A.
In all zones, parking space for automobiles and the
means of access thereto shall be provided on every lot for every dwelling
unit located thereon, provided that in any business zone, such parking
space may be provided in the manner and location herein permitted
for required parking facilities accessory to the business use.
B.
No building permit or occupancy permit shall be issued
for any business, commercial activity or multifamily residential use
until a plan of the site has been submitted to and approved by the
Planning Board, which plan shall show the provisions to be made for
off-street parking space, control facilities, curb cuts and approach
area adequate to prevent traffic hazards, congestion or excessive
interference with normal traffic movement on adjacent public streets
and thoroughfares.
C.
For each use of for each structure designed or altered
for or occupied by any use as permitted in any zone, there shall be
provided off-street parking space as follows:
(1)
Unless otherwise permitted by this chapter, off-street
parking shall be provided on a lot according with the following schedule:
|
Use
|
Off-Street Parking Spaces Required
|
|---|---|
|
Apartment unit
|
1.75 per dwelling unit
|
|
Single family
|
2 per dwelling unit
|
|
Townhouse
|
2.5 per dwelling unit
|
|
Senior citizen
|
0.5 per dwelling unit
|
|
Nursing home
|
0.5 per bed
|
|
Bank
|
1.0 per 200 square feet of gross floor area
|
|
Bar, tavern
|
1.0 per 50 square feet of gross floor area
|
|
Bowling alley
|
4.0 per alley
|
|
Business, professional, administrative
|
1.0 per 250 square feet of gross floor area
|
|
Family/day-care center
|
1.0 per 250 square feet of gross floor area
of child care space
|
|
Health care offices and/or real estate offices
[Added 12-20-1999 by Ord. No. 99-11] |
1.0 per 180 square feet of gross floor area
|
|
Home occupation and home professional office
|
Requirement determined in accordance with residential
plus the appropriate use as identified in this section
|
|
Hotel or motel
|
1.1 per guest room
|
|
House of worship
|
1.0 per 3.0 seats
|
|
Industrial
|
1.0 per 800 square feet of gross floor area
|
|
Library
[Added 1-22-2002 by Ord. No. 2002-3] |
1.0 per 200 square feet of gross floor area
|
|
Medical offices
|
1.0 per 180 square feet of gross floor area
|
|
Offices, professional, and/or administrative
[Added 12-20-1999 by Ord. No. 99-11] |
1.0 per 250 square feet of gross floor area
|
|
Restaurant
|
1.0 per 3.0 seats
|
|
Restaurant, fast food
|
1.0 per 2.0 seats
|
|
Retail and service - stores and shops
|
1.0 per 180 square feet of gross floor area
|
|
Schools
|
As determined by the approving authority
|
|
Service station
|
4.0 per bay plus 1.0 per pump island
|
|
Shopping center
|
1.0 per 200 square feet of gross floor area
|
|
Skating rink
|
1.0 per 50 square feet of rink area
|
|
Swimming pool, commercial or public
|
1.0 per every 3.0 bathers which can be accommodated
in the pool
|
|
Theater, auditorium, banquet room or funeral
parlor
|
1.0 per 3.0 seats
|
(2)
Additional requirements for nonresidential zones.
Off-street parking areas are to be located on the same lot as the
structure requiring same. Access to off-street parking areas shall
be provided only from a public street or streets located solely within
a nonresidential zone. Access to an off-street parking area accessory
to a nonresidential use from a public street or a private way solely
or partially within a residential zone is prohibited. Notwithstanding
if the sole access to a lot within a nonresidential zone is from a
public street solely or partially within a residential zone, upon
site plan review, the reviewing authority shall determine access to
the site so as to minimize adverse effects upon neighboring residential
properties.
[Amended 12-6-1999 by Ord. No. 99-08]
(3)
Additional requirements for residential zones. A commercial
vehicle used in connection with a business or vehicle on which is
contained advertising matter intended to promote the interest of a
business shall be parked in the side or rear yard. In residential
zones, not more than one commercial vehicle (any vehicle which is
customarily used as a commercial vehicle shall be considered such
with or without commercial registration) may be kept on the premises,
provided that:
(4)
Industrial zones. Each establishment shall provide
one automobile parking space for every employee in any establishment
herein permitted as an industrial use computed on the basis of the
greatest number of employees at any one period or expected period.
Such parking space may be provided upon a lot or parcel separated
from the principal structure not further than 800 feet. Off-street
parking requirements for all uses permitted in the business zone shall
be the same for such uses when established in all industrial zones.
(5)
LBT Zone. Parking areas are permitted only outside
of the front yard or behind the front facade of any building, whichever
place is the most distant from the street. Corner lots are considered
as having a front facade facing each street.
A.
Parking and/or loading areas of any size area may
not be extended to the property lines. A minimum five-foot buffer
will be provided along the lot lines. This area shall not be impervious
and shall be maintained as lawn with appropriate shrubbery and/or
shade trees.
