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PLANNING COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO. 184
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A RESOLUTION OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF CUPERTINO
MODIFYING PLANNING COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO . 174 OF THE CITY,
WHICH RESOLUTION RECOMMENDS ENACTMENT OF PROPOSED ORDINANCE NO.
002( q) , ESTABLISHING REQUIREMENTS FOR OFF-STREET PARKING WITHIN
THE CITY OF CUPERTINO.
WHEREAS, on the 16th day of December, 1963, the City
Council of the City of Cupertino requested the City Planning
Commission to review proposed Ordinance No. 002( q) and its
Pesolution No. 1�4 and make its report to the City Council on
the matters stated therein, and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission has of this date
reviewed the same;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the proposed Ordinance
No. 002( q) as modified by Resolution No. 174 be and is hereby
• recommended for enactment by the City Council, subject to the
following modifications and changes of Resolution No. 174:
1 . That Section 3: 3 of said resolution be rescinded
and in its place the following sections added:
a) Section 3: 3: Multiple Family ( R-3-H and R-24-H) :
At least one garage shall be provided for each dwelling
unit plus one parking space for each dwelling unit.
Parking space shall not be provided in the required
front yard.
b) Section 3 : 3 : a: That the location of parking
areas in R--H and R-24-H zones shall be determined
by the Architectural and Site Control Committee pur-
suant to Ordinance No. 002' f) of the City.
PASSED AND ADOPTED, at a regular meeting of the Plan-
ning Commission of the City of Cupertino, this 23rd day of
December, 1963, by the following vote :
AIAYES: Commissioners : Adamo, Rampy, Small, Snyder, Thomson,
Fitzgerald.
NOES : Commissioners : None
ABSENT: Commissioners : Frolich
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Se re ary, Planning Commission.
ORDINANCE NO. 002(q)
• Draft of City Attorney October 4, 1963
Amended by Planning Commission November 11, 1963
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CUPERTINO AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 002 AS
AMENDED BY ESTABLISHING REQUIREMENTS FOR OFF-STREET PARKING WITHIN THE
CITY
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CUPERTINO AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1 : General
Section 1 :1 Improvement Requirements: Every parcel of land here-
after used as a public parking area or used to furnish parking by the
Zoning Ordinance or as used as an automobile sales area shall be de-
veloped as follows:
a. The surface of areas designated as parking and loading
areas and their approaches shall be paved with asphaltic or concreted
surfaces according to standards approved by the City Engineer.
b. Appropriate bumper guards and stall entrances, exit and
traffic flow markings shall be provided and maintained.
c . Vehicular access to and egress from parking areas from an
existing or proposed street with four (4) or more lanes shall be ap-
• proved by the Planning Commission.
d. Parking areas adjacent to property zoned for residential
shall be enclosed with a masonry wall in accordance with the conditions
outlined in Ordinance No. 112 of the City, unless existing back fence
or live planting is suitable according to specifications as set forth
by the Planning Commission, H. Control, and the City Council, or unless
other treatment has been predetermined.
Section 1 :2: More than One Use in a Building: When more than
one of the activities specified in Sections 3 and 4 of this Ordinance
is carried on in a given building, the Chief Building Inspector shall
use a combination of requirements for use on buildings as required in
this section.
Section 1 : 3: Parking Area Use by More than One Building, Store
or Other Facility: Joint use of Parking facilities shall be allowed
with the following conditions:
a. There shall be sufficient parking area or spaces provided
in the jointly used parking area, or at another location or locations
within 300 feet of a main entrance of the use to be served to meet the
requirements of this ordinance.
b. Each parking space or area for one (1) car may be counted
AI, as serving only one (1) building or use, except when the Chief Building
Inspector determines that a conflict in the demand will not occur.
c. Areas needed to meet the parking requirements of a par-
ticular building or use shall not be transformed or changed to another
type of use, or transferred to meet the parking requirements of anoth-
er building or use until the parking required for the original user of
said parking is provided at another location within 300 feet on the
in entrance of the user.
ECTION 2: Definitions
Section 2 :1: Definition of Parking Space: One (1) parking space
s defined as an area ten by twenty (10x20) feet.
Section 2 :2: Definition of Garage: One (1) garage is defined as
n enclosed area ten by twenty (10x20) feet.
ECTION 3: Parking Regulations
Section 3:1: Single Family (R-1) : Two (2) garages per living
nit.
Section 3:2: multiple Family (a-2-H) : At least one (1) garage
shall be provided for each dwelling unit, plus 1/2 parking space per
dwelling unit.
• Section 3: 3: Multiple Family (R-3--H and R-24-H) : At least one
(1) garage shall be provided for each dwelling unit, plus one (1) parking
space for each dwelling unit. Parking space shall not be provided in
the required front yard. 1 No parking space shall block---access--to more
than-one garage and no more than one parking space shall-block-access
to-a- given garage � ti ` ��z . " f
Section 3:4: Motels, Hotels : One (1) space per rentable unit
plus one (1) space for each employee living at another location, plus
additional parking based upon subsidiary uses in conformance with the
requirements for said uses.
