§ 6-3-3 Parking Standards for Multi-family Residential, Commercial, Industrial and Mixed – Use Development.
A. MAINTENANCE. It shall be the joint and separate responsibility of the lessee and owner of the principal use, uses or building to maintain in a neat and adequate manner, the parking spaces, access ways, striping, landscaping, and required walls or screening.
B. PARKING AREA IMPROVEMENTS. For multi-family residential, commercial, industrial and mixed-use developments, including non-residential uses in a residential District, all parking areas shall be screened from street view by buildings or by a landscape berm and/or wall with landscaping. Berms and/or walls (including retaining walls) shall be a minimum of three (3) feet in height on the parking lot side, and no higher than four and one-half (4.5) feet in height on the street side. For the purposes of this section, parking areas as used herein shall include all parking spaces, drive aisles and maneuvering areas.
C. ACCESS. Off-street parking spaces shall be connected with a public street by a paved driveway which affords safe and reasonably convenient ingress and egress. The permissible location and minimum width of driveways shall be as specified in the City of Goodyear Engineering Design Standards and Policies Manual and Standard Details.
D. PARKING SPACE LOCATION. All required parking spaces shall be located on the lot upon which the use is located or on an adjacent lot if a cross access/parking agreement is provided. Required parking spaces for multi-family, commercial or industrial uses may be located on an adjacent lot in another district (other than in a single family residential district) with a cross access/parking agreement.
E. PARKING FOR MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENTS.
1. The total requirement for off-street parking spaces for mixed-use developments shall be the sum of the requirements of the various uses computed separately.
2. A mixed-use shared parking program is an option to reduce the total required parking in mixed-use developments in which the uses operate at different times or that have different peak hours of operation from one another throughout the day. If an applicant for a mixed-use development can demonstrate through a shared parking study supplied by the applicant and approved by the Zoning Administrator that the total peak parking demand for the mixed uses will be less than the sum of the parking spaces required for each use served, a reduction in the total number of required spaces may be allowed, subject to the following:
a. The approved shared parking plan shall specify a schedule of shared parking calculations identifying the typical hours of operation with anticipated periods of greatest parking demand for all uses within the development; and shall indicate the number, location and convenience of pedestrian access of all spaces available to serve each use. The total number of parking spaces required for all uses within the development per Section 6-4-2 shall not be reduced by a shared parking plan by more than twenty (20) percent.
b. The property owners involved in the shared parking plan shall submit a written agreement approved by the Zoning Administrator requiring that the parking spaces shall be maintained as long as the uses requiring parking exist or unless the required parking is provided elsewhere in accordance with the provisions of this Article.
c. The shared parking plan shall remain on file with the Community Development Department for the purpose of monitoring the continuing adequacy of available parking.
d. At the time of shared parking plan approval, or at any subsequent time when the uses, intensities of the uses, or the or hours of operation of the uses change, or upon findings that the parking facilities are inadequate, the Zoning Administrator may require additional site area to be provided, and as necessary improved, to supply additional required parking facilities.
F. CREDIT FOR ON-STREET PARKING. On-street parking that directly and wholly abuts the subject property may be counted towards the parking requirement, provided that:
1. Such spaces are clearly marked on the site plan and constructed in accordance with City standards.
2. Such spaces are publicly accessible and cannot be reserved or restricted by the owner or tenants of the property.
3. On-street parking on private streets may be counted towards required parking provided that the street is publicly accessible (not gated) and the streets, parking spaces and sidewalks constructed are consistent with the standards for public streets in the City.
G. CREDIT FOR BICYCLE PARKING FACILITIES. The City encourages the use of alternative transportation modes such as the bicycle through a reduction in the number of required vehicular parking spaces in favor of additional bicycle parking facilities. The Zoning Administrator may authorize a credit towards on-site parking requirements for all non-residential uses for the provision of bicycle facilities beyond those otherwise required by this Ordinance, subject to the following guidelines:
1. Whenever bicycle parking is provided beyond the amount required per Section 6-6-A, credit toward required on-site vehicular parking may be granted at a rate of one (1) vehicular space per ten (10) additional bicycle spaces provided.
2. The number of required vehicle parking spaces shall not be reduced by more than five (5) percent or ten (10) spaces, whichever is less, for any use or building.