§ V. Off-Street parking and off-street truck loading.
A.
OFF-STREET PARKING REQUIREMENTS
1.
Provision and maintenance required. Except in the Central Business District area, as shown on the Zoning Map, no land shall be used or occupied, no structure shall be designed, erected, altered, used, or occupied and no use shall be operated unless the off-street parking facilities herein required are provided in at least the amount and maintained in the manner herein set forth; provided, however, that off-street parking facilities in excess of the amounts heretofore required by law, need be neither provided nor maintained for land, structures, or uses actually used, occupied and operated on the effective date of this ordinance unless, after the effective date of this ordinance, such land, structures, or uses are enlarged, expanded, or changed in which event, the land, structures, and uses hereby excluded shall not be used, occupied, or operated unless there is provided for the increment only of such land, structures, and uses, and maintained as herein required, at least the amount of off-street parking facilities that would be required hereunder if the increment were a separate land, structure, or use. The provision and maintenance of the off-street parking facilities herein required shall be the joint and several responsibility of the operator and owner of the use and the operator and owner of the land on which, or the structure in which, is located the use for which off-street parking facilities are required to be provided and maintained.
2.
Size and location. Each off-street parking space shall be an area at least ten (10) feet wide and twenty (20) feet deep, exclusive of access or maneuvering area, ramps and other appurtenances. Maneuvering area, ramps and other appurtenances shall be located off the street right-of-way and except for one-family and two-family dwellings, facilities shall be so planned that vehicles do not have to back into the roadway. Except as otherwise permitted under a special plan for location or sharing of facilities, off-street parking facilities shall be located on the Building Site on which the use or structure for which they are provided is located. In residentially zoned districts, required off-street parking spaces shall not occupy more than fifty (50) percent of the required front yard.
3.
Parking design standard. Vehicular access to individual parking spaces shall comply with the minimum off-street parking requirements for 60-degree and 90-degree parking as furnished by the City of Natchitoches.
4.
Combined facilities. The off-street parking facilities required of two (2) or more uses located on the same Building Site may be combined and used jointly, provided, however, that where the facilities are combined and used jointly by two (2) or more uses having different standards for determining the amount of facilities required, the off-street parking facilities shall be adequate in area to provide the sum total of the facilities required of all such uses; provided, further, that where the facilities are combined and used jointly by two (2) or more uses having the same standard for determining the amount of facilities required, all of such uses, for the purposes of this section, shall be considered as a single unit in determining the amount of off-street parking facilities required.
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Amounts of off-street parking facilities required. At least the following amounts of off-street parking facilities shall be provided. The classification of uses shall be deemed to include and apply to all uses, and if the classification of any use for the purpose of determining the amount of off-street parking facilities to be provided is not readily determinable hereunder, the classification of the use shall be fixed by the Office of Zoning Administration.
Bed and Breakfast ..... One space per guest bedroom in addition to parking required for single-family dwelling unit Single-family Dwellings ..... Two spaces per family dwelling unit Town Houses ..... Two spaces per dwelling unit plus one visitor space per each two dwelling units Dwelling, one- and two-family ..... One and one-half per dwelling unit Dwelling, multi-family: Up to 500 square feet unit ..... One and one-half per unit 501 to 700 square feet unit ..... One and three-fourths per unit 700 square feet unit ..... Two per unit Dwelling, multi-family; mid- or high-rise: Four to nine stories ..... One and one-fourth per unit Over nine stories ..... One per unit Hotels, Motels, Rooming Houses, Tourist Courts ..... One space per guest room Mobile Home Parks ..... Two space per mobile home lot College Fraternities and Sororities ..... One space per two beds Hospitals and Sanitariums ..... One space per two beds Institutions for Children or the Aged, Convalescent Homes ..... One space per four beds Theaters, Auditoriums ..... One space per three seats Gymnasiums, Convention Halls, Churches ..... One space per three seats Funeral Homes ..... One space per three seats in parlors and chapels Schools, Elementary ..... One space per classroom Schools, Secondary ..... Six spaces per classroom Business College and Trade Schools ..... One space per four seats Restaurant ..... One space per 100 sq. ft. Beauty and Barber Shops ..... One space per 100 sq. ft. Furniture Store, retail ..... One space per 400 sq. ft. reserved parking area with the following amounts surfaced for active use: Square Feet Percentage Up to 5,000 ..... 