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Sec. 20-2. Area exempt from requirements of chapter.

The following area within the city is exempt and excluded
from the requirements of this chapter:

square feet and one space for each two hundred square feet of
retail sales area above five thousand square feet.

(5) Furniture and hardware stores, wholesale establishments,
machinery or equipment sales and service establishments,
clothing repair and shoe repair establishments: Two parking
spaces for the first one thousand square feet plus an additional
space for each four hundred square feet of floor area over one
thousand square feet.

(6) For all other commercial buildings not herein specified,
there shall be provided one parking space for each one
hundred square feet of gross floor area on the first floor, plus one
parking space for each five hundred square feet of gross floor
area on the upper floors.

(7) Rebound tumbling centers: Two spaces for each rebound
tumbler unit.

(8) Commercial swimming pools: One parking space for each
one hundred twenty-five square feet or fraction thereof of pool
area.

(9) Commercial skating rinks: One parking space for each
one hundred twenty-five square feet or fraction thereof of skating
rink area.

(e) Industrial.

(1) Industrial establishments, including warehouses, research
or testing laboratories, dairies, bottling plants and
similar establishments: One parking space for each two employees
on the maximum working shift.

(f) Multiple dwellings. One and one-half parking spaces for
each dwelling unit within a building; provided, however, that the
city council may, upon a petition from the property owner or
developer and after consideration and recommendation by the
planning commission, reduce the required parking spaces to one
space per dwelling unit if each of the following conditions exist:

(1) The character or use of the proposed building or
buildings will make unnecessary the full provision of one and
one-half parking spaces per dwelling unit because the families or
persons who will occupy these units, due to their income level, are
unlikely to own more than one car per dwelling unit, and

(2) Adequate space is not available to provide one and one-half
parking spaces per dwelling unit without violating zoning
requirements of this Code, and

(3) Authorization of this reduction in number of off-street
parking spaces will not be a substantial detriment to adjacent

property and the character of the district will not be changed by
the granting of this reduction, and

(4) This reduction in required spaces will not unreasonably
increase the congestion of public streets or increase dangers of
fire or imperil the public safety or unreasonably diminish or
impair established property values within the surrounding areas,
or in other respect impair the health, safety, comfort, morals or
general welfare or interest of the inhabitants of the city. (Code
1959, § 20-3; 10-3-60; 9-6-61; 9-7-65; 6-5-67; 9-16-68; 2-2-70; 12-770.)