Except as otherwise provided in this
chapter, when any building or structure is hereafter erected or structurally
altered to the extent of increasing the floor area by 25% or more
or any building is hereafter converted for the uses listed in Column
1 of the chart below, when such buildings contain the floor areas
specified in Column 2, accessory off-street loading spaces shall be
provided as required in Column 3 or as required in subsequent sections
of this article.
Column 1
|
Column 2
|
Column 3
|
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Use or Use Category
|
Floor Area as Defined in § 115-4
(square feet)
|
Loading Spaces Required
|
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Retail store, department store, restaurant,
wholesale house, warehouse, general service, manufacturing or industrial
establishment
|
2,000 - 10,000
10,000 - 20,000
20,000 - 40,000
40,000 - 60,000
|
1
2
3
4
|
|
Each 50,000 over 60,000
|
1 additional
|
Apartment building, motel, hotel,
office or office building, hospital or similar institution or place
of public assembly
|
5,000 - 25,000
25,000 - 100,000
100,000 - 200,000
|
1
2
3
|
|
Each 100,000 over 200,000
|
1 additional
|
Funeral home or mortuary
|
1 berth for each chapel
|
|
Where a building is used for more
than one use or for different uses, and where the floor area used
for each use for which loading space is required is below the minimum
for required loading spaces but the aggregate floor area used is greater
than such minimum, then off-street loading space shall be provided
as if the entire building were used for that use in the building for
which the most spaces are required. In such cases, the Director may
make reasonable requirements for the location of required loading
spaces.
[Added 7-20-1999 by Ord. No. 1328; amended 2-27-2018 by Ord. No. 2550]
In addition to the other requirements
of this article, the following requirements relating to screening
of loading areas shall apply in the large-scale uses C-1 General Commercial
District, the large scale uses CR-1 Commercial Residential District,
the C-3 Heavy Commercial District, the C-4 Planned Commercial District,
and the C-5 Service/Limited Manufacturing District for nonresidential
development.
A. Screening requirements for loading areas
and trash dumpster areas. The intent of providing screening for loading
areas is to minimize the negative visual impact of such operations.
B. Sites affected by screening requirements:
(1)
The new construction of any building
or group of buildings which contains loading areas, dumpsters and
storage areas.
(2)
Existing site or building with proposed
modifications to the site or building which result in new loading
areas, dumpsters or storage area.
C. Screening requirements.
(1)
All loading areas consisting of one
or more loading spaces, loading docks or vehicular lanes providing
access to any of these areas shall be oriented to be screened as inconspicuous
as possible and may be subject to site plan review from land in an
adjacent residential district and all adjacent public roads.
(2)
All dumpsters, trash pads and trash
collection storage areas shall be carefully located and oriented to
be as inconspicuous as possible. All dumpsters, trash pads and trash
collection storage areas shall be screened from adjoining properties.
(a)
Setbacks for dumpsters, trash pads
and trash collection storage areas shall be minimum 60 feet front,
30 feet side and 30 feet rear.
(3)
All buildings shall be screened from
land in an adjacent residential district.
(4)
Options for providing screening include:
(a)
Six-foot high sight-tight fence or
wall.
(b)
Four-foot (minimum height at planting)
evergreen landscape screen subject to the Department of Agriculture.