17.44.070 General requirements.
General requirements shall be as follows:
A. Any off-street parking space, whether or not required by the terms of this title for any building or use wherein more than two automobile parking spaces are required, shall be designed so as to provide for maneuvering of the vehicles on the building site in such a way that they may leave the building site to enter any public or private road in a forward direction.
B. Off-street parking spaces shall not be permitted in the required front nor the required side yard and driveways shall not be permitted in the required front yard nor the required side yard abutting a street except as necessary for ingress and egress from the street. However, off-street parking spaces for handicapped persons as required by federal or state law may be located in the required front yard or the required side yard abutting a street.
C. All parking areas and driveway surfaces shall be permanently paved and maintained to the satisfaction of the city engineer.
D. As defined by this title, a required parking space shall be a minimum of nine feet by nineteen feet.
E. Parking Demand Management Program. Parking shall be provided at the rates as required elsewhere in this chapter and parking shall have minimum dimensions as defined by subsection D of this section, except that the planning commission or the city council on appeal may grant a use permit or amendment to an existing use permit, to allow (1) a given parking space or spaces to be counted towards the parking requirements for two or more uses, (2) a lesser number of parking spaces, and (3) minimum dimensions of less than defined in said subsection, subject to the implementation of an ongoing and continuous parking demand management program as described below and determined necessary to meet the general purposes of the zoning ordinance as listed in Section 17.02.030.
1. A given parking space or parking spaces may be counted towards parking requirements for two or more uses in circumstances where a parking demand management program identifies specific parking spaces to be shared by two or more uses having peak parking demands occurring at different times of the day or week. Such shared parking spaces may serve two or more uses on separate lots where any permanent and nonrevocable agreements bind the property owners and operators of the uses to share parking as described in an approved parking demand management program. The parking demand management program shall identify specific parking spaces to be shared, the times of the day and days of the week each parking space will be available for each use to be served, and the proximity and ease of access of shared parking spaces to uses to be served. Any such shared parking space shall be located within three hundred feet of site proposed to be served.
2. A lesser number of parking spaces may be approved in circumstances where a parking demand management program for employment sites with over fifty employees or places of assembly with more than fifty seats in one assembly location defines and implements permanent transportation programs to the employment site or the assembly location, respectively. Said transportation programs shall provide transportation to work or place of assembly by bus, van or car pools, bicycles or other alternative forms of transportation to the private automobile.
3. Lesser parking space dimensions may be approved in circumstances where a parking demand management program for places of assembly with fifty or more seats in one assembly location defines and permanently implements a program of staffed valet parking during all times of assembly.
F. Landscaped planting areas shall be incorporated into the design of all parking areas in accordance with adopted city design guidelines and standards. (Ord. 2020-07 § 2, 2020; Ord. 2003-03 § 1, 2003; Ord. 2001-08 § 1, 2001; Zoning Ordinance dated 7/94, 1994)