Legal Documents of Sweetwater

1. Automobile/truck repair shop. One (1) space per two-hundred and fifty (250) square feet of gross floor area.
2. Boarding and rooming houses. One (1) space per each one (1) room occupied by boarders or roomers.
3. Churches. One (1) space per five (5) seats.
4. Commercial/general retail/shopping centers/multiple use buildings. Within the C-3 General Commercial District and the C-5 Interstate/Interchange District, one (1) space per two-hundred and fifty (250) square feet of gross floor area. Within the C-4 Local General Commercial District, one (1) space per five hundred (500) square feet of gross floor area.
5. Dwellings, single and two-family. Two (2) spaces per dwelling unit.
6. Dwellings, multi-family. One and one-half (1 1/2) spaces per dwelling unit.
7. Funeral home/mortuaries. One (1) space per five (5) seats.
8. Gasoline/mini-mart station. One (1) space per two-hundred and fifty (250) square feet of gross floor area.
9. Handicapped/accessible parking spaces. The number of handicapped/accessible parking spaces shall be provided as per ANSI A117.1, Standards for Accessible and Usable Buildings and Facilities [ American National Standards Institute].
10. Hospitals/convalescent homes/nursing homes. One (1) space per three(3) patient beds and one (1) space for each two (2) employees including staff doctors and nurses.
11. Hotels/motels/tourist courts. One (1) space per one (1) room or suite.
12. Manufacturing or other industrial use. One (1) space for each three (3) persons employed or intended to be employed on a single shift, with a minimum of five (5) spaces.
13. Offices - business, dental, general, government, medical, professional. Within the P-1 Professional and Civic District, the C-3 General Commercial District, and the C-5 Interstate/Interchange District, one (1) space per two-hundred and fifty (250) square feet of gross floor area. Within the C-4 Local General Commercial district, one (1) space per five hundred (500) square feet of gross floor area.
14. Private clubs or lodges. One (1) space per seventy (70) square feet of gross floor area.
15. Restaurants. One (1) space per one-hundred and fifty (150) square feet of gross floor area.

1. Except for parcels of land devoted to one (1) and two (2) family uses, all areas devoted to off-street parking shall be so designed and be of such size that no vehicle is required to back into a public street to obtain egress.
2. Except for parcels of land devoted to one (1) and two (2) family uses, all areas devoted to off-street parking shall be of a sealed-surface construction, such as plant mix asphalt or concrete and shall be maintained in such a manner that no dust will result from continuous use.
3. All parking lots shall be designed so as to eliminate surface water ponding and shall be drained without contributing to drainage problems on adjoining property.
4. Entrances and exits to sill off-street parking lots shall comply with the requirements of § 14-401 of this code.

5. Parking spaces. Each parking space shall be a minimum of ten feet (10') in width and nineteen feet (19') in length.

   Each handicapped/accessible parking space shall be a minimum of eight feet (8') in width and nineteen feet (19') in length. Such spaces shall have an adjacent access aisle, which shall be a minimum of five feet (5') in width and extend the full length of the parking spaces they serve. For every six (6) handicapped/accessible parking spaces, at least one (1) shall be a van-accessible parking space. Such van-accessible parking space shall have an adjacent access aisle of eight feet (8') in width.

   Handicapped/accessible parking spaces shall be located on the shortest accessible route of travel from adjacent parking to an accessible building entrance(s).

6. Minimum width of aisle and back-up areas. Minimum width of parking lot aisles shall be as follows:

   1. Ninety (90) degree parking - twenty five feet (25')
   2. Sixty (60) degree parking - eighteen feet (18') (twenty-five feet (25') for two-way aisle)
   3. Forty-five (45) degree parking - thirteen feet (13') feet (twenty-five feet (25') feet for two-way aisle)
   4. Thirty (30) degree parking - twelve feet (12') (twenty-five feet (25') for two-way aisle)

   Back-up or turn-around areas located at the end of dead-end parking aisles shall be a minimum often feet (10') in length.

7. The storage lane for a drive-thru window shall be of adequate length to accommodate the storage of a minimum of eight (8) cars from the ordering station, or per a traffic impact study.
8. Parking lots shall be set back a minimum of eight feet (8') from all front property lines and five feet (5') from all side and rear property lines. Such areas shall be retained as permanent green space. A front property line shall be defined as any property line adjacent to any street.
9. A landscape island a minimum of ten feet (10') in width, extending the full length of the parking space(s), shall be provided every fifteen (15) parking spaces in a row in all parking lots, except parking lots for visitors, staff and other employees located within the M-1 Industrial Zoning District and the M-2 Heavy Industrial District (but not areas used by and for tractor-trailer and delivery truck parking and turnaround space), in which landscape islands with a tree a minimum of ten feet (10') in width shall be provided at both ends of each row of parking spaces and distributed in each row so that no tree is further than one hundred fifty feet (150') from another tree in the parking lot. When the parking lot consists of more than one (1) row of parking spaces, tree spacing should alternate from row to row.
10. In all parking lots except those located within the M-1 Industrial Zoning District and the M-2 Heavy Industrial District, a landscape island a minimum of ten feet (10') in width shall be provided every fifteen (15) parking spaces in row. Such islands shall extend the full length of the parking space(s).
11. In all parking lots except those located within the M-1 Industrial Zoning District and the M-2 Heavy Industrial District, a landscaped strip a minimum often feet (10') in width shall be provided every third parking aisle. Such landscaped strips shall be located in the front of the parking spaces, shall run the full length of the parking row, and shall connect to the landscape islands located at the end of each parking row, and if applicable, to the landscape islands in the middle of the parking row.

Remote parking spaces. If the off-street parking space cannot be reasonably provided on the same lot on which the principal use is located, such space may be provided on any land within four hundred feet (400') of the main entrance to such principal use, provided such land is in the same ownership as the principal use.

Such land shall be used for no other purpose so long as no other adequate provision of parking space, meeting the requirements of the zoning code, has been made for the principal use.