17.18.080 Parking lot maintenance and design.
Every parcel of land used as a public or private parking lot shall be developed and maintained in accordance with the following requirements:
1. Surfacing. Each off-street parking lot shall be surfaced with asphalt, concrete or other binder pavement, including structurally engineered organic materials or pavers, and permanently maintained so as to provide a dustless surface and ease of snow removal. The parking area shall be so graded as to dispose of all surface water. If such water is to be carried to adjacent streets, it shall be piped under sidewalks.
2. Screening. The sides and rear of any off-street parking lot adjacent to a residential use or residential zone shall be screened from such area by a solid masonry wall or other sight obscuring fencing or landscaping materials as approved by the Planning Commission, not less than six (6) feet in height.
3. Lighting. Lighting used to illuminate any parking lot shall be arranged to reflect the light away from adjoining residential premises and from street traffic.
4. Where a parking area on a site is more than one hundred twenty thousand (120,000) square feet, the parking area must contain the following elements (parking areas in structures are not included):
a. Internal access ways shall divide the parking area into smaller areas that are no greater than 60,000 square feet;
b. These access ways are intended to direct business traffic to and from the adjacent street or between individual sections of the parking lot and provide safe pedestrian routes from parking areas to the building or use; and
c. Each internal access way shall have at least one (1) auto travel lane, curbs, landscaping, and unobstructed sidewalks on both sides that provide pedestrian access to the building on the site, and shall be designed in the following method:
i. The sidewalks must be at least six feet (6') wide. There must be a planting strip at least four feet (4') wide adjacent to the access way. The planting strip must be between the curb and the sidewalk, and be landscaped and irrigated to meet the design requirements of Chapter 17.19 and landscaped with two-inch (2") caliper trees at least six feet (6') tall planted every twenty feet (20') and centered within the planting strip.
d. The internal access ways and associated landscaping are excluded from the portion of the parking and loading area used to calculate required interior landscaping.
5. In order to prevent vehicles from having to re-enter a public roadway to access neighboring businesses or parcels, cross-access easements between multiple parcels may be required where deemed appropriate by the City Engineer. (Ord. 2023-1 §1, amended, 2023; Ord. 111 §1, amended, 1985; Prior code §12-106-6; Ord. 98-12, repealed and replaced, 2000)