A.
Overall requirements.
(1)
Number of spaces. Each use that is newly developed, enlarged, significantly changed in type or increased in number of establishments shall provide and maintain off-street parking spaces in accordance with Table 6.1[1] and the regulations of this Article, except as exempted by § 445-54F in the C-D District.
[1]
Editor's Note: Table 6.1 is included at the end of this chapter.
(3)
Multiple uses. Where a proposed lot contains or includes more than one type of use, the number of parking spaces required shall be the sum of the parking requirements for each separate use, except as may be allowed under § 445-53B.
(4)
Calculation. Where the calculation of required parking
spaces does not result in a whole number, the calculation shall be
rounded to the closest whole number.
(5)
Mixed-Use Adaptive Reuse. For lots involving development under Mixed-Use Adaptive Reuse, the number of parking spaces required shall be as specifically listed for this category in Table 6.1[2] and not based on the sum of the parking requirements for
each separate use.
[Added 1-12-2012 by Ord.
No. 59-2011]
[2]
Editor’s Note: Table 6.1 is included at the end of this chapter.
B.
Reduction of parking requirements by special exception.
(1)
Purposes. The purposes shall be to minimize impervious
surfaces, while ensuring adequate parking; to recognize that unique
circumstances may justify a reduction in parking.
(2)
The Zoning Hearing Board may permit a reduction, through the special exception process of § 445-19, of the number of parking spaces required to be developed if the applicant proves to the satisfaction of the Board that less parking spaces are needed.
(a)
Proof. To prove that less parking spaces are
needed, the applicant shall provide existing and projected employment,
customer, resident or other relevant data. Such data may include a
study of parking at similar developments during peak periods of use.
(b)
Shared parking. Under this section, an applicant
may seek to prove that parking permanently shared with another use
or another lot with shared internal access or another lot within 400
feet of the entrance to the use will reduce the total amount of parking
needed because the uses have different peak times of parking need
or overlapping customers.
(c)
Reservation of future parking areas. If a reduction
is permitted under this section, the Board may require as a condition
of the special exception that the lot include the reservation, permanently
or for a specified number of years, of areas for use if needed in
the future for additional parking.
[1]
Such reservation shall be provided in a legal
form acceptable to the Zoning Hearing Board Solicitor. A legally binding
deed restriction is recommended.
[2]
In such case, the applicant shall be required
to submit site plans to the Zoning Officer showing where and how the
additional parking could be accomplished. Such future parking areas
shall be designed to meet all City requirements, including stormwater
runoff. Such future parking areas shall not be covered by buildings
and shall be attractively landscaped unless needed for parking.
[3]
Such additional parking shall be required to
be provided within one year by the owner of the lot at that time after
the Zoning Officer may determine, in writing, to such owner that such
parking has become needed to meet actual use. Such determination shall
be based upon the Zoning Officer's on-site review on at least three
different days.
A.
General. Parking spaces and accessways shall be laid
out to result in safe and orderly use and to fully take into account
all of the following: vehicular access onto and off the site, vehicular
movement within the site, loading areas, pedestrian patterns and any
drive-through facilities. No parking area shall cause a safety hazard
or impediment to traffic off the lot.
B.
Existing parking. Structures and uses in existence
at the effective date of this chapter shall not be required to add
additional parking spaces to meet the requirements of this Article
unless the general type of use is significantly changed or the use
is expanded a total aggregate over time of more than 5% or 2,000 square
feet in floor area, whichever is more restrictive. Any parking spaces
serving such preexisting structures or uses at the time of adoption
of this chapter shall not in the future be reduced in number below
the number required by this chapter.
C.
Change in use or expansion. If a building or use significantly
changes in type of principal use or expands by a measure used in this
Article to determine parking need (such as floor area, maximum number
of employees, number of dwelling units or seating capacity) and if
such expansion or change would increase the number of required parking
spaces by at least 10% or 20 spaces, whichever is less, then the use
shall provide the total number of parking spaces that would be required
if the entire existing and proposed uses would be newly developed
under this Article, instead of only being required to provide the
additional uses for the change or expansion.
D.
Continuing obligation of parking and loading spaces.
All required numbers of parking spaces and off-street loading spaces
shall be available as long as the use or building which the spaces
serve still exist, and such spaces shall not be reduced in number
below the minimum required by this chapter. No required parking area
or off-street loading spaces shall be used for any other use (such
as storage or display of materials) that interferes with the area's
availability for parking to serve a use, except that an owner of a
parking area may allow use of the spaces by another use during specific
times of the day and week when they are clearly not needed for the
primary user.
