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ORDINANCE NO. B -2020
AN ORDINANCE relating to off- street parking, and amending Section 15 of Zoning Ordinance
No. B -293 entitled "An ordinance regulating and restricting the location of
trades and industries; regulating and limiting the use of buildings and pre-
mises; and the height and size of building; providing for yards, courts and
other open spaces; establishing districts for such purposes, and providing
for a board of adjustment, and repealing ordinance Nos. B -22, B -35, B -43,
B -51, B -71, B -126, B -134, B -147, and B- 172 "; defining the downtown business
district; providing for minimum parking space requirements for new build
ings or structures or additions thereto within the City of Yakima; provid-
ing for loading space requirements; defining gross floor area and prescrib-
ing regulations for off - street parking; repealing Ordinance Nos. B -1738, B-
1811, B -1875, and B -1949.
WHEREAS, the passage of this ordinance has been recommended by the City
Planning Commission by reason of the increased congestion of vehicular traffic within
the City and the lack of adequate off- street parking facilities,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. Section 15 of Zoning Ordinance No. B -293, passed on March 28,
1938, entitled as shown in the caption hereof, as amended, as hereby amended by adding
thereto at the end thereof two additional subsections to be designated "(g)" and "(h)"
reading as follows:
"(g) The downtown business district, defined in the official map of the
"Downtown Business District" adopted asa.part of this ordinance is des-
cribed as follows:
"Beginning at the intersection of the center line of East "C "'Street and
North leaches Avenue, thence south along the center line of Naches Avenue to
the center line of East At Street, Hence east along the center line of
East "A" Street to the centerline of the alley between North Naches Avenue
and 6th Street, thence south along the center line of said alley to the
center line of East Yakima Avenue, thence West along the centerline of East
Yakima Avenue to Naches Avenue, thence south along the center line of South
Naches Avenue to East Walnut Street, thence West along the center line of
Walnut Street to the center line of 6th Avenue South, thence north along
the center line of 6th Ave nue South to the center line of West Chestnut
Street, thence West along the center line of West Chestnut Street to the
center line of 10th Avenue South, thence north along the center line of 10th
Avenue to the center line of Summitview Avenue, thence east along the center
line of Summitview Avenue, to the center line of West Yakima Avenue, thence
east along the center line of West Yakima Avenue to the center line of 5th
Avenue, thence north along the center line of 5th Avenue to the center line
of West "C" Street, thence east along the center line of "C" Street to the
point of beginning"
"(H) The following requirements shall be used to determine the adequacy of
off street parking spaces:
1. DEFINITION OF PARKING SPACE: For the purpose of this section, two hund-
red (200) square feet of lot or floor area, exclusive of aisles and /or
driveways or internal moving lanes, having adequate access from a pub-
lic thoroughfare shall be deemed a parking space for one (1) automobile.
Parking facilities shall be arranged so as not to necessitate the use
of any part of adjoining public sidewalks,parkways, roadways, boule-
11 vards, or thoroughfares in conducting parking or unparking operations.
2. LOADING SPACE REQUIREMENTS: An off- street leading space, having access
to a public thoroughfare, shall be required adjacent to each business
building hereafter erected, if the use of such building entails deliv-
eries to it or shipments from it, and such loading space shall be of
adequate size to accomodate the maximum number and size of vehicles sim-
utaneously loaded or unloaded in connection with the business conducted
in such guilding. No part of the truck or van using the loading space
may project into the public thoroughfare.
3. DOWNTOWN BUSINESS DISTRICT EXEMPT: The Downtown Business District, as
defined herein shall be exempt from the provisions of this sub- section.
4. MINIMUM PARKING SPACE REQUIREMENTS: For any new building, or structure,
or addition thereto, hereafter erected within the City of Yakima, there
shall be established and maintained a permanent, dust free, off - street
parking area within five hundred (500) feet of the building or structure.