Section 3:5: Community Center, Civic Clubs, Churches, Mortuaries,
Funeral Parlor, Private Clubs, Lodges and Theatres : One (1) parking
space for every four (4) seats, plus one (1) space for every employee
and special purpose vehicle. Mortuaries and funeral parlors shall al-
so provide space for five (5) cars for the preparation of funeral pro-
cessions.
Section 3:6: Sanitariums and Rest Homes: One (1) space for each
doctor, plus one (1) space for each three (3) other employees, plus one
(1) space for every six beds in sanitariums or rest homes.
Section 3:7 : School Class Rooms and School Offices: One (1)
parking space for each employee, plus one (1) space for each fifty-
. six (56) square feet of gross floor area in multiple purpose rooms,
plus eight (8) spaces for visitors for each school, plus one (1) space
for each three (3) students in senior year of high school or in an in-
stitute of higher learning.
SECTION 4: Parking Requirements Based Upon Floor Area
Section 4:1 : Gymnasiums, Auditoriums, Skating Rinks, Without
Fixed Seats: One (1) parking space for each fifty-six (56) square
feet of open floor area usable for seating purposes, plus one (1) space
for each employee.
Section 4:2: Restaurants, and Nightclubs: One (1) parking space
for every four (4) seats, or one (1) space for every thirty-six (36)
square feet of dance floor area, whichever is greater, plus one (1)
space for each employee.
Section 4: 3: Medical and Dental Clinics: One (1) parking space
for each doctor, plus three (3) spaces for patients of each doctor
and one space for each technician or employee.
Section 4:4: Bowling Alleys: Seven (7) parking spaces for each
bowling lane, plus one (1) space for each employee, plus additional
parking based upon subsidiary uses in conformance with the require-
ments for said uses.
Section 4:5: General Offices (P-O-H) : One (1) parking space for
every one hundred and fifty (150) square feet of gross floor area, or
one space for every 1.3 employees, whichever is greater.
Section 4:6: General Commercial: (C-1-H) : Ratio of one (1)
parking space for every two hundred (200) square feet of gross building
space.
Section 4:7: Light Industrial (M-1-PH) : One parking (1) space
or every two hundred and fifty (250) square feet of net floor area,
r 1.3 employees, whichever is greater.
Section 4:8: Light Industrial (M-1-H) : One (1) parking space
for every four hundred and fifty (450) square feet of gross floor area,
r 1.3 employees, whichever is greater.
Section 4:9: Amusement Resort (A-R) : One (1) parking space for
every four seats plus one space per employee.
Section 4:10 : More Than One Use In A Building: When more than
one (1) use takes place in a given building or area, the Chief Build-
ing InsOector shall use the combination of parking requirements which
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SECTION 5: Loading Requirements
Section 5:1 : Every commercial, institutional, wholesale, ware-
house or industrial building or use hereafter erected or established
0 shall provide and permanently maintain for loading purposes only, a
minimum of one (1) off-street loading space.
The loading space shall be so situated that its use for loading
and unloading does not impede the normal circulation of vehicular traf-
fic within the parking area.
SECTION 6: Parking Lot Design Standards
Section 6:1: All parking spaces shall have direct access to a
public or private roadway at all times except that single family and
duplex units may use tandem parking for each living unit.
SECTION 7: Public Parking Area
Section 7 :1: No parcel of land or portion thereof, shall be used
as a public parking area if any member of the public desiring to park
a motor vehicle thereon is required to pay a fee or charge for the pri-
velege of parking, unless a permit is first obtained from the City
Council.
SECTION 8: Amending Clause
Section 8:1: All ordinances heretofore enacted in co,zflict with
this ordinance are hereby repealed to the extent that they would vary
• the provision of this ordinance.
SECTION 9: Severability Clause
Section 9:1: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or
phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held to be unconstitutional,
such decision shall not effect the validity of the remaining portions
of this Ordinance. The legislative body hereby declares that it would
have passed this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence,
clause or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any or more
sections, sub-sections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared un-
constitutional.
SECTION 10 : Penalties
Section 10:1: An person, firm or corporation violating any pro-
visions of this ordinance, shall be deemed guilty of a disdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding
Five Hundred ($500) Dollars or by imprisonment in the City Jail not to
exceed six (6) months for violation, or by both such fine and imprison-
ment.
SECTION 11 : Publishing Clause
Section 11 :1 : That the City Clerk be and he hereby is authorized
and directed to cause copies of this Ordinance to be published at
410 least once within fifteen (15) days after its adoption in the Cuper-
tino Courier, the official newspaper of the City of Cupertino.
INTRODUCED at a regular meeting of the City Council on the
day of 1963; ENACTED at a regular meeting of the
City Council of the City of Cupertino, this day of
1963.
AYES: 1
NOES:
ABSENT:
/s/ Verne H. Jewett
Verne H. Jewett, Mayor
ATTEST:
/s/ Lawrence K. Martin
City Clerk
I hereby certify that this is an exact copy of original ordinance on
file in the office of the City Clerk of the City of Cupertino.