E.
Location of parking. Required off-street parking spaces
shall be on the same lot or abutting lot with the principal use served,
unless the applicant proves to the satisfaction of the Zoning Officer
that a guaranteed method of providing the spaces is available using
parking spaces within 400 feet of a patron/patient entrance of the
principal use being served, provided that such parking is in a district
where such parking is permitted.
(1)
Such distance between the entrance of the use and
the parking spaces shall be 200 feet instead of 400 feet for parking
that serves uses located within the R-2/O District, provided that
such parking is in a district where such parking is permitted.
(2)
To meet the requirement that the availability of the
parking be guaranteed, an applicant may provide a suitable deed restriction
or a lease extending 25 years or for the life of use of the property,
whichever is of shorter duration.
(3)
Such
distance between entrance of use and the parking spaces may be up
to 700 feet for Mixed-Use Adaptive Reuse in the I-L District.
[Added 1-12-2012 by Ord.
No. 59-2011]
F.
Downtown exemption. In recognition of the need to
strongly encourage new construction and to reuse building space in
the downtown and recognizing the availability of public parking areas,
the requirements for minimum numbers, minimum aisle widths, minimum
sizes and landscaping requirements of off-street parking spaces in
this Article shall not apply within the C-D District.
A.
General requirements.
(1)
No parking area shall be designed to require or encourage
parked vehicles to back into a public street in order to leave a parking
space, except for a single-family or two-family dwelling with its
access onto a local street or parking court.
(2)
Every required parking space 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 vehicle,
except spaces for a single-family detached dwelling, twin dwelling
or for approved valet parking areas.
(3)
Parking areas shall not be within any of the following:
a required buffer yard or a required paved area setback.
(4)
Defined trafficways. All parking areas shall include
clearly defined and marked traffic patterns. In any lot with more
than 30 off-street parking spaces, raised curbs and landscaped areas
shall be used to direct traffic within the lot. Major vehicular routes
shall be separated as much as is reasonable from major pedestrian
routes within the lot.
(5)
Separation from street. All areas for off-street parking, off-street loading and unloading and the storage or movement of motor vehicles shall be physically separated from the street by a raised curb, planting strip, wall or other suitable barrier against unchanneled motor vehicle entrance or exit, except for necessary and approved vehicle entrances and exits to the lot. All commercial and industrial parking areas approved after the adoption of this chapter shall be separated from the street by a grass or landscaped strip of land. Parking spaces may back into an alley. See § 445-55G.
(6)
Stacking. Each lot shall provide adequate area upon
the lot to prevent backup of vehicles on a public street while awaiting
entry to the lot or while waiting for service at a drive-through facility.
(7)
Stormwater management. The applicant for any new or
expanded parking lot that would result in 5,000 square feet or greater
of impervious coverage (compared to what previously existed), outside
of the C-D District, shall be required to submit stormwater management
calculations to the City Engineer and prove to the satisfaction of
the City Engineer that stormwater will be adequately managed.
B.
Size and marking of parking spaces. Each parking space
shall include a rectangle with a minimum width of nine feet and a
minimum length of 18 feet, except:
(1)
The minimum length shall be 21 feet for parallel parking.
(2)
If a lot or parking deck includes more than 30 parking
spaces, a maximum of 20% of the required spaces include a rectangle
with a minimum width of eight feet and a minimum length of 16 feet,
provided that those spaces are marked as "compact cars only" and provided
that those spaces do not include the most desirable spaces in the
lot or deck.
(3)
All spaces shall be marked to indicate their location,
except those of a single-family or two-family dwelling.
(4)
If a parking area is permitted to not be paved, then
a minimum width of 10 feet per space shall be used.
C.
Aisles.
(1)
Each aisle providing access to stalls for one-way
traffic only shall be at least the maximum aisle width specified as
follows:
|
Angle of Parking
(degrees)
|
Minimum Aisle Width
(feet)
| |
|---|---|---|
|
Parallel or 30
|
12
| |
|
45
|
14
| |
|
60
|
18
| |
|
90
|
20
|
(2)
Each aisle providing access to stalls for two-way
traffic shall be at least 20 feet in width.
(3)
Maximum length of parking aisle: 300 feet.
(4)
Modification. By special exception, the Zoning Hearing
Board may reduce the minimum size of parking spaces or aisles to reflect
congested conditions and the need for parking spaces in older commercial
areas of the City.
D.
Access drives and driveways.
