Ordinance 2923-06 - Laserfiche WebLink

Special sidewalk treatment example. 3. Parking Lot Requirements. The following requirements shall apply to parking lots located in the B-3 zone: a. Parking lot location. Surface parking areas shall not be located between the building and public streets. Corner parking lots are prohibited. b. Parking lot access. When the parking lot abuts an alley, access to the parking lot shall be taken from the alley. This requirement may be waived by the city engineer based upon extenuating topographic conditions or efficient traffic movement objectives. c. The parking lot shall be separated from the public sidewalk by a landscape planter located outside of the public right-of-way which is a minimum of five feet wide (measured as specified in Section 35.060.A of this title) and contained within a planter bed raised a minimum of six inches above the abutting parking lot surface. Landscape areas shall be irrigated and maintained in accordance with Section 35.130. d. The planter shall be planted with shrubs which are maintained at a minimum height of twenty-four inches and a maximum height of thirty inches above the abutting parking lot surface, spaced at five feet on center. Deciduous trees as specified by the planning director shall be planted in the planter spaced at not more than twenty feet on center. The spacing of trees may be modified by the planning director if the type of trees planted will be of a size which, at maturity, requires a greater spacing. e. When a parking space which takes access from the alley is located behind a building and abuts the sidewalk, screening between the sidewalk and the off-street parking space may be provided in the form of a solid screen or wall not more than thirty inches above the surface of the parking area, in lieu of providing the landscaping required by subsection d of this section. f. Landscaping is not required in the interior of parking lots containing sixty or fewer parking spaces. For parking lots containing more than sixty parking spaces there shall be planted canopy -type trees in the interior of the parking lot at the rate of one tree per each twenty parking spaces. When this computation results in a fraction of one-half or greater, the fraction shall be rounded up to the next whole number. Tree wells shall be a minimum size of five foot square positioned so as not to eliminate parking spaces and built with raised six-inch curbs which act as wheel stops.