HomeMy WebLinkAbout1588ORDINANCE NO. /52g
AN ORDINANCE of the City of Port Angeles providing for
regulations with reference to parking space requirements.
WHEREAS, the primary functions of a public street or high-
Tway are to (a) provide for the free, unrestricted movement of
vehicles, and (b) provide an access to property; and
WHEREAS, in order that streets and trafficways may be made
' safer and traffic on the streets may move more freely, requirements
for minimum parking space should be adopted; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PORT
,ANGELES, as follows:
Section 1. DEFINITIONS
Parking Space: For the purpose of this ordinance
two hundred (200) square feet of lot area (or floor area), 10 ft. x.
120 ft. in size, having adequate access to a public street, shall be
!deemed a parking space for one automobile. No part of any street
right of way shall be considered part of any parking space.
Loading Space: For the purpose of this ordinance, a
loading space is a space located adjacent to a building, and large
enough in area so that any truck - loading or unloading will not pro-
ject into a street right of way.
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Section 2. RESIDENCE PARKING
In all Residential Districts there shall be two permanently
11 maintained parking spaces on the same lot or tract for each family
!!unit on the lot or tract.
Section 3. PARKING AREA LOCATION
The maintained parking space shall not occupy any part of
Ithe required front yeard area except as herein provided:
1 (a) Where the lot or tract abuts a street or highway
Band, due to topographical conditions or excessive grade, said lot
lis not accessible for automobiles.
(b) Where the lot is of such shape or proportions
that the required parking space will work an unnecessary hardship
upon the owner.
Section 4. LOADING SPACE REQUIREMENTS
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All Commercial and Industrial businesses shall provide an
offstreet loading space, having access to a public thoroughfare,
and shall be located adjacent to each building hereafter erected,
'enlarged or altered. Such loading space shall be of adequate size
to accommodate the maximum number and size of vehicles simultan-
eously loading or unloading in connection with the business con -
ducted in each building. No part of any truck or van using the
unloading space may project into the public thoroughfare.
Section 5. PARKING SPACE REQUIREMENTS
For a new building or structure, or for the enlargement or
,increase in size of any existing building or structure there shall
be established and maintained a permanent offstreet parking area
within one hundred (100) feet of the front or rear entrance thereof.,
al The minimum number of parking spaces within said area shall be as
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follows:
LAND USE NUMBER OF "REQUIRED PARKING SPACES
Single family, two and three
family dwellings, apartment
buildings 2 spaces per dwelling unit
Hotels and Motels 1 for each sleeping unit
Day nurseries, preschool and
'kindergarten
1Telephone exchange
Minimum of 10 spaces
1 for each employee, minimum of
6 spaces
Trailer park 2 for each trailer space
Rooming and lodging houses 1 for each sleeping unit
Hospitals 1 for each bed
Sanitariums, convalescent homes,
pnursing homes and rest homes,
homes for the elderly
1 for each 3 beds
Churches, mortuaries, funeral
homes
Stadiums, sports areas, audi-
toriums, and other places of
assembly
!Dance halls, clubs, fraternal
societies, places of assembly,
'exhibition halls, without fixed
'seats
'Public and private golf clubs
Outdoor sports area or parks
without fixed seats
'Libraries
Bowling alleys
Laboratories, research, bio-
Ichemical, X -ray, dental
!Skating rink and other comer-
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cial recreation places
Medical, optometrical and
dental clinics and offices
Dormitories, Apartment Dormi-
tories
Museums
;Banks, business, professional
land governmental offices
Drug Stores
(Theaters
1Public swimming pools
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Schools Elementary
[ Junior High
Senior High
Junior College
(!Restaurants, taverns, any estab-
lishment for the sale and con -
Isumption on the premises of food
alcoholic beverages or refresh -
ments
!Food stores, markets and
shopping centers
1 for each 6 seats in the chapel
1 for each.3 seats
1 for. each 50 square feet of
gross floor area of the building
Minimum of 40 spaces
Subject to review by Planning
Commission
1 for each 200 sq. ft. of gross
floor area, minimum of 10
6 for each alley
1 for each 200 sq. ft. of gross
floor area
1 for each 100 sq. ft. of gross
floor area of the building
6 for each doctor
2 for each sleeping unit
1 for each 300 sq. ft. gross
floor area
1 for each 200 sq. ft. of gross
floor area of the building
1 for each 200 sq. ft. gross floor
area
1 for each 3 theater seats
10 for each 1,000 sq. ft. of pool
surface area
2 for each classroom
3 for each classroom
6 for each.classroom
8 for each classroom
, 1 for each 100 sq
floor area of the
mum of 10 spaces
1 for each 200 sq.
