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• 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
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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
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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