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Exhibit A
service business that is not defined as warehouse retail or bulky-merchandise retail. Examples of
retail and service businesses include grocery stores, dry cleaners, shoe repair and drug stores.
(2) Warehouse Retail or Bulky-Merchandise Retail. “Warehouse retail or bulkymerchandise
retail” means a tenant that primarily sells bulky goods or retail in a warehouse setting
that is not part of shopping center. Home improvement stores, discount bulk stores, or furniture
stores can be considered warehouse retail or bulky-merchandise retail.
(h) Restaurants. Restaurant is defined in Chapter 19.12 (Definitions). For the purposes of
parking, the following clarifications are applied.
(1) Takeout Restaurant. Takeout restaurant does not have any seating. The presence
of indoor or outdoor seating requires parking at the rate of “restaurant (no bar or entertainment).”
The presence of a bar or entertainment requires parking at the rate of a “restaurant with a bar or
entertainment.”
(2) Restaurant (No Bar or Entertainment). Restaurants with this parking rate may
have takeout services and alcohol sales. Restaurants with a bar, live entertainment or a dance floor
shall be parked at the rate for “restaurant with a bar or entertainment.” Examples include fast-food
restaurants, coffee shops, pizza restaurants, and similar.
(3) Restaurant with a Bar or Entertainment. “Restaurant with a bar or
entertainment” means a restaurant including a bar, dance floor, or live entertainment. For the
purposes of this section, a bar is defined as a raised counter area with seating that serves alcoholic
beverages and separates customers from employees working behind the counter area. Delivery and
take-out service are incidental to the restaurant use.
(4) Outdoor Seating. Additional parking is required for outdoor seating exceeding 12
seats per business. Seats exceeding this amount are required to provide additional parking at the
rate of 0.33 spaces per seat for each seat above 12.
(i) Shopping Centers.
(1) Applicability. Shopping center is defined in Chapter 19.12 (Definitions). All
individual businesses within a shopping center use the shopping center parking rate except in the
following instances:
(A) A restaurant with a bar or entertainment;
(B) Total recreational and athletic facility square footage of greater than 8,000
square feet; or
(C) Total restaurant square footage (not including takeout restaurants) of greater
than 40% of the shopping center floor area.
(2) Calculation of Parking. For the uses listed above, the applicable parking
requirement is calculated for the specified use separately. The remainder of the center is calculated
at the shopping center rate.
19.46.120 Parking Lot Design
(a) Access. Parking spaces shall have direct access to a public or private roadway or shall be
served by an aisle or driveway leading to the roadway. All uses requiring more than 15 parking
spaces shall be served by a single two-way driveway or two one-way driveways.
(b) Tandem parking. Tandem parking does not count as required parking except for required
uncovered spaces in front of covered parking in single-family dwellings and in mobile home
parks.
(c) Minimum Dimensions
(1) Parking Space Dimensions.
(A) Standard Space. Minimum space dimensions are 8.5 feet in width by 18
feet in depth. Low-growing ground cover 2 feet beyond a wheel stop or curb may be counted