Such distance shall be the walking,distance measured from the nearest
point of the parking facility to the nearest point of the building or
structure that such facility is required to serve. The capacity of
such parking area shall be as follows, for the following uses:
Multiple Dwellings 1 parking space for each dwelling unit
Rooming and Lodging Houses, 1 parking space for each 3 occupants
and Fraternity and Sorority
Houses
Hotels 2 spaces for each 3 bed±ooms
Auto and Trailer Courts 1 parking space for each sleeping
unit, and /or 1 parking space for
each trailer space
Hospitals, Sanitariums, 1 parking space for each 5 regular
Convalescent Homes, Nursing beds plus 1 for every two employees
Homes and Rest Homes with a minimum of two spaces
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Churches, Mortuaries, 1 parking space for each. 5 seats in
Funeral Homes the Chapel or Nave
Stadiums, Sports arenas, 1 parking space for each 5 seats
Auditoriums, and other
places of assembly with
fixed seats
Dance Halls, Exhibition Halls, 1 parking space for each 75 square
and other places of assembly feet of gross floor area
without fixed seats
Skating Rinks and other 1 parking space for each 160 square
commercial recreation places feet of gross floor area
Bowling Alleys 5 parking spaces for each alley
Schools
Elementary & Jr. High 1 parking space for each employee
Senior High School 2 parking spaces for each employee
Colleges 3 parking spaces for each employee
Theatres 1 M parking space for each six seats
Medical and Dental Clinics 1 parking space for each square
feet of gross floor area
Banks, Business & Professional 1 parking space for each 200 square
offices feet of gross floor area
Restaurants, Taverns, and 1 parking space for each. 100 square
any establishment for the feet of gross floor area
sale and consumption on the
premises of food, alcoholic
beverages or refreshments
Retail Stores, except as
otherwise specified:
Having not more than 7 000 1 parking space for each 300 square
square feet of gross floor ,area feet of gross floor area
Having more than 7000 square 1 parking space for each 150 square
feet of gross floor area feet of gross floor area in excess
of 7000 square feet
Furniture, Appliance, 1 parking space for each 600 square
Hardware and clothing feet of gross floor area
stores, service or personal
service shops
Wholesale stores, warehouses 1 parking space for each 2 employees
and storage buildings, motor
vehicle or machinery sales
Manufacturing uses in luding 1 parking space for each 3 employees
Research and Testing Labor- based on the maximum working shift.
atories, Creameries, Soft
Drink Bottling E
Bakeries, Canneries, Printing
and Engraving Shops
5. UNSPECIFIED USES: In the case of a use not specifically mentioned in this
section, the requirements for off- street parking facilities shall be the
same as for the above mentioned uses which, in the opinion of the Build-
ing Inspector, shall be deemed most similar.
6. MIXED OCCUPANCIES: In the case of mixed uses, the total requirements for
off - street parking facilities shall be the sum of the requirements for
the various uses computed separately. Off- street parking facilities for
one use shall not be considered as providing required parking facilities
for any other use, except as hereinafter specified for cooperative use.
7. COOPERATIVE PROVISION: Nothing in this section shall be construed to pre-
vent cooperative provision of off- street parking facilities for two or
more buildings or uses, provided that the total of such off- street park-
ing spaces supplied cooperatively shall not be less than the sum of the
requirements for the various uses agmputed separately. None of the above
provisions shall prevent the over - lapping cooperative use of parking fac-
ilities when the times during which such facilities are used are not con-
flicting.
8. BUILDING PERMITS: Before the granting of a building permit for any new
building or structure, or for any enlargement or change of use in any
building hereafter constructed, involved in any of the aforementioned
uses, the applicant for said building permit shall present satisfactory
evidence that arrangements have been made to provide off- street parking
in accordance with the provisions of this section.
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9. DEFINITION OF GROSS FLOOR AREA: Gross floor area in the case of offices,
merchandising or service types of uses shall mean the gross floor area
used, or intended to be used, by tenants or for services to the public
as customers, patrons, clients or patients, including area occupied by
fixtures and equipment used for display or sale of merchandise. It shall
not include area used principally for non - public purposes such as storage,
incidental repair, processing or packaging of merchandise for show wind-
ows, for offices incidental to the management or maintenance for offices
incidental to the management. or maintenance of stores or buildings, for
toilet or rest rooms, for utilities, or for dressing rooms, fitting or
alteration rooms."
Section 2. Ordinance Nos. B -1738, B -1811, B -1875, and B -1949 are hereby re-
pealed.
Section 3. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect 30 days after
its passage, approval and publication as provided by law and the City Charter.
PASSED BY THE CITY COMMISSION, signed and approved this 22nd day of April,
1957.
ATTEST: J. A. SMITH (, S E A L ) JOE K. AT,T)ERSON
CITY CLERK MAYOR
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true, full and .correct copy of Ordinance
No. B -2020 entitled "AN ORDIIJANCE relating to off- street parking, and amending Section
15 of Zoning Ordinance No. B -293 entitled "An Ordinance regulating and restricting the
location of trades and industries; regulating and limiting the use of buildings and pre-
mises; and the height and size of building; providing for yards, courts and other open
spaces; establishing districts for such purposes, and providing for a board of adjust-
ment, and repealing ordinance Nos. B-22, B -35, B -43, B -51, B -71, B -126, B -134, B -147,
and B -172"; defining the downtown business district; providing for minimum parking space
requirements for new buildings or structures or additions thereto within the City of
Yakima; providing for loading space requirements; defining gross floor area and prescri-
bing regulations for off- street parking;' repealing Ordinance Nos. B -1738, B -1811, B -1875,
and B- 1949." as passed on the 22nd day of April, 1957 and that the same has been publish-
ed as required by law.
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