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34.060 • use in Table 34-1 or Section 22.020.E for the B-3 zone,the to serve.This distance shall be measured along the access planning director shall establish the minimum require- route. The property upon which the required off-street merit on a case-by-case basis after consultation with the parking is located shall be in the 13-3 or another conuner- city traffic engineer.The applicant may be required to pro- cial or industrial zone. vide sufficient information to demonstrate that the parking D. If the parking for a building or use is located on a demand for a specific use will be satisfied, based upon lot other than the lot upon which the use for which the existing uses similar to the proposed use and other cele- parking is required is located,the owner of the lot contain- vant factors. Unless otherwise waived by the planning ing the parking shall execute a covenant in a form accept- director, the applicant shall have a parking study for the able to the city attorney, stating that the lot is devoted in proposed use prepared by a professional consultant with whole or in part to required parking for the use on another expertise in preparing traffic and parking analyses. lot.The owner of the property upon which the main use is B. Parking for Uses Which Are Accessory to the located shall record this covenant with the Snohomish Main Use.If this title does not specify a parking require- County auditor's office to run with the properties on meat for a specific activity or use which is accessory to the which both the principal use and the off-street parking are principal use of a lot, which the planning director deter- located The owner shall provide a copy of the recorded mines.has a different off-street parking requirement than covenant to the planning department. the principal use,the planning director shall determine the E. Two or more nonresidential uses may share a park- minimum requirement for the accessory activity or use on ing area if the number of.parking spaces provided is equal a case-by-case-basis. Unless otherwise waived by the to the greatest number of required spaces for uses operat- planning director,the applicant shall have a parking study ing at the same time. for the use of the lot prepared by a professional with F. Quantity and location of parking for uses subject expertise in preparing traffic and parking analyses. (Ord. to hearing examiner review processes set forth in EMC 2397-99§50, 1999;Ord. 1849-92§20, 1992;Ord. 1671- Title 15,Local Project Review Procedures,shall be estab- 89(part), 1989.) fished during the review process,unless already specified in this title. 34.040 Number of spaces—Fractions. G. Except for single-family detached and duplex If the parking formula used to determine parking dwellings,and except as provided in subsection H of this requirements results in a fractional number greater than or section, in no case shall a motor vehicle of any kind be equal to one-half, the proponent shall provide parking parked or stored nor shall internal aisles or roadways be equal to the next highest whole number. (Ord. 1671-89 permitted in any required openspace,front or street side (part), 1989.) setback area or landscaped area. Parking may be located in an interior side setback area provided it is not located 34.050 Bench or pew seating. within required landscape areas. Driveways may cross Where required parking is based upon a given number required setbacks or landscaped areas in order to provide of seats and bench or pew seating is used, each twenty- access between the off--street parking facilities and the four lineal inches of bench or pew seating shall be consid- street or alley providing access to the site.Driveways may ered as a separate seat.(Ord. 1671-89(part), 1989.) be used for parking when serving individual single-family or duplex dwellings only, but shall not be considered for 34.060 Location of off-street parking. purposes of satisfying required parking for other uses. A. Parking for residential uses shall be provided on H. For location of off-street parking for multiple-fam- the same lot as the dwelling unit it is required to serve. ily dwellings,see Section 15.070. B. For nonresidential uses,which are located on lots L Except where otherwise permitted through formal containing less than ten acres,required off-street parking plat or short plat review,the width of driveways for single- shall be located on property within three hundred feet of family or duplex dwellings shall not exceed twenty feet the building or use which it is required to serve.For sites within the required front yard setback areas,except where containing more than ten acres, this distance may be a gradual widening is required to provide access to an off- increased tosix hundred.feet.This distance shall be mea- street parking area located behind the front setback line,or sured along the access route.The property upon which the where a fire truck turnaround is required. Except where required off-street parking is provided shall be located in otherwise permitted through formal plat or short- plat the same zone as,or a zone which allows the use for which review,in no circumstance shall the driveway width at the the parking is required.See subsection C of this section for front property line exceed twenty feet. When driveways the off-site parking requirements for the B-3 zone. must access a lot at an angle which is not perpendicular to C. Where parking is required in the B-3 zone,parking the street, due to topography or irregular lot shape, the for nonresidential uses shall be located on property within driveway width shall be measured perpendicular tothe one thousand feet of the building or use which it required direction of travel on the driveway. 704-259 (Evaarll-021_ G/