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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 2208-2007Suggested by: Administration CITY OF KENAI ORDINANCE NO. 2208-2007 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA, AMENDING KMC 14.20.250, OFF-STREET PARKING AND LOADING REQUIREMENTS. WHEREAS, KMC 14.20.250 contains the off-street parking and loading requirements for the City of Kenai; and, WHEREAS, the off-street parking and loading requirements in KMC 14.20.250 are outdated; and, WHEREAS, it is difficult for city administration and property owners to determine if the requirements are being complied with; and, WHEREAS, modernizing and clarifying the requirements will make them easier to understand and comply with; and, WHEREAS, modernizing and improving compliance with the off-street parking and loading requirements in the Kenai Zoning Code is in the best interest of the City of Kenai. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI that KMC 14.20.250 is amended as shown on Attachment A. PASSED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA, this 7~h day of February 2007. ~~ ~~; PAT PORTER, MAYOR ATTEST: ~~~~~- Carol L. Freas, City Clerk Introduced: January 17, 2007 Adopted: February 7, 2007 Effective: March 7, 2007 14.20.250 Off-street parking and loading requirements. (a) For commercial development, there shall be provided at the time of construction of any main building or at the time of the alteration, enlargement, or change in use of any main building, permanently maintained off- street parking facilities for the use of occupants, employees, or patrons of such building. It shall be the joint and several responsibility of the owner and/or occupant of any main building or structure to provide, and thereafter maintain, minimum free off-street parking facilities as required below. (b) No existing parking area and no parking area provided for the purpose of complying with the provisions of this chapter shall hereafter be relinquished or reduced in any mamier below the requirements herein established. (1) Site Plan Submission. A site plan showing all parking and loading areas shall accompany all applications for building permits. Said plan shall show dimensions of spaces, curb cuts, and other information necessary to determine compliance with the provisions of this chapter. The admirvstrative official shall approve or reject the site plan on the basis of compliance with the requirements of this chapter. I~~o certificate of zoning compliance and brulding permit shall be issued unless the parking site plan is approved. (2) Toint Parking Areas. Where there is more than one (1) use in a single structure or on a site (e.g., doctor, attorney, and retail grocery) or two (2) or more separate instances of the same use, off-street parking requirements shall be the sum of the requirements for the various uses: provided however, that where two (2) or more uses provide a single joint parking area, and their total required spaces totals twenty (20) or more, the minimum requirement will be seventy-five percent (75%) of the sum of the requirements for the various computed separately. (3) Location of Parking. Any parking space provided pursuant to this section shall be on the same lot with the main use it serves or on an adjoining lot except that the Commission, by a conditional use permit as specified in this chapter, may allow parking spaces on any lot if it is determined that it is unpractical to provide parking on the same or adjoining lot. (4) Design Standards. (A) All parling lots shall be provided with a durable, well-drained, and dust-free surface and shall have appropriate bumper guards where needed; (B) Parking areas and front yards as defined in 14.20320(b), which includes the required parking spaces, in commercial use areas shall not be used for storage, repair work or any purpose other than parking, landscaping, signage, or sales displays. Anon-conforming use of parking areas and front yards prohibited by this section shall be made to conform to this section within a period of one (1) year after adoption of this ordinance. Exception: Semi-trailers or containers may be parked in these areas for no more than thirty (30) consecutive days to facilitate unloading. Trucking terminals and bona fide construction sites are exempt; (C) Any lighting of parking Lots shall be arranged to reflect away fi-om pubic rights-of= way