Provision shall be made for at least two off-street parking spaces for each dwelling unit hereafter erected. Such off-street parking areas and all driveways shall be constructed in accordance with the specifications contained in § 105-37A below. Nonresidential uses permitted in residential and agricultural zones shall provide the number of parking spaces required by the specific use as prescribed in § 105-36.
A.
For all new buildings or uses or additions to existing buildings
or uses in the nonresidential zones and for nonresidential buildings
and uses in the residential and agricultural zones, there shall be
provided the number of off-street parking spaces required by the specific
use in accordance with the following schedule:
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Uses
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Required Parking Spaces
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|---|---|---|
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Churches, auditoriums and theaters, including school auditoriums
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1 for each 3 seating spaces
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Assembly halls, dance halls, community buildings, social clubs
and institutions
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1 for each 100 square feet of floor area
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Hotels and motels
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1 for each sleeping room
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|
Hospitals, nursing homes and medical institutions
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1 for each 2 beds
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Funeral homes and mortuaries
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10 for each slumber room
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Retail stores or service establishments
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1 for each 200 square feet of floor area
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Restaurants and eating and drinking places
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1 for each 3 seats
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|
Drive-in restaurants
|
1 for each 3 seats, plus 1 for each 75 square feet of floor
area; 1 for each 50 square feet of floor area if no seats
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|
Banks and business, professional and executive offices
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1 for each 200 square feet of floor area
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|
Medical and dental clinics or offices
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5 for each physician, plus 1 for each employee, but not less
than 1 for each 200 square feet of floor area
| |
|
Individual dentist offices
|
1 for each physician, plus 1 for each employee, plus 2 for each
dental chair, but not less than 1 for each 200 square feet of floor
area
| |
|
Furniture and appliance stores motor vehicle sales, wholesale
stores, building materials stores and similar hard goods sales
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1 for each 300 square feet of floor area
| |
|
Manufacturing plants, research laboratories, industry and warehouse
storage buildings
|
1 for each 2 employees in a maximum shift, but not less than
1 for each 500 square feet of floor area
|
B.
Any building containing more than one use shall meet the combined
parking space requirements for all uses in the building. Any change
in use within a building shall be required to meet the minimum parking
requirements for the new use.
C.
If it can be clearly demonstrated that, because of the peculiar nature
of any use, all of the required parking is not necessary, the Planning
Board may permit a reduction in the amount of parking area to be paved:
provided, however, that the entire required parking area shall be
shown on the site plan so that it will be available in the event that
future conditions should so require.
D.
Alternative off-street parking standards to those shown in this section
shall be accepted if the applicant demonstrates that these standards
better reflect local conditions.
[Added 6-3-1991 by Ord. No. 8-91]
E.
When the required number of parking spaces calculated as provided
in the previous subsection results in a fraction of a space, any fraction
under 1/2 may be disregarded, and any fraction 1/2 or over shall be
construed as requiring one full space.
[Added 6-3-1991 by Ord. No. 8-91]
Unless otherwise provided in this chapter, all nonresidential
off-street parking and loading areas shall meet the following requirements:
A.
All parking and loading areas shall be graded and equipped with adequate
drainage facilities as approved by the Township Engineer.
B.
All parking and loading spaces shall be appropriately marked with
painted lines.
C.
Lighting.
(1)
A parking area shall be illuminated if used after sunset, and such
illumination shall provide a minimum of 0.5 lumens and a maximum of
four lumens per square foot throughout the area.
[Added 6-3-1991 by Ord. No. 8-91]
(2)
Any lighting in connection with off-street parking shall be so arranged
and shielded as to reflect the light downward away from adjoining
streets or properties.
D.
All parking areas shall provide for adequate ingress and egress and
safe and convenient traffic circulation. Access drives and aisles
shall be of sufficient width to permit safe access to parking spaces
and safe traffic movement.
E.
The off-street parking area shall be effectively screened on any
side which adjoins or faces premises situated in any residential zone
by a fence or wall not less than four nor more than six feet in height,
maintained in good condition; provided, however, that a screening
or hedge or other natural landscaping may be substituted for the required
fence or wall if approved by the Planning Board. The fence as required
by this section may be waived by the Planning Board if, in the Board's
judgment, because of topographic or other unusual conditions, said
fence is not necessary to screen adjoining residential property. All
parking areas shall be landscaped so as to avoid large areas of uninterrupted
pavement.
[Amended 8-7-1989 by Ord. No. 6-89]
F.
Except as hereinafter provided, off-street parking as necessary to
any use shall be provided on the same lot with said use.
G.
No signs other than "entrance," "exit" or "condition of use" signs
or directional signs, signs indicating customer parking, handicapped
parking signs and lines shall be maintained.
[Amended 8-7-1989 by Ord. No. 6-89]
H.
Parking areas shall be enclosed by concrete or Belgian block curbing
six inches above the paved surface and, unless otherwise required
by this chapter, located at least 10 feet from any property line or
the nearest structural wall of a building, except that, in the commercial
zones, parking areas may be constructed up to the property line which
abuts a parking area on property in the commercial zones, and further
provided that proper access and circulation between the two parking
areas is provided. Upon recommendation of the Township Engineer, the
Planning Board may waive the curbing requirement where considered
advisable in order to facilitate surface drainage.
