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DRAFT Off-Street Parking and Loading NoveinberSe??enibe-r 1222, 2010 Mayfield Village Mayfield Village I)RAFT Off-Street Parlcing and Loading CHAPTER 1183 1183.01 PURPOSES Off-street parking and loading requirements and regulations are established in order to achieve, among others, the following purposes: (a) To relieve congestion on streets, so that they can be utilized more fully for movement of traffic; and (b) To promote the safety and convenience of employees, guests and shoppers by locating parlcing areas so as to lessen motor vehicle movements in areas of congestion; and (c) To promote the general convenience, welfare and prosperity of institutional, residential, retail business and industrial developments, which depend upon off-street parking and off-street loading facilities. (Ord. 75-16. Passed 9-8-75.) 1183.02 I)EFINITI OIOTS For the purpose of determining accessory off-street parking requirements, definitions and standards shall be as follows: (a) "Accessory parking space" means an open or enclosed area accessible from a street for parking of motor vehicles of owners, occupants, employees, customers or tenants of the main building or use. Except for one and two-family dwellings, each space shall be not less than nine and one-half feet wide and 190 square feet in area exclusive of all drives, curbs and turning space. The number of spaces shall be determined from an accurate plan of the area. In the event that the main building is used by one corporate entity, employing in excess of 1500 people at such site, then such space shall not be less than nine feet wide and 180 square feet in area. (Ord. 91-40. Passed 11-13-91.) (b) "Gross Ffloor area" means the total area of all the floors in a building measured from the exterior faces of the building. (c) "Seat" means the unit capacity of a building to accommodate people, and in a building including group assembly, such as a church or auditorium, the unit of ineasurement shall be seven square feet for the portion of the building utilized for seating accommodation. (d) "Employees" means a unit of ineasurement representing the optimum employment capacity of a business or other use at one time or shift. (e) "Required minimum parking spaces" as computed, means where the computation results in a fractional unit, one additional off-street parking space shall be provided. (Ord. 75-16. Passed 9-8-75.) 1183.03 OFF-STREET PARKING FACILITIES; WHEN 12EQUIREI) Accessory off-street parking facilities, including access driveways, shall be determined in conformance with the schedule, Section 1183.05, for the various institutional, residential, business, office-laboratory and production-distribution buildings and uses, and provided in conformance with the other provisions of this chapter as a condition precedent to the occupancy and maintenance of such building or use. Facilities shall be provided for the entire building or use and shall be located on the same lot as the main building or use served: (a) Whenever a building is constructed or a new use established.