Del Norte County Municipal Code § 21.44 Off-Street Parking

In all districts, in connection with every industrial, business, institutional, recreational, residential, or any other use, there shall be provided, at the time any building or structure is erected, or is enlarged, or increased in capacity, off-street parking spaces for automobiles in accordance with the requirements set forth in this chapter.

(Ord. 83-03 (part), 1983)

The number of off-street parking spaces required for each use in all districts shall be as follows:

1. Automobile or machinery sales and service garages: one for each four hundred square feet of floor area.

2. Banks, business and professional offices: one for each two hundred square feet of floor area.

3. Bowling alleys: five for each alley.

4. Churches and schools: one for each three and one-half seats in auditoriums or one for each seventeen classroom seats, whichever is greater.

5. Dancehalls and assembly halls without fixed seats, exhibition halls except church assembly rooms in conjunction with auditorium: one for each one hundred square feet of floor area for assembly or dancing.

6. Dwellings, single-family, duplexes: two for each family or dwelling unit.

7. Dwellings, multiple: three for each two families or dwelling units.

8. Funeral homes, mortuaries: four for each parlor room or one for each fifty square feet of floor area, whichever is greater.

9. Furniture and appliance stores, household equipment or furniture repair shop: one for each two hundred square feet of floor area.

10. Hospitals: one for each two patient beds and one added for each three staff members and employees.

11. Rooming and lodging houses: one for each two bedrooms.

12. Manufacturing plants, research or testing laboratories, bottling plants: one for each two employees on the maximum working shift.

13. Medical, dental, veterinary clinics and/or similar facilities: seven spaces for each physician, dentist or primary care giver.

14. Hotels and motels: one space for each living or sleeping unit.

15. Sanitariums, asylums, orphanages, convalescent homes, homes for the aged and infirm, and rest homes: one space for each six patient beds plus one space for each staff member or visiting physician plus one space for each three employees.

16. Restaurants, beer parlors, and nightclubs: one for each three and one-half seats.

17. Retail stores, shops, etc.: one for each two hundred square feet of gross area, except that convenience stores shall have one for each one hundred fifty square feet. A "convenience store" includes, but is not limited to, the following examples: Circle K, 7-11, Arco-Marts, Mini-marts, etc., and other similar convenience stores of five thousand square feet or less of gross area.

18. Sports arenas, auditoriums, theaters, assembly halls: one for each three and one-half seats.

19. Wholesale establishments or warehouses: one for each two employees in the maximum working shift.

(Ord. 95-17 § 9(1), 1995: Ord. 89-02 § 1, 1989: Ord. 86-04 (part), 1986: Ord. 83-03 (part), 1983)

The off-street parking facilities required for the uses mentioned in Section 21.46.20 and for other similar uses, shall be on the same or adjacent lot or parcel of land as the structure they are intended to serve. When practical difficulties, as determined by the planning commission, prevent their establishment upon the same or immediately adjacent lot, they may be located within three hundred feet of the premises to which the parking requirements pertains, and may be located in a residence zone if the land lies adjacent to any building being erected in a commercial or industrial district. Space for required off-street parking shall not occupy any part of any required front yard except where uncovered or where it may be included as part of a required rear or side yard. On corner lots, parking space may not be included as part of required yards lying adjacent to either street.

(Ord. 83-03 (part), 1983)

Parking areas shall comply with the applicable provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Each offstreet parking space shall have a standard minimum width of not less than nine feet and a length of not less than twenty feet except that those spaces designated as handicapped spaces shall conform to the dimensions required for handicapped spaces. Up to twenty percent of the number of spaces required by this chapter may be for compact cars. Spaces provided in excess of the number required by this chapter may be either standard or compact size. Each compact space shall have a width of not less than nine feet and a length of not less than sixteen feet.

Access aisles (drives) shall provide a clearance of not less than twenty feet behind each parking space. Spaces serving multifamily, commercial, industrial, public or similar uses shall not use public roadways as access aisles.

Except for single-family dwellings and duplexes, all parking spaces and aisles shall be clearly delineated by striping or other means of permanent demarcation. Within areas designated as urban land uses by the general plan, parking and access aisles shall be finished in an all-weather surface consisting of asphalt concrete, concrete or an equivalent.

(Ord. 95-17 § 9(2), 1995: Ord. 89-02 § 2, 1989: Ord. 83-03 (part), 1983)

No part of an off-street parking area required for any building or use for the purpose of complying with the provisions of Chapter 21.02 through 21.60 shall be included as a part of an off-street parking area similarly required for another building or use unless the type of structure indicates, in the opinion of the planning commission, that the periods of usage of such structures will not be simultaneous with each other. The size of multiple use lots used in shopping centers or for more than one business at the same time shall be based on the combined requirements of the businesses concerned.

(Ord. 83-03 (part), 1983)

Whenever a parking lot or a driveway to a parking lot is established so as to abut the side or rear line of a lot in a residential district, a fence or screen of planting shall be constructed and maintained along the side or rear lot line.

(Ord. 83-03 (part), 1983)