Sec. 90-886. - Nonresidential requirements for off-street parking.

For buildings or structures other than dwellings and for uses involving large concentrations of people, parking areas or spaces shall, unless otherwise provided by this chapter, be on the same lot with the main building, or on lots immediately contiguous thereto in the same district therewith and available for use by the occupants in the following ratios. Combinations of facilities shall provide the area or number of spaces required for each facility, and the area or spaces provided for one facility shall not be construed as satisfying the requirements for another facility, provided that, if there is a general parking area or parking space requirement in the particular zoning district relating to the floor area of buildings therein, and the commission determines that all of the spaces, areas, and buildings are constructed or will be constructed pursuant to an integrated site plan, the commission may, consistent with the purposes and intent of this chapter and following the procedure set forth in sections 90-981 through 90-993, determine whether the general requirements of the district or the specific requirements hereinafter enumerated shall apply.

(1)

For bowling alleys and similar establishments, there shall be at least five parking spaces for each alley and two spaces for each billiard table contained therein.

(2)

For churches, stadia, theaters, libraries, auditoriums, museums, meeting halls, gymnasiums, and similar places of assembly, there shall be at least one parking space for each five permanent seats or one parking space for every 40 square feet of area within the main auditorium, meeting hall, or room, whichever provides the greater number of spaces. In cases of a use without a building, there shall be one parking space for each five persons normally attending or using the facilities, plus one parking space for every two non-temporary employees.

(3)

For convalescent homes, homes for the aged, nursing homes, and children's homes, there shall be at least one parking space for each 2½ beds or fraction thereof.

(4)

For dance halls, skating rinks, natatoriums, and similar establishments, there shall be at least one parking space provided for each 100 square feet of gross floor area.

(5)

For establishments for the sale and consumption on the premises of food and/or beverages:

a.

Having less than 1,000 square feet of gross floor area, there shall be at least one parking space for each 200 square feet.

b.

Having less than 4,000 square feet of gross floor area, there shall be at least one parking space for each 100 square feet.

c.

Having 4,000 square feet or more of gross floor area, there shall be at least 40 parking spaces plus one for each 50 square feet in excess of 4,000 square feet.

(6)

For hospitals, sanitariums, and asylums, there shall be at least one parking space for every two beds or one space for every 1,000 square feet of gross floor area, whichever provides the greater number, plus one space for every three employees.

(7)

For hotels, tourist courts and motels, there shall be at least one parking space for every individual sleeping room or unit.

(8)

For machinery sales and wholesale stores, there shall be at least one parking space for each 800 square feet of gross floor area.

(9)

For medical offices, there shall be at least four parking spaces for each doctor, plus one space for each employee.

(10)

For motor vehicle sales and automotive repair shops, there shall be at least one parking space for each 400 square feet of gross floor area.

(11)

For mortuaries, funeral homes, and similar establishments, there shall be at least one parking space for each 20 square feet of floor area of assembly rooms, plus one space for each employee, and one space for each car owned by such establishment.

(12)

For park and recreational uses, there shall be at least one parking space for each 5,000 square feet of active recreational area.

(13)

For public utility facilities such as communications equipment buildings, electrical substations, and the like, the following standards shall apply:

a.

For facilities open to the public, there shall be at least six parking spaces per 1,000 square feet of floor area of gross floor area or fraction thereof, the parking area to be within 300 feet of the property served.

b.

For facilities not open to the public, there shall be at least one parking space for each two employees. This shall apply to the maximum number of employees on duty at any one time.

c.

For facilities wherein there are areas open and not open to the public, the parking ratios in subsections (13)a and (13)b of this section shall be used as a basis for determining the respective amount of parking areas to be provided.

(14)

For rooming houses, lodging houses, clubs, and fraternity and sorority houses, there shall be at least one parking space for each person which the building was or is designed or intended to house as a sleeping guest or member or employee.

(15)

For schools, the following standards shall apply. (When relative to public schools, these standards are advisory only):

a.

Elementary and junior high. There shall be at least one parking space for each member of the faculty and each employee.

b.

High school. There shall be at least one parking space for each member of the faculty and each employee, plus one space for each eight students regularly enrolled.

c.

