HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 1057ORDINANCE NO. 1057
BEING AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 853, CITY CODE OF
1977, PERTAINING TO PARKING STALL WIDTH
The City Council of the City of Columbia Heights does ordain:
Section 1:
Section 9.116 (2) of Ordinance No. 853, City Code of 1977, passed June 21,
1977, shall be amended to read as follows, to-wit:
9.116 (2) Off-Street Parking and Loading Areas
Existing off-street parking and loading spaces upon the date of this Ordinance
shall not be reduced in number unless said number exceeds the requirements set
forth herein for a similar new use.
(B)
Should a building, structure or use in existence upon the effective date of this
Ordinance be damaged or destroyed by fire or other cause, it may be re-
established according to Section 9.104 (3) (f), but in so doing, the number of off-
street parking or loading spaces which exists must be retained and should plans be
proposed for enlarging the floor area, seating capacity or other facilities which
would affect the parking or loading requirements, the parking or loading spaces
shall be enlarged accordingly.
(c)
Calculating Space: When determining the number of off-street parking spaces
required results in a fraction, each fraction of one-half (½) or more shall constitute
another space.
Should the City establish a public off-street parking district, those uses located
within the district shall be exempt from providing off-street parking spaces as
required herein.
(D)
Yards: Parking and loading areas shall be subject to required front yards
according to the district in which such parking is located.
(E)
Floor Area: The term "floor area" for the purpose of calculating the number of
off-street parking spaces required shall be all of the floor area of the various floors
of a structure measured to center of all partitions, except those areas used for dead
storage, building maintenance, office of building management, rest rooms,
dressing rooms, employees lunch room, conference rooms or utility rooms.
(G)
Benches in Places of Public Assembly: In stadiums, sports arenas, churches, and
other places of public assembly in which patrons or spectators occupy benches,
pews, or other similar seating facilities, each twenty-two (22) inches of such
seating facilities shall be counted as one (1) seat for the purpose of determining
requirements for off-street parking facilities under this ordinance.
(H)
Each parking space shall be not less than nine feet (9') wide and twenty feet (20')
in length, exclusive of an adequately designed system of access drives. Provided,
however, that in school parking lots of more than three hundred (300) parking
spaces up to forty percent (40%) of such spaces may be designated and clearly
marked as compact car parking spaces. A compact car parking space shall not be
less than eight feet (8') wide and eighteen feet (18') in length exclusive of the
adequately designed system of access drives.
No parking space may be designated as a compact parking space unless the
parking space is clearly posted with signs which are reasonably visible even in
winter months and which are approved by the Traffic Commission.
(i)
Use of Parking Facilities: Off-street parking facilities accessory to residential uses
shall be utilized solely for the parking of passenger automobiles and/or one truck
not to exceed nine thousand (9,000) pounds gross capacity for each dwelling unit.
Under no circumstances shall required parking facilities accessory to residential
structures be used for the storage of commercial vehicles or for the parking of
automobiles belonging to the employees, owners, tenants or customers of nearby
business or manufacturing establishments.
(J)
Joint Parking Facilities: Off-street parking facilities for a combination of mixed
buildings, structures or uses may be provided collectively in any "District"
(except R-1 and R-2 Residential Districts) in which separate parking facilities for
each separate building, structure or use would be required, provided that the total
number of spaces provided shall equal the sum of the separate requirements of
each use.
(K)
Off-site Parking Areas: Spaces accessory to multiple dwellings shall be within
200 feet of the main entrance to the building being served and when accessory to
commercial or industrial uses, within 400 feet.
(L)
(M)
Control of Off-street Parking Facilities: When required accessory off-street
parking facilities are provided elsewhere than on the lot in which the principal use
served is located, they shall be in the same ownership or control, either by deed or
long-term lease, as the property occupied by such principal use. The owner of the
principal use shall file a recordable document with the City of Columbia Heights
requiring the owner and his or her heirs and assigns to maintain the required
number of off-street spaces during the existence of said principal use.
Required off-street parking space in R-1 and R-2 Residential Districts shall be on
the same lot as the principal building.
Use of Parking Areas: Required off-street parking space in all Districts shall not
be used for open storage of goods (such as boats, camp trailers, winter fish
houses, semi-trailers; construction equipment, or other such items) or for the
storage of vehicles which are inoperable or for rent.
Section 2: This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after thirty · (30) days after its passage.
First reading: September 26, 1983
Second reading: 0ctober'll, 1983
Date of passage: October l.l, '1983
Offered by: Hentges-
Seconded by: H.ovland
Roll call: All ayes
to the Council
Bruce C. Nawrocki, Hayor