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Home My Public Portal AboutOrd. 1207ORDINANCE NO. 1207 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD AMENDING THE MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO THE REGULATION OF OFF-STREET PARKING WITHIN THE CITY. The City Council of the City of Lynwood DOES HEREBY ORDAIN as follows: Section 1. Section 25-2 of the Lynwood Municipal Code shall be amended to include the following definition: "Shared parking" shall mean off-street parking facilities that are used by two or more businesses for specified time periods, exclusive of one another, to fulfill the City's parking requirements, provided such parking meets the con- ditions set forth in Section 25-14.6g". Section 2. Section 25-14.6a4 is hereby added to read as follows: "4. Parking for the Handicapped. (a) Dimensions. The minimum dimensions of each auto- mobile parking stall for the handicapped shall be not less than fourteen (14') feet in width by eighteen (18') feet in length. Said stall shall be lined to provide a nine (g') foot parking area and a five (5') foot load- ing and unloading area. Two (2 ) spaces may be provided within a twenty-three (23') foot wide area, lined to provide a nine (9') foot parking area on each side of a five (5') foot loading and unloading area. The minimum length of each parking space shall be eighteen (18') feet. This subsection shall not apply to existing facilities where compliance or equivalent facilitation would create an un- reasonable hardship. (b) Number. Automobile parking spaces for the handi- capped shall be provided for all non-residential uses in accordance with the following schedule: Total No. of Parking No. of Handica Spaces Provided. Spaces Requiredped Parking 1 - 40 1 41 - 80 2 81 - 120 3 121 - 160 4 161 - 300 5 301 - 400 6 401 - 500 ~ Over. 500 1 space for each additional 200 spaces provided. -1- ~. (c) Spaces do not need to be reserved exclusively or identified for handicapped use in lots providing five (5) or fewer spaces, In lots providing more than five (5) spaces, the handicapped space(s) shall be clearly identified with the International Handicapped Symbol, blue striping, and signage, designed in accord- ance with the charts, diagrams, and standards on file in the Building Department, (d) Location. All parking spaces for the handicapped shall be located adjacent to the main entrance of the facility for which the spaces are provided. The park- ing spaces shall be positioned so that handicapped per- sons shall not be required to walk or wheel behind parked vehicles. In addition, all other provisions of the State Building Code pertaining to access of the handicapped to such facilities shall apply, Section 3. Section 25-14.6g is hereby added to read as follows: "g. Shared Parking: The Planning Commission may, upon appli- cation by the owner or lessee of the property, authorize the joint use of parking facilities for the certain uses or activities. Up to one hundred (100%) percent of the parking facilities required by this chapter for a use considered to be primarily a daytime use may be provided by the parking facilities of a use considered to be primarily a nighttime use, or vice versa, provided such reciprocal parking areas shall be subject to the conditions set forth herein. For the purpose of this determination, the following uses and similar uses may be found to be daytime or nighttime uses: 1. Daytime (a) Banks (b) Business Offices (c) Retail businesses (d) Personal service businesses (e) Child care facilities (f) Other similar uses, as determined by the Planning Commission 2, Nighttime (a) Auditoriums, incidental to a public or private school (b) Churches (c) Dance halls (d) Theaters (e) Other similar uses, as determined by the Planning Commission Shared parking facilities will only be allowed where: (a) The building or use for which such application is being made for .authority to utilize the existing off-street parking facility provided by another building or use is located within four-hundred (400') feet of such parking facility, (b) The applicant can show that there is no substantial conflict in the principal operating hours of the buildings or uses for which the joint use of off-street parking facilities is nrn»ncP~ -2- (c) The parties concerned in the joint use of off-street parking facilities shall show evidence of an agreement for such joint use by a proper legal instrument approved by the City Attorney as to form and content, Such instru- ment, when approved as conforming to the provisions of this ordinance, shall be recorded in the Office of the County Recorder and copies thereof filed with the Depart- ment of Community llevelopment, Section 4. Section 25-~4,6c.3 is hereby added to read as follows: "3. Handicapped parking: Parking for the handicapped shall be provided in accordance with the provisions of Section 25-14.6a.4. Section 5. Section 25-4,Sb2 is hereby amended to read as follows: "2. In all residential zones, required front rear and side yards shall be landscaped and shall consist predominantly of plant materials except for necessary walks, drives, and fences. Said required yards shall not be used for the park- ing or storage of motor vehicles under 6000 pounds or ve- hicle accessories such as camper shells, trailers, or other wheeled accessories except that motor vehicles may be parked upon the required paved driveway access to the garage struc- ture for a period not to exceed seventy-two (72) consecutive hours, Motor vehicles weighing 6,000 pounds or more shall be prohibited from parking upon said required paved drive- way," Section 6. Severe. If any section, subsection, sub- division, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance or the application thereof to any person or place, is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court or com- petent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance or its application to other persons or places, The City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance, and each section thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion, or the application thereof to any person or place, be declared invalid or unconstitutional, Section 7. The City Clerk is hereby ordered and directed to certify to the passage of this ordinance and to cause the same to be published once in the Lynwood Press, a newspaper of general circulation, printed, published, and circulated in the City of Lyn- wood. First read at a regular meeting of the City Council of said City held on the 6th day of September published at a regular meeting of sai-- d~ Councillheld ondthenall~O~hdered day of September 1983, AYES: COUNCILMEN BYORK, GREEN, MORRIS, ROWE, THOMPSON NOES: NONE ABSENT: NONE ATTEST: W4L.E~~ i~~~r,J Andrea Hooper, City clerk -3- "-.,~ .,~ ,may uwcx~u APPRO AS FORM: David M Ewen, City Attorney APPR VED AS TO CONTENT: ~~ ~ . ~, ~~ S ndra M. Read, Community Development Director -4- STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ~ ss. I, the undersigned, City Clerk of 'the City of Lynwood, and ex-officio clerk of the Council of said City, do hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of Ordinance No. 1207 adopted by the City Council of the City of Lynwood, and that the same was passed on the date and by the vote therein stated. Dated this 23rd day of _ SEPTEMBER , 1983. (-SEAL) City Clerk, City of Lynwood