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,, - CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED ORDINANCE NU. 2002-53 BY: Council Members Kasler and Gareau. AN ORDINANCE CREATING NEW SECTIDN 1161.16 OF CHAPT'ER 1161 (OFFSTREET PARKING AND LOADIIVG) OF THE ZONING CODE PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MA,TNTENANCE OF HANDICAPPED PARSING SPACES ON PROPERTIES ZONED GENERAL RETAIL BUSINESS DISTRICT OR MIXED USE DISTRICT. A'HEREA.S, SeCtion 351.20 of the Traffic Code presently provides for the estabfishment of handicapped parking spaces upon properties developed for general retail business or mixed use; and WHEREAS, the Director of Law has recammencied that these provisians be transferred from the Traffic Code to the Zoning Code because they more properly relate to zoning, rather than traffic, matters, and fiuther in order to clarify that enforcement of the said provisions should lie with the Building Department; and WHEREAS, it is the desire of this Council, in accordance with the recommendatian of the Director of Law, to adopt legislation creating a new section in the Zoning Code groviding for the establishment and maintenance of handicapped parking spaces on properties developed for general retait business or mixed use; and WHEREA.S, the Planning Cammission on the day of , 2002, by formal motion, recommended that this Ordinance, creating new Section 1161.16 of the Zoning Code be (approved)(disa.pproved); NOW, THEREFORE, BE Tf ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY UF NORTH OLMSTED, COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA AND STATE OF DHIO: SEC'TION 1: That there be and hereby is created new Section 1161.16 of the Zoning Coda, entitled "Handicapped Parking Spaces," which as created shall read in its entirety as fotlows: 1161.16 HANDICAPPED PARKING SPACES AND SIGNS. (a) Every person desiring to develop property for general retail business purposes located in a GEneral Retail Business District or a IVxed Use District, requiring more than twenty- five parking spaces as specified in this Zoning Code, shaU be required to include in their parking layout plan submitted to the Building Department, handicapped pazking spaces, the number of which shall be determined as follows: Ome handicapped space for every twenty-five pazking spaces; Two handicapped spaces for every twenty-six to fifty parking spaces; Three handicapped spaces for every fifty-one to ninety-nine parking spaces; Four handicapped spaces for every 100 to 199 parking spaces;