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AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE CODE OF THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA, 1973, BY AMENDING SECTION 40-4813) THEREOF, PER- TAINING TO CONSTRUCTION REQUIREMENTS FOR PARKING LOTS. BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, that Section 40-48(3) of the Code of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, be amended to read as follows: Section 40-4813). Construction requirements for improvements. (a) Improvements shall consist of parkway curb or concrete wheel bumpers inside the parking lot, seven (7) inch thick concrete aprons from property line to curb to edge of pavement, curb and gutter along all street frontage to the adjoining property and the installation of drainage pipe in ditches. Th~ offsite drainage requirements of Section 33-56, Code of the City of Portsmouth, shall apply to these development~. (b) Pavement designed for street widening and parking lots appropriate to the proposed use shall be installed in all cases. Bituminous concrete or concrete shall be installed for all street widening and shall be designed and installed subject to the approval of the City Engineer. Surfacing for parking lots shall be selected by the developers after considering, in addition to the proposed use, the safety of those utilizing the areas. Surfacing shall be of precast interlocking concrete blocks, porous type asphalt paving, or other construction methodology deemed reliable by the City Engineer to minimize surface stormwater runoff where smooth paving surfaces are deemed necessary by the developer. All drainage calculations for parking areas shall utilize, as a minimum, stormwater runoff coefficients for the parking lot as if paved in its entirety with non-porous bituminous concrete. All parking lots shall be designed and constructed in such a manner that dirt, sand, gravel, and similar materials will not be deposited or tracked on public streets or rights- of-way. The owner of the site shall be responsible for cleanup operations at all times and may, at the option of the City, be required to properly seal the parking lot and internal drive areas by means of surface treatment, asphalt paving, or concrete paving or provide such site modifications at his expense as may be necessary to'eliminate the problem. (c) Internal drainage is required for parking lots where the City Engineer considers sufficient room to exist for ten (10) or more parked cars in standard configuration and where, in the opinion of the City Engineer, the combination