and from any adjoining residential areas; (D) Curb cuts shall be located so as to avoid haffic hazards and shall be approved by the administrative official; (5) Interpretation of Space Regrurements (A) If a use is not specifically mentioned in this section, the administrative official shall determine the most similar use which is specifically mentioned. Parking requirements shall be the same as for that use; (6) Exception to this Section Public Parking Lots. Notwithstanding other provisions of this section, when a use is located within three hundred (300) feet of an existing or Ordinance 2208-2006 (Attachment A) Page 7 of 6 planned public lots, the off street parking requirements of this chapter may be met if under the procedures specified in this chapter, the Commission issues a conditional use permit stating that the following conditions have been met: (A) The public parking lot exists within reasonable distance of the use, or plans for the public parking lot are sufficiently advanced to give reasonable assurance that the lot will be in use within one (1) year of the time of issuance of the conditional use permit; (B) The owner and/or occupant of the use in question shall sign a covenant agreeing to join an assessment district to pay for the public parking tot; (C) The public parking lot has or will have sufficient capacity to accommodate the use in question plus other parking needs of existing and potential uses within a reasonable distance of the tot. The Commission shall use the off-street parking regiurement as cited above to estimate the parking spaces needed within a reasonable distance of the lot. (7) Off-Street Loading: Every building or structure used for business, trade, or industry and normally requiring truck loading or unloading with respect to the use, shall provide space as herein indicated for the loading and unloading of vehicles off the street or public alley. Such space shall have access to a public alley, or, if there is no alley, to a street. Off- street loading and unloading space shall be in addition to and not considered as meeting a part of the requirement for off-street parking space. Off-street loading and unloading space shall not be used or designed, intended, or conshucted to be used in a manner to obsl~uct or interfere with the free use of any street or adjoining property. The minimum off-street loading and unloading space required for specific uses shall be as follows: (A) Retail business and service establislunents shall provide one off-street loading and unloading space at Least ten (10) feet wide and thirty-eight (38) feet long with a fourteen foot height clearance per building; (B) Industrial plants shall provide one off-street loading and unloading space for each twenty thousand (20,00} square feet of gross floor area. Each loading space shall be minimum of twelve (12) feet wide and fifty (50) feet long with a fourteen (14) foot height clearance; (C) Trucking terminals shall provide one off-sheet loading and unloading space for every five thousand (5,000) square feet of total floor area used for storage, warehousing, and shipping. Each Loading space shall be a minimum of fourteen (14) feet wide and sixty- five (65) feet long with fourteen (14) foot clearance. (8) Off Street Parking Requirements: Ordinance 2208-2006 (Attachment A) Page 2 of 6 f DWELLING AND LODGING MINIMUM NUMBER (7F PARKING ~~ SPACES REQUIRED Lodges, rooming/boardinghoirses, dormitories, One (1) per principal dwelling unit acid one ~ bed & breakfast, and other structures containing (1) per guest room or one for every two (2) sleeping rooms other than, or in addition to beds whichever is greater. dwelling units ~ I Mobile Home Parks Two (2) per mobile home. Motels, I-Iotels and Cabin Rentals i One (1) per unit plus two spaces. Multiple-family dwellings, retirement homes and One (1) per efficiency unit; and two (2) per other places containing multiple dwelling units other writs. Single-famIly dwellings, two-family dwellings Two (2) per dwelling units. and child care homes ~ INSTITUTIONS, PUBLIC MINIMUM NUMBER OF PARKING ~ USES/COMMERCIAL SPACES REQUIRED Aircraft Rangers One (1) per one thousand (1,000) square feet of gross floor area. Assembly with fixed seats: Auditoriums, One (1) per four (4) seats in the principal churches, fmleral chapels, sports arena and assembly ax-ea. The width of a seat or a theaters bench or pew shall