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HomeMy WebLinkAbout176 - 12/18/1979 - AMENDING THE CITY CODE AS IT RELATES TO ZONING AND CONCERNING OFF-STREET PARKING REQUIREMENTS ORDINANCE NO 176 1979, OF THE COUNr.IL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS AMENDING THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS AS IT RELATES TO ZONING AND C014CERNING OFF-STREET PARKING REQUIREMENTS BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS AS FOLLOUS Section 1 That Section 118-40 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins be, and it hereby is, amended by deleting therefrom Section G ana relettering the remaininq portions thereof accordingly Section 2 That Section 118-41 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins be, and it hereby is, amended by deleting therefrom Section G and relettering the remaining portions thereof accordingly Section 3 That Section 116-41 1 of the Cooe of the City of Fort Collins be, and it hereby is, amended by deleting therefrom Section C and reletterinq the remaining portions thereof accordingly Section 4 That Section 118-42 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins be, and it hereby is, amended by deleting therefrom Section G ana relettering the remaining portions thereof accordingly Section 5 That Section 118-43 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins be, and it hereby is, amended b� deleting therefrom Section G ana relettering the remaininq portions thereof accordingly Section 6 That Section 118-44 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins be, and it hereby is, amended by deleting therefrom Section G ana relettering the remaining portions thereof accordingly Section 7 That Section 118-45 of the Coce of the City of Fort Collins be, and it hereby is, amended by deleting therefrom Section C and relettering the remaining portions thereof accordingly Section 8 That Section 118-46 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins be, ano it he-eby is, amended by deleting therefrom Section C ana relHttering the renaming portions thereof accordingly Section 9 That Section 118-50 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins be, and it hereby is, amended by deleting therefrom Section E Section 10 That Section 118-51 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins be, ana it hereby is, amended by aeleting therefrom Section E Section 11 That Section 118-61 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins be, and it hereby is, amended by deleting therefrom Section E and relettering the remaining portions thereof accoraingly Section 12 That Section 118-62 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins be, and it hereby is, amended by deleting therefrom Sections E and F and relettering the remaining portions thereof accordingly Section 13 That Section 118-63 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins be, and it hereby is, amended by deleting therefrom Section C Section 14 That Section 118-70 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins be, and it hereby is, amended by deleting therefrom Section B Section 15 That Section 118-71 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins be, and it hereby is, amended by deleting therefrom Section G and relettering the remaining portions thereof accordingly Section 16 That Section 118-72 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins be, and it hereby is, amended by deleting therefrom Section C Section 17 That Section 118-73 B of the Cooe of the City of Fort Collins be, and it hereby is, amended by deletinq therefrom Section 4 and renumbering the remaining portions thereof accordingly Section 18 That Section 118-83 J of the Code of the City of Fort Collins be, and it hereby is, amended by deleting therefrom Section 4 and renumbering the remaining portions tnereof accordingly Section 19 lhat Section 118-83 U (i) of tree Code oT the City of Fort Collins be, and it hereby is, amended by deleting therefrom Section e and relettering the remaining portions thereof accordingly Section 20 That Section 118-11 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins be, and it hereby is, amended by deleting therefrom the definition of off-street parking Section 21 That Section 118-81 of the Code of the City of Fort Collins be, and it hereby is, amended by the deletion of Section D and the substitution therefor of a new Section D to read as follows "§118-81 D Off street parking and vehicular use area regulations For the purposes of this Chaoter, -2- off street parking area or vehicular use area snall refer to all off street areas and spaces designed, used, required or intended to be used for the parking, storage, maintenance, service, repair, display or operation of motor vehicles, including driveways or access+lays in and to such areas, out not including public streets and rights of clay For the purpose of this Chapter, landscaping shall refer to any combina- tion of living plants, such as trees, shrubs, plants, vegetative groGnd cover and turt grasses , ano may include natural non-living elements such as rock, stone and bark, as well as structural features includ- ing, but not limited to, walls, fences, benches, works of art, reflective pools and fountains (1) General requirements Any off street parking or vehicular use area shall meet the requirements as set forth in the following subs,ections (a) Access Unobstructed vehicular access to and from a public street shall be provided for all off street parking spaces Vehicu- lar access shall be provided in such a manner as to protect the safety of persons using such access or traveling in the public street from which such access is obtained, and in such a manner as, to protect the traffic carrying capacity of the public *rept f-om which Such access is, n'itained (b) Circulation Adequate provision shall be made for the safe and efficient movement of vehicles and pedestrians in any vehicular use area Parking spaces, access drives, traffic control devices, sidewalks, curb- cuts , and all otner elements of parking lot layout shall be properly designed in confarirance with City specifications (c) Location (i ) Required off street pdrhinq spaces shall be located on the sane lot or premises as the building or use for which they are required, unless such ,paces are provided collectively by two or niore buildings or us,es on adjacent lots in a s,ingle parking -J- area located within the boundaries of those adjacent lots and the total number of