wholesale Establishments, Warehouses, Manufacturing Establishments and All Industrial Uses:One (1) space per 500 gross square feet or one (1) space for each employee projected for the highest employment shift, whichever is higher. N. Shopping Center or other groups of uses not listed above:One parking space for each one hundred and fifty (150) square feet of total floor space. O. All Other Uses not listed above:Will be determined based on the nearest comparable use standards by the Zoning Administrator. Sufficient parking should be provided to ensure: 1. Maximum utilization of the facilities on site will not unduly impose on neighbors rights in the vicinity; 2. That in the future if there is a change of use that the parking is adequately related to the site so that a new use has a reasonable chance to provide satisfactory parking; 3. Where the precise parking standards are not known or have proven unsatisfactory in other instances that care is given in the analysis of the parking requirements of the site and its proposed use to ensure a reasonable number of parking spaces that cannot become an excuse for failure of the use on the site to perform its function properly; and 4. The intent of minimum parking requirements is that normal or competitive functions are not to be curtailed due to lack of sufficient parking and therefore the use or function of the principal user of the site fails or otherwise deteriorates.