A.
Off-street parking facilities shall be provided to
lessen on-street congestion. The facilities required herein shall
be available to patrons throughout the hours of operation of the particular
business or use for which such facilities are provided. As used herein,
the term "parking space" includes either covered garage space or uncovered
parking space located off the public right-of-way.
B.
All parking spaces shall be ample in size for the
vehicles for which use is intended. The net parking space per vehicle
shall be not less than nine feet wide and 18 feet long. Parking spaces
and the approaches thereto shall be paved surfaces or stabilized surface.
For purposes of this chapter, "stabilized surface" is hereby defined
as an approved all-weather, dustless surface. Outdoor parking spaces
shall be deemed to be part of the open space of the lot on which it
is located and shall be fully accessible.
C.
A garage or carport may be located wholly or partly
inside the walls of the principal building or attached to the outer
walls. If separated from the principal building, the garage shall
conform to all accessory building requirements. A garage may be constructed
under a yard, provided that the level of such yard shall conform to
the general level of the other yards on the lot. The space above such
an underground garage shall be deemed to be part of the open space
of the lot on which it is located.
D.
Off-street parking in residential districts shall
be in the driveway or rear driveway apron only. There shall be no
parking on the lawn in the front yard, except on a temporary basis
for moving.
E.
There shall be no driveway or expanded apron that
encroaches in the front yard between the principal residential dwelling
and the curb. In the event the property is a corner lot there will
be no encroachment in the side yard area of a driveway.
A.
All multifamily, commercial, public and industrial
uses shall provide handicapped parking spaces as follows:
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Total Parking Spaces
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Required Accessible Spaces
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|---|---|
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1 - 25
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1
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26 - 50
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2
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51 - 75
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3
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76 - 100
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4
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101 - 150
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5
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151 - 200
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6
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201 - 300
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7
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301 - 400
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8
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401 - 500
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9
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501 - 1,000
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2% of total
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Over 1,000
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20, plus 1 per 100 over 1,000
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B.
The design of handicapped accessible spaces shall
be completed in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act
Architectural Guidelines and include the following:
(1)
Accessible parking spaces serving a particular building
shall be located on the shortest accessible route of travel from adjacent
parking to an accessible structure. In parking facilities not serving
a particular structure, accessible parking shall be located on the
shortest accessible route of travel to an accessible pedestrian entrance
of the parking entrance.
(2)
Accessible parking spaces shall be at least eight
feet wide.
(3)
One parking access aisle of no less than five feet
in width shall be provided for each accessible parking space and shall
be a part of the accessible route of no less than three feet in width
to the building or facility entrance. A parking access aisle may be
shared between two accessible parking spaces.
(4)
Parking spaces and access aisles shall be level with
surface slopes not exceeding 2% in all directions.
(5)
Accessible parking spaces shall be designated as "reserved"
by a sign showing the symbol of accessibility. Such signs shall be
located so as not to be obscured by a vehicle parked in the space.
A.
Specific parking space requirements. Any of the following
facilities hereafter erected or enlarged and any facility hereafter
converted into one of the following facilities and any open area hereafter
used shall be provided with not less than the minimum parking spaces
and loading/unloading areas as set forth below, together with adequate
accessways, driveways or other means of circulation and access to
and from a street:
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Use
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Required Parking Spaces
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|---|---|---|---|
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Automotive parts sales/ service garages
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3 per bay, plus 1 for every 300 square feet
of retail parts sales area
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Automobile sales
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1 per 500 square feet of indoor gross floor
area, plus 1 per 2,500 square feet of outdoor sales/rental area, plus
2 per service bay, plus 1 per employee, but never fewer than 5 spaces
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Automobile wash
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5 per washing lane
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Banks/financial institutions
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1 per 300 square feet of gross floor area. Each
drive-up window shall have sufficient stacking room for 4 cars, and
a bypass lane shall be provided.
