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For calculating the required number of parking stalls see Chapter 21.18 LMC.

A. Reduction in Parking for a Common Driveway. Owners of adjoining properties will be encouraged to enter into agreements to provide for shared access, egress, and parking facilities by allowing a reduction of the total parking requirements for such properties. Property owners desiring to take advantage of this reduction policy may submit detailed plans to the city, and if such plans are approved by the development and business services director and public works director, the required off-street parking for each respective parcel may be reduced, provided:

1. That no reduction shall be more than twice the number of standard sized parking stalls which could be accommodated by the actual square footage of parking lot area of each respective parcel served by the common driveway;

2. That such reduction in parking will not reduce parking by more than 10 percent of the amount otherwise required;

3. A coordinated parking lot layout and landscaping plan is submitted, approved, and conforms to the specifications of this code;

4. In circumstances where buildings already exist, that the plans include a reasonable effort to coordinate, redesign or refinish the exterior of the buildings in a unified manner so as to improve the visual image of the street and vicinity;

5. The plans provided for streets adjoining the properties involved to be improved to city standards, including sidewalk, curb, and gutter, or reasonably equivalent guarantee of such improvement are provided;

6. Traffic flow is improved through joint use of the same entrances;

7. That the parties owning the properties enter and record into a written agreement recorded with the county auditor, defining their rights, duties, reciprocal easements, and providing for maintenance and repair in such a manner that the city reasonably assured that the property will have an orderly, permanent management, which agreement shall notify persons dealing with the title to said lands that the right to reduced parking is conditional upon the continued existence of the common driveway; and

8. The city has reviewed consent by all owners that additional building permits on any of the land so affected will not be issued by the city unless separate and/or additional parking is provided.

B. Parking Structure Development Standards. Parking structures shall meet the design requirements of LMC 21.18.710, Parking structure development standards, except that parking structures screened from streets by other buildings need not meet the LMC 21.18.710(C)(5) requirement to set back floors above the third floor.

C. Supersede. Applicable parking standards as adopted in Chapter 21.18 LMC shall supersede any development standards and requirements of this chapter that may conflict, unless specified otherwise in this chapter. (Ord. 3399 § 2 (Exh. A), 2021; Ord. 2977 § 1 (Exh. A), 2013; Ord. 2441 § 18, 2003; Ord. 2205 § 1, 1998)