§ 175-40General requirements.
§ 175-41Off-street parking facility requirements.
§ 175-42Accessible parking spaces.
§ 175-43Loading, servicing and circulation.
All buildings and structures erected and all uses of land established after the adoption of this chapter shall be provided with off-street parking spaces as set forth in this chapter.
The provisions of this section, except where there is a change of use, shall not apply to any existing building or structure.
Whenever a building or structure constructed before the effective date of this section is changed or enlarged in floor area, number of employees, number of housing units, seating capacity or otherwise to create a need for an increase in the number of parking spaces, additional parking spaces shall be provided on the basis of the enlargement or change. If a building or structure existing prior to the effective date of this section is enlarged to the extent of 50% or more in floor area or number of housing units, it shall then and thereafter comply with the full parking requirements set forth herein.
Off-street parking facilities in existence on the effective date of this section and located on the same lot as the building or use served shall not hereafter be reduced below the requirements for a similar new building or use under the provisions of this section.
The following regulations shall govern the location of off-street parking spaces and areas:
Parking spaces for all detached residential uses shall be located on the same lot as the use which they are intended to serve. Each required off-street parking space shall have direct access to a public right-of-way.
Parking spaces for apartments, dormitories or similar residential uses shall be located not more than 500 feet from the principal use.
No parking space shall be located in any manner on a public street right-of-way, except where specifically authorized.
A parking space shall have minimum rectangular dimensions of not less than nine feet in width and 18 feet in length, exclusive of driveways, aisles, and other circulation areas.
Driveways and traffic aisles serving individual parking spaces shall be not less than 22 feet wide for ninety-degree parking, 12 feet wide for parallel parking, 17 1/2 feet wide for sixty-degree parking and 13 feet wide for forty-five-degree parking. If parking spaces are indicated by lines with angles other than 90°, then traffic lanes shall be restricted to one-way, permitting head-in parking. No driveway or street used for interior circulation shall have traffic lanes less than 11 feet in width.
Parking lot layout. In all parking lots, sidewalks shall be provided to allow safe pedestrian movement. The sidewalks shall provide safe access between buildings, parking lots, adjacent properties, and sidewalks along streets. Where a sidewalk crosses a parking lot drive aisle or other paved surface, it must be distinguished from the paved surface through the use of special pavers, bricks, scored concrete, stamped concrete, or a like alternative.
Parking lot landscaping.
Off-street parking area perimeter landscaping requirements shall be as follows:
When off-street parking area adjoins a property, a landscape buffer yard of at least 10 feet in width shall be provided. Such landscape buffer yard shall contain at least one tree for every 35 feet of boundary of off-street parking area or fraction thereof and a minimum three-and-one-half-foot average height continuous planting or hedge.
When any public or private street right-of-way, access road, or service road adjoins an off-street parking area, a landscape buffer yard of at least 10 feet in width shall be provided. Such landscape buffer yard shall contain at least one tree for every 40 feet of boundary of off-street parking area or faction thereof and a three-and-one-half-foot average height continuous planting and hedge.
When any industrial use off-street parking area abuts a residential use or district, a twenty-five-foot-wide vegetative landscape buffer yard shall be provided and contain a combination of hedgerows, shade trees (a minimum of one tree for every 30 feet of property line), and grass areas. In addition, as a supplement to the screening material provided for the above, the use of decorative fencing and ornamental moulding may be permitted.
Parking facilities' driving lanes, access drives, and loading and unloading areas for all nonresidential uses which are established after the adoption of this chapter shall be located a minimum of 25 feet from any dwelling unit on an adjacent property.
Common shared parking lots. Common shared parking lots are preferred and encouraged. The required off-street parking spaces for two or more uses may be provided collectively on one lot if the total number of spaces is not less than the sum of the spaces required for each use individually.
When two or more uses are located within the same building or structure, off-street parking spaces equal in number to the sum of the separate requirements for each use shall be provided.
All off-street parking lots required by this section shall be used only for the parking of vehicles of occupants, patrons, visitors or employees and shall not be used for any kind of loading, sales, servicing or continuous storage of a vehicle for more than 48 hours.
Every parcel of land hereafter used as a public or private off-street parking lot capable of accommodating five or more vehicles shall be developed and maintained in accordance with the following requirements:
Each off-street parking space shall have direct access to an aisle or driveway, and all off-street parking lots shall have vehicular access to a street so designed to minimize interference with pedestrian and traffic movement.
All off-street parking lots, including loading areas and service areas, shall be paved with asphalt or concrete.
All parking facilities driving lanes, access drives, and loading and unloading areas for all nonresidential uses which are established after the adoption of this chapter, shall be located a minimum of 25 feet from any dwelling unit on an adjacent property.
