§ 3.3. Off-street automobile parking.


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  • Off-street automobile parking space shall be provided on any lot or plot on which any of the following uses are hereafter established; such space shall be provided with vehicular access to street or alley and shall be deemed to be required open space associated with the permitted use and shall not hereafter be reduced or encroached upon in any manner. Except where required in connection with dwellings, such parking space shall be surfaced with a minimum of four (4) inches of gravel, shell, or similar all-weather surface, and such access shall be similarly surfaced. Building and land uses shall be provided with such off-street automobile parking space as follows:

    3.301.

    Dwellings, including one-, two-, and multiple-family dwellings and garage apartments, shall have two (2) parking spaces for each residential unit.

    3.302.

    Bed and breakfast inns, motels, and hotels. One parking space for each sleeping room.

    3.303.

    Theaters, auditoriums, or other places of public assembly and churches. Parking space, including handicapped parking, as provided by the state fire code.

    3.304.

    Offices, clinics, public building, and similar places or business. Parking space, including handicapped parking, as provided by the state fire code.

    3.305.

    General business, stores or shops for services and trade and mortuaries. Parking space, including handicapped parking, as provided by the state fire code.

    3.306.

    Warehouses and other commercial and industrial uses. Parking space, including handicapped parking, as provided by the state fire code.

    3.307.

    Screening. Wherever such parking space abuts on a residential district, it shall be screened from the abutting residential district by walls or by fences or by other screening not less than four (4) feet in height, in a manner acceptable to the building inspector.

    3.308.

    Parking on separate lot. In the B, C, and M districts parking space may be provided on a separate lot if within three hundred (300) feet of a building, and two (2) or more owners may join together in the provisions of this parking lot.

(Ord. No. 527, 7-7-1998)