HomeMy WebLinkAboutPAVING CITY COUNCIL AMMEND - 16-00554 - 433 Airport Rd - Barney Storage - Bldg 3City of Rexburg Development Code: Parking Regulation
for loading and unloading and shall be surfaced with concrete or asphalt. Additional spaces may be required by the
City Engineer or the Planning and Zoning Commission. Maneuvering for loading and unloading on the public
rights-of-way, excluding alleys, shall be prohibited for all buildings constructed outside the CBD district after the
effective date of this Ordinance. Office and other buildings that would not require large deliveries are not required to
provide a loading space.
5.5 Parking and Site Plans Required
a. Requirements. When a building or structure is constructed, erected or enlarged, when the capacity of a
building or structure is increased, or when the use of a building or structure is changed and such change
creates an increase of fifteen (15) percent or more in off-street parking requirements, a parking plan shall
be submitted to and approved by the City Engineer. The plan shall show all parking spaces and their
dimensions, access aisles, and entrances and exits to the site. For changes of occupancy use,, loading spaces
and loading space access shall be required as per section 5 1 The parking plan may be combined with the
landscape plan required under Section 6-9. Parking and site plans provided shall conform to the following
standards:
i. Each required off-street parking space shall be at least nine (9) feet in width and at least twenty (20)
feet in length (18 feet in parking structures), exclusive of access drive and aisles. Parallel parking
spaces shall be a minimum of nine (9) feet wide by twenty-two (22) feet long. Up to twenty-five (25)
percent of the spaces may be allocated for compact cars with a minimum stall width of eight (8) feet
and length of sixteen (16) feet (15 feet in parking structures). Spaces for compact cars shall be signed
or otherwise designated and shall be located in rows separate from parking for larger vehicles.
1. "Developer Option" For dormitory housing, boarding houses and multiple family housing, eighty
(80) percent of the parking space are allowed to be sixteen (16) feet long by nine (9) feet wide
with twenty (20) percent required to be twenty (20) feet long by nine (9) feet wide.
ii, Plans for a parking structure must be approved by the Planning and Zaning Ga ffi fission the City
Engineer, the Fire Marshall and the Community Development Director. If applicant can show that
compact and other small cars will be a greater percentage of parking structure use, the Planning and
Zoning Commission may allow any size parking space that meets the minimum required size (8 feet
wide by 15 feet long).to count as full size as part of a Conditional Use Permit.
iii. All driveways or drive aisles designed for two-way circulation shall be at least twenty two four (22)
feet in width (unless required to be wider by the Fire Code). For residential parking lots serving thirty
(30) spaces or less, the minimum is twenty (20) feet. Aisles designed to serve ninety degree parking
shall be at least twenty-four (24) feet in width (22 feet in parking structures). Aisles designed for one-
way circulation shall be thirteen (13) feet wide when serving thirty (30) degree parking, fifteen (15)
feet wide when serving forty-five (45) degree parking, and eighteen (18) feet wide when serving sixty
(60) degree parking.
iv. No parking areas shall be designed to require the use of the public right-of-way to travel from one
portion of the lot to another,
V. All parking areas, aisles and driveways shall be surfaced with asphalt or concrete. Asphalt is not
allowed for sidewalks crossing driveways and for the driveway approach between the street and the
sidewalk (see Rexburg Engineering Standards). Asphalt or concrete is not required for outdoor vehicle
and boat storage lots that have a sixty 60 foot minimum long concrete or asphalt access driveway
between the afore mentioned lot and the public right-of-Agy right-of-waywhen a gravel surface is provided.
Vi. No parking spaces shall be located in the clear sight triangle provided in section 4-6 or immediately
adjacent to an exit to a public right-of-way,
vii. All lighting for parking areas shall be directed and, when necessary, shielded so as not to produce
direct glare on adjacent properties, and shall comply with the City's lighting ordinance
viii. No parking area, except those designed for single-family homes, twin homes and duplexes, shall be
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