be considered twenty- two (22) inches. Assembly without fixed seats: Churches, civic ~ ;One (l) per two hundred (200) square feet clubs, convention centers, dance halls, exhibition of gross floor area. halls, skating rinks and similar uses Assembly without fixed seats: Art galleries, One (1) per five hundred (500) square feet community/senior centers, museums and of gross floor area. ', municipal buildings Automotive Service/repair and/or sales One (1) per four hundred (400) square feet of gross floor area of sales room and four (4) for each auto service stall. Banks, mortgage and loan companies One (1) per three hmldred (300) square feet of gross floor area. Bowling alleys Four (4) per alley- Ordinance 2208-2006 (Attachment A) Page 3 of 6 INSTITUTIONS, PUBLIC USES/COMMERCIAL ( MINIMUM NUMBER OF PARKING SPACES REQUIRED Care Facilities: Day mtt•series, adult care One (1) space per four hundred (400) square facilities and kurdergarfen feet of gross floor area, and one (1) additional space reserved for pick-up and delivery of people per eight hundred (800) square feet of gross floor area. Care Facilities: Hospitals, nursinglassisted . One (1) per every two (2J beds. living facilities and similar institutions Care Facilities: Medical/Dental clinics, health One (1) per two hundred fifty (250) square services feet of gross floor area. Cell phone/commuirication sites Two (2) spaces. ` Courthouse ( Based on typical occupancy, 80% of the sum of the following: One (1) per four (4) fixed seats plus give (5) per cenr!room plus one (1) per fifty (50) square feet gross floor area injury assembly rooms plus one (1) per four hundred (400) square feet of gross F office space. Drive-thru only: Burger, espresso establishments Two (2) spaces. Fitness Centers One (1) per one hundred (100) squv'e feet of gross floor area plus five (5}for patron parking. One (I) per five hundred (500) square feet of gross floor area plus five (5) for patron Laundry establishments -self service parking. Libraries One (1) per four hundred (400) square feet of gross floor area. Manufacturing /Industrial, research and One (1) per five hundred (500) square feet '~ laboratories of gross floor area plus three (3) for patron parking. Nurseries and greenhouses One (1) per 'five hundred (500) square feet of gross floor area. Offices: Business and professional ~ One (1) per four hundred (400) square feet ~ of gross floor area. Offices: Veterinarian/animal clinics and kennels One (1) per five hundred (500) square feet of gross floor area. Ordinance 2208-2006 (Attachment A) Page 4 of 6 INSTITUTIONS, PUBLIC USES/COMMERCIAL MINIMUM NUMBER OF PARHING SPACES REQUIRED PooUBilliard Halls One (1) per three hundred (300) square feet of gross floor area. I2estam~ants, cafes, delicatessen, eating and , i One (1) per each two hundred (200) square drinking establislnnents, clubs, nightclubs and ( feet of gross floor area or one (1) per four lodges, etc. ~ (4) seats, whichever is greater. Services: Household and trades such as One (1) per four hundred (400) square feet carpentry, electrical servicing, plumbing and of gross floor area. heating shops, paper hanging, painting, furniture upholstering, decorating shops, and other similar services i Services: Printing, publishing, welding, One (I) per five hundred (500) square feet blacksmith shops, bakeries, dry cleaning, dyeing of gross floor area plus five (5) for patron plants and similar services parking. Services: Beauty and barber shops One (1) per two htimdred fifty (250) square feet of gross floor area. Services: Fuel dispensing stations/convenience One (1) for each two (2) gas pumps plus one stores (1) per three hundred (300) square feet of i gross floor area. Services Miser Personal: Message therapy, One (1) per five hundred (500) square feet art/photo studio, dress makerltaylor of gross 17oor area plus one (I) for patron parking. Schools One (1) per classroom plus three (3) for every classroom in those schools where students are permitted to drive to school. Schools with auditoriums shah provide one (1) parking space for every four (4) seats or one (1) space for every fifty (50) square feet of gross floor area in assembly rooms without fixed seats, whichever is greater. ~ Schools: Trade, business, music, dance studios ;One (1) per five hundred (500) square feet and other private schools and colleges of gross floor area. Stores: Grocery, drug/pharmacy