Any building or other structure erected or used
and any lot used or occupied in any district in which the following
uses exist or are permitted shall be provided with minimum off-street
parking spaces as set forth below, together with separate loading
space, if applicable, and shall be provided with adequate passageways,
driveways or other means of vehicular circulation and access to and
from a street or way.
B.
For any of the following uses, the required spaces
shall be paved and curbed:
(1)
Church, school, public auditorium, assembly or meeting room
or similar place for public or semipublic assembly: one space for
every three seats provided for assembly. In the case of a school with
indoor and outdoor assembly, the outdoor and indoor spaces shall be
counted separately, and the greater of the two numbers shall be utilized
to compute the school's parking requirement. In addition, the indoor
and outdoor assembly areas shall not be used simultaneously in a manner
which renders the available parking on the property inadequate.
[Amended 1-15-2014 by Ord. No. 248]
(2)
Stadium or theater: one space for every three
seats.
(3)
Hospital or convalescent home: one space for
every three beds, plus one space for every employee on the two largest
shifts.
(4)
Community center or library: one space for every
500 square feet of floor space in public use, plus one space for every
employee on the two largest shifts.
(5)
Institutional home: one space for every three
occupants, plus one for every employee on the two largest shifts.
(6)
Retail store or shop:
(a)
As an individual establishment and not a large
drugstore, department store or a supermarket and not in a group of
other stores: one space for every 100 square feet of sales area.
(b)
A combination of not more than three of such
establishments served by common off-street parking shall provide one
space for every 150 square feet of combined sales areas.
(7)
Shopping center: for four or more retail establishments
using common off-street parking space: 5 1/2 spaces for every
1,000 square feet of sales area.
(8)
Department store, supermarket and large drugstore
selling a variety of merchandise, as an individual establishment and
not a part of a combination of other stores or shopping center: one
parking space for every 250 square feet of sales area.
(9)
Motel: one space for every rental unit, plus
one for every employee on the two largest shifts, plus one space for
every three seats in the meeting and dining rooms.
(10)
Office building: one space for every 250 square
feet of office rental space, excluding halls and lavatories in common
usage, shafts, elevators, stairs and utility rooms.
(11)
Restaurant, cafe, diner and tearoom: two parking
spaces for every 50 square feet of floor space devoted to patron use.
(12)
Laboratory or any industrial establishments:
one parking space for every 1,000 square feet of floor area, or fraction
thereof, however, not less than one for every employee on the two
largest shifts.
Off-street parking for uses listed under § 150-153 shall be located on the same lot as the use to which it refers; provided, however, that two or more establishments in any commercial district may combine off-street parking areas and, where five or more establishments are so combined, the total of such combined spaces may be reduced in number by 10%, the requirements of § 150-153 to the contrary notwithstanding.
Off-street parking areas shall be so designed
and so located that:
A.
No vehicle is required to back out directly onto a
nonresidential street.
B.
For single-family dwellings the driveways shall be
located as far away from any street intersection as possible, and
for corner lots onto the lower classification street. In no case shall
the driveway be closer to the intersection than 100 feet.
C.
[1]Driveways for all nonresidential uses shall be located
not less than 300 feet from a street intersection measuring from the
near side of the driveway to the near curbline of such street.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection C, regarding
the maximum number of driveways, was repealed 12-15-1999 by Ord. No.
175. Said ordinance also provided for the relettering of former Subsection
D as Subsection C.
D.
A double-access driveway serving a single-family home
shall be permitted only as a special exception when the following
dimensional criteria are met:
[Added 12-20-2006 by Ord. No. 212]
(1)
Double-access driveways shall be limited to
ingress and egress to rural, residential or secondary street classifications
which have an ultimate right-of-way of 60 feet or less.
(2)
All double-access driveway lots must have a
minimum street frontage of 250 feet.
(3)
Double-access driveway lots shall have a minimum
lot size of 80,000 square feet.
(4)
For new building lots, the double-access driveways
shall be constructed a minimum of 25 feet from the side property lines.
(5)
For an existing lot improved with a house, the
new access driveway shall be a minimum of 25 feet from the side property
line.
[Amended 4-17-1996 by Ord. No. 146]
In addition to required off-street parking spaces,
every nonresidential use permitted in this chapter shall be provided
with off-street loading and unloading space which shall be completely
separate and distinct from the required off-street parking spaces.
Facilities for off-street parking and off-street
loading and unloading existing at the effective date of this chapter
shall not subsequently be reduced to an amount less than that required
herein, and such facilities provided to comply with the provisions
of this article shall not subsequently be reduced below the requirements
of this chapter.
All facilities required under this article shall
be constructed in accordance with the standards set forth in the Land
Development and Subdivision Ordinance of Worcester Township,[1] with respect to size, arrangement, construction, specifications,
layout, drainage and provisions for the handicapped.
The Supervisors may approve, as a conditional use, in accordance with Article XXV, 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 needs, provided that space is reserved for the construction of the parking facilities necessary to satisfy the requirements of this chapter.
Where an approved use will regularly involve
the accommodation of oversized vehicles such as but not limited to
buses, trucks, vans, trailers or recreational vehicles, the applicant
shall submit a plan showing proper accommodation of the documented
project need in every regard.
