Approval procedure for off-street parking, loading and access.
Oklahoma City Municipal Code § 59-10200
in effect§ 59-10200. - Approval procedure for off-street parking, loading and access.
10200.1. New Construction or Remodeling. No building permit shall be approved until a plan has been reviewed and approved by the Public Works Director. Furthermore, no certificate of occupancy shall be issued until all off-street parking and loading facilities have been constructed in accordance with the approved building permit.
10200.2. Plan and Information Required. The applicant for a building permit for new construction, expansion or remodeling shall submit a plan showing the number, location and size of parking spaces. The applicant shall submit information regarding the projected number of dwelling units, number of employees, seating capacity, gross floor area, gross leasable area, and any other appropriate data necessary to verify compliance with these regulations.
Plans for surfacing of all off-street parking areas, aisles and access driveways, including detailed drainage plans, shall be reviewed and approved by the Public Works Director for compliance with City specifications.
10200.3. Interpretation and Appeal. If questions of interpretation or application of these requirements to particular uses or structures arise, the Planning Director shall, based on findings of fact, make a determination of the off-street parking, loading or access requirements. Any aggrieved property owner may appeal such determination under the administrative appeal procedure specified in Section 59-4250.9 (Appeals).
10200.4. Citations for Illegal Parking.
A. Issuance. Whenever any vehicle without a driver is found parked or stopped in violation of any of the restrictions imposed by this article, the inspector finding the vehicle shall take its registration number and may take any other information displayed on the vehicle which may identify its user, and shall conspicuously affix to the vehicle a citation in writing, on a form provided by the City, for the owner of the vehicle to answer to the charge against him/her within ten days at the time and place specified in the citation. The inspector shall deliver copies of the citation to the Traffic Division of the Municipal Courts.
B. Failure to Comply with Citation. If the owner of the vehicle does not respond in obedience to a citation affixed to the vehicle within a period of ten days, the citation shall be deemed to be delinquent.
C. Presumption in Reference to Illegal Parking.
(1) In any prosecution charging a violation of this article, proof that the vehicle described in the citation was parked in violation, together with proof that the defendant named in the citation was, at the time the citation was issued, the registered owner of the vehicle, shall constitute in evidence a prima facie presumption that the registered owner of the vehicle was the person who parked or placed the vehicle at the point where, and for the time during which, the violation occurred.
(2) The provisions of Paragraph A above shall apply only when the procedure prescribed in this article has been followed.
(Ord. No. 24174, § 2, 11-2-10)
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