(1)
Width of driveway/accessway at entrance onto public
street (at the edge of the cartway):
|
One-Way Use
(feet)
|
Two-Way Use
(feet)
| ||
|---|---|---|---|
|
Minimum
|
12
|
20
| |
|
Maximum
|
35
|
50
|
|
NOTE:
The standards shall apply unless a different
standard is required by PennDOT for an entrance to a state street.
|
(2)
Drainage. Adequate provisions shall be made to maintain
uninterrupted parallel drainage along a public street at the point
of driveway or access drive entry.
(3)
Separation between driveways. At least 50 feet shall
be provided between the center lines of any two accessways or driveways
along one street within one lot.
(4)
Separation from intersection. If a driveway or accessway
enters onto a collector or arterial street, then the center line of
that driveway or accessway where it enters the collector or arterial
street shall be a minimum of 75 feet from the center line of any other
street, where that street enters the collector or arterial street
at a different point than the driveway or accessway.
(5)
State permit. Where there will be new or intensified
access to a state street or other work within the right-of-way of
a state street, a state highway occupancy permit shall be obtained,
as applicable.
(6)
Sight distance for driveways. See § 445-74C(2).
E.
Paving, grading and drainage.
(2)
Except for landscaped areas, all portions of required
parking, loading facilities and driveways shall be surfaced with asphalt,
concrete or decorative paving block, except that portions or all of
driveways or parking areas may be left in grass or gravel where the
applicant proves to the full satisfaction of the Zoning Officer that
the parking or driveway:
(3)
Each of the following existing parking areas shall
be paved with asphalt, concrete or decorative paving block within
three years of the adoption of this chapter:
(a)
Parking lots in the C-D District that have existed
for at least five years prior to the adoption of this chapter and
that include a minimum of 25 parking spaces, except for lots for which
an official development plan or building permit has been approved
or is being reviewed prior to approval, and except where the property
owner has signed an agreement to develop the property within a specified
period of time.
(b)
Off-street parking spaces serving three or more
dwelling units.
G.
Paved area setbacks (including off-street parking
setbacks).
(1)
Intent. The intent shall be to ensure that parked
or moving vehicles within a lot do not obstruct sight distance or
interfere with pedestrian traffic, to aid in stormwater management
along streets and to prevent vehicles from entering or exiting a lot
other than at approved driveways.
(2)
Uses within the paved area setback. The paved area
setback required by this section, in addition to areas of any existing
street right-of-way area not used as a cartway, street shoulder or
on-street parking, shall be maintained in natural ground cover (such
as grass) and shall not be used for any of the following:
(3)
A paved area setback is not required abutting a parking
deck.
(4)
A paved area setback may include the following: permitted
freestanding signs, stormwater facilities that are not impervious
or approved driveway crossings. If sidewalks exist, the paved area
setback may be provided between the sidewalk and the street or between
the sidewalk and the paving.
(5)
Any commercial, industrial, institutional, townhouse
or low-rise apartment use developed after the adoption of this chapter
shall provide paved area setbacks as follows:
|
If a paved area abuts:
|
Minimum paved area setback
(measured from the curbline or the existing
legal right-of-way line after development if no curbline will exist)
(feet)
| |
|---|---|---|
|
Expressway or expressway ramp or arterial street(other
than abutting an arterial street in the C-D or C-N District):
| ||
|
For lot with 2 acres or less of impervious coverage
|
5
| |
|
For lot with more than 2 acres of impervious
coverage
|
10
| |
|
Collector or local street in any district
|
3
| |
|
Arterial street in the C-D or C-N District
|
3
|
H.
Paved area landscaping (parking lot trees).
(1)
Intent. This section is primarily intended to reduce
the thermal pollution of surface waters from parking lot runoff.
(2)
Any lot approved after the adoption of this chapter,
outside of the C-D District, that would include more than 25 parking
spaces shall be required to provide shade trees within the paved area.
(3)
One deciduous tree shall be required for every 3,000
square feet of paved area. Such trees may be placed within or around
the edges of paved areas.
(4)
Trees required by this section shall meet the following
standards:
(a)
Type of trees permitted. Required trees shall
be chosen from the following list of approved street trees, unless
the applicant provides standard reference material or a signed letter
from a registered landscape architect that proves to the satisfaction
of the Zoning Officer that another specific type of tree would shade
paved areas, be resistant to disease, road salt and air pollution
and be attractive.