parking spaces sipplied collectively is equal to the number of spaces required by this Chapter for each use con-idered separately, or unless an alternative location is approved by the City ( ii ) Only off street parking areas pro- vided to serve uses permitted in a residential zoning district will be allowed in that residential district (iii ) In the "R-H" , High Density Residen- tial Zoninq District, permanent open off street parking areas shall not be located any closer to a public street right of way than the distance by which the principal building is set back froi^ the street right of ray This provision shall not be construed to preclude temporary parkrnq in driveways (d) Surface All open off street parking and vehicular use areas shall be surfaced with asohalt , concrete, or other material in corforrrance with City specifications (e) Lighting Lighting provided for any off street parking area adjacent to a residen- tial use or residentially zoned lot shall shield the source of light from sight and prevent the spillover of direct light onto the residential use (f) Maintenance The property owner shall be responsible for maintaininq any vehicular use area in qood condition and free of refuse and dEbris, and all landscaping in a h-althy and gro +lna condition, replacing it when necessary as determined by the city Ai borists (2) Parkirg lot requirements All open off street parkinq lot or venrcular use areas containina six (6) or rrore oarkinq spa(-es or eiq,rteen hundred -4- (1600) square feet shall meet the requirements as set forth in the following subsections ( a) Setbacks Any such venicular use area shall be set back from the back of any curb or sidewalk improvement and side and rear yard lot lines, except a lot line between build- ings or uses with collective parking consis- tent with the provisions of this Chapter, according to the following table Minimum Average Minimum Width Width in Feet of of Setback in Entire Setback Area Feet at any Point Along an arterial street 15 5 Along a non-arter i al street 10 5 Along a lot line 5 5 (b) Screening and landscaping (1 ) Any such vehicular use area shall be screened from any directly contiguous lot with a residential use or zoned for residential use by a fence, wall , or landscaped visual barrier six (6) feet in height and of sufficient opacity to bloc4 at least seventy- five percent (75/0) of the lioht from motor vehicle headlights (ii ) Any such venicular use area located between a public street right of way anc a building shall be screened from the street by a landscape treatment of sufficient height and opacity to block at least twenty percent (20°0) of the cross section view of the parking area from the street -5- ( ilk ) Plart material used for required screening shall achieve required opacity in its winter seasonal condition within two (2) years of construction of the vehicular use area to be screened (iv) Required screening and landscaping may be interrupted where necessary for access to vehicular use areas consistent with the general require- ments of this section (v) Any such screening and landscaping shall be subject to the provisions of this ordinance regulating fences, hedges, and walls (vi ) Any vehicular use area with more than fifteen ( 15 ) parking spaces or forty-five hundred (4500) square feet shall provide landscaped islands and trees which conform to City specifi- cations, and which are dispersed throuqhout the vehicular use area in such a way as to provide visual relief with vertical landscaped elements and physical relief with ,,easonal shadina Not less Phan six percent (6%) of the interior of any such vehicular use area shall be landscaped with such islands (c) Bicycle and motorcycle parking Any use which provides any such parking area shall also provide facilities for motorcycle and bicycle parking which conform to City specifications (d) Parkinq for the handicaoped Any use providing fifteen ( 15) or more parking spaces shall provide parking space for use by physically handicapped persons which conform to City specifications (3) Required spaces Off street parking spaces shall be provided for the uses and in the amounts as set fortn in the following subsections -6- (a) For each one and two family dwelling, one (1) parking space oer dwelling unit on lots with greater than forty (40) feet of street frontage, or two (2) parkinq spaces per dwellinq unit on lots with less than forty (40) feet of street frontaqe (b) For each multiple family dwelling, parking spaces as indicated by the following sche- dule Number of Bedrooms Parking Spaces Per Dwelling Unit Per Dwelling Unit 1 or less 1 5 2 1 75 3 and above 2 0 (c) For each mobile home, two (2) parking spaces per dwelling unit (d) For each scnool , church, child care center, or institutional use located in a residen- tial zoninq district, one (1) parking space per five (5) seats in the auditorium or place of assembly, or two (2) parking spaces per three (3) employees or one (1) parking space per one thousand (1,000) souare feet of building floor area, whicnever is great- cA (e) For each boarding and rooming house fratern- ity or sorority house, or group home, one (1) parking space per two (2) beds, plus one ( 1 ) parking space per two (2) employees (f) For each recrejtional use located in a residential zone, one (1) parkinq space per tour (4) persons maximum rated capacity (g) For each institutional , business, commer- cial , or industrial use, two ( 2 ) parking spaces for each three employees on the major shift (4) Drive through use stackinq space For any arive-in or drive-through service bay, there shall be provided stacking space for vehicles -7- waiting for service which is sufficient to prevent any such vchicles from extending onto the public right of way at any time In no case snal1 less than five ( 5) stacking spaces be provided for each such service bay on the en- trance side, and one (1) such space on V e exit side No bays designed to be entered from more than one direction shall be permitted (5) Unit development Developments planned as a unit and shown on a unit development plan as defined, processed and approved according to Section 118-83 of this Chapter may vary any of the requirements of this section " Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered pub- lished this 19th day of February , A D 1980, and to be presented for final passage on the 4th day of March 1980 J NI ayo r ZiyvZC ST lerk Pu,=ec and adoptr J on final -eadi^- 4t', day of March A D 1980 00-1 T ST i y erl -- - -8-