Fort Walton Beach Ordinance — 1131--Off-Street Parking — reading text

Transportation Engineer based on standard traffic safety principles. Sales person space may be a vacant garage space in the model home. #t0n-street parking adjacent to the site's frontage may count toward fulfilling re- quired parking if doing so does not produce a shortage of residential parking or obstruct traffic. BO (> . Special Parking Spaces 1 acts I Any parking area to be used by the general public shall provide suitable, marked parking spaces for handicapped persons. The number, design, and location of these spaces shall be consistent with the reyuirements of Sections 316.1955, .1956, Florida Statutes, or succeeding provisions. ALL spaces for the handicapped shall be paved. A portion of the parking spaces required this Chapter may be designated as exclusively for motorcycle parking if the following conditions are met: a. The City Hanager or his designee recommends that the spaces be so designated, based upon projected demand for them and lessened demand for automobile spaces. D. The Buiiding Inspector approves the recommendation and the designated spaces are shown on the final development plan. c. The designated spaces are suitably marked and striped. d. The designation does not reduce the overall area devoted to parking so that if the motorcycle spaces are converted to automobile spaces the minimui requirements for automobile spaces will be wet. The approval may later be withdrawn, and the spaces returned to car spaces, if the City Manager or his designee finds that would be better served thereby, or motoreycle and autonobile the purposes of this Chapter based upon actual demand parking ° The following applies to bicycle parking: Ae be Building Inspection Department shall uwaintain a list of approved bicycle parking facilities. Other bicycle parking devices way be used if it is esteblished to the satisfaction of the Building Inspection Department that the standards below are met. b. The cack or other facility shall: (1) Re designed to allow each bicycle to be supported by ita frame. (2) Be designed to allow the frame and wheels of each biecyele to be secured against theft. ned to avoid damasze to the bicycles. (4) Be anchored to resist removal and solidly constructed to resist danace by rust, corrosion, and vandalisin. Accommodate a to facilitate easy locking without interfering with a es con un es ange of bicyele shapes and sizes and adjacent bicycles, (6) Be located to prevent damage to bicycles by cars. (7) Be consistent with the surroundings in color and esign and be incorporeted whenever possible into , ; ; od OO Co c ding, ox (8) Be located active, L Lighted areas. (9) Be located so as not to interfere with pedestrian movements . {10) Be located as near as near the principal entrances ding as practicable. From the spaces to the right of of the building {11) Provide safe ace way or bicycle lane. (12) Occupy a designated parking space measuring two (2) feet by six (6) feet. Parking Deferral 1. To avoid requitvings wore parkine spaces than actually needed 1 & i oO a to serve a development, upon application, the Board of Adjustments. may defer the provision of some portion of the of F-street parking spaces required by this Chapter if the conditions and requirements of this section are satisfied Ag a condition precedent to obtaining a partial defe: the Board of Adjustments, the developer must show any one or more of tne following: fa 4, oN 10 ae & parking study as described in SUCTICN 1206.01 C of this Part indicates that there he deferred parking b. Publie transportation satisfies transportation deuands for a portion of the users of the facility that corresponds to the amount of parking sought to be deferred, a The developer has established or will . an alternative meens of access to the use that + ustify deferring the number of parking spaces igh to be deferred. Alternative prograns that may idered by the Board of Adjustments inelude, but are not Limited tos (1) Private and public car pools and van pools. om ae aney et wsaarte 4 (2) Charginy for parki (3) Subseription bus services. (4) Plexible work-hour scheduling. (5) Capital iuproveuent for transit services, 6S) Rida chari¢r VV KRAdG SHarins’ (7) Beteblishment ) position to iinp transit prograbs. p £ transportation coordinator lement car pool, van pool, anda 4 4 d. The percentage of parking spaces sought to be deferred corresponds to the percentage of residents, employees, 4 and custowers who ceguiarly walk, use bicycles and other non-motorized foras of transportation, or use ftass transportation to coiie to the facility. wy e. Transportation System Management. fF. Trangportation Demand Management. ro If the developer satisfies one or more of the criteria the Board of Adjustments may approve a deferred parking subuitted by the developer. The nunber of parking spa deferred shall correspond to the estimated number of pa spaces thet will not be needed because of the condition or conditions established A deferred parking plans gis Shall be designed to contain sufficient space to teet the full parking requirements of this Chapter, shall illustrate the layout for the full number of parking paces, and shall designate which are to be deferred. De Shall not assign deferred spaces to arees reyuired for landscaping, buffer szones, setbacks, or areas that would otherwise be unsuitable for perking spaces because of the physical characteristics of the land or other rejuicewents of this Chapter. ce Shall include a landscaping plan for the deferred Pred G parking area. . Shall include a written agreement one (1) year fro: the date certificate of occupancy, the deferr converted to parking spaces that confor to at the developer's expense should the Building Ins deter spaces are needed, Qe. Shall unelude a written fe fas wine From experience that the additional park ceacent that the developer will cover the expense of a traffic study