Except as required otherwise in this chapter, every hospital, institution, business or industrial use hereafter established shall provide loading spaces of not less than 14 feet wide, 60 feet long and 15 feet high. The appropriate number of spaces, unless specified otherwise by this chapter, shall be determined by the applicant and shall not be located so as to encroach on streets or sidewalks or other areas as may be specified elsewhere in this chapter. There shall be one auxiliary truck waiting space for each two dock spaces. These requirements shall be exclusive of driveways, aisles and other necessary circulation areas.
Every hospital, institution, hotel or commercial or industrial building hereafter erected or established having a gross floor area of 5,000 square feet or more shall provide and maintain at least one off-street loading space, plus one additional off-street loading space for each additional 10,000 square feet of gross floor area. Any use requiring 1/2 or more of a loading space shall be deemed to require the full space. Each loading space shall not be less than 14 feet in width, 60 feet in length and 15 feet in height. These requirements apply to each separate occupancy and are exclusive of driveways, aisles and other necessary circulation areas.
Off-street parking spaces shall be provided and maintained as set forth in this section for all uses in all zoning districts. Such off-street spaces shall be provided at the time:
A. 
A new building is hereafter erected or enlarged.
B. 
A building existing on the effective date of this chapter is enlarged to the extent that the cost of construction exceeds 50% of the market value of the building, as shown on the Town of Gates Assessor's records, or to the extent that the building's capacity is increased by more than 50% in terms of the units used in the "Required Parking Spaces" column of § 190-14.
C. 
The use is changed to another use with greater parking requirements, provided that if the enlargement of a building existing at the time hereof is less than 50%, parking space shall be provided in proportion to the increase only. Any use requiring 1/2 or more of a parking space shall be deemed to require the full space.
A. 
Off-street parking spaces shall be provided as follows:
Use
Required Parking Spaces
Residential
  One- or two-family dwelling
2 per dwelling unit
  Multifamily dwelling
1 1/2 per dwelling unit
  Apartment-hotel, rooming or boarding house
1 for each guest accommodation, plus 1 additional space per 2 employees
Business-residential
  Hotel and motel
1 per guest room, plus 1 per 2 employees
  Club, lodge
Spaces to meet the combined requirements of the uses being conducted, such as hotel, restaurant, auditorium, etc.
Institutions
  Nursing care home
1 per 3 beds for patients, residents or inmates, plus 1 per each 2 employees and 1 per each staff doctor
  Hospital
3 per 2 beds
  Medical and dental clinic
1 for every 200 square feet of floor area
Places of public assembly
  Church
1 per 4 seats or 8 feet of bench length in the main auditorium
  Swimming pool
1 per each 25 square feet of pool area
  Library, reading room community center, club
1 per 300 square feet of floor area
  Preschool nursery
2 per teacher
  Private college, commercial school for adults
1 per 3 seats in classrooms
  Other auditorium, meeting room
1 per 4 seats or 8 feet of bench length
Business amusements
  Stadium, arena, theater
1 per 4 seats or 8 feet of bench length
  Bowling alley
6 per lane
  Dance hall, skating rink
1 per 100 square feet of floor area
Business
  Business use, 1,500 square feet gross floor area or less
1 per 200 square feet of gross floor area
  Automobile service station
1 for each 2 gas pumps and 2 for each service bay
  Supermarket, grocery store
1 per 100 square feet of floor area but not less than 3 spaces
  Service or repair shop; retail store and outlet selling furniture, automobiles or other bulky merchandise, where the operator can show that bulky merchandise occupies the major area of the building
1 per 300 square feet of floor area
  Bank, office (except medical and dental)
1 per 200 square feet of floor area, plus 1 per 2 employees
  Eating or drinking establishment
1 per each 4 persons' capacity or 1 per table
  Mortuary, funeral home
At least 30 spaces for 2 parlors, 10 additional spaces for each parlor over 2
  Shopping center
[Amended 12-4-2000 by L.L. No. 3-2000]
5 per 1,000 square feet of gross leasable floor area
Industrial
  Storage, manufacturing establishment, air, rail or trucking freight terminal
1 per 2 employees on the maximum shift or 1 for each 400 feet of gross floor area, whichever is greater
  Wholesale establishment
1 per employee, plus 1 per 700 square feet of patron serving area
B. 
Other uses not specifically listed above shall furnish parking as required by the Planning Board. The Planning Board shall use the above list as a guide for determining requirements for said other uses.
C. 