floor area of the
mum of 10
. ft. of gross
building, mini-
ft. of gross
building, mini-
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Parks, playgrounds Subject to review of Planning
Commission
'Other retail establishments,
such as furniture, appliance,
hardware stores, household equip-
ment, service shops, clothing or
show repair shops
Riding academies
1 for each 200 sq. ft. of gross
floor area of the building, mini-
mum of 6 spaces
1 for each 100 sq. ft. gross
floor stable area
I Wholesale stores, warehouses,
'storage buildings, motor vehicles 1 space for each 2 employees,
or machinery sales minimum of 10 spaces
,Manufacturing uses including
creameries, soft drink bottling
establishments, bakeries, canner- 1 for each 3 employees, minimum
ies, printing and engraving shops of 10 spaces
Trucking and transportation
.terminals Minimum of 10 spaces
I• Section 6. IMPROVEMENT OF PARKING SPACES
Any parking facility other than for single family residences.
shall be improved in accordance with the following requirements:
(a) Off - street parking facilities shall be graded and
drained so as to dispose of surface water to the satisfaction of
the City Engineer, and shall be maintained in good condition free 1
of weeds, dust, trash and debris.
(b) The location and design of all spaces, entrances,
exits and aisles shall be subject to the approval of the City En-
Igineer.
(c) Any lighting. used to illuminate any off - street
'parking facility shall be so arranged as to reflect light away
from any adjoining residential premises and street rights of way.
(d) Each individual parking space shall have a minimum.
dimension of nine feet wide by eighteen feet deep.
Section 7. UNSPECIFIED USES
In the case of a use not specifically mentioned in this ae-
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fit- xi, the requirements for off - street parking facilities shall be
jthe same as the above mentioned use which in the opinion of the
Planning Commission shall be deemed most similar.
Section 8. MIXED OCCUPANCIES
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. Off- street parking facili-
ties for one use shall not be considered as providing required
1110 parking facilities for any other use, except as hereinafter speci-
!fied for cooperative use.
Section 9. COOPERATIVE 'PROVISION
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Nothing of this
Oval 3c en shall be construed to prevent
cooperative provision of off - street parking facilities for two or
more buildings or uses, provided that the total of such off- street
parking spaces supplied cooperatively shall not be less than the
sum of the requirements for the various uses computed separately.
None of the above provisions shall prevent the overlapping coopera-
tive use of parking facilities when the times during which such
facilities are used are not conflicting.
Section 10. BUILDING PERMITS
Before the granting of a building permit for any new build-
ing or structure, or for any enlargement thereof, or change of use
in any building hereafter constructed involved in any of the afore-
mentioned uses, the applicant for said building permit shall pre -
sent evidence in writing that:
(a) A permanent off - street parking area that provides
required parking spaces is and will continue to be established on
the specific zoning lot, or on an approved off- street parking lot
'situated within 100 feet of the specific land use.
• (b) The applicant is a participant in a parking associ
Illation that provides a total number of off- street parking spaces fbr
Peach of the individual participants.
Section 11. CONDITIONAL USE
A conditional use permit for leas restrictive requirements
may be granted on written request to, and after a public hearing
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by the Planning Commission, subject to all the requirements in-
serted in said permit. Said hearing shall be conducted as per
regulations set forth in the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Port
Angeles.
Section 12. PENALTY CLAUSE
Any person in charge of premises which violate the provi-
sions of this ordinance shall be prosecuted for the commission of a,
misdemeanor for each day he is in violation thereof.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL of the City of Port Angeles and
approved by its Mayor at a regular meeting of the Council held on
the a L day of June, 1966.
Attest:
City Clerk
(Approved as to form:
PUBLISHED: ,JaAJL! //,?ll