Section 17.100.110 Joint use of off-street parking facilities.
A. The owner(s) of a group of uses or buildings may jointly
provide for the collective use of
off-street parking and loading spaces, subject to the zoning administrator’ s approval of the plans
therefore. Such plans shall include the identification of the limits of the property involved; the
outline of all structures; the identification of all other areas not involved in the off-street parking,
loading or access thereto (pedestrian areas, landscaping, refuse storage areas); the actual layout
of all off-street parking and loading spaces, as well as access thereto; identification of those
spaces to be used collectively if other than all spaces on the property; and an agreement signed
by all owners of the subject property binding them to continued collective use of off-street
parking and loading spaces.
B. For shopping centers, the zoning administrator may
establish a total parking requirement
based upon the mixture of uses contained within the center. If the zoning administrator finds that
the uses within the center have substantially dissimilar peak demands for off-street parking, the
zoning administrator may establish the center’ s parking requirements at a level reduced up to
twenty-five (25) percent of the normal parking requirement.
C. Up to fifty (50) percent of the parking areas required
by this section for a use considered
to be primarily a daytime use may be provided by the parking facilities of a use considered to be
primarily a nighttime use or vice versa, provided that the reciprocal parking area is located within
one city block (approximately three hundred (300) feet).
D. Up to one hundred (100) percent of the Sunday and/or
nighttime parking facilities
required by this section for a church or auditorium incidental to a public or parochial school may
be supplied by parking area required for the school use, provided that the reciprocal parking area
shall be subject to the conditions set forth in this chapter.
E. It shall be the applicant’ s responsibility to
establish that there is no substantial conflict
in the principal operating hours of the buildings or uses for which the joint use of the parking
facility is proposed.
F. Special joint-use parking requirements for the CBD
zoning district are to be found within
Chapter 17.76 of this title.
G. Parties jointly using off-street parking areas, as
provided for herein, shall execute a legal
easement regarding their joint use agreement. The agreement shall be subject to review by the
zoning administrator and recorded in the Ravalli county clerk and recorder’ s office. The
agreement shall run with the land and not be terminable without authorization being given by the
zoning administrator. (Ord. 225 (part), 2003)
