18.56.050 Joint-Use Parking Facilities.
No parking or loading space provided about any building for purpose of complying with the provisions of this chapter shall be considered as providing parking or loading space for any other structure except under the following conditions. The Planning Commission may, upon application for a use permit by the owner or lessee of any property, authorize the joint use of parking facilities by the following uses or activities under the conditions specified herein:
A. Up to fifty (50) percent of the parking facilities required by this section for a use considered to be primarily a daytime use may be provided by the parking facilities of a use considered to be primarily a nighttime use; up to fifty (50) percent of the parking facilities required by this section for a use considered to be primarily a nighttime use may be provided by the parking facilities of a use considered to be primarily a daytime use, provided such reciprocal parking area shall be subject to conditions set forth in subsection (B) of this section.
The following uses are typical daytime uses: banks, bakery, business offices, retail stores, personal service shops, clothing or shoe repair or service shops, manufacturing or wholesale buildings and similar uses.
The following uses are typical of nighttime uses: dance halls, theaters, auditoriums and similar uses.
B. Conditions Required for Joint Use.
1. The structure or use for which application is being made for authority to utilize the existing off-street parking facilities provided for another structure or use, shall be located within a radius of two hundred fifty (250) feet of such parking facility.
2. The applicant shall show that there is no substantial conflict in the principal operating hours of the structures or uses for which the joint use of off-street parking facilities is proposed.
3. If the structure or use requiring off-street parking spaces is in one ownership, and the required parking spaces are provided in a different ownership, there shall be recorded in the office of the County Recorder a covenant in a form and manner pursuant to the provisions of Larkspur Municipal Code Section 18.56.040.
4. The joint-use parking facility will not be detrimental to the health, safety, morals, comfort, convenience or general welfare of the general public or injurious to property or improvements in the neighborhood. (Ord. 1030 § 2(12), 2018; Ord. 513 § 1 (part), 1975)