Baltimore City Council
File #: 07-0589    Version: 0 Name: Off-Street Parking - Required Spaces
Type: Ordinance Status: Withdrawn
File created: 2/12/2007 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 10/29/2007
Enactment #:
Title: Off-Street Parking - Required Spaces FOR the purpose of increasing the number of off-street parking spaces that must be provided for various dwellings, apartment hotels, rooming houses, hotels, motels, and schools.
Sponsors: James B. Kraft, Helen L. Holton
Indexes: Off-Street Parking, Parking
Attachments: 1. 07-0589 - 1st Reader.pdf

EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.

 

                     * WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.

                     THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.

                     INTRODUCTORY*

 

                     CITY OF BALTIMORE

                     COUNCIL BILL          

 

                                                                                                                                                           

Introduced by:  Councilmember Kraft                                                                                              

 

 

                     A BILL ENTITLED

 

AN ORDINANCE concerning

Title

Off-Street Parking - Required Spaces

 

FOR the purpose of increasing the number of off-street parking spaces that must be provided  for various dwellings, apartment hotels, rooming houses, hotels, motels, and schools.

Body

BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments

Article - Zoning

Section(s) 10-405(1), (14)(i), and (27)

Baltimore City Revised Code

(Edition 2000)

 

SECTION 1.  BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the Laws of Baltimore City read as follows:

 

                     Baltimore City Revised Code

 

                     Article - Zoning

 

                     Title 10. Off-Street Parking Regulations

 

                     Subtitle 4.  Required Number of Off-Street Spaces

 

§ 10-405.  Schedule of required spaces.

 

Off-street parking spaces must be provided as follows:

 

(1)  Dwellings.

 

(i)                     Single-family detached dwellings

 

All districts                                                                                                                                                   [1] 2 per dwelling unit

 

 

(ii)                     Single-family semi-detached

dwellings

 

All districts                                                                                                                                                   [1] 2 per dwelling unit

 

(iii) Single-family attached dwellings

 

All districts                                                                                                                                                   [1] 2 per dwelling unit

 

(iv) Multiple-family dwellings; apartment

hotels; rooming houses

 

O-R-4, B-4-1, B-4-2,

B-5-1, B-5-2                                                                                                                                                   1 per [4] 3 dwelling units,

1 per [8] 4 efficiency units,

1 per [12] 5 rooming units

 

[R-1 through R-9                                                                                                                              1 per dwelling unit,

1 per efficiency unit,

1 per rooming unit]

 

 

All other districts                                                                                                                              [1] 2 per [2] dwelling [units] UNIT,

1 per [4] efficiency [units] UNIT,

1 per [6] rooming [units] UNIT

 

(14)  Hotels, motels, and bed and breakfasts.

 

(i)                     Hotels and motels

 

M-1-3, M-2-3, B-4-1,

B-4-2, B-5-1, B-5-2                                                                                                         1 per [8] 2 dwelling, efficiency, or rooming units

 

All other districts                                                                                                                              1 per dwelling, efficiency, or rooming unit

 

(27)  Schools.

 

(i)                     Elementary schools; middle schools

 

R-9, R-10, O-R-2,

O-R-3, O-R-4                                                                                                                                                   1 per [4] 2 teachers and employees, plus

1 per 24 auditorium (or other public assembly facility) seats

 

All other districts                                                                                                                              1 per [2 teachers] TEACHER and [employees] EMPLOYEE, plus

1 per 12 auditorium (or other public assembly facility) seats

 

 

(ii)                     High schools; community colleges;

colleges and universities; business colleges

and commercial schools; trade schools

 

R-9, R-10, O-R-2, O-R-3,

O-R-4, B-2-3, B-3-3, B-4-1,

B-4-2, B-5-1, B-5-2                                                                                                         1 per [4] 2 teachers and employees, plus

1 per [24] 18 students (based on the greatest number of students on the premises at any one time)

 

All other districts                                                                                                                              1 per [2 teachers] TEACHER and [employees] EMPLOYEE, plus

1 per [12] 8 students (based on the greatest number of students on the premises at any one time)

 

(iii) Schools and studios - business,

dance, and music; day nurseries and

nursery schools

 

All districts                                                                                                                                                   1 per [2 teachers] TEACHER and [employees] EMPLOYEE

 

SECTION 2.  AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That the catchlines contained in this Ordinance are not law and may not be considered to have been enacted as a part of this or any prior Ordinance.

 

SECTION 3.  AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That this Ordinance takes effect on the 30th day after the date it is enacted.

 

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