17.36.030 Parking requirements for residential uses.
Off-street parking spaces shall be provided in compliance with Table 3-2 (Off-Street Parking Requirements: Residential Uses). These standards shall be considered the minimum required to preserve the public health, safety, and welfare of the community. An increase or decrease in the parking requirements may be determined by the review authority in particular circumstances where these requirements are inadequate or inappropriate for a specific use. These cases may be determined through a parking study if required by the review authority.
A. Uses Not Listed. The number of parking spaces required for land uses not specifically listed shall be determined by the planning director based on common functional, product, or compatibility characteristics and activities. The determination is considered a formal interpretation of the zoning code and shall be recorded accordingly. The interpretations shall have the same force of law as the provisions of this section.
Land Use | Minimum Parking Spaces Required |
|---|---|
Accessory dwelling unit | See 17.40.010 |
Single-family dwelling (attached and detached) Two-family dwellings | 2 covered spaces per dwelling unit |
Multifamily dwellings | 2 covered spaces per dwelling unit plus guest parking at: 1 guest space per each 2 dwelling units |
Boarding or rooming house | 1 space per bedroom or 1 space per 150 sq. ft. of gross floor area, whichever is greater |
Farm labor housing | 2 spaces per dwelling unit |
Group/foster homes, licensed | 2 spaces per dwelling unit, covered if single-family |
Mobilehome | 2 spaces per dwelling |
Mobilehome park | 1.5 spaces per dwelling unit plus guest parking at: 1 guest space per each 2 dwelling units |
Residential hotel | 1 space per bedroom |
Retirement/rest home | 1 space per 4 resident beds plus 1 space per 2 employees at maximum shift |
Supportive housing | 0.5 spaces per bed plus 1 space per employee at maximum shift |
Transitional housing | 0.5 spaces per bed plus 1 space per employee at maximum shift |
Senior housing (age restricted to 55+) | 1 space per unit and 1 guest space per 4 units |
B. Residential Parking Specific Requirements.
1. Each required parking space shall be in a garage or carport located behind the required front setback or street side setback on a corner lot and shall be served by a driveway of no less than twenty feet in length.
2. A maximum of forty percent of the required front yard setback area may be paved for driveway access to off-street parking.
3. Each single-family residential unit requires two covered spaces, which must be accessed from a paved surface approved and designed to city of Wasco standards.
4. Each single-family dwelling unit that has street access shall have a drive approach a minimum of twelve feet in width with a minimum vertical clearance of fifteen feet.
5. Parking for accessory dwelling units shall be provided in conformance with Section 17.40.010.
6. Each multifamily residential unit requires a minimum of two covered spaces.
7. Multifamily developments with four or fewer units shall have a drive approach a minimum of twelve feet in width with a minimum vertical clearance of fifteen feet. Multifamily developments with five or more units shall have a drive approach a minimum of twenty feet in width with a minimum vertical clearance of fifteen feet.
8. Only parking of automobiles, pick-ups and motorcycles (collectively referred to herein as “motor vehicles”) is permitted on driveways leading to garage parking or other approved off-street parking spaces, or on an improved parking area abutting a driveway or improved parking area (See Figure 3-5) defined as follows:
a. “Driveway” means the hard-surfaced area leading from the public street to garage parking or other approved off-street parking space that is surfaced by concrete, bricks, pavers, or other similar materials. The driveway width shall not exceed the width of the garage or other approved off-street parking space.
b. “Improved parking area” means an area abutting the driveway surfaced by concrete, bricks, pavers, or other similar materials and located between the driveway and the nearest interior side property line. An improved parking area may not be located between the driveway and the secondary street of a corner lot.
9. Parking of recreational vehicles, as defined in Chapter 17.80, is not allowed on driveways leading to garage parking or other approved off-street parking spaces except as provided for under Section 17.80.050 for temporary loading, unloading, and/or cleaning, not to exceed twenty-four hours.
10. No person shall park any motor vehicle, or recreational vehicle as defined in Chapter 17.80, within front yard and side-street yard areas, as defined in Chapter 17.90, on any of the following areas or in any of the following configurations except as specifically permitted herein or elsewhere in the code:
a. On any unpaved surface.
b. Outside the driveway width area leading to the garage or other approved parking space or outside the improved parking area abutting the driveway, if any.
c. Such that a motor vehicle or recreational vehicle is straddling, or is partially on, a driveway or improved parking area and partially on an unpaved or paved surface (other than an improved parking area) next to the driveway, or such that it overhangs the public right-of-way.
d. A motor vehicle or recreational vehicle may not be parked in any configuration on a driveway or improved parking area which would require vehicle circulation outside the width of the driveway area.
11. Where single-car driveways exist, individual paved wheel tracks are allowable as long as they extend without interruption from the public right-of-way to a single-car garage or other approved single-car off-street parking space.
12. Permitted parking shall apply only to registered or operable motor vehicles. Unregistered and/or inoperable vehicles shall not be parked on driveways and/or improved parking areas, as defined herein, within the front or street side setback areas.
Figure 3-5. Residential Parking Location Restrictions
(Ord. 706 §3 (Exh. A), 2019).