[Amended 8-7-1989 by Ord. No. 6-89]
I.
Aisle widths:
(1)
All parking areas shall be designed with service aisles to meet the
following standards:
|
Angle of Parking
(degrees)
|
Aisle Width
(feet)
| |
|---|---|---|
|
Parallel
|
12
| |
|
30
|
12
| |
|
45
|
13
| |
|
60
|
18
| |
|
90
|
24
|
(2)
In addition, there shall be a minimum distance between parallel parking
spaces of six feet when found necessary to provide for convenient
access.
(3)
Only one-way traffic circulation shall be permitted in aisle widths
of 12, 14 and 18 feet.
[Added 6-3-1991 by Ord. No. 8-91]
J.
All portions of the property not used for off-street parking shall
be attractively landscaped with grass lawns, trees and shrubs as approved
by the Planning Board following recommendations of the Shade Tree
Committee.
K.
All off-street parking areas shall be subject to the approval of
the Planning Board to ensure their adequacy, relation to traffic safety
and protection of the adjacent properties.
L.
Any commercial vehicle used in connection with a business or any
vehicle containing advertising matter intended to promote the interest
of any business shall not be parked or stored in a parking area serving
said business, unless the vehicle is parked in a side or rear yard
of the lot not fronting on a street.
M.
All new nonresidential uses shall provide shade trees within the
street right-of-way in accordance with recommendations of the Shade
Tree Committee. In addition, where space and design permits, shade
trees or ornamental trees shall be planted within any parking area
in accordance with a landscaping plan to be approved by the Planning
Board upon recommendation of the Shade Tree Committee. One tree shall
be required for each 4,000 square feet of parking area or part thereof.
Provision shall be made for the protection of said trees from vehicles
by curbing or other acceptable method. The property owner shall be
responsible for the maintenance of said shade trees and the replacement
of any tree which dies. Failure on the part of the property owner
to adequately maintain the shade trees or to replace any dead tree
within six months of notification by the Zoning Officer shall be considered
a violation of this chapter.
N.
Within all commercial, industrial and business zones, in every parking
area of 10,000 square feet or more, provision shall be made for one
shade tree of three-inch caliper or greater for each 1,000 square
feet of parking area, which tree shall be situated within a planting
area of not less than 100 square feet. For the purposes of this section,
a parking area will be considered one continuous area unless separated
by a building or landscaped area at least 50 feet in width. Planting
areas shall be in the form of an island within the parking lot. Landscaping
along the perimeter of the parking lot shall not be included in this
calculation.
[Added 6-3-1991 by Ord. No. 8-91]
O.
Size of spaces. Each off-street parking space shall measure nine
feet width by 18 feet length. Parking spaces for the physically handicapped
shall be 12 feet wide. Where sidewalks occur in a parking area, parked
vehicles shall not overhang or extend over the sidewalk unless an
additional two feet are provided to accommodate such overhang.
[Added 6-3-1991 by Ord. No. 8-91]
P.
Off-street parking areas shall be oriented to and within a reasonable
walking distance of the buildings they are designed to serve, a maximum
of 600 feet for employee parking, 300 feet for shoppers, 250 feet
for nonelderly residents, 150 feet for elderly residents and 300 feet
for guests.
[Added 6-3-1991 by Ord. No. 8-91]
Q.
Access to loading and parking spaces shall be by interior driveways
and shall be designed for vehicle access without requiring the moving
of any other vehicle. Spaces shall not have direct access from public
streets or major interior drives and roads.
[Added 6-3-1991 by Ord. No. 8-91]
[Added 6-3-1991 by Ord. No. 8-91]
A.
Where two or more units are proposed in a commercial development,
individual access shall be permitted to a service road only. Said
road shall be constructed as an integral part of the proposed development.
B.
It is expressly the intent of this provision to minimize the points
of access onto arterial and collector roads.
C.
Each access drive shall be a minimum of 24 feet in width for two-way
traffic and 12 feet in width for one-way traffic. Construction standards
shall meet normal Township requirements for a cross section.
[Added 6-3-1991 by Ord. No. 8-91]
Any owner or group of owners of a business building or buildings
in the B-1, B-2 or B-3 Zone may jointly sponsor off-street parking
facilities, provided that the area of the parking facilities equals
the total parking area requirements of each owner participating therein,
that such jointly sponsored facilities comply with all the other requirements
of this chapter, and further provided that any participating use is
no farther from the parking area than 300 feet.
In all districts, for every building or use requiring the receipt
or distribution in vehicles of materials or merchandise, there shall
be provided on the same property with such building or use off-street
loading spaces in relation to floor area as follows:
|
Floor Area
(square feet)
|
Number of Spaces
|
|---|---|
|
Under 10,000
|
1
|
|
10,000 to 19,999
|
2
|
|
20,000 to 49,999
|
3
|
|
50,000 to 99,999
|
4
|
|
Each additional 100,000 or part thereof
|
1
|
A.
Each loading space shall be at least 12 feet in width and 30 feet
in length and shall have a fourteen-foot clearance above grade; provided,
however, that the Planning Board may require additional length of
up to 55 feet depending on the length of vehicles using said space.
B.
Such space shall be located in the side or rear yard only, but in
no case in a side yard adjoining a street.
