§ 10-5. Access and Off-Street Parking Requirements.

All vehicular use areas in any proposed development shall be designed to be safe, efficient, convenient and attractive. In addition, all vehicular use areas shall be designed considering all modes of transportation that may use the system, including without limitation, cars, trucks, buses, bicycles and emergency vehicles.

A.

Access. Unobstructed vehicular access to and from a public street shall be provided for all off-street parking spaces. Vehicular access shall be provided in such manner as to protect the safety of persons using such access or traveling in the public street from which such access is obtained and in such manner as to not reduce the traffic-carrying capacity of the public street from which such access is obtained. All off-street parking areas of five (5) or more spaces shall be designed so no parking or maneuvering shall be on any public street, right-of-way, or sidewalk, and, except as otherwise allowed herein, so all vehicles, except as allowed in Section 10-4(G), can be parked and unparked without moving another vehicle. In addition, off-street parking spaces shall be arranged so no vehicle shall be required to back out directly onto a public street.

B.

Location.

1.

All off-street parking spaces, whether required or excess, shall be located on the same lot as the building or use for which they are required unless:

a.

Such spaces are provided collectively by two (2) or more buildings or uses on abutting lots in a single parking area located within the boundaries of such abutting lots, and the total number of parking spaces supplied collectively is equal to the number of spaces required by this Article for each use considered separately, or

b.

For non-residential uses, an off-site parking agreement must be approved by the Planning Commission. In such instances, the off-site parking facilities shall be located within three hundred (300) feet of the building they are intended to serve. The application for an off-site parking agreement shall demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Planning Commission that practical difficulties prevent the location of all the off-street parking on site.

1.

Off-site parking agreements, in a form acceptable to the County Attorney, shall provide: that the land comprising the parking facilities shall not be disposed of except in conjunction with the sale of the premises which the parking area serves, so long as the facilities are required; that the owner(s) agrees to bear the expense of recording the agreement; agrees that the agreement shall bind their heirs, successors and assigns and demonstrates that a safe pedestrian route exists.

2.

Parking of any vehicles in the front yard of a lot on which exists a single-family detached or duplex dwelling, except such dwellings associated with agricultural uses, shall be prohibited unless such vehicles are parked on an improved area having a surface of asphalt, concrete, rock, shell, gravel or similar inorganic material.

3.

Guest Parking. Off-street guest parking spaces in multi-family developments shall be distributed proportionally to the dwelling unit locations they are intended to serve. Generally, such parking shall not be located more than two hundred (200) feet from the dwelling units intended to be served.

4.

In residential zone districts, only off-street parking areas to serve the uses allowed in such residential zone districts shall be permitted in such district.

5.

A use located in a non-residential zoning district shall not gain its access through, nor have its off-street parking area located in, a residential zoning district.

C.

Lighting. All off-street parking and vehicular use areas of twenty (20) or more spaces shall be lighted in accordance with Article 32.

D.

Maintenance. The property owner shall be responsible for maintaining all off-street parking and vehicular use areas in good condition and free of refuse and debris and all landscaping in a healthy and growing condition.

E.

Use. Off-street parking and vehicular use areas shall not be used for sales, outdoor storage, repair, dismantling or servicing of any type or kind, nor shall areas devoted to such activities count towards meeting a use's off-street parking requirement.

(Ord. of 5-2-2006(2))

(Ord. of 5-2-2006(2))