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(7) Retail: Four spaces per 1000 square footage of net floor area. Net floor area does not include stairways elevators, equipment rooms, halls, and restrooms (8) Loading spaces: One off-street loading space shall be provided if the zone lot devoted to a nonresidential use has an area of more than 7,500 square feet but less than 20,000 square feet, and one space for each additional acre of lot area. Such space, unless otherwise adequately provided for, shall not be less than 12 feet in width, 30 feet in length and 15 feet in height. (b) General parking requirements (1) No part of any parking space required by this article shall exist upon, and no part of any vehicle shall extend over the right-of-way of, any public road. alley, street, walkway or mall. (2) Parking spaces shall be provided on the same lot with the building or not more than 800 feet distance, as measured along the nearest pedestrian walkway; provided, that such area is under public ownership. If valet or shuttle service is provided this distance can be increase to 1400 feet. (3) Parking requirements for two or more uses may be provided by the establishment of the required number of spaces for each use in a common parking area, provided that all uses being served by the common parking area are under the same ownership or public ownership. However no shared parking calculations may be used in determining the minimum required number of spaces, unless approved by the adoption of a parking management plan submitted with the master plan. (4) All parking areas shall have direct access to a public right-of-way. (5) Parking lots shall be paved in a manner consistent with the design standards. (6) All parking areas shall be landscaped and screened in a manner that meets the approved design standards. (7) Handicapped spaces shall be provided as required in section 40-71.1 (8) Parking Decks. All portions of such structure along a street shall not be used for parking of vehicles, but shall be devoted to other permitted principal uses or to means of pedestrian or vehicle access, provided that such vehicle access along a principal street shall be permitted only when no other secondary street or alley is available for adequate access. 5. That this ordinance shall take effect on the date of its adoption. ADOPTED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia at a meeting held on February 26. 2008. Teste: City Clerk