14.20.130 Parking, Loading, and Access.
(1) Each lot or parcel in the SC3 zone shall have automobile parking sufficient to meet the requirements as set forth in Chapter 14.37, Provo City Code.
(2) All parking spaces shall be built as described in Section 14.37.090, Provo City Code, and shall be provided with adequate drainage which shall not run across a public sidewalk.
(3) Except as provided in this Subsection, parking spaces shall not be provided within a required front yard or side yard adjacent to a public street. Parking may be permitted in a required front or side yard area adjacent to a street that is considered interior to the development, and not a classified arterial or collector road, if the conditions of Section 14.20.080(8), Provo City Code, are met and a landscape buffer is provided that meets all of the following conditions:
(a) An innovative landscaping design is submitted that is superior to the landscaping that would result from application of the minimum standards;
(b) A minimum six (6) foot wide landscape buffer is provided along the entire length of the encroaching parking lot edge;
(c) Landscape buffer shall consist of berms, shrubs, vegetative groundcover, or a combination thereof, achieving a minimum height of thirty (30) inches;
(d) Landscape buffer shall achieve ninety percent (90%) screening at plant maturity without extending over the adjacent sidewalk. Decorative walls may be incorporated as part of the buffer area, but shall not be used exclusively;
(e) The perimeter buffer shall include one (1) shade tree per thirty (30) feet along the entire length of the parking area, excluding necessary driveway access. Required street trees shall not be used in meeting this requirement; and
(f) Parking structures which do not include habitable floor space shall not be located closer to the street than the average of all other structures on the same block face and shall include additional landscape buffering at a rate of one (1) foot of width for each two (2) feet of structure height, up to the minimum building setback required by this Chapter.
(4) Above-grade parking structures shall be architecturally screened to be compatible with adjacent building façades and/or provide habitable floor space meeting the following requirements:
(a) Parking structures which front a public or private street shall have a minimum habitable main floor depth of thirty (30) feet along the entire street frontage other than for permitted side yards and driveway approaches; and
(b) A minimum of one (1) pedestrian entrance to a commercial space, lobby, or residential unit shall be provided for every one hundred (100) feet of habitable building street frontage.
(5) Loading spaces shall be provided as required by the Planning Commission.