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DER2011-00005 - AMENDMENT TO THE WICHITA-SEDGWICK COUNTY UNIFIED ZONING CODE PARKING STANDARDS. (ALL DISTRICTS)
Presented by: John L. Schlegel, Planning Director.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve the amendment to the Wichita-Sedgwick County Unified Zoning Code as recommended by the Metropolitan Area Planning Commission; approve the resolution and authorize the Chairman to sign the resolution.
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Background: DER2009-00005 proposes amendments to the Wichita-Sedgwick County Unified Zoning Code (UZC) parking standards. The purpose of this amendment is: to make the UZC parking schedule a more comprehensive tool for the development community; to bring the UZC parking standards in line with national standards; to make it easier to redevelop small infill sites.
The existing UZC parking table currently lists only 59 uses, while the land use matrix recognizes 120 land uses. The proposed amendment has expanded the number of uses listed in the parking table to include all land use types contained in the use type matrix, and includes a recommended number of spaces required for each use. Staff compared our current parking standards against those listed in the 2006 National Parking Associations (NPA) Recommended Zoning Ordinance Provisions for parking. In most cases our local standards are similar or require less off-street parking than those recommended by the NPA study. The proposed amendment brings all of our parking standards more in line with the NPA recommendations with several parking requirement reductions.
The proposed parking table amendment will allow some uses to submit a parking study in lieu of a published standard. The uses proposed for a parking study instead of a published standard can be of such a wide range of scales, potential impacts, operating characteristics or location requirements that off-street parking requirements can better be established by a study. The amendment also proposes no off-street parking requirement for a few uses, such as utili...
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