HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance No. 670-92 07-28-1992 • 670
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 3 "BUILDING
REGULATIONS" OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, CITY OF
RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS, AS AMENDED, BY THE
ADDITION THERETO OF A NEW SECTION 13
"HANDICAPPED PARKING STANDARDS AND BUILDING
ACCESSIBILITY"; REQUIRING HANDICAPPED ACCESSIBLE
PARKING SPACES IN ALL PARKING AREAS; PROVIDING
FOR DESIGNATION OF SAID PARKING SPACES; PROVIDING
A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SAVING CLAUSE AND PROVIDING
AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, Article 6675a-Se.l, Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann., allows cities to require
provision of parking spaces for disabled persons on privately owned parking areas;
and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Richland Hills, Texas, finds that the
interest of the community would be best served by requiring parking spaces
accessible to physically disabled persons in each privately owned parking facility
within the city.
• NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS:
I.
That Chapter 3 "BUILDING REGULATIONS" of the Code of Ordinances, City
of Richland Hills, Texas, as amended, be hereby amended by the addition thereto of
a new Section 13 "HANDICAPPED PARKING STANDARDS AND BUILDING
ACCESSIBILITY", which new section shall hereafter be and read as follows:
SECTION 13: HANDICAPPED PARKING STANDARDS AND BUILDING
ACCESSIBILITY
The owner or operator of any off-street parking facility required by
the zoning ordinance of the City shall provide stalls or spaces in the
off-street parking facility for the exclusive use of vehicles which
display a distinguishing license plate, specially designed symbols,
tags or other devices issued pursuant to Articles 6675a-Se and
6675a-Se.l, Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann., to disabled persons. Such stalls
or spaces shall be designated by posting immediately adjacent to
and visible from each stall or space a sign displaying the
International Symbol of Accessibility.
For every parking lot required or provided for employees or visitors,
or both, accessible spaces, complying with (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E)
hereof shall be provided in each such parking area in conformance
• with the following:
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• TOTAL PARKING IN LOT RE UIRED 1V~l~iIMUM NUMBER OF
Q
ACCESSIBLE PLACES
1 to 25 1
26 to 50 2
51 to 75 3
76 to 100 4
101 to 150 5
151 to 200 6
201 to 300 7
301 to 400 8
401 to 500 9
501 to 1000 2 % of total
1001 and over 20 plus 1 for each
100 over 1000
EXCEPTION: The total number of accessible parking spaces may be distributed
among parking lots, if greater accessibility is achieved.
(A) One in every eight accessible spaces, but not less than one, shall be
served by an access aisle 96" wide minimum and shall be designated
"van accessible". All such spaces may be grouped on one level of a
parking structure.
• (B) Parking spaces for disabled people that serve a particular building
shall be the spaces located closest to the nearest accessible
entrance or an accessible route. In separate parking structures or
lots that do not serve a particular building, parking spaces for
disabled people shall be located on the shortest possible circulation
route to an accessible pedestrian entrance of the parking area.
(C) Parking spaces for disabled people shall be at least 96" wide and
shall have an adjacent access aisle 60" wide minimum. Two
accessible spaces may share a common access aisle. Parked vehicle
overhangs shall not reduce the clear width of an accessible
circulation route. Parking spaces and access aisles shall be level
with surface slopes not exceeding 1:50 in all directions.
(D) Accessible parking spaces shall be designated as reserved for the
disabled by a sign displaying the International Symbol of
Accessibility. Such signs shall not be obscured by a vehicle parked
in the space. Such signs shall be of such size to be legible from the
traffic aisles of the parking area. Spaces complying with van
accessible standards shall have an additional sign displaying the
words "van accessible" mounted below the symbol of accessibility.
(E) Where parking is provided for all residents of accessible
multi-family housing, one accessible parking space shall be provided
for each accessible unit. Where parking is provided for visitors, 2%
of the visitor spaces, or at least one, shall be accessible.
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(F) The penalty provisions contained in Section 10 of Article
6675a-Se.l, Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann., are hereby adopted and made
applicable to parking areas located on private property, and to
parking spaces designated for disabled persons located in parking
areas on private property.
II.
Penalty Clause. Any person violating or failing to comply with the provisions
of this Ordinance, as listed above, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
each day any violation or noncompliance continues shall constitute a separate and
distinct offense and upon conviction thereof such person(s) shall be fined not less
than one ($1.00) Dollar nor more than five hundred ($500.00) Dollars.
III.
Severability Clause. That it is hereby declared to be the intention of the City
Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this
ordinance are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of
this ordinance shall be declared invalid or unconstitutional by the valid judgment or
decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity or unconstitutionality
shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and
sections of this ordinance, since the same would have been enacted by the City
Council without the incorporation in this ordinance of any such invalid or
• unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section.
IV.
Saving Clause. That Chapter 3 of the Code of Ordinances, City of Richland
Hills, Texas, as amended, shall remain in full force and effect, save and except as
amended by this ordinance.
V.
Effective Date. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after
its passage and publication as provided by the Richland Hills City Charter and the
laws of the State of Texas.
PRESENTED, GIVEN FIRST READING AND APPROVED at a regular meeting
of the Richland Hills City Council on the 28 day of July 1992, by a vote
of ayes, ~ nays, and 0 abstentions.
APPROVED:
C. F. Kelley, Mayor
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Pauline Kempe, City Secre ary
VED AS TO FORM: .
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Paul F. Wieneskie, City Attorney
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