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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance-1975-0189 - Amend WR Ord 98 - Parking RequirementsINTRODUCED BY COUNCILMAN DONALDSON ORDINANCE NO. 189 Series of 1975 TITLE: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 98 SERIES OF 1971, AND RELATING TO OFF-STREET PARKING REQUIREMENTS. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE, COLORADO, THAT: Section 1. All references to off-street parking presently found in Ordinance No. 98, Series of 1971 are hereby deleted. Section 2. A new Section Twenty-Eight is hereby added to Ordinance No. 98, Series of 1971, to read as follows: Section Twenty-Eight: Off-Street Parking Requirements. A. In all zoning districts, off-street parking facili- ties for the storage of self-propelled motor vehicles for the use of occupants, employees and patrons of the building or structures hereafter erected, altered or extended after the effective date of this ordinance shall be provided and main- tained as herein prescribed. 1. Parking Space - In all districts, a parking space shall average three hundred (300) square feet in- cluding the area to be utilized for ingress and egress. 2. Surfacing - Parking and driveway areas shall be surfaced with bituminous, concrete or similar materials, unless otherwise approved by Planning Commission. 3. Islands - All islands must be landscaped. 4. Access - In all districts other than residential any use providing access to an arterial street, may be required to provide accelleration and decelleration lanes. Vehicular access to any property shall be controlled in such a manner as to protect the traffic carrying capacity of the street upon which the property abuts as well as to protect the value of the adjacent property. Vehicular entrances or exits shall be spaced at not less than 100' intervals; or shall be spaced at not less than fifty (50) feet to the centerline of any intersecting street or nearer than twenty-five (25) feet to any adjacent property line, except where it is possible to provide one access point which will serve both adjacent properties or where adher- ence to these requirements would leave a parcel of property without vehicular access, in which case either or both of the setback requirements, or the spacing requirement may be reduced or enlarged so as to permit a single vehicular access point. In addition, where it is not practically possible to meet the regulations as contained herein, the Planning Commission may approve a modification of these regulations as a special use permit based on a circulation plan and due consideration of overall traffic movement and volume. 5. Curb Cuts - In all residential districts, curb ORDINANCE NO. 189 Page 2. cuts for parking shall not be less than twelve (12) feet and not more than twenty (20) feet. Curb cuts in the commercial and industrial districts shall not be more than thirty (30) feet in width when serving an individual property or forty-five (45) feet when serving more than one (1) pro- perty and shall not in any instance be less than twelve (12) feet. 6. Buffer - Whenever parking lot boundary as required herein, adjoins property zoned for residential use, a landscaped buffer area of fifteen (15) feet from said lot line shall be required, or the Planning Commission may approve a decorative wall in lieu of landscaping. 7. Lighting - Any lighting used to illuminate any off-street parking area shall be so arranged as to reflect the light away from any adjoining residences located in a residential zoning district. 8. Location - Off-street parking facilities for one, two and multiple family dwellings shall be provided and located on the same lot or plot of ground as the building they are intended to serve. Parking for multi-family units shall not lie within the front setback unless approved by the Wheat Ridge Planning Commission. The location of required off-street parking facilities for other than residential uses shall be within three hundred (300) feet of the buildings they are intended to serve measured from the nearest point of the off-street parking facilities, and the nearest point of the building or structure. A parking structure shall not be more than six hundred (600) feet from the use it is required to serve. 9. Additions - Nothing in this section shall prevent the extension of, or an addition to a building or structure into an existing parking area which is re- quired for the original building or structure when the same amount of space taken by the extension or addition is provided by an enlargement of the existing parking area or an additional area within three hundred (300) feet of such building. 10. Planned Unit Development - In Planned Unit Developments, parking shall be considered with regard to those limitations established for the various use requirements. 11. Floor Area - In the case of offices, merchan- dising, or service uses, "Floor Area" shall mean the gross floor area used or intended to be used by tenants, or for service to the public as customers, patrons, clients or patients, including areas occupied by offices, fixtures and equipment used for display or sale of merchandise. It shall not include areas used principally for non-public purposes, such as storage, incidental repair, processing or packaging or merchandise, for show windows, for toilets or restrooms, for utilities or for dressing rooms, fitting or alteration rooms. 