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MEMO
TO: PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION
FROM: H. T. (TOMMY) HARDY, DIRECTOR DEVELOPMENT SERVICES X4c 0-"r4
RON STOMBAUGH, PLANNER II W -4 -
MEETING DATE: DECEMBER 19, 2000
SUBJECT: AMENDMENT TO SECTION 58 PARKING, LOADING, AND
OUTSIDE STORAGE AREA DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS
RELATIVE TO LOTS WITH MULTIPLE ZONING
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends the Planning and Zoning Commission consider the attached
amendment to Section 58, and take any necessary action.
BACKGROUND:
Based on input received from the Commission at the November 15, 2000 Workshop,
staff has drafted a revised amendment to Section 58 that addresses the Commissions'
concern about properties contained within multiple zoning districts. The Commission
had expressed a desire to regulate through the conditional use process the transfer of
parking from one zoning district to another and between a zoning district and a lesser
intensive zoning district.
The first paragraph has been rewritten based on input from the Commission. If a lot or
parcel of land is comprised of multiple zoning districts, a conditional use permit will be
required.
The second paragraph was deemed appropriate for regulating the placement of required
parking relative to parking being allowed as a permitted or conditional use. If parking is
not allowed as a permitted or conditional use in a district, parking from another district
will not be allowed to be transferred to that district.
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Section 58. Parking, Loading and Outside Storage Area
Development Standards
A. The off-street parking facilities required for the uses mentioned in this ordinance,
and other similar uses shall be on the same lot or parcel of land as the structure
they are intended to serve, or upon a lot or parcel of land within three hundred (300)
feet of the lot or tract of land upon which the structure they are intended to serve is
located and shall be exclusive of landscaping requirements.
When a platted lot or parcel of land is comprised of more than one zoning
district and the required parkins for uses allowed is to be located within said
lot or parcel of land a site plan and a Conditions! Use Permit meet!no all the
requirements of Section 48 shall be required
No required off-street narking or loading for a permitted or conditional use
shall be located on a lot or Darcel of land that does not allow the permittedor
conditional use.
For hotels/motels in excess of five hundred (500) rooms with restaurants, clubs and
conference facilities in excess of 100,000 square feet which must comply with the
development requirements set forth in Section 29, "HCO" Hotel/Corporate Office
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District, any required or additional off-street parking may be provided upon another
lot or parcel of land with no distance requirement between the off-site parking and
the principal use it is intended to serve. A site plan and a Conditional Use Permit
meeting all of the requirements of Section 48 shall be required.
B. All required off-street parking and loading and drives, vehicle (autos, trucks, trailers,
boats, etc.) sales, display areas and outside storage areas in all districts shall be
paved to a minimum standard equivalent to four (4) inch concrete slab with six (6)
inches by six (6) inches by six (6) gauge mesh wire or two (2) inch hot mix asphaltic
concrete over six (6) inch crushed rock base. Exceptions to these pavements must
be approved by the City Engineer, and be based on equivalency. All reinforcing in
concrete shall be suspended in the center of the slab.
For property located in residentially zoned districts with designation as a Historic
Landmark Subdistrict, a ribbon driveway may be used to provide access from the
street to the off street parking area/garage. The ribbon drive shall be composed of
two, three-foot wide concrete strips separated by a three foot wide grass area.
C. Driveway design and placement standards shall be in accordance with Chapter 20,
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D. No loading space shall be located closer than fifty (50) feet to any other lot in any
R district, unless wholly within a completely enclosed building or unless enclosed
on all sides by a wall not less than eight (8) feet in height.
E. Lighting facilities, if provided shall be so arranged as to be reflected away from
residentially zoned or used property. They shall provide illumination within the
parking facility not to exceed one foot-candle at ground level, and shall distribute not
more than two-tenths of one (0.2) foot-candle of light upon any adjacent
residentially zoned district.
F. The parking area shall be used for passenger vehicles only, and in no case shall be
used for sales, repair work, storage, dismantling or servicing of any vehicles,
equipment, materials or supplies.
G. The off-street loading facilities required for the uses mentioned in this ordinance and
other similar uses, shall be on the same lot or parcel of land as the structure they
are intended to serve, or on a lot or parcel of land abutting the structure they are
intended to serve.
H. All parking, loading spaces and vehicle sales areas on private property shall have
a vehicle stopping device installed so as to prevent parking of motor vehicles in any
required landscaped areas, to prevent any parked vehicle from overhanging a public
right-of-way line, or public sidewalk. An overwide sidewalk on private property may
be permitted so as to allow encroachment of vehicle overhang while maintaining an
unobstructed three-foot minimum sidewalk width. This requirement shall apply only
where spaces are adjacent to the walks, right-of-way, and landscaping. Parking
shall not be permitted to overhang public right-of-way in any case.
1. Driving lane widths in all private parking lots shall conform to the following
standards:
0 degrees - 34 degrees .......................18 feet minimum
35 degrees - 90 degrees ......................25 feet minimum
All turning radii .....................................25 feet minimum
J. In nonresidential districts, surface parking may extend to the front property line,
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except for required screening and landscaping as set forth in the various sections
of this Ordinance.
K. In determining the required number of parking spaces, fractional spaces shall be
counted to the next whole space. Parking spaces located within buildings used for
repair garages or carwashes shall not be counted in determining the required
minimum off-street parking.
L. Floor area of structures devoted to off-street parking of vehicles shall be excluded
in computing the floor area for off-street parking requirements.
M. Paving, marking, and signing shall be provided in accordance to the design
requirements as set forth in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
N. Kindergartens, day schools and similar child training and care establishments shall
provide two (2) loading and unloading spaces on a private drive, off-street to
accommodate two motor vehicles for the first twenty (20) students or children, and
one (1) for each additional twenty (20) students.
O. Internal traffic cross access providing interconnecting access between
developments or lots, exclusive of public street access, shall be required between
all nonresidential developments to alleviate traffic hazards in the public right-of-way.
Cross access will not be required between industrial zoning and other non-
residential zoning districts. Specific exceptions are noted in the Driveway Design
and Placement Standards, Chapter 20, Article III, of the City of Grapevine Code of
Ordinances. Exceptions to this requirement would require approval by the Planning
and Zoning Commission and City Council through either an approved concept plan
or a site plan. Internal cross access will not be required for properties having
driveways approved by a concept plan in accordance with Section 45, or a site plan
in accordance with Section 47, prior to June 21, 1994.
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