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Bowling alleys
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4 per alley
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Convenience stores
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4 per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area
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Campground
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1 dust-free 10 feet by 30 feet space per campsite
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Dance halls, swimming pools, roller rinks, and
other similar uses
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1 per 100 square feet of gross floor area or
of surface clubs, lodges pool
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Day-care centers (nursery schools)
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1 per employee plus 1 safe passenger off-street
loading/unloading space per 5 children
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Family-care and group-care facilities
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1 per 4 residents plus 1 per employee in the
maximum working shift
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Family day-care and group day-care homes
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1 per nonresident employee plus 1 safe passenger
off-street loading/unloading space per 4 nonresident children
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Funeral homes/ mortuaries
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1 per 100 square feet of gross floor area used
for memorial services, viewing area, business office and products
display
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Furniture or appliance stores
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1 per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area
interior sale space plus 1.5 per 1,000 square feet of interior storage
and exterior display or storage
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|
Home/farm occupations
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1 per 300 square feet of gross floor area utilized
for the home/farm occupation, plus 1 per nonresident employee, in
addition to the requirement for the dwelling unit
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Hospitals
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1 per 4 beds, plus 1 per 2 employees of the
maximum working shift, plus 1 per staff doctor
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Laundries
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1 per 2 washing machines plus 1 per employee
on maximum working shift
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Hotels, motels, boarding and lodging/rooming
houses, bed-and- breakfast establishments
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1 per sleeping room plus 1 per 200 square feet
of gross floor area in non-room areas
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Industrial uses (manufacturing or assembly plants)
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1 per 800 square feet of gross floor area
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Junkyard/salvage yard
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1 per employee plus 1 per 5,000 square feet
of lot area, excluding required buffer area
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Lumberyard
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1 per 500 square feet of gross floor area plus
1 per 1,000 square feet of indoor/outdoor storage area
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Medical centers
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1 per 250 square feet of gross floor area
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Nursery/ greenhouse
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1 per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area,
plus 1 per 2,000 square feet lot area, excluding buffer area
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Nursing and convalescent homes
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1 per 3 beds, plus 1 space per 2 employees in
the maximum working shift plus 1 per staff doctor
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Office
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4 per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area
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|
Places of public or private assem- bly (churches,
community centers, theaters or similar meeting and assembly uses)
|
1 per 5 seats or 1 per 100 square feet where
no seats are provided
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Radio, television and/or broadcast station
[Added 4-22-2010 by Ord. No. 876] |
1 space per 400 square feet of gross floor area
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Residential uses:
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Single-family
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2 per dwelling unit
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Multiple dwellings (including con- version apartments
and excluding accessory apart- ments):
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Elderly apartments
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.5 per dwelling unit
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Efficiency/studio
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1 per dwelling unit
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1 bedroom
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1.5 per dwelling unit
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2 bedrooms or more
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2 per dwelling unit
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Restaurants, tea rooms, night- clubs, bars and
taverns
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1 per 3 seats
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Fast-foods establishments
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1 per 60 square feet of gross floor area
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Retail stores and shops
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1 per 200 square feet of gross floor area
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Schools
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Elementary
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2 per classroom, but not less than 1 per teacher
and staff
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Intermediate
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2.5 per classroom, but not less than 1 per teacher
and staff
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Secondary
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2.5 per classroom, but not less than 1 per teacher
and staff
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Shopping centers
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5.0 per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area
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Utility or communication station
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1 per vehicle normally required to service such
facility
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Warehousing/ distribution
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1 per 5,000 square feet of gross floor area,
plus required spaces for any office or sales areas
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B.
All other uses not provided for herein. For all other
uses not provided for herein, required parking spaces shall be determined
by a study to be prepared by the developer and approved by the Borough.
The study shall include the following:
(1)
Type of use and estimated number of total trips generated
during peak conditions (inbound and outbound).
(2)
Estimated parking duration per vehicle trip (turnover
rate).
(3)
Based on estimated number of trips generated and average
parking duration per trip, calculate number of spaces required.
(4)
Estimated number of employees; one space to be provided
for every two employees working maximum shift.
A.
Existing parking. Structures and uses existing on
the effective date of this chapter shall not be subject to the requirements
of this Article so long as the type or extent of use is not changed,
provided that any parking facility now serving such structures or
uses shall not in the future be reduced below such requirements.
B.
Changes in requirements. Whenever there is an alteration
of a structure or a change or extension of a use which increases the
parking requirements according to the standards contained herein,
the total additional parking required for the alteration, change or
extension shall be provided in accordance with the requirements of
that section.
C.
Conflict with other uses. No parking area shall be
used for any use that interferes with its availability for the parking
need it is required to serve.
D.
Continuing obligation. All required parking facilities
shall be provided and maintained so long as the use exists which the
facilities were designed to serve. Off-street parking facilities shall
not be reduced in total extent after their provision. Reasonable precautions
are to be taken by the owner or sponsor of particular uses to assure
the availability of required facilities for the employees or other
persons whom the facilities are designed to serve. Facilities shall
at no time constitute a nuisance, hazard or unreasonable impediment
to traffic.
E.
Drainage, surfacing and maintenance. Drainage, surfacing
and maintenance of off-street parking areas, including driveways and
access drives, shall be completed in accordance with the Bradford
County Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance, as amended.
F.
Shared parking. Two or more uses may provide for required
parking in a common parking lot, if the total space provided is not
less than the sum of the spaces required for each use individually.
However, the number of spaces required in a common parking facility
may be reduced below this total only as a Special Exception, if it
can be demonstrated to the Zoning Hearing Board that the hours or
days of peak parking needed for the uses are so different that a lower
total will adequately provide for all uses served by the facility.
G.
Computation of spaces. Where the computation of required
parking space results in a fractional number, any fraction shall be
counted as one.
H.
Location of spaces.
(1)
Single- and two-family residential off-street parking
space shall be provided on the same lot or premises with the use served.
(2)
Parking spaces for multiple dwelling buildings and
nonresidential uses shall be readily accessible to the buildings served
thereby. Such spaces shall be in the same zoning district as the principal
building, or open area, and conform to the following regulations:
(a)
The required parking spaces shall be located
within 600 feet of the principal building or open space in question,
measured from the edge of the structure or open space to the edge
of the parking lot closest to the structure or open space.
