11-10-6 Parking Space For Buildings And Uses Other Than Dwellings
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For a new building, or for any enlargement or increase in seating
capacity, floor area or guest rooms of any existing main building, there shall be at least
one permanently maintained parking space of not less than one hundred eighty (180)
square feet net area (9’ x 20’) as follows:
A. For church, school, college and university auditoriums and theaters, general
auditoriums stadiums and other similar places of assembly, at least one parking
space for every five (5) fixed seats provided in said buildings or structures.
B. For hospitals, at least one parking space for each two (2) beds, including infants
cribs and children’s beds. For medical and dental clinics, at least fifteen (15)
parking spaces; provided, that three (3) additional parking spaces shall be
provided for each doctor or dentist having offices in such clinic in excess of three
(3) doctors or dentists.
C. For tourists courts and apartment motels, at least one parking space for each
individual Sleeping or living unit; for hotels and apartment hotels, at least one
parking space for each two (2) sleeping rooms up to and including the first twenty
(20) sleeping rooms, and one parking space for each three (3) sleeping rooms
over twenty (20) sleeping rooms.
D. For restaurants or establishments that serve meals, lunches or drinks to patrons
either in their cars or in the building, for retail stores selling directly to the public,
and recreational places of assembly, at least one space for each one hundred
(100) square feet of floor space in the building, and one space for each two (2)
employees working the highest employment shift, or five (5) parking spaces,
whichever requirement is the greater.
E. For mortuaries, at least thirty (30) parking spaces; for liquor stores, at least
twenty (20) parking spaces.
F. For all business or industrial uses not listed above, not providing customer
services on the premises, one parking space for each two (2) employees working
on the highest employment shift.
G. Adequate lighting will be designed into the parking lot plan
ACCESS
11-11-1: Businesses Requiring Access
11-11-2: Roadways and Curbs
11-11-3: Location of Gasoline Pumps
11-10-5 Off-Street Truck Loading Space · 11-11-1 Businesses Requiring Access