18.44.030 Parking Space-Buildings or Uses Not Dwellings

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 sixty square feet net area, as follows: A. For church, school, college and university auditoriums and for theaters, general auditoriums, stadiums and other similar places of assembly, at least one parking space for every ten fixed seats provided in the buildings or structures. B. For hospitals, at least one parking space for each two beds' capacity, including infants' cribs and children's beds. For medical and dental clinics, at least ten parking spaces, provided that three additional parking spaces shall be provided for each doctor or dentist having offices in such clinic in excess of three doctors or dentists. C. For tourist 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 sleeping rooms, up to and including the first twenty sleeping rooms, and one parking space for each three sleeping rooms over twenty sleeping rooms. D. For boarding houses, lodging houses, dormitories, fraternities or sororities, at least one parking space for every three persons for whose accommodation the building is designed or used. E. 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 for dance halls and recreational places of assembly at least one space for each two hundred square feet of floor space in the building, or one space for each two employees working on the highest employment shift, or five parking spaces, whichever requirement is greater. F. For mortuaries, at least thirty parking spaces; for liquor stores at least twenty parking spaces. G. For all business or industrial uses not listed in this section, one parking space for each two employees working on the highest employment shift. (Ord. 87-17.03 (part), 1987: prior code §34-15-3)