Municipal Code
CHAPTER 1262 Off-Street Parking and Loading
1262.01 Parking requirements.
1262.02 Parking development regulations.
1262.03 Off-street loading requirements.
CROSS REFERENCES
Regulation of land development and the uses of land and
structures by local authorities - see M.C.L.A. 125.3201
Authority to zone - see M.C.L.A. 125.3202
Uses of land or structures not conforming to ordinances;
powers of
legislative bodies; acquisition of property - see
M.C.L.A. 125.3208
1262.01 PARKING REQUIREMENTS.
In all zoning districts, off-street parking facilities
for the storage and parking of self-propelled motor
vehicles for the use of occupants, employees and patrons
of buildings erected, altered or extended after the
effective date of this chapter (Ordinance 101, passed
February 20, 1970) shall be provided as herein
prescribed.
For required parking areas or loading zone areas, a plan
shall be submitted showing the areas set aside for
parking or loading zones with a legal description of
such lands and a statement signed by the legal owners of
the property that such lands are irrevocably set aside
and maintained for the parking of automobiles or for a
loading zone for the purpose required, unless an
equivalent number of such spaces is provided elsewhere
in conformance with this chapter.
Such plan shall be on a form to be furnished by the
Building Department, which shall include a certificate
from the Building Department that the parking areas or
loading zone requirements of this chapter have been met
as of this date. Said form shall be kept on file in the
Village Clerk's office during the life of the required
use.
(a) Area for Parking Space. For the purpose of this
section, 300 square feet of lot area shall be deemed a
parking space for one vehicle, including an access
aisle, except that 180 square feet of lot area which has
a direct means of ingress and egress from an alley or
street may also be deemed a parking space.
(b) Fractional Requirements. When units or measurements
determining the number of required parking spaces result
in the requirement of a fractional space, any fraction
up to and including one-half shall be disregarded and
fractions over one-half shall require one parking space.
(c) Loading Space Limitations. Loading space, as
required in Section 1262.03, shall not be construed as
providing off-street parking space.
(d) Location of Parking Spaces for Single-Family
Dwellings. The off-street parking facilities required
for single-family dwellings shall be located on the same
lot as the building they are intended to serve, and
shall consist of an enclosed garage or carport served by
a paved or gravel surfaced driveway from said garage to
the access street or alley.
(e) Location of Parking Spaces for Other Land Uses. The
off-street parking facilities required for all other
uses shall be located on the lot or within 300 feet of
the permitted use requiring such off-street parking,
such distance to be measured along lines of public
access to the property between the nearest point of the
parking facility and the building to be served.
(f) Useable Floor Area. For the purpose of this chapter,
"useable floor area," in the case of offices,
merchandising or service types or uses, means the gross
floor area used or intended to be used by customers,
patrons, clients, patients, owners and tenants, less
twenty percent thereof.
(g) Seating Capacity or Seats. As used in this chapter,
"seating capacity" and "seats" mean, for parking
requirements, that each twenty inches of seating
facilities shall be counted as one seat, except that
where specifications and plans filed with the Building
Department specify a certain seating capacity for a
particular building, such specified seating capacity, if
approved by the Building Department, shall be used as
the basis for required sparking space.
(h) Bed. Wherever the term "bed" is herein referred to,
it shall mean such beds as are occupied by the patients
or guests of the hospital or building in question,
provided, however, that bassinets and incubators shall
not be counted as beds.
(i) Similar Uses and Requirements. In the case of a use
not specifically mentioned herein, the requirements for
off-street parking facilities for a use which is so
mentioned, and which is similar to the aforesaid use,
shall apply.
(j) Existing Off-Street Parking at Effective Date of
Chapter. Off-street parking existing at the effective
date of this chapter (Ordinance 101, passed February 20,
1970), which serves an existing building or use, shall
not be reduced in size less than that required under the
terms of this chapter.
(k) Collective Provisions. Nothing in this chapter shall
be construed to prevent collective provision of
off-street parking facilities for two or more buildings
or uses, provided such facilities collectively shall not
be less than the sum requirements for the various
individual uses computed separately in accordance with
the table provided in subsection (o) hereof.
