10-17A-5: AUTOMOBILES AND OTHER SIMILAR VEHICLE SALES LOTS – SPECIFIC STANDARDS:
Automobiles and other similar vehicle sales lots shall meet the following additional criteria: Sales lots for automobiles, RVs, boats, trailers, motorcycles, ATVs, and similar vehicles shall be fully improved to comply with current city standards, including fully paved display area, permanent sales office built to the current building code, landscaping, streetlights and permanent signage. Sales lots of automobiles and similar vehicles shall meet the following additional standards:
A. Minimum Parking Requirements and Customer Parking: Every sales lot for automobiles and similar vehicles shall have a minimum number of parking spaces specifically designated for customer parking. Customer parking spaces shall be clearly striped and marked by an upright pole sign placed at the top of each customer parking space stating that the space is designated for customer parking. These spaces shall not be used for parking vehicles which are for sale, or for the display of any merchandise. The minimum number of customer parking spaces shall comply with the parking requirements set forth in chapter 19 of this title.
B. Parking Vehicles Which Are for Sale: All automobiles and other vehicles which are for sale shall be parked in the automobile showroom or in a parking space which is specifically designated for displaying merchandise for sale. All vehicles for sale shall be parked and stored solely within the automobile lot. The maximum number of automobiles which an automobile sales lot is permitted to display for sale shall be based on the number of approved stalls for noncustomer parking. Noncustomer parking stalls shall not be required to be striped.
C. Minimum Lot Width: Minimum lot width for one (1) side shall be one hundred feet (100') of frontage on a public street.
D. Building Required: A permanent, enclosed building is required on the site of the auto sales lot, which is devoted exclusively to the auto sales business. The building shall be large enough to accommodate the office of the dealership and shall provide restroom facilities. The building or structure shall provide a safe place to keep the books and other records of the business.
E. Display Pads: Display pads for cars may project into the fifteen-foot (15') landscaped area up to ten feet (10') and shall be limited to two (2) display pads (each pad no larger than necessary to accommodate one (1) car in any directional orientation) per one hundred (100) linear feet of display frontage.
F. Landscape Replacement: Landscape square footage removed for the display pads shall be replaced with the same square footage elsewhere on the site and noted on the plans.
G. Streets Designated for Automobile Sales Lots: Automobile sales lots shall only be permitted in the zone where it is an allowed use, and only on the following specified streets within the zone:
1. Blackridge Drive;
2. Bluff Street;
3. Convention Center Drive;
4. Desert Color Parkway (north of the Southern Parkway underpass, approximately three thousand four hundred (3,400) feet in length to the north end of the former “Welcome Center” parcel);
5. Hilton Drive;
6. Parcel located at 150 East 1160 South;
7. Red Hills Parkway from 1000 East to the Washington City boundary;
8. St. George Boulevard (excluding the arts district overlay zone);
9. 700 South from the east side of I-15 to River Road;
10. Sunland Drive;
11. Sunset Boulevard.
H. Minimum Landscape Requirements: All car lots shall comply with minimum landscape requirements as set forth in this code for commercial developments.
I. Limited to sales of vehicles of less than twelve thousand (12,000) pounds gross vehicle weight. (Ord. 2019-10-002, 10-10-2019)