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ARTICLE VI. DESIGN STANDARDS FOR PARKING AND LOADING AREAS, BUFFERS & LANDSCAPING Sec. 40-70. Applicability. Where any parking areas, off-street loading areas or landscaping according to specifications of a Landscaping Group are required by this Chapter or are included as a condition of any permit or approval granted under this Chapter, the standards contained in this Article shall be met. The standards for design, construction and improvement of parking areas shall apply in all zoning districts to any development where four (4) or more parking spaces are required. Sec. 40-71. St-ndards for design of parking and lo~ding areas. All parking areas required by this Chapter shall be designed, constructed and maintained in accordance with the terms of this Article and with the terms of standards for driveways and parking areas, published by the city engineer. Any unauthorized conversion or removal of a required parking area shall be a violation of this Chapter. Sec. 40-71.1. Desilsn and dimensional ~equirements for parking lots. In all zoning districts, except Historic Districts as noted in Section 40-52.4, where four (4) or more off-street parking spaces are permitted or required, the following design and construction standards shall apply, subject to waiver of a single dimensional requirement by the city engineer, in proper cases involving public safety or demonstrable hardship. (a) Each parking space shall be at least nine (9) feet wide and eighteen (18) feet long, except that in parking areas containing more than ten (10) spaces, with the agreement of the traffic engineer, a maximum of thirty percent (30%) of the spaces may be for compact cars. The compact ear spaces shall be at least eight (8) feet wide and sixteen (16) feet long. No part of any parking space required by this section shall extend over any public way or cause an automobile parked in such a space to overhang a public way; (b) Access aisles in parking areas shall be at least eighteen (18) feet wide if the parking spaces are at a sixty (60) degree angle or less to the aisles and at least twenty-four (24) feet wide if the parking spaces are at a uinty (90) degree angle (or any angle greater than sixty (60) degrees) to the aisles; (c) In any parking area there shall be a minimum of one (1) handicapped parking space. T here shall be one (1) additional handicapped parking space for each fifty parking spaces after the first parking space. Handicapped parking spaces shall be thirteen (13) feet wide. Handicapped parking spaces shall be those spaces nearest the main entrance or most convenient to the main entrance for wheelchair access. Handicapped spaces shall be 97