to be underteken by the City Transportation Engineer to determine the advisability of the providing the fuil parking requirement. When authorized by the Building Inspector upon a prelininary finding that the parking is inadequate, but not sooner than one (1) year after the date of issuance of the certificate of occupancy for the development, the Building Inspection Department shail undertake a study to deteruine the need of providing the full parking requirement to satisfy the proven demand for parking. Based upon the study and the ‘fecommendations of the Transportation Engineer and the City Manager or his designee, the Board of Adjustments shall determine if the deferred C4 . K. spaces developer or retaine 7. The developer say Inspector approve a converting the deferred ed as at Reduction For Mixed or Joint The City Nanager or his the total number of reyuired jointly providing off-street of need of shall be converted to operable parking any designee maxiinur parking do spaces by the deferred parking area. time request that the Building cevised development plan to aliow spaces to operable parking spaces. Use of Parking Spaces shalt authorize a reduction in parking spaces for two or lore uses packing when their respective hours not normally overlap. Reduction of a .3 parking requirements because of joint use shall be approved if the Following, conditions are nets: 1. The develop submits sufficient data to demonstrate that hours of um demand for parking at the respective uses do not normally overlap. 2. The developer submits a lesal agreement, in which the City shall be a party with enforcement authority, approved by the City Attorney guaranteeing the joint use of the off-street parking spaces signed by all property owners involved as long as the uses reguiring parking are in existence and there is not a conflict of traffic between the uses that would result in a violation of the minimum standards of this article or until the required parking is provided elsewhere in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter. The agreement shall include provisions for maintenance of the parking Facility. The agreement shell include provisions for maintenance of the parking facility. The agreeuent shall contain covenants runnin and subordinate parcels. Reduction for Low The requirements of SECTION average percentage of gross building area (approximately percentage of leasable space covered patios; multiple st conversion of 4 with the lands Percentage of L historic residential of both the dominant zasable Space 1206 .02 A of this Part assume an “4 1 “a At . be t ae pw ey gt et leasable building to total gross C52). If a use has a much lower because of cafeterias, athletic or -cways and elevator shafts; atriuns; etructures to commercial use; 5 may reduce t ot for other reasons; the Building Inspector he parking cequirements if the following conditions are met: 1. The developer submits a detailed floor plan describing how all of the floor area in the building will be used. 2. The developer agrees in writing that the usape of the square footage identified as not leasable shall remain as identified, unless and until additional parking is provided to conform fully with this Chapter. Special Parking Districts The City Council may designate special parking districts where parking or transit facilities may be provided by the citys thus lessening the denand for on-site parking. For development proposed jin these districts, the City Manager or bis designee may allow the developer to pay a fee in lieu of providing some or all of the spaces required by this Chapter. The fee shali be a one-time, non-refundable fee per perking spece avoided, paid to the city prior to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy. The amount of the fee shall be determined by the City Council and shall be equal to the land acquisition, construction and 4 q maintenance costs of parking spaces that are deferred by this These feas shall construction, facilities oenviedng provision. purchase, transit be used by the city solely for the operation and maintenance of parking or the area of the development. The City Council may, at the time of accepting the fee, enter into an agreement with the developer to construct or provide parking or “Sistoric Preservation Exemption The preservation of any property that has been placed on the local repister of historic places, or that is located in a historic district and contributes to the historic character of the district, shall be grounds for a grant, by tue city lanage <¢ or his designee, of a reduction in, or conplete parking wvequivesents in SECTION 1266.02 4 caduction OF @xeL pts ion needed to tlow a4 ranted unless a severe parking Cc historic structure shall be ‘taye of sever traffic congestion will vesult. Increase in Requirements The number of required parking spaces way be increased by the Building Inspector if e 4 f a parking study dewonstrates that th proposed use would have a parking deuand in excess of the requirements in SECTION 126.02 A of this Part. The Building inspector way cequire the developer to provide @ parking study, es seribed ain SECTION 286.02 C of this Part, when the Transportation Engineer presents preliminary data indicating that an increase in the number of parking spaces may be warranted. O5 off-Street Loading Generally Spaces to accomodate off-street loading or business vehicles : Sib all be provided as vequired below. Spaces Requiced 1. Schools, Hospitals, nursing homes and other Similar institutional uses and mid- and high-rise residential uses shall provide one (1) loading space ov bay for the first one hundred thousand (100,000) square feet of gross floor area or fraction thereof, and one (1) spece for each additional one hundred thousand (100,000) square feet or fraction thereof. Ze Auditoriums, gyinmasiums, stadiums, theaters, convention centers and other buildings for public assembly shail provide one (1)