(b) Parking Courts. <br />1. Maximum Size of Parking Courts. Individual parking courts shall be no more <br />than 9,000 square feet in size and shall be physically and visually separated by <br />a landscape area a minimum of 20 feet in width. No more than 3 individual <br />parking courts may be connected by an aisle or driveway. (See Figure <br />9.5500(12) Multiple-Family Parking and Multiple-Family Parking Continued.) <br />2. Parking Court Width. A parking court of any length shall consist of no more <br />than one 1 double-loaded parking aisle. <br />3. Parking Court Separation. Planting islands shall be placed between parking <br />courts to visually interrupt rows of parked vehicles and to separate individual <br />parking courts. Planting islands between parking courts shall have a minimum <br />width of 20 feet and a minimum area of 360 square feet. Each of these islands <br />shall provide at least 1 canopy shade tree having a clear trunk height of at least <br />9 feet. Architectural elements such as trellises, porches, and stairways may <br />extend into planting islands between parking courts. Other parking area <br />landscape standards in EC 9.6420 Parking Area Standards also apply. (See <br />Figure 9.5500(12)(b) Multiple-Family Parking Courts) <br />Approval Criteria: According to the vehicle parking standards at EC 9.5500(12), this standard <br />can be adjusted if the following criteria at EC 9.8030(8)(f) are met: <br />(f) Vehicle Parking. The requirements set forth in EC 9.5500(12) may be adjusted if the <br />proposal achieves to the same degree as would strict compliance with the <br />standards all of the following: <br />1. Limitations on the use of continuous parking drives in large-scale multiple- <br />family developments. <br />2. Limitations on the size of individual parking lots in multiple-family <br />development. <br />3. Minimal negative aspects of parking uses in multiple-family developments. <br />Where cost considerations preclude parking beneath or within residential <br />buildings, combinations of partial and interrupted parking drives; on-street <br />parking; and small, dispersed parking courts are an acceptable alternative. <br />Parking court' standard (b)(1) limits parking court size to 9,000 square feet, requires parking <br />courts to be separated by a 20-foot wide landscape area, and limits the number of parking <br />courts that can be connected. While the applicant's proposal complies with the 9,000 square <br />foot maximum and double-loaded parking aisle standards, it does not meet the standard at <br />(b)(1) that states "No more than 3 individual parking courts may be connected by an aisle or <br />driveway." The proposal also fails to meet the standard at (b)(3) specifying that areas <br />separating parking courts must be 20 feet in width, 360 square feet in area, and planted with at <br />least one canopy shade tree having a clear trunk height of at least 9 feet. <br />Eugene Code Chapter 9 defines "parking court" as "a parking area designed to provide parking spaces for a group <br />of dwellings in a manner that is attractively designed." <br />Amazon Corner (ARA 16-17) January 2017 <br />