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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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se Erour,ham,Ci. Clerk