§ 23.38.020. Purpose.

The objectives of this chapter are:

A.

To provide accessible, attractive, well-maintained and screened off-street parking facilities;

B.

To reduce traffic congestion and hazards;

C.

To protect neighborhoods from the unwanted effects of vehicular traffic generated by adjacent nonresidential land use districts;

D.

To assure the maneuverability of emergency vehicles;

E.

To provide aesthetically pleasing parking facilities in proportion to individual land use needs;

F.

To implement Olympia Joint Plan transportation demand management policies, thereby lowering single occupancy vehicle trips;

G.

To reduce impervious parking surface through shared parking and median parking ratios;

H.

To define median parking ratios and to allow a reduction or increase in parking ratios using an administrative variance;

I.

To allow for more intense commercial development within predefined areas.

(Ord. 11274 § 3 (part), 1996)