B.
Every off-street parking area with 50 or more spaces
shall be provided with:
(1)
Shade trees - one for every eight parking spaces,
each at least three inches in diameter at breast height and each provided
with an unpaved root area with a minimum radius of six feet (the trees
may be planted in the curbed islands described below) to be planted
in accordance with the site plan; and
(2)
Landscaped curbed islands at least 12 feet wide separating
parking batteries. (A parking battery is a service aisle with parking
to each side). Parking spaces abutting this island from 20 feet to
18 feet in length. The island shall not be impervious and it shall
be maintained as lawn with appropriate shrubbery and trees. The planting
shall be of such size, type and location so as to not affect safe
vehicular and pedestrian visibility.
C.
Landscaped residential buffer. Whenever a nonresidential
use adjoins a residential use or zone, there shall be established
between off-street parking and/or loading areas and such adjoining
residential use or zone a naturalized landscaped buffer not less than
40 feet in width. The Planning Board may relieve the applicant of
a portion of this buffer requirement where a portion of a nonresidential
lot is to remain undeveloped adjacent to a residential use or zone
and where, in the opinion of the Board, such buffer plantings should
not be required. The landscaped buffer shall be planted with a dense
mixture of coniferous and deciduous trees and shrubs. Deciduous trees
shall be not less than 11 feet to 13 feet in height at the time of
planting, and coniferous trees shall be not less than six feet to
10 feet in height at the time of planting. Shrubs shall be a minimum
of four to five feet in height at the time of planting. Plantings
shall be provided at a rate of not less than 45 trees per 100 linear
feet and not less than 55 shrubs per 100 linear feet of landscaped
buffer. In order that there shall be no headlight penetration to adjoining
residential uses or zones, and to minimize noise impacts from parking
and loading areas to adjoining residential uses and zones, there shall
be provided within the landscaped buffer a berm not less than five
feet in height and a six-foot-high fence, such as a stockade fence,
which shall be provided in addition to the landscaping required. At
the sole discretion of the Planning Board, the berm or fence, or both,
may not be required where the Board finds that either the landscaped
buffer with a berm or the landscaped buffer with a fence is found
to adequately prevent off-site light and noise impacts to adjoining
residential uses and/or zones from off-street parking and loading
areas. At the sole discretion of the Planning Board, and where a reduced
buffer width is found by the Board to adequately screen and buffer
adjoining residential uses and/or zones, the width of the required
landscaped buffer may be reduced to not less than 25 feet, when planted
with landscaping, and may or may not include a berm and/or fence as
may be determined necessary by the Planning Board. The number of trees
and shrubs in a reduced width landscaped buffer shall be provided
at the rate proportional to the buffer otherwise required (i.e., 28
trees and 35 shrubs).
[Added 8-16-2005 by Ord. No. 2005-16; amended 4-1-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-7]
A.
In order to prevent congestion in streets adjacent
to any lot occupied by any permitted church, fraternal, charitable
or educational institution but, recognizing that the imposition of
inflexible standards for the provision of off-street parking and loading
facilities may result in excessive hardship of practical difficulty,
no structure designed or intended for such occupancy shall be constructed,
altered or enlarged until a plot plan is submitted to the Planning
Board for approval with regard to the adequacy of the area required,
the Planning Board shall use for reference the standards imposed herein
upon commercial and business uses which are comparable in nature as
places of assembly or in other functional characteristics.
B.
Any such parking space within 200 feet of a residential
zone shall be suitably screened by protective planting strip designed
and laid out with suitable shrubbery or utilizing natural shrubbery
or trees so as to provide an effective natural screening of such parking
spaces.
A.
Nonresidential zones and uses. Every structure erected,
designed or altered for occupancy for any permitted commercial or
business use as permitted in this chapter shall provide, at the side
or rear of its lot, access and space for the loading and unloading
of delivery trucks which shall be accessible from public and private
alley or other way to be used for such purpose. There shall be a minimum
loading space provided of 250 square feet for every 25 feet of principal
store frontage to be measured along that side of the structure which
provides the primary means of access to the public.
[Amended 12-20-1999 by Ord. No. 99-11]
B.
Industrial zones and uses. Adequate space shall be
provided at the side or rear of the lot for the loading and unloading
of all vehicles serving any industrial use. If at any time the volume
of product handling and related vehicular movements increases to such
extent that congestion, delay and traffic hazards on public rights-of-way
are thereby created, the existing off-street loading and unloading
facilities shall be deemed to be inadequate by the Zoning Board, and
upon such finding, the Board shall notify the owner, lessee or other
responsible official in writing of such finding, and upon receipt
of such notification, the industry shall have a period of not more
than 90 days during which such inadequacies shall be corrected. Upon
failure to comply, the occupancy permit shall be revoked and the use
shall terminate its activity until it shall comply with this provision.
