HomeMy WebLinkAbout1980-07 07-21 CCO CITY OF BROOKLYN CENTER
ORDINANCE NO. 80 -7
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 35 OF THE CITY ORDINANCES REGARDING
ACCESSORY OFF -SITE PARKING AND JOINT PARKING FACILITIES
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BROOKLYN CENTER DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 35 -701 Subdivision 3 of the City Ordinances is
hereby amended as follows:
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/Section 35 -701. LOCATION OF OFF- STREET PARKING.
3. Ordinance required parking, spaces accessory to uses located in a
business or industrial district shall be on the same lot as the
uses served unless a special use permit authorizes [supplemental]
accessory off -site parking not located on the same property with
the principal use. Special use permits authorizing such parking
may be issued subject to the following conditions:
(a) Special use permits may be issued only for business or in-
dustrial uses which have been continuously operational on a
specific site for at least two years.
(b) Accessory off -site parking shall be permitted only on properties
located in districts zoned commercial (Cl, C1A, C2) and in-
dustrial (I -1 and I -2), and on properties which are institutional
uses in residential zones, and having the same or less restrict-
ive zoning classification as the principal use. For the purpose
of this section of the ordinance, institutional uses in resi-
dential zones shall have the same status as Cl zoned property.
(c) Accessory off -site parking shall be limited to one site per
each business or industrial use issued a special use permit.
(d) The distance from the furthest point of the accessory off -site
parking property to the site of the principal use shall not
exceed [300] 800 feet.
(e) A minimum of 20 parking spaces must be provided on the off -site
parking property.
(f) Accessory off -site parking shall be located such that pedestrian
traffic will not be required to cross the following roadways
to reach the principal use:
(1) Major thoroughfares as defined in Section 35 -900;
(2) 55th and 56th Avenues North between Xerxes Avenue and
Brooklyn Boulevard;
(3) Summit Drive;
(4) 66th Avenue North between Lyndale Avenue North'�and Camden
Avenue North.
(g) Accessory off -site parking spaces may be credited to the parking
requirements of the principal use if the off -site parking
property is legally encumbered to the sole purpose of providing
parking accessory to the principal use.
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(h) Accessory off -site parking site improvements shall be provided
as ;requited by the City, Council
Section 2. Section 35 -720 of the City Ordinances is hereby amended as
follows:
35 -720. JOINT PARKING FACILITIES
With respect to development complexes, the required parking facilities
to serve two or more uses may be located on the same lot or in the same structure,
provided that the total number of parking spaces furnished shall not be less than
the sum of the separate requirements for each use.
With respect to [nondevelopment complexes] separate individual establish-
ments, the City Council may approve the joint use of common parking facilities
under the following conditions:
1. The building or use for which application is made to utilize
the off- street parking facilities provided by another building
or use shall be located within 800 feet of [and contiguous to]
such parking facilities and shall not be separated by a
building or use with which it does not share parking facilities
in the manner prescribed by this ordinance. In no case will
joint parking facilities be located across those streets listed
in Section 35 -701, Subdivision 3 (f).
2. The applicant shall show and the City Council must determine
that there is no substantial conflict in the principal operating
hours and parking demands of the two buildings or uses contem-
plating joint use of off- street parking facilities.
3. A properly drawn legal instrument providing for joint use of
off- street parking facilities, duly approved by the City Council
as to form and manner of execution shall be filed as an easement
encumbrance upon the title of the property.
Section 3. Section 35 -900 of the City Ordinances is hereby amended as
follows:
35 -900. DEFINITIONS
Parking, Accessory Off -Site A legal arrangement in which parking spaces,
located on property other than that of the principal use, are encumbered solely for
use by the off -site principal use. Such spaces may be credited to the ordinance
parking requirements of the principal use by a special use permit if the require-
ments of Section 35 -701 Subdivision 3 are met.
Parking —Joint An easement agreement over certain property which
gives a use located on a nearby or adjacent property the right to make use of
parking stalls within the easement area. Such agreements are for the convenience
of the respective uses which share the same parking stalls at different times and
cannot be used to meet the ordinance parking requirements for the off -site use.
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Section 4. This ordinance shall become effective after adoption and upon
thirty (30) days following its legal publication.
Adopted this 21st day of July 19 80
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Date of publication July 3, 1980
Effective Date August 2, 1980
(Underline indicates new matter, brackets indicate matter to be deleted.)