Junior colleges, colleges and universities. There shall be at least one parking space for each two members of the faculty and employees, plus one space for each two (full-time or equivalent) regularly enrolled students.

d.

Schools having auditoriums or places of assembly. The provisions of subsection (2) of this section shall apply, if such application will provide a greater number of spaces than subsections (5)a, (5)b or (5)c of this

section. The required parking spaces shall be within the school property or on a parking lot contiguous thereto.

e.

Day nurseries, nursery schools and child care nurseries. There shall be at least one parking space for each member of the faculty, each employee, and the owner.

(16)

For shopping centers, there shall be at least one parking space per 200 square feet of gross leasable area. "Shopping center," as used in this subsection, shall mean two or more architecturally unified commercial establishments built on a site which is planned, developed, owned, and managed as an operating unit and which has a total gross leasable area for all commercial establishments within the center of 30,000 square feet or more.

(17)

For small animal veterinary hospitals and clinics, there shall be at least four parking spaces for each doctor, plus one space per each additional employee.

(18)

For transportation facilities, including airports, railroad passenger stations, bus depots or other passenger terminal facilities, there shall be provided such parking spaces at such locations as the commission, following the procedures set forth in sections 90-991 through 90-993, shall deem to be adequate for employees, for the loading and unloading of passengers, and for spectators, visitors and others.

(19)

For emergency shelters, shall follow the provisions of section 90-899(c), and there shall be at least one parking space for each employee on duty, provided that standards do not require more parking than other residential or commercial uses within the same zone.

(Ord. No. 731, § 7, 8-2-83; Ord. No. 777, § 2, 4-15-86; Ord. No. 847, 6-6-91; Ord. No. 860, § 2, 12-5-91; Ord. No. 909, § 8, 4-21-94; Ord. No. 2025-04, § 4(Exh. A, § 14), 5-15-25)

Sec. 90-887. - Treatment of off-street parking areas.

Areas used for the parking or loading of motor vehicles or motor vehicle sales, not including single-family residential districts, shall be improved and maintained as follows:

(1)

All areas shall be graded, paved and drained; and parking stalls, lanes and directional guides shall be marked in accordance with the city's standard specifications and drawings.

(2)

Where such areas adjoin a residential district, it shall be separated therefrom by a solid masonry wall not less than six feet in height, provided the wall shall not exceed three feet in height where it adjoins the front yard area of an abutting residential district. In cases where the required wall will separate such parking area from an existing abutting parking facility, the required wall may be waived by the commission. Where no wall is required along a boundary of an area covered by this section, a concrete curb or timber barrier not less than six inches in height shall be securely installed and maintained as a safeguard to the abutting property or public right-of-way. The barrier shall be at least three feet from the property line of the subject property.

(3)

Where such areas adjoin a residential district, there shall be a border of appropriate landscaping not less than ten feet in depth along the residential street frontage to protect the character of the adjoining residential property. Such landscaping shall be maintained.

(4)

Lighting where provided to illuminate such parking, sales or display areas shall be hooded and so arranged and controlled so as not to cause a nuisance either to street or highway traffic or to surrounding properties.

(5)

No required parking space shall be so located as to require the moving of any vehicle on the premises in order to enter or leave any other stall unless an attendant is present at all times during the use of the facility.

(6)

Automobile parking shall be so arranged as not to require the backing out of motor vehicles from a parking space, garage, or other structure onto a street in or abutting any commercial or industrial district or in a multifamily district developed with four or more dwelling units.

(7)

Garages or carports shall be located not less than 20 feet from any street frontage where the garage door or carport opening faces the street. Where yard requirements pose a greater setback, such setback shall apply.

(8)

No commercial repair work or servicing of vehicles shall be conducted on a parking area.

(9)

Where automobile parking spaces are to be grouped as a common facility, the arrangement of parking spaces, aisles and access drives shall comply with the adopted design standards of the city as presented in the adopted standard specifications and drawings.

(10)

All parking areas shall be placed in a location with relation to the parking generator as to provide for the efficient use of the parking facility. On-site parking areas shall have ready vehicular access. The location of off-site parking areas shall be noted by appropriate signs located both at the parking generator and at the parking facility.

(11)

Access to individual parking spaces on a lot or portion of a lot designated for parking shall be from said lot or portion of a lot or from a public alley.