100 5,001 to 10,000 ..... 90 10,001 to 15,000 ..... 85 15,001 to 20,000 ..... 80 20,001 to 30,000 ..... 70 30,001 to 40,000 ..... 60 Over 40,000 ..... 50 General Business, Commercial And Personal Service Establishments, Commercial Amusements, Offices, Filling Stations, Repair Shops, Medical and Dental Clinics: Up to 25,000 sq. ft. ..... One per 200 sq. ft. of gross floor area, adjusted accordingly to combination of individual uses 25,001 to 400,000 sq. ft. ..... One per 200 sq. ft. of leasable floor area, regardless of individual uses Over 400,000 sq. ft. ..... One per 200 sq. ft. of leasable floor area, regardless of individual uses Libraries, Museums, Art Galleries ..... One space per 300 sq. ft. of gross floor area Clubs Lodges ..... One space per 300 sq. ft. of gross floor area Industrial and Manufacturing Establishments ..... One space per 400 sq. ft. of gross floor area Warehouses: Up to 10,000 sq. ft. ..... One per 400 sq. ft. Over 10,000 sq. ft. ..... One per 1,200 sq. ft. 6.
Special plan for location or sharing of facilities. Under the standard provisions of this ordinance, off-street parking facilities are required to be provided on the same Building Site as the use or structure for which the facilities are provided and are required to be provided in an amount based on the listed requirement for the individual use or structure. Pursuant to the procedure hereinafter set forth, either part or all of the required off-street parking facilities may be located on another site than the one occupied by the use or structure for which the facilities are provided; also, two (2) or more uses may share the same off-street parking facilities and each of such uses may be considered as having provided such shared space individually.
a.
Limitations on separation from use. In B-3 Districts off-street parking facilities may be located on a separate site from the Building Site on which the use is located, provided such separate site is no farther from the Building Site of the use for which provided than four hundred (400) feet; all such distances shall be measured by a straight line from the nearest point of the Building Site on which the use is located to the nearest point of the separated off-street parking facilities.
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Limitations on sharing facilities. No use shall be considered as individually having provided off-street parking facilities which are shared with one (1) or more other uses unless the schedules of operation of all such uses are such that none of the uses sharing the facilities require the off-street parking facilities at the same time as any other use sharing them.
c.
Applications for approval of special plan. An application for approval of a special plan hereunder shall be filed with the Office of Zoning Administration by the owner or owners of the entire land area to be included within the special plan, the owner or owners of all structures then existing on such land area, and all encumbrances of such land area and structures and, additionally, shall contain sufficient evidence to establish that the applicants are all the owners and encumbrances of the designated land area and structures. The application shall contain such information required by this ordinance or deemed necessary by the Office of Zoning Administration and shall include plans showing the location of the uses or structures for which off-street parking facilities are required and the location at which the off-street parking facilities are proposed to be located.
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Review of application. Applications hereunder shall be reviewed by the Office of Zoning Administration and either approved or disapproved; any approval may establish conditions and limitations.
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Registration of special plan. Upon approval of special plan, a copy of such plan shall be registered among the records of the Zoning Commission and Clerk's Office and shall thereafter be binding upon the applicants, their heirs, successors and assigns, shall limit and control the issuance and validity of permits and certificates and shall restrict and limit the use and operation of all land and structures included within such special plans to all conditions and limitations specified in such plans and the approvals thereof.
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Amendment or withdrawal of special plan. Pursuant to the same procedure and subject to the same limitations and requirements by which the special plan was approved and registered, any special plan may be amended or withdrawn, either partially or completely, if all land and structures remaining under such special plan comply with all the conditions and limitations of the special plan and all land and structures withdrawn from such special plan comply with all regulations established by this ordinance and unrelated to the special plan.
B.
OFF-STREET TRUCK LOADING FACILITIES
1.
