O-235-52 ORDINANCE NO. 235
AN ORDINANCE TO REQUIRE OFF-STREET
PARKING AREAS IN THE BUSINESS, APART-
MENT AND INDUSTRIAL ZONES OF MIAMI
SHORES VILLAGE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY MIAMI SHORES VILLAGE:
Section 1. That as a requisite for the granting of a
building permit.for a structure in the Business, Apartment or Industrial
zones, the applicant for said permit shall have firstprovided off-street
parking areas together with driveways and necessary turning space.
(a) For a con-anercial structure designed for retail and
wholesale mercantile establishments to be used by the general public, there
shall be provided a usable area for off-street parking equivalent in size to
2 square feet of parking area for I square foot of usable net floor area con-
tained within the wal-Is of the structure under the following definitions:
1. Usable net floor area shall be deemed to mean only such
square foot area as shall be actually converted to or occupied
for general public use. Excluded from the calculation of net
area shall be all space occupied by air conditioning units,
refrigerators, built in cold storage cases, central heating
systems, heaters, boilers, janitors' closets, hallways, foyers,
toilets and stockrooms wherein merchandise or commodities
intended for re-sale prior to the placing of such articles on
public display shall be stored, as well as any space to be
utilized as incidental to and accessory to the conduct of the
business or enterprise as carried on within the structure.
Such spaces as are considered to be acceptable for deduction
from the required space must be built in, permanent, and an
integral part of the structure of the building.
2. ALTERNATE METHOD.
Or, there shall be an area p,zovided for off-street parking
equivalent in size to not less than 1-1/2 square feet of
parking area for 1 square foot of gross floor area of the
structure. This measurement shall be interpreted to be
the gross floor area of the building as measured by the interior
dimensions contained within the outside walls.
3. In either method of calculation of floor area, basement
space shall be included only to the extent that the same is
open to the public for the business conducted on the premises, and
then only to the extent of such basement area so used.
4. The owner of the premises may use either method of cal-
culation as a basis for computing the required parking area.
(b) For buildings intended to be used and designed archi-
tecturally for occupancy as office and professional quarters, off-street
parking areas shall be provided for one vehicle for each 150 square feet of
floor area intended to be used for office or professional quarters, calculated
in the following manner:
1. The gross square foot area of the building as contained
within.the outside walls of the structure shall be determined
and deductions may be made for offsets and indentations in the
outline of the structure. From this gross square foot area shall
be deducted the square feet required for toilets, washrooms,
storage closets or other storage space of a built-in type, heating
plants, air conditioning units and any other space required as
incidental to the main occupancy of the building. This gross
area less proper deductions shall be the required net area to
be used as a basis for computing the ratio required for parking space.
2. ALTERNATE METHOD
Or, there shall be an area provided of 1-1/4 square feet of
usable parking space for each one square foot of gross square
feet area.
3. In either method of calculation of floor area,- basement
space shall be included only to the extent-that the same is
open to the public for the business conducted on the premises,
and then only to the extent of such basement area, so used.
4, The owner of the premises may use either method of
calculation as a basis for computing the required parking area,
(c) For theatres, auditoriums, restaurants, ice cream
parlors and places of public assemply, off-street parking areas shall be
provided to accommodate one motor vehicle for each three seats as installed
within the auditorium spaces of:the building. In determining seating capacity
for computing parking requirements, there shall be counted only such seats
as are bolted or attached to the floor of the building. If seating sapacity
shall be of the bleacher type, the capacity shall be determined by allowing
2-1/2 lineal feet of bleacher space as measured on the longitudinal axis of
such seats as one seating space. If there be no permanent seats or bleachers,
the calculation for the necessary seating requirements shall be made by the
Village Manager or his authorized or designated representative in order to
determine the reasonable seating capacity for the building in question.
(d) In the event the commercial structure does not fall
within the categories a, b, c above, then off-street parking areas shall
be provided in size equivalent to 2 square feet of usable parking area for
1 square foot of usable net floor area of the structure.
(e) For structures used for Industrial zone use there
shall be provided off-street parking areas sufficient in size to accommodate
one motor vehicle for each two persons intended to be employed in such
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structure, together with necessary receiving, loading and driveway space
as may be required by the Planning Board and the Village Manager.
(f) For apartment houses, hotels, motor courts, bungalow
courts, motels or similar buildings, there shall be provided, in addition
to driveways, for off-street parking, one and one quarter parking spaces
for each living orzental unit in such building.
Section 2. An area of 200 square feet, exclusive of driveways,
is hereby determined as the minimum space necessary for the parking of a
single motor vehicle.
Section 3. Parking areas required to be provided shall be
paved with a minimum of 61, of compacted pit rock base covered with an
asphalt-sand surface, and shall be properly drained.
Section 4. The Zoning ordinance of Miami Shores Village,
and particularly the sections thereof regulating the use of land zoned for
Business, Apartment or Industrial zones, and the provisions of said sections
regulating front, side and rear yard setbacks, is hereby amended and supple-
mented to the extent that from and after the adoption of this ordinance it
shall be necessary to provide the off-street parking areas hereinabove established.
Section S. The provisions of any ordinance inconsistent
with the provisions hereof are hereby expressly repealed.
Section 6. The declaring invalid of any provision or require-
ment of this ordinance shall not affect the constitutionality of any othl!r
provision or requirement thereof.
Section 7. This ordinance shall take effect upon passage.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this - 16th - day of September, 1952.
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