19.09.05 Parking Requirements and Shared Parking

This Section describes criteria to be used in assessing required parking. The following criteria shall be used in conjunction with the table found in Section 19.09.10, Required Minimum Parking, when determining required parking for any project: 1. Available on-street parking shall not be counted towards meeting the required parking stalls. 2. When a parking requirement is based upon square footage, the assessed parking shall be based upon gross square footage of the building or use unless otherwise specified in the requirement. 3. When parking requirements are based upon the number of employees, parking calculations shall use the largest number of employees who work at any one shift. Where shift changes may cause substantial overcrowding of parking facilities, additional stalls may be required. 4. When a development contains multiple uses, more than one parking requirement may be applied. 5. Tandem parking spaces will not be counted as parking spaces for non-residential uses except for stacking spaces where identified. 6. Any fraction obtained when calculating the parking requirement shall be rounded up to the next whole number to determine the required number of parking stalls. 7. Where no comparative land use standard for parking is found in Section 19.09.10, Required Minimum Parking, the Land Use Authority for the related development shall determine an appropriate requirement using the following criteria: a. the intensity of the proposed use; b. times of operation and use; c. whether the hours or days of operation are staggered thereby reducing the need for the full amount of required parking; d. whether there is shared parking agreement in accordance with Section 19.09.05.10 below—if there is a shared parking agreement, a reduction may not be granted; e. the number of employees; f. the number of customers and patrons; g. trip generation; and h. peak demands. 8. Any information provided by the developer relative to trip generation, hours of operation, shared parking, peak demands, or other information relative to parking shall be considered when evaluating parking needs. 9. Parking Deviations. Parking requirements may deviate from the standards contained in Section 19.09.10, Required Minimum Parking, when the Land Use Authority determines that the deviation meets the intent of this Chapter. Reductions may not exceed 25 percent of the parking requirements and shall be based on the following criteria: a. the intensity of the proposed use; b. times of operation and use; c. whether the hours or days of operation are staggered thereby reducing the need for the full amount of required parking; d. whether there is shared parking agreement in accordance with Section 19.09.05.10 below; e. trip generation; and f. peak demands. 10. Shared Parking. Up to twenty-five percent of the required parking may be shared with an adjacent use upon approval by the Land Use Authority. The developer must provide: a. an agreement granting shared parking or mutual access to the entire parking lot; and b. peak demand data by a professional traffic engineer showing that shared parking will accommodate the uses. 11. Guest Parking. Two-Family dwellings, Three-Family dwellings, Multi-Family dwellings, and dwellings above commercial. a. Guest parking shall be provided at a ratio of 0.25 stalls per unit. i. When a rear-load product is allowed in a village plan or neighborhood plan, and is accessed with aprons rather than driveways, guest parking shall be provided at a ratio of one stall per unit. b. Driveways shall not count towards the guest parking requirement. c. Guest parking shall be located within two-hundred feet of the dwelling unit.