One (1) per two hundred fifty (250) square feet of gross floor area. Ordinance 2208-2006 (Attachment A) Page 5 of 6 f INSTITUTIONS, PUBLIC ~ USES/COMMERCIAL MINTi14UM NUMBER OE PARHING SPACES REQUIRED Stores: Retail and wholesale sales of non-bulky One (1) per three hundred (300) square feet items of gross floor area. Stores: Retail and wholesale sales of bulky items f One (1) per five hundred (500) square feet (e.g. furniture and major appliances) ~ of gross floor area. Tanning Salon ; One (1) per four hundred (400) square feet of gross floor area plus three (3) for patron parking. ~ Taxicab companies One (1) per taxi operated by the company plus one (1) extra space. Truck terminals, lumber yards etc. One (1) per five hundred (500) square feet of gross floor area plus five (5) for patron i parking. Warehouses: Wholesale/retail, and commercial One (1) per two thousand (2,000) square storage feet of gross floor area, but a total of no less than four (4) spaces Ordinance 2208-2006 (ALCachment A) Page 6 of 6 Suggested by: Administration CITY OF KENAI PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO. PZ07-03 A RESOLUTION OF THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA, RECOMMENDING TO THE COUNCIL THAT KMC 14.20.250, OFF- STREET PARKING AND LOADING REQUIREMENTS, BE AMENDED. WHEREAS, KMC 14.20250 contains the off-street parking and loading requirements for the City of Kenai; and WHEREAS, the off-street parking and loading requirements in KMC 14.20.250 are outdated; and WHEREAS, it is difficult for city administration and property owners to determine if the requirements are being complied with; and WHEREAS, modernizing and clarifying the requirements will make them easier to understand and comply with; and WHEREAS, modernizing and improving compliance with the off-street parking and loading requirements in the Kenai Zoning Code is in the best interest of the City of Kenai. NOW, THEREFORE, THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF KENAI RECOMMENDS THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA AMEND KMC 14.20250 AS SHOWN IN ATTACHMENT °A". PASSED BY THIS PLANT~?ING AND LONIi~iG COMMISSION OF THF. CITY OF KENAI, ALASKA, this IOth day of Januar 2007. HAIRP RS0~~~1'~~- .!'!!3L- /~ ATTEST.' i - ~~\ tl~eu~of KENA~ SKA "V'flaa~e wit~i a Past, Gcty wct~i a Fr~tc~re rr 210 Fidalgo Avenue, Kenai, Alaska 99611-7794 Telephone: 907-283-7535 /FAX: 907-283-3014 t'~I'f 1992 MEMO: TO: Rick Koch, City Manager THRU: Jack La Shot, Public Works Manage~~ (n? ) // ~/~ FROM: Marilyn Kebschull, Planning Administrator i f` Robert Springer, Building Official DATE: January 23, 2007 SUBJECT: Ordinance No. 2208-2007 -Off-Street Parking Ordinance No. 2208-2007 clarifies parking requirements and will make it easier for the public and administration to determine required parking for development within the City of Kenai. The following provides a brief description of how the proposed ordinance changes the current code. There is no change to KMC 14.20.250 (a). KMC 14.20.250 (b)(5)(B) and (C) are deleted. Section B deals with number of employees, which are no longer considered for determining required parking spaces and Section C deals with half parking spaces, no longer possible under the proposed code. The major change to the code is in KMC 14.20.250 (b) (8) -Off-Street Parking Requirements. This section of the code will be replaced with a new table that is similar to the current code however uses are updated and grouped. Uses are listed in alphabetical order. The major change is that instead of unpredictable criteria like number of employees, number of students, number of dentist chairs, etc. the criteria used will be gross floor area. The proposed amendment will allow for using basic building design to determine required parking, "gross floor area." Some obsolete uses were deleted (sanitarium) and some new uses were added (cabin rentals, courthouse, aircraft hangar). The uses added were developments that the code did not provide parking requirement guidelines. Ordinance No. 2208-2007 Page 2 The recommended changes are the result of researching parking codes for other cities and municipalities and reviewing recent building permits. In the current code, a change of use for a building could result in parking issues. With the proposed changes, it is hoped that by using gross floor area for most uses that any change could be accommodated.