|
Types of Deciduous Trees Permitted
| |
|---|---|
|
Acer rubrum - American red maple
| |
|
Acer saccharum - Sugar maple
| |
|
Celtis occidentalis - Common hackberry
| |
|
Fagus sylvatica - European beech
| |
|
Fraxinus americana - White ash
| |
|
Fraxinus pennsylvania - Green ash
| |
|
Ginko biloba fastigiata - Maiden hair tree (male
only; female has noxious odor)
| |
|
Gleditsia triacanthos - Thornless locust
| |
|
Liriodendron tulipifera - Tulip poplar
| |
|
Quercus alba - White oak
| |
|
Quercus acutissima - Sawtooth oak
| |
|
Quercus borealis - Red oak
| |
|
Quercus coccinea - Scarlet Oak
| |
|
Quercus macrocarpa - Bur oak
| |
|
Quercus imbricaria - Shingle oak
| |
|
Quereus montana - Chestnut oak
| |
|
Quercus velutina - Black oak
| |
|
Quercus phellos - Willow oak
| |
|
Sophora japonica - Chinese scholar tree
| |
|
Tilia americana - American linden
| |
|
Tilia cordata - Little leaf european linden
| |
|
Tilia euchlora - Crimean linden
| |
|
Tilia petiolaris - Silver linden
| |
|
Zelkova serrata - Zelkova
|
|
NOTE:
This chapter only regulates the species of trees
that are used to meet requirements of the City. The species of trees
that are not required by City ordinances are not regulated.
|
(b)
Quality of trees. Required trees shall be of
symmetrical growth and free of insect pests and disease.
(c)
Minimum size. The trunk diameter [measured at
a height of one foot above the finished grade level] shall be a minimum
of two inches or greater.
(d)
Planting and maintenance. Required trees shall
be:
[1]
Planted in conformance with good landscaping
practices, with adequate unpaved surface around each for water and
air;
[2]
Properly protected by raised curbs, distance
or other devices from damage from vehicles;
[3]
Surrounded by a minimum of nine square feet
of pervious ground area, which shall be protected from vehicles; and
[4]
Properly maintained.
(e)
Removal and replacement of trees. A required
tree shall not be removed without being replaced within 12 months
by another tree that meets the requirements of this section. Trees
which have died or have become diseased or pest-ridden shall be replaced
within 12 months.
(5)
Curbing and landscaped islands shall be located as
needed to direct the flow of traffic through the parking lot in a
smooth, orderly and safe manner to prevent cross-taxiing.
(6)
Existing trees. For every existing tree on the lot
that is healthy and is protected and preserved and maintained after
the completion of all construction and that would generally meet the
requirements of this section:
(a)
One fewer deciduous tree shall be required to
be planted for every such preserved tree with a minimum trunk diameter
of between four and 16 inches (measured one foot above the natural
ground level); and
(b)
Two fewer deciduous trees shall be required
to be planted for every such preserved tree with a minimum trunk diameter
of 16 inches or greater (measured one foot above the natural ground
level).
J.
Handicapped parking.
(1)
Number of spaces. Any lot including four or more off-street
parking spaces shall include a minimum of one handicapped space. The
following number of handicapped spaces shall be provided, unless a
revised regulation is officially established under the federal Americans
With Disabilities Act:
|
Total No. of Required Parking Spaces on
the Lot
|
Required Minimum No./Percent of Handicapped
Parking Spaces
| |
|---|---|---|
|
4 to 25
|
1
| |
|
26 to 50
|
2
| |
|
51 to 75
|
3
| |
|
76 to 100
|
4
| |
|
101 to 150
|
5
| |
|
151 to 200
|
6
| |
|
201 to 300
|
7
| |
|
301 to 400
|
8
| |
|
401 to 500
|
9
| |
|
501 to 1,000
|
2% of required number of spaces
| |
|
1,001 or more
|
20, plus 1% of required number of spaces over
1,000
|
(2)
Location. Handicapped parking spaces shall be located
where they would result in the shortest reasonable accessible distance
to a handicapped accessible building entrance. Curb cuts with an appropriate
slope shall be provided as needed to provide access from the handicapped
spaces.
(3)
Minimum size. Each required handicapped parking space
shall be a minimum of eight by eighteen (8 x 18) feet. In addition,
each space shall be adjacent to a five-foot-wide access aisle. Such
access aisle may be shared by two handicapped spaces by being placed
between them. However, one out of every eight required handicapped
parking spaces shall have an adjacent access aisle of eight feet width
instead of five feet.
(4)
Slope. Handicapped parking spaces shall be located
in areas of fewer than six-percent slope in any direction.
(5)
Marking. All required handicapped spaces shall be
well-marked by clearly visible signs and/or pavement markings.
A.
Purpose. The purpose shall be to prevent the character
of residential areas from being harmed by nuisances, hazards and visual
blight and to prevent the establishment of junkyards in residential
districts.
