Chapter 17.36
OFF-STREET PARKING AND LOADING
Sections:
17.36.010 When required—Maintenance.
17.36.020 Location—Restrictions.
17.36.030 Number of spaces required.
17.36.040 Development standards.
17.36.050 Loading facilities requirement.
17.36.060 Cooperative provisions.
17.36.070 Third party consents.
17.36.090 Handicapped parking.
17.36.010 When required—Maintenance.
Whenever a building is built or moved onto a lot, and whenever and to the extent that a building is enlarged and whenever and to the extent that the use of a building changes and the new use is required to provide more off-street parking or loading than the most recent use, then off-street parking or loading shall be provided in accordance with the following requirements. Furthermore, parking and loading so required shall be maintained in a usable, safe condition so long as the land use they serve continues. (Ord. 1013 § 3.01.01, 1985)
17.36.020 Location—Restrictions.
A. Off-street parking spaces required shall be located off the public right-of-way in an area with appropriate zoning, and within five hundred feet walking distance of a public entrance to the building served. Parking spaces may be located within the required setback areas except that they shall not be located within any required vision clearance triangle.
B. New retail businesses, restaurants and the first four thousand square feet of all other commercial uses located in an existing building within the area bounded on the north and west by the railroad rights-of-way, on the south by the alley in between State and Warner Streets, and on the east by Puget Avenue/4th Avenue may use the city-owned parking lots to accommodate the parking requirements in this chapter and in Chapter 17.24. This area is substantially developed on zero setbacks from the right-of-way, making it impractical to provide on-site parking to satisfy the purpose and intent of this chapter. New buildings that contain commercial space or residential space associated with commercial space shall provide parking in accordance with the tiered parking requirements described in Section 17.24.050 and this chapter. (Ord. 1979-21 § 1 (Exh. B), 2021; Ord. 1785-13 § 1, 2013: Ord. 1013, § 3.01.02, 1985)
17.36.030 Number of spaces required.
The number of required off-street parking spaces shall be as follows, computed to the nearest whole number:
A. Housing reserved for persons sixty years of age and older: one per dwelling unit;
B. Group homes: one per resident between the ages of sixteen and fifty-nine, inclusive, excluding persons unable to drive due to disability, plus .5 per such younger, older or disabled person; except that bed and breakfasts and similar transient guest facilities shall provide one space per transient unit plus two for the residing family;
C. All housing other than the above: two per dwelling unit;
D. Offices (excluding health care offices) and banks: One per three hundred square feet gross floor area plus five vehicle storage spaces per drive-through window;
E. Eating and drinking establishments: one per seventy-five square feet of area open to the public, including outdoor service areas, plus additional as specified by the zoning administrator for drive-through capability;
F. Low-intensity sales and service (lumber, building supplies, feed and grain, large appliances, furniture, motor vehicles, boats, machinery, dry-cleaning, sign making, shoe and clothing repair, locksmiths, photography, saw-sharpening, etc.): one per four hundred square feet of gross floor area plus additional as specified by the Zoning Administrator for outdoor sales and activity areas;
G. High intensity sales and service (food, clothing, hardware, household goods, drugs, arts and crafts, auto parts, sporting goods, office equipment, books, plants, jewelry, liquor, musical instruments, barber and beauty shops, laundromats, etc.): one per two hundred fifty square feet of gross floor area open to the public;
H. Churches and funeral homes: one per four occupants at maximum design capacity;
I. Places of public assembly other than the above (auditoriums, stadiums, halls, clubs, theaters, indoor recreation, bus stations, etc.): one per three occupants at maximum design capacity;
J. Hospitals and residential health care facilities: one per three beds;
K. Health care offices and clinics including veterinarians: six per doctor, dentist or other principal personnel;
L. Day care and preschool facilities: one per worker at maximum shift plus adequate loading space.
M. Industry, wholesaling, warehousing, nonpassenger transportation facilities except ministorage: one per 1.5 workers on maximum shift;
N. Open air activities, schools, plant nurseries, public utilities, outdoor recreation, ministorage, drive-through facilities (food, carwash, service stations, etc.) and all other uses not otherwise specified: to be determined by the zoning administrator. (Ord. 1013 § 3.01.03, 1985)
