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Chapter 17 — Parking and Loading Regulations, Article 1 — PURPOSE AND APPLICABILITY
§ 17-1.1
Purpose and Intent.
(A)Establish requirements for minimum off-street parking and loading areas in proportion to the need created by each use;
(B)To reduce congestion in the streets and to ensure that uses and functions of public rights-of-ways are not interrupted;
(C)Establish certain maximum as well as minimum requirements for parking spaces to reduce development costs and ensure that excess impervious surfaces are not constructed, while providing for additional parking spaces additions when a demonstrated need exists;
(D)To promote flexible approaches to the provision of off-street parking, including in some cases, as appropriate, use of on-street parking, shared parking arrangements, smaller spaces for compact cars, and unimproved overflow or spillover parking areas.
(E)To encourage the provision of bicycle parking and park and ride facilities, where warranted.
(F)To establish design and improvement specifications for the development of parking lots, access aisles, parking decks, and connections of parking lots and decks to public streets.
(G)To ensure that parking areas will be compatible with abutting residential districts.
§ 17-1.2
Applicability.
This chapter shall apply to any new building constructed; for new uses or conversions of existing, conforming buildings; and for enlargements of existing structures. In addition, this chapter shall apply to any development providing five (5) or more off-street parking spaces. This chapter shall not be construed as to require additional parking spaces to be furnished for an existing building which is repaired, altered, maintained, or modernized, where no significant structural alterations are made and the size of the building is not increased; provided, however, that when the occupancy of any building is changed to another use, parking shall be provided to meet the requirements of this chapter for the new use.
ARTICLE II, REQUIRED PARKING: