§ 6.1.5. Off-street parking reduction for shared parking.

Parking spaces for any existing or new mixed-use development may be based upon a shared parking formula as set forth in Table 6.3.

Shared parking may be utilized for any of the combinations of uses shown in Table 6.3. If shared parking is to be used to satisfy the requirements of this article, an application shall be submitted to the director of planning seeking approval of a shared parking plan. The applicant must submit a scaled site plan for each site that will participate in the shared parking showing zoning, use, and existing parking facilities. Shared parking agreements approved by the director of planning shall be executed prior to issuance of any certificate(s) of occupancy for the development.

In any shared parking agreement, at least fifty (50) percent of shared parking spaces must lie within seven hundred (700) feet of the main entrance to the principal use for which the parking is provided, and all shared parking spaces must lie within one thousand (1,000) feet of the main entrance to the principal use for which the parking is provided. Shared spaces shall not be separated from the site by a roadway with more than four (4) through-travel lanes, unless there is a well-marked, safe pedestrian crossing such as a pedestrian hybrid beacon, a signalized crosswalk, or a refuge median.

Any change in the use of a building, shop or leased area that relies on a shared parking agreement to meet its parking requirements shall require compliance with the parking standards in this article based on the new use in order to obtain a certificate of occupancy. No right to shared parking shall vest in a property where the use of the property changes. In the event that property on which the shared parking is located has a different owner than the owner of the principal development, a written shared parking agreement between all relevant property owners, approved by the director of planning and filed on the deed records in the office of the Clerk of Superior Court for DeKalb County, shall be provided prior to approval of a certificate of occupancy for the principal development. Expiration for any reason of a shared parking agreement, on which compliance with this article is based, shall automatically terminate the related certificates of occupancy and place the property owner(s) in violation of this zoning ordinance.

The steps for determining parking requirements in a mixed use development are:

A.

Determine the minimum amount of parking required for each separate use (Table 6.2).

B.

Multiply each parking requirement by the corresponding percentage for each of the time periods given below.

C.

Calculate the column total parking requirement for each time period.

D.

The largest column total is the shared parking requirement.

E.

Example of shared parking calculation:

If the following uses were proposed with the following example number of parking spaces in accordance with the individual use:

Office - 400 spaces, Retail - 300 spaces, and Restaurant uses - 100 spaces, with a total parking for individual use on site: 800 spaces

Then these same land uses under the provisions for shared parking would require the number of parking spaces shown in the example Table 6.4 (by applying the percent reduction in Table 6.3):

Table 6.3: Shared Parking Reduction Table

Shared Parking Reduction Table
Land Use Type	Weekdays		Overnight	Weekends
	6:00 a.m.—5:00 p.m.	5:00 p.m.—1:00 a.m.	1:00 a.m.—6:00 a.m.	6:00 a.m.—5:00 p.m.	5:00 p.m.—1:00 a.m.
Office	100%	10%	5%	10%	5%
Retail	60%	90%	10%	100%	70%
Hotel	75%	90%	100%	75%	90%
Restaurant	50%	100%	10%	100%	100%
Entertainment/Recreational	40%	100%	10%	80%	100%
Church	25%	60%	10%	100%	100%

 

 

Table 6.4: Example of Shared Parking Reduction Calculation

Shared Parking Reduction Table EXAMPLE
Land Use Type	Weekdays		Overnight	Weekends
	6:00 a.m.—5:00 p.m.	5:00 p.m.—1:00 a.m.	1:00 a.m.—6:00 a.m.	6:00 a.m.—5:00 p.m.	5:00 p.m.—1:00 a.m.
Office	400	40	20	40	20
Retail	180	270	30	300	210
Hotel	0	0	0	0	0
Restaurant	50	100	10	100	100
Entertainment/Recreational	0	0	0	0	0
Church	0	0	0	0	0
Total	630	410	60	440	330

 

As shown in the weekdays 6:00 a.m.—5:00 p.m. column, 6:30 parking spaces would be needed for this example development. This is a reduction of one hundred seventy (170) required spaces.

( Ord. No. 15-06 , 8-25-2015)