[Amended 12-22-1999 by Ord. No. 458]
Any building or other structure erected, altered
or used, and any lot used or occupied, for any of the following named
purposes or similar uses shall be provided with minimum off-street
parking spaces as set forth below, together with adequate passageways,
driveways or other means of circulation and access to and from a street
or way:
A.
For a dwelling, two all-weather parking spaces per
family are required in addition to any garage or enclosed spaces,
provided that for multifamily dwellings and townhouse dwellings, all
spaces shall be paved in accordance with the Subdivision and Land
Development Ordinance,[1] and all spaces must be located on the same lot therewith.
B.
For any of the following uses the required parking
spaces shall be all-weather and paved and shall be located on the
same lot therewith:
(1)
Church, school, public auditorium, assembly
or meeting room: one parking space for every three seats provided
for public assembly.
(2)
Stadium: one parking space for every three seats.
(3)
Hospital, convalescent home or institutional
home: one parking space for every three beds plus one space for each
employee on the two longest shifts.
(4)
Community center, library, museum: one parking
space for every 500 square feet of floor area in public use, plus
one space for each employee.
(5)
Retail store or shop: one parking space for
every 100 square feet of store sales floor space.
(6)
Department store or super market: one parking
space for every 150 square feet of store sales floor area.
(7)
Indoor theater: one parking space for every
three seats.
(8)
Hotel, apartment house, tourist home, or housing
for the elderly: 1 1/2 parking spaces for each unit.
(9)
Office building or wholesale establishment:
one parking space for every 200 square feet of building area excluding
hallways, lavatories, shafts, elevators, stairs and utility rooms.
(10)
Restaurant, tap room, cafe or tea room: one
parking space for every 50 square feet of floor space devoted to patron
use, plus one space for each employee on the two largest shifts.
(11)
Laboratory or any industrial establishment:
one parking space for every employee as calculated utilizing the two
heaviest work shifts.
(12)
Bowling alleys: at least five parking spaces
for each lane.
(13)
Public garages, automobile, and gasoline service
stations: at least one parking space either within or without the
structure for each 500 square feet of gross floor or ground area or
fraction thereof, devoted to repair or service facilities, which shall
be in addition to the space allocated for the normal storage of motor
vehicles.
(14)
For combination uses and uses not specifically
named above the Zoning Officer shall have sole discretion as to the
category most nearly equivalent to the proposed use and the determination
as to the additional spaces that may be required over and above that
category. In so doing, the Zoning Officer shall be guided by the "Parking
Generation Handbook," as published by the institute of Transportation
Engineers.
(15)
For shopping centers containing five or more
uses and comprising a minimum of 100,000 square feet, parking shall
be provided on the basis of a ratio of five parking spaces per 1,000
square feet of gross floor area.
The parking spaces required in § 282-186B herein may be located elsewhere than on the same lot when authorized as a special exception, subject to the following conditions:
A.
That the owners of two or more contiguous establishments
shall submit with their application for special exception a site plan
showing joint use and location of a common off-street parking area.
B.
That some portion of the common off-street parking
area lies within 200 feet of both entrances, regularly used by patrons,
into the buildings served thereby.
All parking lots under this section shall be
constructed in complete accordance with the requirements of the Subdivision
and Land Development Ordinance of Hatfield Township, as amended,[1] and in addition:
A.
They shall not be used for the sale, repair or dismantling
of any vehicles, equipment, materials or supplies.
B.
They shall be properly graded for drainage maintained
in good condition, free of weeds, dust, trash or debris.
C.
They shall be provided with safe entrances and exits
so located as to minimize traffic congestion and the effect of headlight
glare.
D.
Lighting facilities shall be so arranged that they
neither unreasonably nor unnecessarily disturb occupants of adjacent
residential properties nor interfere with traffic by either location
or glare.
Off-street parking facilities existing at the
effective date of this chapter shall not subsequently be reduced to
an amount less than required hereunder for a similar new building
or new use. Off-street parking facilities provided to comply with
the provisions of this chapter shall not subsequently be reduced below
the requirements of this chapter.
In addition to required off-street parking spaces,
every use permitted in this chapter shall be provided with off-street
loading and unloading space, which space, except for single-family
detached, single-family semidetached and townhouse dwellings, shall
be completely separate and distinct from the required off-street parking
spaces and shall be appropriate to the use in every respect and on
the same lot therewith.
Required off-street parking space shall be permitted
within the required yard areas only as stated in regulations for the
individual zoning districts.
[Amended 12-9-1998 by Ord. No. 420TT]
The Zoning Hearing Board may approve as a special
exception the placing of open space in reserve for use as future parking
areas. Under such conditions, the applicant may construct reduced
parking facilities in accordance with the demonstrated need, provided
that space is reserved for the construction of the additional parking
facilities necessary to satisfy the requirements of this chapter.
Stormwater, including detention facilities shall be constructed based
on the facilities required to meet this code, without consideration
of the reduction factor.