Provision and maintenance required. No structure shall be designed, erected, altered, used, or occupied unless the off-street truck loading facilities herein required are provided in at least the amount and maintained in the manner herein set forth; provided, however, that off-street truck loading facilities in excess of the amounts heretofore required by law need be neither provided nor maintained for structures actually used, occupied, and operated on the effective date of this ordinance unless, after the effective date of this ordinance, such structures are enlarged, expanded or changed, in which event the structures hereby excluded shall not be used, occupied, or operated unless there is provided for the increment only of such structures, and maintained as herein required, at least the amount of off-street truck loading facilities that would be required hereunder if the increment were a separate structure. The provision and maintenance of the off-street truck loading facilities required shall be the joint and several responsibility of the operator and owner of the structure for which the off-street truck loading facilities are required to be provided and maintained.
2.
Size and location. For the purposes of this ordinance there shall be considered to be two sizes of off-street truck loading spaces, "large" and "small". Each "large" space shall have an overhead clearance of at least fourteen feet, shall be at least twelve feet wide, and shall be at least fifty feet long, exclusive of access or maneuvering area, platform, and other appurtenances; each "small" space shall have an overhead clearance of at least ten feet, shall be at least eight feet wide, and shall be at least twenty feet long, exclusive of access or maneuvering area, platform, and other appurtenances. Off-street truck loading facilities shall be located on the same Building Site on which the structure for which they are provided is located; provided, however, that facilities provided under a cooperative arrangement as hereinafter permitted may be located on another site not more than 300 feet from the structure for which they are provided.
3.
Maintenance. Off-street truck loading facilities shall be constructed, maintained, and operated in accordance with the following specifications:
a.
Drainage and surfacing. They shall be properly graded for drainage, surfaced with concrete, asphaltic concrete, or asphalt, and maintained in good condition, free of weeds, dust, trash, and debris;
b.
Protective barriers. They shall be provided with barriers of such dimensions that occupants of adjacent structures are not unreasonably disturbed, either by day or night, by the movement of vehicles;
c.
Lighting. Lighting facilities shall be so arranged that they neither unreasonably disturb occupants of adjacent residential properties nor interfere with traffic;
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Entrances and exits. They shall be provided with entrances and exits so located as to minimize traffic congestion.
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Cooperative establishment and use of facilities. Requirements for the provision of off-street truck loading facilities with respect to two or more structures may be satisfied by the permanent allocation of the requisite number of spaces for each use in common truck loading facility, cooperatively established and operated; provided however, that the total number of spaces designated is not less than the sum of the individual requirements unless, in the opinion of the Zoning Administrator, a lesser number of spaces will be adequate, taking into account the respective times of usage of the truck loading facilities by the individual users, the character of the merchandise, and related factors. In order to eliminate a multiplicity of individual facilities, to conserve space where space is at a premium, and to promote orderly development generally, the Office of Zoning Administration is hereby authorized to plan and group off-street truck loading facilities cooperatively for a number of truck loading generators within close proximity to one another in a given area, and especially in the central business district, in such manner as to obtain a maximum of efficiency and capacity, provided consent thereto is obtained from the participants in the cooperative plan.
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Amount of off-street truck loading facilities required. At least the following amounts of off-street truck loading facilities shall be provided for all structures containing uses devoted to commerce, business, industry, manufacturing, storage, warehousing, processing, offices, professional purposes, hotels, multiple-family dwellings, hospitals, airports, railroad terminals, and similar purposes; provided, however, that structures required to provide and maintain less than five off-street parking spaces as per Section V shall be exempt from these requirements:
Sq. Ft. of Gross Floor Area Required No.
of Spaces0 up to & including 12,500 ..... 1 (small) 12,501 up to & including 25,000 ..... 2 (small) 25,001 up to & including 40,000 ..... 1 (large) 40,001 up to & including 100,000 ..... 2 (large) For each additional 80,000 over 100,000 ..... 1 (large)
(Ord. No. 64-2001, § 11, 7-9-2001; Ord. No. 007-2008, § 1, 4-14-08)