Colusa County Zoning Code § 29.02 General conditions

(a)

Where adjoining parcel owners wish to cooperate in the establishment and operation of joint parking facilities in situations where the maximum parking demands are generated at different times by the established uses, application may be made to the planning director for a minor use permit to combine facilities and to thereby reduce the total number of off-street parking spaces required.

(b)

Where a motel use includes ancillary restaurant, bar, and convention facility uses, upon an appropriate showing and application, the planning director may, by minor use permit, reduce the combined off-street parking space requirement up to maximum of fifty percent of the off-street parking required for ancillary uses only.

(c)

Recognizing that each type of industrial development generates a different off-street parking need, the planning commission may, upon an appropriate application and an adequate showing, by use permit, reduce the off-street parking requirement from the minimum established above. Parking spaces waived by such procedures shall remain either in landscaped area or in unimproved open space in order to insure that additional parking space areas would be available for development if the industrial use were intensified subsequently.

(d)

It is recognized that certain uses may be unique in their parking demands, and that certain locations within a given zone may, as a result of existing developed areas within the zone, have unique traffic congestion or on-street parking problems, which for new developments require off-street parking greater in quantity than the minimums set forth above. In those cases in which such facts exist and in which the proposed improvement or use requires a minor use permit, the planning director shall have the power to impose offstreet parking space requirements greater than those set forth as minimums hereinabove.

(e)

Where the site for the proposed use or development cannot satisfactorily provide all of the required offstreet parking spaces, for the proposed use or development, upon appropriate application and an adequate showing, the planning commission may, by use permit, permit the minimum off-street parking requirements to be satisfied by the provision of off-site, off-street parking facilities, provided that such facilities are located within not more than four hundred feet from the site of the proposed use or improvement.

(f)

By minor use permit the planning director may waive the requirement that covered parking spaces be located on the rear one-half of the lot where adequate evidence is submitted that location elsewhere would not injure adjoining properties and that location on the rear half of the lot is not feasible or practicable in connection with a compatible designed use permitted within the zone in which the lot is located.

(g)

By minor use permit the planning director may reduce off-street parking spaces required on a gross floor area basis if that floor area can be shown to be used strictly as common use such as corridors, utility rooms, restrooms and similar areas.