87.0605 Minimum Design Standards. — Yucaipa Zoning Code

(a) Each required parking space shall be not less than nine feet wide by 19 feet long, with adequate provisions for ingress and egress by a standard, full-size passenger vehicle. This standard is applicable to all uses, including singlefamily residential, except where compact car spaces have been authorized. If wheel stops are installed in parking spaces, the distance from the end of the space to the rear of the wheel stop shall not exceed two feet.

(1) An approved Land Use Compliance Review or Conditional Use Permit application may authorize up to 25% of the required parking for multiple residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional uses to be allocated to compact car parking spaces.

(2) Compact car parking spaces shall be not less than 7.5 feet wide, nor less than 15 feet long.
(3) Compact car spaces should be grouped in separate areas unless individual spaces are utilized for tree conservation purposes.
(4) All compact car parking spaces shall be marked and/or posted with signs stating “Compact Cars Only.”
(b) The parking area shall be designed so that a car entering the parking area shall not be required to enter a street to move from one location to any other location within the parking area or premises.
(c) Parking and maneuvering areas shall be so arranged that any vehicle entering a vehicular right-of-way can do so traveling in a forward direction.
(d) Where curbs and gutters do not exist and where vehicular access to the private property is not restricted by barriers, head-in parking shall not be permitted.
(e) All off-street parking facilities shall be designed to limit access to private property from streets and highways to a minimum number of standard driveways, per the City Engineer specifications.
(f) All parking area lighting shall reflect light and glare away from public thoroughfares and any adjacent residences.

(g) Individual parking stalls shall be clearly striped and permanently maintained with double or hairpin lines on the surface of the parking facility, with the two lines being located an equal nine inches on either side of the stall sidelines. Arrows shall be painted on paving to indicate the direction of traffic flows.

(h) Minimum Aisle Widths

(1) One-Way Traffic

One-way access drives leading to aisles within a parking area shall be a minimum width of 12 feet, and within the aisles as follows.

(h) Minimum Aisle Widths (1) One-Way Traffic One-way access drives leading to aisles aisles as follows.	within a parking area shall be a mini
Parking Stall Angle	Minimum Aisle
Parallel (0)	12 feet
1 - 45	14 feet
46 - 60	17 feet
61 - 90	24 feet

(2) Two-Way Traffic

The aisles and the two-way access drives leading to aisles within a parking area shall be a minimum width of 24 feet.

87.0610 Parking and Loading Area Requirements General.

(a) Every parcel of land hereafter used or maintained for residential parking, public parking, private parking, new car sales lots, used car sales lots, mobilehome, camper or trailer sales lots, boat sales lots, or other uses of a similar nature shall be improved as follows, including loading spaces and access drives.

(1) Every institutional, commercial, industrial, or special use established or erected on land which abuts upon a street or an alley shall have one permanently maintained loading space of not less than 10 feet in width, 20 feet in length and 14 feet clear in height, for each 5,000 square feet of building floor area provided, however, that not more than four such spaces shall be required per use. An approved Conditional Use Permit may allow adjoining uses to share loading areas where appropriate.

(2) The required off-street parking and loading areas and access drives shall be surfaced with a minimum of two

inches of A.C. paving or plant-mix surfacing, in accordance with City Engineering Department specifications.

(3) Truck terminals or yards and motor vehicle storage/impound facilities shall be provided with a dustproofed surface of slag, crushed rock, or the equivalent thereof.

(4) Nonresidential parking areas which abut residential land use districts shall be separated therefrom by a solid fence or masonry wall six feet in height, measured from finished grade of parking lot, provided such fence or wall, from the front property line to a depth equal to the required front yard on the abutting residentially classified property, shall be four feet in height, measured from finished grade of parking lot and provided where no fence or wall is erected along any boundary of such parking area abutting upon a street, a suitable concrete curb or barrier not less than six inches in height shall be securely installed and maintained.

(5) The number of parking spaces required for the handicapped for multifamily residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, and public uses, is established as follows.

Total # of Parking Spaces Required	# of Handicapped Parking Spaces
1 - 25	1
26 - 50	2
51 - 75	3
76- 100	4
101 - 150	5
151 - 200	6
201 - 300	7
301 - 400	8
401 - 500	9
501 - 100	2 Percent of Total
Over 100	20 Plus 1 for each 100 or fraction over 1001

(A) Size of Parking Space for Handicapped

If only one space is provided, it shall be 17 feet wide and outlined to provide a nine foot parking area and a eight foot loading/unloading area. When more than one space is provided, in lieu of providing a 17-foot wide space for each parking space, two spaces can be provided within a 26-foot wide area lined to provide a nine foot parking area on each side of a eight foot loading and unloading area in the center. The minimum length of each parking space shall be 19 feet.

ide a nine foot parking area and a eight foot loading/unloading area. When more than one space is provided, in lieu of providing a 17-foot wide space for each parking space, two spaces can be provided within a 26-foot wide area lined to provide a nine foot parking area on each side of a eight foot loading and unloading area in the center. The minimum length of each parking space shall be 19 feet.

The arrangement and design of these spaces shall be subject to Chapter 2-71 of Title 24 of the California Administrative Code, and they shall be identified as required in Section 22511.8 of the California State Vehicle Code. Additional spaces shall be provided where usage indicates a greater need, or where a higher than normal percentage of handicapped persons is anticipated to use the parking facility.

(B) Handicapped parking spaces shall be located as near as practical to a primary entrance to a single building or

shall be located to provide for safety and optimum proximity to the entrances of the greatest incidence of use when

more than one building is served by the parking lot. Such spaces shall be located so that a handicapped individual is not compelled to wheel or walk behind parked cars other than his own. Pedestrian ways which are accessible to the physically handicapped shall be provided from each such

parking space to related facilities, including curb cuts or ramps as needed. Ramps shall not encroach into any parking space.

(8) Except as otherwise provided by this Code, the required parking area shall not be used for any purpose other than the temporary parking of motor vehicles during the operating hours of the supporting primary land use.

(9) Parking area notices are not to exceed six square feet in area and five feet in height and may be located in any district at the entrance or exit of a parking area. Such notices may contain the name of the owner or occupant of the property and any combination of the following words and symbols only: Parking, Park Here, Enter Here, Entrance, Exit, Do Not Enter, Stop, Private Parking, Public Parking, Customers Only, Handicap Parking, no parking directional arrow, and Tow Away notice. (Amended by Ord. 210 § 24, 2001)