(b)
The applicant for a use or building permit shall
submit, with his application, an instrument duly executed and acknowledged
which subjects such parcels of land to parking uses in connection
with the principal use to which it is accessory. Upon issuance of
a permit, the Zoning Officer shall cause such instrument to be recorded
in the office of the Recorder of Deeds.
I.
Lighting.
(1)
All public parking areas shall be adequately lighted
during after-dark operating hours. All newly-installed light standards
shall be located on raised parking islands and not on the parking
surface.
(2)
Any lighting used to illuminate off-street parking
or loading areas shall be shielded from any street or residential
use.
(3)
Any lighting used to illuminate off-street parking
or loading areas shall be 15 feet in height.
A.
Minimum dimensions.
(1)
The minimum dimensions of parking facilities to be
provided shall be as follows:
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Parking
|
Aisle Width
| |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Angle of Parking
|
Stall Width
(feet)
|
Stall Depth1
(feet)
|
One-Way
|
Two-Way
|
|
90 degrees
|
9
|
18
|
24
|
24
|
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60 degrees
|
9
|
20
|
18
|
20
|
|
45 degrees
|
9
|
18
|
15
|
20
|
|
30 degrees
|
9
|
16
|
12
|
20
|
|
Parallel
|
8
|
22
|
12
|
20
|
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Notes:
|
|---|
|
1 Depth of stall
is the perpendicular measurement from the curb or the edge of the
parking lot toward the interior portion of the lot to be occupied
by the parking vehicles and not including any part of the drive.
|
(2)
All dead-end parking lots shall be designed to provide
sufficient backup area for the end stalls of the parking area.
(3)
Parking areas shall be designed so that each motor
vehicle may proceed to and from the parking space provided for it
without requiring the moving of any other motor vehicle.
B.
Setbacks for parking areas shall be provided as follows:
(1)
All parking spaces and access drives shall be at least
10 feet from any multiple dwelling building or nonresidential building
on the lot.
(2)
All parking spaces and access drives shall be at least
five feet from any exterior lot line, except where buffer yards are
required, in which case such parking spaces and access drives may
not encroach on the buffer yard area.
(3)
No parking area shall be located within a public right-of-way.
C.
Separation.
(1)
Except at entrance and exit drives, parking area shall
be physically separated from any public and/or private streets with
a minimum six-foot-wide planting strip.
(2)
In no case shall parking areas be designed to require
or encourage cars to back into a public or private street in order
to leave the parking areas. When adjacent to a public or private street,
a grassed buffer yard of at least 10 feet shall be provided and maintained.
(3)
All paved off-street parking shall be marked so as
to indicate its location.
D.
Landscaping.
(1)
Buffer yards and screening shall be required for parking lots containing 10 or more parking spaces. Said buffer yard and screening shall be in accordance with buffer yard standards set forth in § 173-93 herein.
(2)
Five percent of the off-street parking and access
area, exclusive of other required landscaped areas, shall be landscaped.
(3)
Parking lots containing 10 or more parking spaces
shall be planted with a minimum of one tree for every eight parking
spaces. Each tree shall be surrounded by a planting island consisting
of no less than 50 square feet of permeable and unpaved surface. Plantings
may be placed individually or collectively.
(4)
Planting islands shall be bounded by a concrete curb
having a minimum height of six inches.
E.
Curb radius. No less than a five-foot radius of curvature
shall be permitted for all curb lines in all parking lots.
A.
Required spaces.
(1)
For all nonresidential uses requiring delivery or
pickup of materials, a minimum number of off-street loading and unloading
spaces shall be provided as follows:
|
Gross Floor Area
(square feet)
|
Required Number of Loading/Unloading Spaces
|
|---|---|
|
6,000 or less
|
1
|
|
6,001 - 20,000
|
2
|
|
Above 20,000
|
2, plus 1 additional space for each additional
50,000 square feet of gross floor area
|
(2)
Hotels shall have a least one loading space, with
an additional loading berth when the floor area exceeds 50,000 square
feet.
(3)
All off-street loading spaces shall be provided and
maintained so long as the use exists which the facilities were designed
to serve.
B.
Design standards. Off-street loading facilities shall
be designed in accordance with the following specifications:
(1)
Each required space shall be not less than 12 feet
in width, 45 feet in length and 14 1/2 feet in height, exclusive
of drives and maneuvering space and located entirely on the lot being
served.
(2)
There shall be appropriate means of access to a street
or alley, as well as adequate maneuvering space.
(3)
The maximum width of driveway openings, measured at
the street lot line, shall be 40 feet; the minimum width shall be
20 feet.
(4)
All accessory driveways and entranceways shall be
graded, surfaced and drained in accordance with applicable Borough/county
ordinances and codes.
Motor vehicle access to lots shall be provided
in accordance with the Bradford County Subdivision and Land Development
Ordinance, as amended.
