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3. Additional off-street parking spaces may be required for any land use which, as determined by the Zoning Administrator or Planning Commission, who may, for any reason, generate more parking demand than called for by the minimum parking standards contained herein. Factors such as anticipated business volume, numbers of employees, number of visitors, hours and nature of business operation and other such factors affecting potential parking needs may be considered. j. Parking shall be permitted on hard surfaced areas designed for such use only; parking shall not be permitted in landscaped yards, boulevards, grass portion of street right-of--way or other such areas except as provided in 9-4.01 Subd. 5(d). Subdivision 6. Design and Maintenance of Off-Street Parkin Areas• a. Parking areas shall be designed so as to provide adequate means of access to a public alley or street. Such driveway access widths shall be in accordance with the State of Minnesota Highway Department Standards, but in no case shall they exceed thirty-two (32) feet in width unless a conditional use permit has been obtained approving the larger width. Driveway access shall be so located as to cause the least interference with traffic movement. There shall be only one (1) driveway access for each one-family residential lot. • b. Calculating_Space. When the calculation of the number ofoff-street parking spaces required results in a fraction, such fraction shall require a full space. c. Sins. No signs shall be located in any parking area except as necessary for orderly operation of traffic movement and such signs shall not be a part of permitted advertising space. Signs shall conform to zoning district regulations. d. Surfacing. All driveways and off-street parking areas shall be permanently surfaced with either concrete or asphalt or impervious decorative pavement such as brick between the street and garage. (This does not require the resurfacing of existing driveways with parallel tracks into one contiguous surface.) Amended 6/19/91, Ordinance 0-91-10) e. Li hting, Any lighting used to illuminate an off-street parking area shall be so arranged so it is not directly visible from the adjoining property and in a downward vertical direction. However, in no case shall such lighting exceed two (2) foot candles in a business or industrial zone nor 0.5 (1/2) foot candle in a residential zone measured at the lot line. 14 •