5. Ordinance 1326 - Text Amendment - Minimum Parking Standards - 2nd ReadingREPORT TO:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
ON
Honorable Mayor and City Council
Chris A. Kukulski, City Manager
Ordinance 1326 - Parking Requirements for (a) Medical and Dental Offices;
and (b) Drive Through and Fast Food Restaurants, 2nd Reading
MEETING DATE: July 19, 1999
BACKGROUND: The attached ordinance amendment eliminates the distinction between medical
and dental offices in the H-1 verses those in other zones. Secondly, drive -through restaurants and
fast food restaurants will be placed under one parking use category. No substantive changes were
discussed during the 1' reading of the ordinance amendment.
RECOMMENDATION: A motion should be made and approved regarding the attached
Ordinance 1326 pertaining to parking requirements for (a) medical and dental offices; and (b) drive
through and fast food restaurants.
FISCAL EFFECTS: None.
ALTERNATIVES: As suggested by the Council.
Respectfully submitted,
Chris A. Kukulski
City Manager
Report compiled July 16, 1999
Post Office Box 1997 • Kalispell, Montana 59903-1997
Telephone (406)g� J740 o fFA-� (406) 758-7758M
ORDINANCE NO. 1326
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 27.26.050 OF THE KALISPELL ZONING
ORDINANCE, (ORDINANCE NO. 1175), BY AMENDING THE "PARKING MINIWkt
STANDARDS BY USE" OF OFF-STREET PARKING, MEDICAL AND DENTAL
OFFICES, CHANGING DRIVE-IN RESTAURANTS TO DRIVE -THROUGH RESTAURANTS
AND COMBINING THAT WITH FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS INTO ONE CATEGORY,
AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. _
WHEREAS, City of Kalispell has submitted a written request to
amend Section 27.26.050 of the Kalispell Zoning Ordinance, by
amending the parking requirements of medical and dental offices and
by changing drive-in restaurants to drive -through restaurants and
combining that with fast food restaurants into one category, and
WHEREAS, the request was forwarded to the Kalispell City -
County Planning Board and Zoning Commission by the Flathead
Regional Development Office after having been evaluated under
27.14.030, Kalispell Zoning Ordinance, and
WHEREAS, FRDO evaluated the requested text amendments and
recommended, per Report #KZTA-99-6, that the parking requirements
of medical and dental offices be amended, and that drive-in
restaurants be changed to drive -through restaurants and combined
with fast food restaurants into one category, and
WHEREAS, the Kalispell City -County Planning Board and Zoning
Commission recommended that the text of the Kalispell Zoning
Ordinance, parking requirements of medical and dental offices be
amended, and drive-in restaurants be changed to drive -through
restaurants and combined with fast food restaurants into one
category, and
WHEREAS, the City Council has reviewed the FRDO Report and the
transmittal from the Kalispell City -County Planning Board and
Zoning Commission and hereby adopts the findings made in Report
#KZTA-99-6 as the Findings of Fact applicable to this Ordinance.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF KALISPELL AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION I. The City of Kalispell Zoning Ordinance,
Ordinance No. 1175, is hereby amended as
follows:
Section 27.26.050. Minimum Standards by Use
(16) Drive -Through
and Fast Food
Restaurants:
One s
per 100 feet
of gross floor
area plus one
space
loyee on the largest shift and a minimum of four
stacking spaces.
(30) Medical and Dental Offices: 1 per eaeh- 5
square feet ef f-leer area, unless leeated with
the -1 zene,—where-One space per each 200 gross
square feet of floor area is Me ;-Y=d. (Amended
Ordinance No. 1208)
SECTION II. All parts and portions of Ordinance No. 1175
not amended hereby remain unchanged.
SECTION III. This Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30)
days after its final passage.
PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL AND SIGNED BY THE MAYOR OF
THE CITY OF KALISPELL THIS DAY OF JULY, 1999.
Wm E. Boharski
Mayor
ATTEST:
Theresa White
City Clerk