12. Hospital Bassinets - In hospitals, bassinets ORDINANCE NO. 189 Page 3. shall not be counted as beds. 13. Places of Public Assembly - Benches - In places of public assembly in which patrons or spectators occupy benches, pews, or other seating facilities, each twenty (20) inches of seating facilities shall be counted as one seat for the purpose of determining requirements for off-street parking facilities under this ordinance. 14. Fractions - When units of measurements determining number of required parking spaces result in the requirement of a fractional space, any fraction shall require one parking space. 15. Mixed Occupancies - Parking - In the case of mixed uses, the total requirements for off-street parking facilities shall be the sum of the require- ments for the various uses computed separately. Off-street parking facilities for one use shall not be considered as providing required parking facilities for any other use, except as specified in Sub-paragraph 16 of Subsection A of this section. 16. Joint Use - Parking - Parking spaces of other buildings or uses including, without limitation, banks, business offices, retail stores, personal service shops, household equipment or furniture shops, clothing or shoe repair or service shops, manufacturing buildings, and similar uses, may be used in lieu of required spaces for off-hour uses if a properly drawn legal instrument is executed by the parties concerned for the joint use of off- street parking facilities. Said instrument shall be duly approved as to form and manner of execution by the city attorney and shall be filed with the application for zoning certificate. No such agree- ment shall provide more than fifty (50) percent of the parking facilities required for off-hour uses of a theater, bowling alley, dance hall or an establishment for the sale and consumption of food, alcoholic beverages or refreshments on the premises, and one hundred (100) percent of such facilities required for a church or an auditorium incidental to a public or parochial school. 17. Parking for the Handicapped - In all multi- family, commercial and industrial zoning districts, parking shall be provided for the handicapped at the rate of 1 per use, or two (2) percent of the total parking spaces required whichever is greater. Said space(s) shall be a minimum of eleven (11) feet in width and shall be appropriately marked with a free standing sign using the standard uniform words and/or symbols that signify the space as parking for the handicapped only. Said parking space shall be located as near to the entrance of the use as practically possible and shall be so designed (unless it is impossible to do so) that circulation between the vehicle and the building entrance shall not involve crossing any area used for vehicular circulation. The total number of spaces provided for the handicapped shall be included in the total number of parking spaces otherwise required by this section. 18. Collective Provision - Parking - Nothing shall be construed to prevent the collective provision of ORDINANCE NO. 189 Page 4. off-street parking facilities for two or more buildings or uses, provided that the total of such off-street parking spaces supplied collectively shall not be less than the sum of the requirements for the various uses computed separately. Plans for the construction of any such parking lot must be approved by the Zoning Administrator before construction is started. No such land shall be used for parking until approved by the Zoning Administrator. 19. Discrepancies - In the case of a use not speci- fically mentioned, the requirements for off-street parking facilities for a similar use shall apply. In the case of any discrepancies, the Zoning Administrator shall rule. B. Off-Street Loading. 1. Industrial - There shall be provided one (1) loading stall for the initial three thousand (3,000) square feet of gross floor area and one (1) additional loading stall for each ten thousand (10,000) square feet thereafter, a. A loading space shall be nine hundred (900) square feet inclusive of any area used for maneuvering or parking. b. Entrances, exits or driveways may be computed as any part of a required loading stall. 2. Commercial - Loading in Commercial One and Commercial Two districts shall be provided at a rate deemed necessary by owner. 3. Loading space as required, shall not be construed as supplying off-street parking space. Section 3. Effective Date. This ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after final publication. IN-RODUCED, PASSED, ADOPTED AND ORDERED PUBLISHED on first reading this 25th day of August A.D. 1975, by a vote of 5 to PASSED, ADOPTED, AND ORDERED PUBLISHED on second and final reading this 15thday of September ~ 1975 b~ a vote of ~6 to 0 H R L. 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N cd O N ri 3 4-3 O ~ S cad J H O J m O r-~ "UNLI Y lI Ni' ;SERI IF ICNTIIJN i, rlise Urnunham, hereby certify that PrdinancF lr was r?u1y r.uhlishari in the Wheat i,idge Sentinel cn the Cf`tr' day of ust^' 1975 after first readino. I, Elise F3rnugham, further certify that nrdi.nance _ 189 was duly auhlished in the Wheat Rir..ge sentinel nn the loth day of ~ntemher , 1975 after second reading. ~t se Erour,ham,Ci. Clerk