§ 13.40.050. Compliance required—Variances.

A.

No parking facilities, parking lots, parking garages, public parking decks, basement or underground garages, shall be operated in violation of this chapter. No parking facilities shall be licensed to operate unless the same have been first inspected and approved by the director of the department of codes administration or his authorized representative.

B.

Where, by reason of exceptional narrowness, shallowness or shape of a specific piece of property, or by reason of exceptional topographical conditions or other extraordinary or exceptional situations or conditions of a piece of property, the application of this chapter and the regulations contained herein would result in a peculiar and exceptional practical difficulty to or exceptional or undue hardship upon the use of such property as a public parking lot, public parking deck or parking garage, or where the proposed use of such property is temporary in nature pending other development or use of such property by its owner and the strict application of this chapter would prevent the use of such property for parking facilities on a temporary basis by reason of the expense involved, the board of building code appeals shall have the power in a specific case to vary from strict application so as to relieve such difficulties or hardships, provided such relief may be granted without substantial detriment to the comfort, safety, convenience and general welfare of the citizens and purpose of this chapter.

(Prior code § 30-2-4)