(l) General Use Conditions. Except when land is used as
storage space in connection with the business of a
repair or service garage, the time limits for parking in
off-street parking areas shall prevail as specified
under Section 1262.02(m), it being the purpose and
intention of the foregoing that the requirements of
maintaining vehicle storage or parking space is to
provide for the public safety in keeping parked cars off
the streets, but such requirement is not designed or
intended to provided, and no person shall permit, the
storage or parking on such open land of wrecked or
junked cars, trailers, mobile homes, travel homes, boats
or boat trailers, or the creation of a junk yard or
nuisance in such area.
(m) Restriction of Parking on Private Property. No
person shall park any motor vehicle on any private
property or use said private property for vehicle
storage, or use any portion of any private property as
parking space, without the express or implied consent,
authorization or ratification of the owner, holder,
occupant, lessee, agent or trustee of such property.
(n) Exemption From Parking Requirements. All existing
buildings and uses and all buildings erected and uses
established prior to the date of adoption of this
chapter shall be exempt from the requirements of
Sections 1262.01 and 1262.02, except that where such
buildings or uses are substandard in respect to the
requirements of this chapter, they shall be considered
nonconforming and subject to the provisions of Chapter
1264.
(o) Table of Off-Street Parking Requirements. The amount
of required off-street parking space for new uses or
buildings and additions thereto, and additions to
existing buildings as specified above, shall be
determined in accordance with the following table, and
the space so required shall be stated in the application
for a building permit, shall be irrevocably reserved for
such use and/or shall comply with the initial part of
this section and shall be provided in the Village of
Franklin.
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Off-Street Parking Requirements in PDF format.
(p) Joint Use. Parking spaces already provided to meet
off-street parking requirements for auditoriums and
other places of public assembly, stores and office
buildings lying within 500 feet of a church, as measured
along lines of public access, that are not normally used
between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on Sundays,
and that are made available for other parking, may be
used to meet not more than seventy-five percent of the
off-street parking requirements of a church. (Ord. 101.
Passed 2-20-70.)
1262.02 PARKING DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS.
All lands and areas hereafter used for the parking of
more than three vehicles shall be developed and
constructed in accordance with the following general
requirements: (See illustration.)
(a) Such construction shall be completed and approved by
the Building Department and the Village Engineer before
actual use of the property as a parking lot. Plans for
the development of any parking lot must be submitted in
triplicate to the Building Department, prepared at scale
indicating existing and proposed grades, drainage, water
mains and sewers, surfacing and base materials to be
used and the general layout of the proposed parking lot.
The plans are to be prepared in a presentable form by a
person or persons acceptable to the Building Department
as competent in such work. No land shall be used for
parking purposes until approved by the Building
Department.
(b) All such parking lots, parking spaces, driveways,
approaches or aprons shall be hard-surfaced with a
pavement having an asphalt or concrete binder which
shall be equivalent to or better than a double seal
bituminous penetration surfacing on a gravel base, and
shall be graded and drained so as to dispose of surface
water which might accumulate within or upon such area.
No surface water from such parking area shall be
permitted to drain into adjoining private property or
across a public sidewalk. All plans must be approved by
the Village Engineer. Such parking lots shall be
continuously maintained with a hard, smooth, dust-proof
surface at all times and shall not occupy space above
any septic tank or tile fields.
(c) Adequate lighting facilities shall be provided and
so arranged as to reflect light away from any adjacent
residential areas. When the parking lot is closed at
night so that no vehicles may enter or leave, then no
lighting need be maintained. No sign shall be
illuminated by other than electrical means, and
electrical devices and wiring shall be installed in
accordance with the requirements of the National
Electrical Code and all Village ordinances. Illumination
shall be white (except on appeal) and indirect with the
lighting source concealed.
(d) Side yards shall be maintained for a space of not
less than ten feet between the side lot lines of
adjoining residential lots and the parking area. The
depth of the front yard or setback line from the street,
as established for houses in any block in any given
residential area, shall be continued and made applicable
to parking space in such residential area, and no person
shall use the space between such setback line and the
front lot line or street right-of-way line for the
parking of motor vehicles. However, the barrier
specified in subsection (e) hereof shall be located on
the setback line as herein required.
