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9-1-17 9-1-17 K. Parking Layout: Whenever off-street parking is required by this City Code, a parking layout drawing shall be submitted to and approved by the City Engineer. The layout shall show all required improvements, access aisles, entrances to the site and exits from the site, the layout shall be drawn to scale and shall show all dimensions and shall indicate all information necessary to determine the employee and customer parking requirements. The completion of the improvements for parking, according to their plan, shall be required before a certificate of occupancy may be issued. Backing a vehicle from an off-street parking space directly into a public traffic-way creates a traffic hazard. Parking layouts requiring this maneuver shall not be allowed, except for residential uses exiting onto a non-arterial street or a street with a low traffic volume. L. Loading: Parking spaces are not to be combined with loading zones. 1. Loading Zones: Any retail, hospital, school, wholesale, distributing or manufacturing establishment shall have a clearly marked loading zone adjacent to or on the premises of such establishment. Loading zones shall be located and arranged in a manner which creates no interference with the vision triangle or the public use of streets and alleys. One loading zone not less than ten feet by twenty-five feet (10' x 25') and not less than fifteen feet (15') in height shall be provided for each twenty thousand (20,000) square feet of floor area. 2. School Bus Loading: Off-street bus loading area shall be provided separate and apart from regular parking, for loading and unloading buses only. M. The governing body may authorize a special permit to allow a parking lot in a residential zone for the purpose of meeting the requirements of this Section, subject to the following limitations: 1. Notice to the public must be given and a public hearing held by the Zoning Commission on the request for a special permit in the same manner in which said notice is given and a hearing is held on a request for a conditional use permit. 2. Notice must be given b reregistered mail to all owners of property wilhin three hundred feet (300') of the land for which the special permit is sought. 3. A special permit shall not be allowed unless the application shows and warrants that the provisions of this Section shall be met in the proposed development of the parking area. The landscaping required shall blend with the adjacent residential area as set forth in the special permit. N. Handicap Parking: There shall be one handicapped parking space for every thirty-five (35) spaces or fraction thereof. Said handicap space shall be —twelve feet (1-2') wide open on one side to allow–room for individuals in wheelchairs or individuals requiring the aid of a mechanical device to egress and ingress from a motor vehicle on a level surface and be located convenient to a door which accesses the building.