5-4 Parking Space for Building or Uses Other Than Dwellings
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The official San Juan County code is at https://sanjuancountyut.gov/207/Ordinances.
Text pulled 2026-10-19 from this source.
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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 (1) permanently maintained parking space of not less than one hundred eighty (180) square feet net area as follows:
(1) For church, school, college and university auditoriums and theaters, general auditoriums, stadiums and other similar places of assembly at least one (1) parking space for every ten (10) fixed seats provided in said buildings or structures.
(2) For hospitals at least one (1) parking space for each two (2) beds including infants' cribs and children's beds. For medical and dental clinics at least ten (10) parking spaces and three (3) additional parking spaces for each doctor or dentist having offices in such clinic in excess of three (3) doctors or dentists.
(3) For individual sleeping or living units, hotels and apartment hotels at least one (1) parking space for each two (2) sleeping rooms, up to and including the first twenty (20) sleeping rooms, and one (1) parking space for each three (3) sleeping rooms over twenty (20) sleeping rooms.
(4) For boarding houses, lodging houses, dormitories, fraternities or sororities at least one parking space for every three (3) persons for whose accommodation the building is designed or used.
(5) 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 (1) space for each two hundred (200) square feet of floor space in the building, or one (1) space for each two (2) employees working on the highest employment shift, or five (5) parking spaces, which ever requirement is greater.
(6) For mortuaries, at least thirty (30) parking spaces; for liquor stores, at least twenty (20) parking spaces.
(7) For all business or industrial uses not listed above, one (1) parking space for each two (2) employees working on the highest employment shift.
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