17.116.010 - Title, purpose, and applicability.

The provisions of this chapter shall be known as the off-street parking and loading requirements. The purpose of these regulations is to require adequate off-street parking and loading, thereby reducing traffic congestion, allowing more efficient utilization of on-street parking, promoting more efficient loading operations, and reducing the use of public streets for loading purposes. These requirements shall apply to the indicated activities as specified hereinafter.

(Prior planning code § 7500)

17.116.020 - Effect on new and existing uses.

(See illustrations I-19a, b.)

A.

New Parking and Loading to Be Provided for New Facilities and Additions to Existing Facilities. Except as otherwise provided in Sections 17.102.040 and 17.102.310, new off-street parking and loading as prescribed hereafter shall be provided for activities occupying facilities, or portions thereof, which are constructed, established, wholly reconstructed, or moved onto a new lot after the effective date of the zoning regulations, or of a subsequent rezoning or other amendment thereto establishing or increasing parking or loading requirements for such activities, except to the extent that existing parking or loading exceeds such requirements for any existing facilities. The required amount of new parking and loading shall be based on the cumulative increase in floor area, or other applicable unit of measurement prescribed hereafter, after said effective date; provided, however, that for an activity occupying a facility existing on said effective date, new parking shall be required for said increase to the extent that the total of such existing facility and the added facilities exceeds any minimum size hereafter prescribed for which any parking is required for such activity.

B.

New Parking to Be Provided for New Living Units in Existing Facilities. If any facility, or portion thereof, which is in existence on the effective date of the zoning regulations, or of a subsequent rezoning or other amendment thereto establishing or increasing parking or loading requirements for an activity therein, is altered or changed in occupancy so as to result in an increase in the number of residential living units therein, new off-street parking as prescribed hereafter shall be provided for the added units. However, such new parking need be provided only in the amount by which the requirement prescribed hereafter for the facility after said alteration or change exceeds the requirement prescribed hereafter for the facility as it existed prior to such alteration or change; and such new parking need not be provided to the extent that existing parking exceeds the latter requirement. Other alterations and substitutions or other changes in activities may be made in any facility or portion thereof existing on said date without regard for the parking and loading requirements prescribed hereafter, and new parking and loading shall not be required therefor, except as otherwise provided in subsection A of this section with respect to additions and in subsection C of this section.

C.

Existing Parking and Loading to Be Maintained. No existing parking or loading serving any activity shall be reduced in amount or changed in design, location, or maintenance below, or if already less than shall not be reduced further below, the requirements prescribed hereafter for such activity unless equivalent substitute facilities are provided.

D.

Parking to be Provided for Existing Residential Facilities. When a conditional use permit is required by Section 17.102.300 for the alteration of, or addition to, an existing Residential Facility in order to create a total of five or more bedrooms in any dwelling unit, the off-street parking requirement of Section 17.102.300C shall apply to the entire facility, including the existing facility and any alteration or addition.

(Prior planning code § 7501)

17.116.030 - More than one activity on a lot.

(See illustrations I-20a, b.) Whenever a single lot contains different activities with the same off-street parking or loading requirement, the overall requirement shall be based on the sum of all such activities, and the minimum size prescribed hereafter for which any parking or loading is required shall be deemed to be exceeded for all such activities if it is exceeded by their sum. Whenever a single lot contains activities with different off-street parking or loading requirements, the overall requirement shall be the sum of the requirements for each such activity calculated separately; provided, however, that the minimum size prescribed hereafter for which any parking is required shall be deemed to be exceeded on said lot for all activities for which the same or a smaller minimum size, expressed in the same unit of measurement, is prescribed, if said minimum size is exceeded by the sum of all such activities on the lot.

(Prior planning code § 7503)

17.116.040 - Determination by Director of City Planning.

In the case of activities for which the Director of City Planning is required to prescribe a number of parking spaces or loading berths, he or she shall base his or her determination on the traffic generation of the activities, the amount and frequency of loading operations thereof, the time of operation of the activities, their location, and such other factors as affect the need for off-street parking or loading. Any such determination shall be subject to appeal pursuant to the administrative appeal procedure in Chapter 17.132.

(Prior planning code § 7509)