17.36.040 Development standards.
Parking facilities provided in accordance herewith shall:
A. Have access to a public thoroughfare, with ingress and egress designed with respect to intersections, crosswalks and traffic in general so as not to create safety hazards or impedances. Driveways connecting parking spaces to the public thoroughfare shall be at least twelve feet in width if one-way or serving less than ten parking spaces. Otherwise driveway width shall be at least twenty feet;
B. Incorporate maneuvering room so as not to require backing out onto a public street, except that parking spaces serving single-family residences and duplexes may utilize a street for backing out, provided the street is not an arterial and location is at least fifty feet from all street intersections;
C. Be designed so that all vehicles are independently mobile and do not block each other;
D. Be surfaced with a dust-free, durable material, provided that the portion of the driveway lying within the public right-of-way shall be paved with a material matching or superior to that of the public thoroughfare;
E. Incorporate provision for drainage so as not to create on-site or off-site drainage problems;
F. Incorporate adequate traffic control devices to inform users of the designed use of spaces, ingress, egress and maneuvering space. Parking spaces, if more than four, shall be separately identified by striping, wheel-stops or other such means. General use of wheel stops to prevent damage to structures and landscaping is recommended, as is lighting of larger parking lots;
G. Provide for convenient pedestrian movement from parking spaces to building entrance, sufficiently separated from or compatible with vehicular traffic to ensure safety;
H. Incorporate effective and attractive sight-obscuring screening if serving a nonresidential use and located in or abutting a residential zone;
I. Be in accordance with the following dimensional requirements, provided that a maximum of thirty percent of the total required spaces may be designated for compact cars with a width of seven and one-half feet, length of fifteen feet, and correspondingly reduced maneuvering room as set out in Figures one through three of the ordinance codified in this title, on file in the office of the city clerk. (Ord. 1013 § 3.01.04, 1985)
17.36.050 Loading facilities requirement.
Whenever a building is erected, enlarged, or its use changed, and the new use requires that deliveries be made to the building which, unless special provisions are made, will result in significant traffic hazard or impedance, then adequate off-street loading facilities and maneuvering space for delivery vehicles shall be provided to prevent such hazard or impedance. (Ord. 1013 § 3.01.05, 1985)
17.36.060 Cooperative provisions.
Parking and loading facilities may be provided cooperatively, either through private arrangements or by means of a fee-in-lieu public parking program administered by the city. If the uses party to such a cooperative provision generate their peak parking demand at different times, the zoning administrator may reduce the total parking requirement from that which would be required separately to a number representative of the greatest demand likely to occur at any one time. (Ord. 1013 § 3.01.06, 1985)
17.36.070 Third party consents.
If the required parking or loading is to be provided on land not owned or leased by the applicant, proof shall be supplied of the owner’s consent provided that such consent shall not be construed to constitute an obligation of any greater permanence than is explicit therein. At such time as such consent is withdrawn, the use by virtue of which such parking or loading has been required shall cease unless alternative arrangements have been made for compliance with these requirements. (Ord. 1013 § 3.01.07, 1985)
17.36.080 Verification.
Repealed by Ord. 2042-23. (Ord. 1013 § 3.01.08, 1985)
17.36.090 Handicapped parking.
Parking spaces shall be provided for the handicapped and shall be clearly signed or marked with stenciled notation on the pavement designating such use and shall be posted with an approved handicapped parking sign directly in front of the stall. Each space shall be at least eight feet wide and shall have an adjacent access aisle five feet wide minimum. Two accessible parking spaces may share a common access aisle. Van spaces shall be sixteen feet in width to include the access aisle. Parking spaces and access aisles shall be level with surface slopes not exceeding 1:50 in all directions. Parking spaces shall be located closest to the handicapped accessible entrance with an accessible route provided to that entrance. Parking spaces for the handicapped shall be provided as follows:
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Total Parking Provided |
Minimum Number Required for the Handicapped |
|---|---|
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6—25 spaces |
1 space |
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26—50 spaces |
2 spaces |
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51—75 spaces |
3 spaces |
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76—100 spaces |
4 spaces |
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101—150 spaces |
5 spaces |
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151—200 spaces |
6 spaces |
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201—300 spaces |
7 spaces |
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301—400 spaces |
8 spaces |
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401 and over |
To be arranged with the zoning administrator |
(Ord. 1312-98 § 1 (part), 1998)