(12)

In no case shall parking spaces be so arranged that ingress or egress from a parking space requires backing into a public or private pedestrian accessway.

(13)

Off-street parking requirements for electric vehicle charging stations shall comply with section 90-901 of the Sanger City Code.

(Ord. No. 731, § 7, 8-2-83; Ord. No. 777, § 2, 4-15-86; Ord. No. 847, 6-6-91; Ord. No. 860, § 2, 12-5-91; Ord. No. 909, § 9, 4-21-94; Ord. No. 2024-02, § 2, 4-4-24)

Sec. 90-888. - Additional off-street parking requirements.

The following additional off-street parking requirements shall apply to all land, buildings and structures in all districts:

(1)

Agreements regarding maintenance of off-site parking spaces. When required parking is to be provided off the lot on which the structure or uses, or some portion thereof, is located, the owner or lessee of the development or use site shall furnish satisfactory evidence to the city that he owns or has available sufficient property to provide the required minimum off-street parking. Whether parking is to be provided on property owned by the applicant or is in another ownership, there shall have been recorded in the office of the county recorder, prior to issuance of any building permit, a covenant executed by the owners of such property for the benefit of the city, in a form approved by the city attorney, to the effect that such parking space will continue to be maintained so long as the structure, improvement, or use which it serves continues to exist. Such covenant shall also recite that the title to and right to use the lots upon which the parking space is to be provided will be subservient to the title to the premises upon which the structure is to be erected or the use maintained, and shall warrant that such lots are not and will not be made subject to any other covenant or contract for such use without the prior written consent of the city. If the owners of such structure should thereafter provide parking space equal in area within the distance allowed by this chapter and under the same conditions as to ownership upon another lot than the premises made subservient in a prior such covenant, the city will, upon written application therefor accompanied by the filing of a similar covenant, release such original subservient premises from such prior covenant, and the owners shall furnish at their own expense such title reports or other evidence as the city may require to ensure compliance with the provisions of this section.

(2)

No additional off-street parking facilities shall be required solely because of the remodeling of an existing use or building, unless there is a change in use or increase in floor area or other unit of measurement as the result of such remodeling for which additional facilities are required. See also subsection 90-884(3).

(3)

In the case of mixed uses, the total requirements for off-street parking facilities shall be the sum of the requirements for the various uses computed separately, provided that in the case of a shopping center, the requirements of subsection 90-886(16) shall apply. Off-street parking facilities for one use shall not be considered as providing required parking facilities for any other use except as herein specified for joint use.

(4)

The planning commission may authorize the joint use of parking facilities as follows:

a.

One hundred percent of the parking facilities required by this article for a primarily daytime use may be provided by the parking facilities of a primarily nighttime use. One hundred percent of the parking facilities required by this article for a primarily nighttime use may be provided by the parking facilities of a primarily daytime use, provided that such parking area shall meet the conditions set forth in subsection (4)b of this section.

b.

The following are conditions required for joint use:

1.

The building or use to utilize the off-street parking facilities provided by another building or use shall be located within 200 feet of such parking facility.

2.

The applicant shall show that there is no substantial conflict in the principal operating hours of the building or uses for which the joint use of off-street parking facilities is proposed.

3.

If the building, structure or improvement requiring parking space is in one ownership and the required parking space provided in another ownership, partially or wholly, there shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder of a covenant by such owners for the benefit of the city, in a form approved by the city, that such parking space will continue to be maintained so long as the building, structure or improvement is maintained. The covenant herein required shall stipulate that the title to and right to use the parcel or parcels upon which the parking space is to be provided will be subservient to the title to the premises upon which the building is to be erected and that the parcel or parcels are not and will not be made subject to any other covenant or contract for use without prior written consent of the city.

(5)

None of the provisions of this chapter which require off-street parking and off-street loading spaces in connection with the use of property for commercial or industrial purposes shall apply to any parcel of property located in any vehicle parking district existing under the provisions of any parking district act approved by the city council, where parking and loading facilities provided by such district are determined by the city council to be adequate to serve the district.

(Ord. No. 731, § 7, 8-2-83; Ord. No. 777, § 2, 4-15-86; Ord. No. 847, 6-6-91; Ord. No. 860, § 2, 12-5-91; Ord. No. 970, § 16, 7-17-97)