§ 110-250. Business parking lots.

Open parking lots located in the R-1A, R-1B and R-1C districts for the parking of automobiles incidental to a business-zoned area adjacent thereto and approved by the city council shall be designed, maintained and used in accordance with the following requirements:

(1)

Limitation of use.

a.

Parking areas shall be used only for the parking of private passenger vehicles, in good running order, of customers, clients, patrons, visitors, and employees in the business area. No charge shall be made for parking. No business of any kind, including repair, service, washing, sale, display or storage, shall be conducted on or from the plot.

b.

No structures other than those specifically permitted or required shall be erected on the premises.

c.

No advertising signs shall be erected on the premises, except that not more than one directional sign at each point of ingress or egress may be erected, which may also bear the name of the operator of the parking area and the enterprise it is intended to serve. Such signs shall not exceed 20 square feet in area or extend to a greater height than six feet above the ground, and shall be erected within the parking area.

(2)

Ingress and egress. Ingress and egress for such parking areas shall be over business-zoned property or from streets or alleys separating the parking area from the business district. In no case shall residentially zoned property be used for driveways for access to the parking area.

(3)

Protective walls. The parking area shall be provided with a continuous, unpierced masonry wall six feet in height adjacent to all required yards. All such walls shall be smoothly finished and shall not be used for any sign.

(4)

Side yards.

a.

Where the parking lot is contiguous to side plot lines of residentially zoned property, a side yard at least ten feet in width shall be provided.

b.

Where the parking lot is separated by a street from residentially zoned property whereon the side plot lines abut the street, a side yard at least five feet in width shall be provided.

(5)

Front yard. Where the parking is located upon a street upon which residentially zoned properties front and abut in the same block, a front yard shall be provided at least 25 feet in depth. Where one or both of the plots contiguous to and on each side of the parking plot are developed with residential structures having front yards greater than 25 feet in depth, the front yard on the parking plot shall be not less in depth than the deeper of these existing front yards.

(6)

Landscaping. All yard spaces between the required wall and plot lines shall be landscaped with at least one hedgerow of hardy shrubs, not less than five feet in height, placed next to the walls, and the remainder of the yard spaces shall be lawn. All such landscaping shall be maintained in a healthy, growing condition, neat and orderly in appearance, and yard spaces shall be kept free of refuse or debris.

(7)

Surfacing. The parking area shall be provided with a pavement having an asphaltic or Portland cement binder, and shall be so graded and drained as to dispose of all surface water accumulation within the parking area.

(8)

Lighting. Where lighting facilities are provided for the parking area, they shall be designed and installed so as to reflect the light away from any contiguous residentially zoned property.

(Code 1986, § 31-131)