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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity of Tamarac Ordinance O-1970-0031 • • ORDINANCE NO. 70 - 3 AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING MINIMUM OFF STREET PARKING REQUIREMENTS FOR RESI- DENTIAL ZONING DISTRICTS; DEFINING PARKING SPACES, SIZES AND ACCESS; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; REPEALING ALL OTHER ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Tamarac has taken due note of the rapid growth of the residential areas of the City of Tamarac and of proposed additional residential and high rise developments within the City; and, WHEREAS, the Council deems it wise and expedient, and in the best interests of the City to regulate off-street parking requirements for residential zoned districts; now, therefore, • BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TAMARAC, FLORIDA: SECTION I: Every building, house or structure, instituted or erected after the effective date of this Ordinance in a residential zoned district in the City of Tamarac shall be provided with off-street parking facilities in accordance with the provisions of this chapter for the use of occupants, employ- ees, visitors or guests. Such off-street parking facilities shall be maintained and continued as an accessory use as long as the main use is continued. SECTION 2: Location. The off-street parking facilities required under this chapter shall be located on the same plot or parcel of land such facilities are intended to serve, or upon a plot or parcel of land the nearest property line of which is located within 500', airline measure- ment, of the nearest property line of the premises it is intended to serve. All off-street parking facilities required under this chapter shall be located on property whereon such off-street parking use is a permissible use and shall be designed, developed and maintained in accordance with all applicable provisions of the 40 F0 9 ORDINANCE N0. 70-3 (Continued) -2- zoning laws of the City of Tamarac. Where the required off-street parking is to be provided upon an additional plot of land as hereinbefore provided, the owner of such additional plot of land to be used for off-street parking facilities, and the owner of the land intended to be served by such off-street parking facilities located upon the additional plot, shall enter into an agreement with the City and with each other, said agreements to be recorded and constitute a covenant lying with the land, that the additional parking area shall never be sold or disposed of except in -conjunction with the sale of the building or the use which the additional parking area serves, so long as such parking facilities are required, and said agreement shall be approved by the City Attorney and recorded in the Public Records of Broward County, Florida, at the expense of the owner and shall be considered to be a re- striction running with the land and shall bind the heirs, • successors and assigns of said owner; provided, however, that another additional plot or plots complying with the provisions of the Zoning Ordinance and subject to a recorded agreement as above specified may be substituted for the additional plot of land. In the case of a new or substitute agreement for the use of a plot of additional land to meet off-street parking requirements, the original preceeding agreement shall be voided by the execution and recording of the new agreement. SECTION 3: In order to comply with the provisions of this ordinance, any area designated as parking must be paved with a hard, dustless material, and maintained in a smooth, well graded condition. SECTION 4: Each parking space required and provided pursuant to the provisions of this ordinance shall be not less than nine (9') feet in width and eighteen (18') in length. Each parking space shall be directly accessible from a street or alley, or from an adequate isle or driveway leading to a street or alley. Access isles and driveways shall be of sufficient size to permit convenient maneuvering of cars, and space shall be accessible without driving over or through any other parking space; provided, hover, for single family residences, duplex and triplex residences, it shall be permissible for the vehicles ORDINANCE NO- 70 -- 3 (Continued) -3- to park back to back on a single driveway. SECTION 5: Minimum Requirements, The off-street parking required by this chapter shall be provided and maintained on the basis of the following minimum requirements: A. Dwellings, single family and two or three family. One and one-half parking spaces for each dwelling unit. B. Dwellings - Multi -family. One and one-half parking spaces for each dwelling unit. If in addition to dwelling units, there are other uses operated in conjunction with or as part of the multiple dwelling, additional off- street parking spaces shall be provided for such other purposes . as would be required by this ordinance if such uses were separate from the multiple dwelling. C. Rooming Houses, Lodging Houses, Boarding Houses, Motels, Hotels. Five parking spaces for four (4) sleeping rooms, or five parking spaces for four (4) bathrooms whichever may be greater. If, in addition to sleeping rooms, there are other uses operated in conjunction with or as part of such rooming house, lodging house, boarding house, hotel or motel, additional off-street parking spaces shall be provided for such other uses as would be required if said use were separate from the primary use. SECTION 6: Should any section or provision of this ordinance or any portion thereof, or any paragraph, sentence or word be declared by a court of competent juris- diction to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remainder hereof as a whole or any part hereof, other than the part declared to be invalid. SECTION 7: All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed. PASSED FIRST READING this 13th day of January, 1970. PASSED SECOND READING this 2n day of F bruary, 1970. PASSED THIRD READING this d y of ,,rrl , 1970. ATTEST MAYOR City Cler