17.09.230 Off-street parking and loading--Location and control of facilities.
The off-street parking facilities required by this title shall be located on the same lot or parcel of land as the use they are intended to serve except for approved shared parking, payment-in-lieu of parking or off-site parking.
A. Shared parking facilities may be used jointly with parking facilities for other uses when operations are not normally conducted during the same hours, when peak uses or seasonal uses vary, and that shared parking lots be located within three hundred feet of all businesses being served by such lots. Requests for shared parking or off-site parking are subject to conditional use approval of the Moab Planning Commission. The minimum conditions and submittals for shared parking and off-site parking requests shall include the following:
1. Proposal must show sufficient evidence that there will be no substantial conflict in the periods of peak demand of uses for which shared-parking is proposed;
2. A site plan showing the number and location of proposed parking spaces, location and size of buildings, parcel boundaries, streets, sidewalks, driveways and curb cuts must be submitted;
3. Off-site parking may be used only for hotels and motels that provide valet service. Proof of valet service must be submitted;
4. A written agreement executed by all parties concerned shall be filed with the Moab City Recorder.
B. In the event that the Zoning Administrator determines that off-street parking cannot be reasonably provided in accordance with the provisions of this title, a commercial property owner, in the C-3 zone and designated portion of the C-4 zone, may be allowed to make a payment-in-lieu of providing parking spaces, according to the following conditions:
1. A commercial property owner must fill out a payment-in-lieu of parking application and pay a review fee as established by resolution.
2. The City Planning Commission must review any payment-in-lieu of parking requests and after holding a public hearing, may approve or disapprove such requests.
3. The established payment-in-lieu rate shall be established by resolution. Such fees shall be deposited into a parking facilities development fund and all expenditures from this fund shall be directly spent or encumbered only for the propose of operation, maintenance and administration of parking or transit facilities. The fee shall be paid to the City of Moab according to the following schedule: fifty percent of the fee shall be paid prior to an issuance of a building permit and the remaining fifty percent shall be paid prior to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy permit.
4. To encourage higher building density in the downtown businesses district, owners of land or businesses in the C-3 central commercial zone have the option to use payment-in-lieu of parking rather than to reasonably provide parking spaces at the time of erection of any main building or at the time such buildings are structurally enlarged or converted to increase the use or capacity of the buildings.
5. To encourage more harmonious development patterns in the general commercial district, owners of existing businesses in the C-4 general commercial zone located between Mill Creek and Pack Creek as designated on the official Moab City zoning map, have the option to use payment-in-lieu of parking rather than to provide additional on-site parking spaces at the time buildings on the parcel are structurally enlarged or converted to increase the use or capacity of the buildings.
6. Payment-in-lieu of parking shall be permitted to provide no more than thirty percent of the parking spaces required by this chapter of any particular use or development. (Ord. 98-02, 1998; Ord. 97-06, 1997; Ord. 96-07, 1996; Ord. 93-24 (part), 1993: Ord. 93-04 (part), 1993: prior code § 27-3-21(B))