(e) Whenever such parking area adjoins residential
property and/or a residential street or alley, an
ornamental, uniformly colored solid masonry or brick
wall, not less than four feet nor more than six feet in
height, shall be erected and maintained between the
required yard space and the area to be used for parking.
Dense shrubbery in lieu of a wall may be permitted by
the Building Department. (See the definition of
"greenbelt" in Section 1240.07(b)(36).) The location of
said wall or dense shrubbery facing a residential street
shall be determined with due regard to side yard and
building setback requirements adjoining the Commercial
District as may be required in the particular
Residential District. Bumper guards of a type described
in subsection (f) hereof shall be provided to prevent
vehicles striking said wall or shrubbery.
(f) In all cases where such parking lots abut public
sidewalks, bumper guards consisting of continuous
concrete curbing, at least six inches high, shall be
placed so that a motor vehicle cannot be driven or
parked with any part thereof extending within two feet
of a public sidewalk. In all cases where necessary for
the protection of the public and the adjoining
properties, streets and sidewalks, curbs, as described
above, shall be installed.
(g) Adequate means of ingress and egress shall be
provided and shown on the plan submitted which must meet
the approval of the Chief of Police and the Village
Engineer. No entrance to or exit from any parking lot
shall be nearer than twenty feet to any residentially
zoned district.
(h) Where street setback lines are provided by ordinance
or established through the adoption of a Major Street
Plan in the Village Master Plan, such setback lines
shall be maintained.
(i) All land between the boundaries of the parking lot
and the barriers referred to in this section, as well as
the surface of the parking area, shall be kept free from
tall grass, weeds, rubbish, refuse and debris, and shall
be landscaped to conform with the neighborhood.
(j) No repairs or service to vehicles and no display of
vehicles for purpose of sale shall be carried on or
permitted on such premises.
(k) No building or structure shall be hereafter built or
permitted, except necessary buildings for attendants of
not more than fifty square feet each in area and not
more than fifteen feet in height.
(l) One sign may be erected at each point of ingress and
egress, indicating such access, the name of the operator
and the enterprise it is intended to serve. Further,
signs of an advertising nature concerning the conditions
of use, and name of the owner or uses of the parking lot
may be permitted with approval of the Village Council.
(See also Section 1268.25.)
(m) No person shall park or store motor vehicles for
continuous periods of more than forty-eight hours. (See
also Section 1268.15(k).)
(n) A parking lot may not be used for the storage or
parking of trailers, mobile homes, travel trailers,
boats, boat trailers or junked or wrecked vehicles of
any type, used as a storage area for industrial
equipment or material or used as a dump for refuse of
any description.(Ord. 101. Passed 2-20-70.)
1262.03 OFF-STREET LOADING REQUIREMENTS.
On the same lot with every building, structure or part
thereof, erected and occupied for storage, goods
display, department store, market, hospital, laundry,
dry cleaning or other uses similarly involving the
receipt or distribution of vehicles, materials or
merchandise, there shall be provided and maintained on
the lot adequate space for standing, loading and
unloading services in order to avoid undue interference
with public use of the streets and alleys.
Such loading and unloading space, unless otherwise
adequately provided for, shall be an area twelve feet by
fifty feet, with fifteen-foot height clearance, and
shall be provided according to the following schedule:
Gross Floor Area Loading and Unloading Spaces Required
in Terms of
(sq. ft.) Square Feet of Useable Floor Area
0 - 2,000 None
2,001 - 5,000 One space
5,001 - 20,000 One space plus one space for each 5,000
square feet in excess of 5,001 square feet.
Over 20,000 Four spaces plus one space for each 20,000
square feet in excess of 20,000 square feet.
No loading space shall be located closer than fifty feet
from any residentially zoned district unless located
within a completely enclosed building or enclosed on all
sides facing a Residential District by a solid masonry
wall or ornamental fence not less than six feet in
height.
(Ord. 101. Passed 2-20-70.)