B.
Storage of unregistered, commercial or junk vehicles.
(1)
COMMERCIAL VEHICLE
TRACTOR OF A TRACTOR-TRAILER
TRAILER OF A TRACTOR-TRAILER
Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the
following terms shall have the following meanings:
A motor vehicle that has a gross vehicle weight of greater
than 6,000 pounds and is primarily used for business purposes, including
but not limited to making service calls, transporting equipment used
in a business or in accomplishing physical work as part of a business
(such as hauling material).
A truck with a minimum of three axles that is primarily intended
to pull a trailer, as defined below, and not primarily to carry goods
itself.
A commercial vehicle with a length of 20 feet or more that
is not self-propelled, that is intended to haul materials, vehicles,
goods, gases or liquids and that is intended to be pulled by a tractor
(as defined above) and that is not a recreational vehicle.
(2)
Residential district. Within a residential district, no motor vehicle that does not display current registration and current safety inspection (or safety inspection and registration that expires less than 90 days prior) and no junk vehicle (as defined by Article II) shall be parked or stored in any way that is visible from a public street or an adjacent dwelling.
(3)
Nonresidential district. In a nonresidential district, a maximum of one junk vehicle (as defined by Article II) shall be parked or stored in such a way that the vehicle is visible from a public street or a dwelling. This section shall not apply to a permitted auto sales use, auto service station, junkyard or auto repair garage, provided that the regulations for that use are met.
(4)
Exceptions. This section does not apply to the following,
provided that they are in an operational condition:
(a)
Municipally owned vehicles.
(b)
Ambulance, fire and rescue vehicles.
(c)
Buses used primarily for transporting public
or private school children to and from school or transporting persons
to or from a place of worship.
(e)
Vehicles operated by the United States Postal
Service or a level of government or a municipal authority.
(f)
Vehicles actively engaged in the construction
or repair of buildings, streets, curbs, sidewalks, rehabilitation
or utilities in the immediate area.
(g)
Vehicles actively engaged in making routine
household deliveries or rendering routine household services to a
property that is adjacent or on the same lot as the vehicle is parked.
(h)
Equipment and vehicles clearly primarily intended
for agricultural use.
(i)
Parking of vehicles that is customarily accessory
to a lawful nonconforming principal business use.
(5)
Commercial vehicles in a residential district.
(a)
In a residential district, a maximum of two
commercial vehicles (as defined above) may be parked for more than
eight hours in any forty-eight-hour period on private property. Such
vehicles shall be permitted only if used by residents of the property
as a means of transportation between their home and work. No commercial
vehicle in a residential district shall have a gross vehicle weight
of over 15,000 pounds if parked outside of an enclosed building.
(b)
Idling. In a residential district, the engine
of a tractor of a tractor-trailer shall not be idled for more than
10 minutes on the property between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00
a.m. or be repaired, except for clearly emergency repairs.
(c)
No trailer of a tractor-trailer shall be parked,
stored, maintained or kept in a residential district for more than
eight hours in any forty-eight-hour period.
A.
General requirements.
(1)
Each use receiving or shipping material or merchandise
by trucks shall provide sufficient off-street loading facilities,
which meet the requirements of this section, to accommodate the maximum
demand generated by the use. For the purposes of this section, the
words "loading" and "unloading" are used interchangeably.
(2)
The applicant shall provide evidence to the Zoning
Officer that the use will have sufficient numbers and sizes of loading
facilities. If a site plan or land development review is required,
such information shall also be provided to the Planning Commission,
who may advise the Zoning Officer.
B.
Design and layout of loading facilities. Off-street
loading facilities shall meet the following requirements:
(1)
Each off-street loading space shall be at least:
|
Largest Type of Truck Intended
|
Minimum Width
(feet)
|
Minimum Length (feet)
| |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Tractor-trailer
|
12 (except 11 if more than 10 such spaces on
a lot)
|
40 (with 12 feet clear height)
| |
|
Trucks other than tractor-trailers, pickups
or vans
|
10
|
25
| |
|
Pickup truck or van
|
9
|
18
|
(2)
Each space shall have sufficient maneuvering room
to avoid conflicts with parking and traffic movements within and outside
of the lot. No facility shall be designed or used in such a manner
that it threatens a safety hazard, public nuisance or a serious impediment
to traffic off the lot.
(3)
Each space and the needed maneuvering room shall be
located such that it does not inhibit traffic on public streets and
shall be located outside of required buffer areas and paved area setbacks.
An appropriate means of access to a street shall be provided.
C.
Fire lanes and emergency access.