The off-street parking requirements of two or more uses, structures or parcels of land may be satisfied by the same parking or loading space, used jointly, to the extent that it can be shown by the owners or operators of the uses, structures or parcels that their operations and parking needs do not overlap in point of time. If the uses, structures or parcels are under separate ownership, the right to joint use of the parking space must be evidenced by a deed, lease, contract or other appropriate written document to establish the joint use.
D. 
The design of all parking areas and/or lots shall be such as to demonstrate a safe and efficient means of movement for both vehicles and pedestrians.
Off-street parking spaces for dwellings shall be located on the same lot with the dwelling. Other required parking spaces shall be located on the same parcel or on another parcel, provided that the furthest parking space is not farther than 200 feet from a residential unit or 300 feet from the commercial building or use it is intended to serve, measured in a straight line from the building. The burden of proving the existence of such off-premises parking arrangements rests upon the person who has the responsibility of providing parking.
Required parking space shall be available for the parking of operable passenger automobiles of residents, customers, patrons and employees only and shall not be used for storage of vehicles or materials or for the parking of trucks used in conducting the business or use.
[Amended 5-6-2019 by L.L. No. 1-2019]
Parking in front yards. Parking spaces shall be allowed in the front yard for all districts providing that there is sufficient screening to prevent headlight glare, that the parking shall not be closer than 10 feet to all property lines, and shall meet all other applicable provisions in this chapter. Loading spaces shall not be located in any front yard.
[Added 7-7-1987]
A. 
Unless otherwise provided or permitted, the stacking or storage of solid fuel (wood, lumber or other material) for use in wood-burning stoves in any front yard is prohibited.
B. 
Any person in violation of Subsection A at the time of the adoption of this section shall have a period of 45 days from the date of adoption to be in compliance therewith.
Every parcel of land hereafter used as a public or private parking area, including commercial parking lots, shall be developed as follows:
A. 
Parking areas shall have a minimum aisle width of 15 feet for one-way traffic and 24 feet for two-way traffic. The minimum parking space shall be nine feet in width and 18 feet in length for 90º, 60º and 45º parking or 10 feet in width and 20 feet in length for parking parallel to the aisle.
[Amended 9-7-1999 by L.L. No. 2-1999; 5-6-2019 by L.L. No. 1-2019]
B. 
Any parking area which is intended to be used during nondaylight hours shall be properly illuminated to avoid accidents. Any lights used to illuminate a parking lot shall be so arranged as to reflect the light away from all adjoining property.
C. 
Except for single-family dwellings, any parking area shall be designed in such a manner that any vehicle leaving or entering the parking area from or into a public or private street shall be traveling in a forward motion. Access or driveways for parking areas or loading spaces shall be located in such a way that any vehicle entering or leaving such lot shall be clearly visible for a reasonable distance to any pedestrian or motorist approaching the access or driveway from a public or private street.
D. 
The required number of parking and loading spaces, as set forth in this section, together with driveways, aisles and other circulation areas, shall be improved with acceptable impervious material, to provide a durable and dust-free surface or large aggregate stone or asphalt.
E. 
All parking and loading areas shall provide for proper drainage of surface water to prevent the drainage of such water onto adjacent properties or walkways.
F. 
The owner and/or lessee of the property used for parking and/or loading shall maintain such area in good condition without holes and free from dust, trash and other debris. Trash receptacles shall be placed in parking lots near entrances, exits and sidewalks for collection of paper and other litter. These are not to be dumpsters.
G. 
The parking of a disabled vehicle within a residential or commercial district for a period of more than one week shall be prohibited unless such vehicle is stored in an enclosed garage or other accessory building or otherwise screened, in accordance with this chapter, from public view.
H. 
Unless otherwise permitted, no unlicensed motor vehicle of any type or kind shall be parked or stored on any residentially zoned property unless it is parked or stored in a completely enclosed building. No more than one recreational trailer, motor home, boat or other personal recreational vehicle belonging to an occupant of the premises may be stored on a driveway or in a required side yard as long as such vehicle is not used for habitation and does not impede the view of pedestrians or vehicles from seeing one another for a reasonably safe distance. The parking or storing of commercial vehicles or trailers in residentially zoned areas is prohibited, except that one commercial vehicle not exceeding three-fourths-ton rated capacity being used by an occupant of the premises may be so parked or stored on the premises.
[Amended 6-8-1978; 9-7-1999 by L.L. No. 2-1999]
I. 
In all parking areas of more than five vehicles, parking shall be so distributed as to service the individual units or business. Parking lots shall be kept small and in other ways broken into smaller units through provision of islands and plantings.