§ 26-582. Design and maintenance standards for parking and loading facilities.

(a)

All parking and loading facilities shall be designed to:

(1)

Include safety barriers, protective bumpers or curbing, and directional markers sufficient to provide safety, efficient utilization, protection to landscaping and bicycle spaces, and to prevent encroachment onto adjoining public or private property;

(2)

Ensure motorist visibility of pedestrians, bicyclists, and other vehicles when entering individual parking spaces, circulating within a parking facility, and entering and exiting a parking or loading facility; and

(3)

Provide for internal circulation patterns and the location and traffic direction of all drive aisles in accordance with accepted principles of traffic engineering and traffic safety.

(b)

All parking and loading facilities shall be maintained by the property owner to assure desirability and usefulness of the facility. Such facilities shall be maintained free of refuse, debris or other accumulated matter and shall at all times be available for the off-street parking or loading use for which they are required or intended.

(c)

A parking space shall not be in tandem unless the tandem parking space is reserved for use by occupants of the same residential unit to which the space is in tandem.

(Ord. No. 2013-208, § 2(Exh. A), 3-6-2013; Ord. No. 2017-151 , § 14, 3-1-2017)