A. Parking.
All nonresidential and multifamily uses shall submit a plan for off-street parking as part of the application for permit. Upon permit approval, the parking plan shall be binding upon the applicant.
1. Any use submitting a binding parking plan requiring vanpooling or carpooling by employees may be permitted to reduce the parking requirement by one space for each vanpool or carpool space provided. Vanpool or carpool spaces can reduce the parking requirement by no more than 10%.
2. No repair or maintenance of vehicles of any kind, except for emergency repairs, shall be permitted in any accessory nonresidential parking facility.
3. In parking areas containing ten (10) or more parking spaces, up to fifteen percent (15%) of the parking spaces need contain a rectangular area of only eight (8) feet in width by sixteen (16) feet in length. If such spaces are provided, they shall be conspicuously designated as reserved for small or compact cars only.
4. Twelve (12) foot wide driveways are permissible for two-way traffic when:
(a) The driveway is not longer than fifty (50) feet;
(b) It provides access to not more than six (6) spaces; and
(c) Sufficient turning space is provided so that vehicles need not back into a public street.
5. Parking and loading requirements based on floor area shall be determined by the total gross floor area of the use, excluding incidental storage, mechanical areas and preparation areas.
6. Unless no other practicable alternative is available, parking areas shall be designed so that, without resorting to extraordinary movements, vehicles may exit such areas without backing onto a public street. This requirement does not apply to parking areas consisting of driveways along a local street that serve single-family detached dwelling units.
7. Limitation on trucks. Except for trucks used in farming the property on which they are located or trucks used in conjunction with a permitted use, trucks and/or trailers exceeding four (4) tons empty weight shall not be stored or parked in any residential zoning district unless engaged in moving household goods or making deliveries.
8. Parking for specialized vehicles.
Specialized vehicles such as recreational vehicles, campers, trailers, mobile home coaches, boats and boat trailers may be parked or stored in all residential districts under the following conditions:
(a) That such vehicles are not used as living quarters.
(b) That the location of the parking or storage area shall be in the buildable area of the lot and shall not be in front of the principal structure in the Suburban Residential or Conservation Residential Districts.
9. Special access, surface and location requirements for garages, parking lots, automobile service stations and vehicle sales lots shall be as follows:
(a) No building, structure or premises shall be used, erected or altered which is intended or designed to be used as a community garage, an automobile repair shop, a service station or a parking lot or structure as the principal use on a property, which has an entrance or exit for vehicles either in the same block front or within two hundred (200) feet of the property boundary of any school, public playground, church, hospital, public library, convalescent, nursing or rest home, and no such entrance or exit, except for a community garage, shall be located within twenty (20) feet of any residential zone.
(b) No gasoline pump, oil draining pit or similar appliance for any purpose shall be located within fifteen (15) feet of any right-of-way or within fifty (50) feet of a residential zone, except where such a pump, pit or appliance is within a completely enclosed building and distant at least fifteen (15) feet from any vehicular entrance or exit of such building. Except for gasoline stations, no gasoline pumps shall be permitted as an accessory use for another activity.
10. Trailers.
(a) The Parking of Storage trailers (except for agricultural purposes) is not permitted in Residential Districts, the Highway Commercial (HC) District and in the Planned Office, Business and Research Park (PORBP) District. The Parking of Storage trailers is permitted in the Planned Industrial Park (PIP) District and in the Warrendale Industrial (WI) District subject to being screened from view of adjacent property and from the right-of-way.
(b) The Parking of Temporary construction trailers is permitted in conjunction with construction activity in a subdivision or land development.
11. Parking areas in excess of ten thousand (10,000) square feet for business, industrial or institutional uses located less than one hundred (100) feet from any residential district shall require a minimum bufferyard D (as defined in Appendix A) adjacent to any residential DISTRICT.