| Use | Requirement |
|---|---|
| Dwelling Units | |
| Dwellings of all types, except multifamily apartments and senior citizen facilities | 2 spaces per dwelling unit |
| Multifamily apartments and senior citizen facilities | 1 space per dwelling unit |
| Institutional | |
| Personal care boarding home, skilled nursing home, and congregate care home | 1 space per 2 beds plus 1 space for each employee or volunteer on maximum shift |
| Hospitals | 1 space per bed plus 1 space for each employee or volunteer on maximum shift |
| Public and Semipublic | |
| Church or other place of worship | 1 space for each 3 seats in assembly area, exclusive of classrooms |
| Schools: Day care to Grade 9 Grade 10 to Grade 12 Colleges with on-site dormitories Vocational, adult education, commercial schools and colleges without on-site dormitories | 1 space per 6 students 1 space per 3 students 1 space per 1.5 students 1 space per student plus 1 space per instructor |
| Museum, cultural facility, art gallery, libraries | 1 space for each 200 square feet of gross floor area |
| Municipal building used for administrative functions | 1 space for each 200 square feet of gross office floor area plus 1 space for each 4 seats in assembly areas |
| Industrial or Manufacturing | |
| Industrial manufacturing plant, wholesaling and warehousing and research or testing laboratories | 1 space per employee on maximum shift |
| Commercial | |
| Car and truck wash | 2 spaces for each wash bay |
| Automobile sales, outdoor sales display areas, such as auto, boat, mobile home, equipment sales lots | 1 space for each 2,500 square feet of sales display area plus spaces required as herein specified for other uses such as offices and service garages |
| Automobile service garages | 2 spaces for each service bay |
| Banks | 1 space for each 200 square feet of gross floor area |
| Bowling alleys | 6 spaces for each alley |
| Dance halls, roller rinks, clubs, lodges without fixed seating | 1 space for each 100 square feet of gross floor area plus 1 space per employee on maximum shift |
| Public swimming pools | 1 space for each 50 square feet of water area plus 1 space per employee on maximum shift |
| Driving ranges and miniature golf | 2 spaces for each tee plus 1 space per employee on maximum shift |
| Motel, hotel | 1 space for each guest room plus 1 space for each employee on maximum shift |
| Bed-and-breakfast or boardinghouse | 1 space per guest room plus 2 spaces per permanent residence |
| Funeral home, mortuaries | 25 spaces for each parlor plus 1 space per employee |
| Offices of health care practitioners and veterinarians | 3 spaces for each professional who typically sees patients, 1 space for each professional who typically does not see patients |
| Office buildings | 1 space for each 200 square feet of gross floor area |
| Restaurants | 1 space for each 3 seats |
| Retail sales | 1 space for each 200 square feet of gross floor area |
| Amusement arcade | 1 space for each 80 square feet of gross floor area |
| Vehicle service stations | 2 spaces per service bay |
| Auditoriums, theaters | 1 space for every 2 seats |
| Barbershops and beauty shops and similar personal service shops | 3 spaces for each practitioner |
| Tennis or racquetball facilities | 4 spaces per court plus 1 for each employee on maximum shift |
| Auction houses | 1 space per seat |
| Fur storage facilities | 1.25 spaces per employee on maximum shift |
| Film processing facilities | 1 space for each 200 square feet of gross floor area |
| Maintenance or equipment repair facilities | 1.25 spaces per employee on maximum shift |
| Laundromat | 1 space per 3 washing machines |
| Dry cleaning service | 1 space for each 200 square feet of gross floor area |
| NOTES: |
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| To determine the minimum number of off-street parking spaces, which are not specifically listed in this section, the applicant shall demonstrate the anticipated parking needs to the Zoning Officer. |
All multifamily, commercial, public, manufacturing, and industrial uses shall provide handicapped parking spaces for the physically challenged as follows:
| Total Parking Spaces | Required Accessible Spaces | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 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 total | |
| Over 1,000 | 20 plus 1 per 100 over 1,000 |
Design of accessible spaces shall be completed in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act architectural guidelines and include the following:
Accessible parking spaces serving a particular building shall be located on the shortest accessible route of travel from adjacent parking to an accessible structure. In parking facilities not serving a particular structure, accessible parking shall be located on the shortest accessible route of travel to an accessible pedestrian entrance of the parking facility.
Accessible parking spaces shall be at least eight feet wide.
One parking access aisle of no less than five feet in width shall be provided for each accessible parking space and shall be a part of the accessible route of no less than three feet in width to the building or facility entrance. A parking access aisle may be shared between two accessible parking spaces.
Van-accessible parking spaces shall be at least eight feet wide with an access aisle of no less than eight feet in width.
Parking spaces and access aisles shall be at a level with surface slopes not exceeding 2% in all directions.
Accessible parking spaces shall be designated as reserved by a sign showing the symbol of accessibility. Such signs shall be located so as not to be obscured by a vehicle parked in the space.
Loading and servicing.
Location. Areas provided for loading and unloading of delivery trucks and other vehicles and for the servicing of businesses by refuse collections, fuel and other service vehicles shall be located at the side or rear of all buildings, shall not face a street, shall be adequate in size and shall be so arranged that they may be used without blockage or interference with the use of accessways or automobile parking facilities.
Loading docks must be of sufficient size to accommodate normal peak load requirements.
Service bays and garage doors used to service all uses, like but not limited to automotive-type uses, warehouse-type uses, manufacturing, industrial, and similar types of uses, shall not face any public street.
Interior circulation. The interior circulation of traffic in commercial and industrial areas shall be designated so that no driveway or access lane providing parking spaces shall be used as a through street.
Emergency access. The applicant shall demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Township that all buildings shown on a site development plan can be adequately accessed by emergency fire-fighting vehicles and other emergency equipment.
Traffic control. No design shall be approved which is likely to create substantial traffic hazards endangering the public safety, nor which is inconsistent with the recommendations and findings of any officially adopted Township traffic study. Traffic control devices may include traffic signals, overhead flashing lights and delineators, such as medial barriers, and not be limited to acceleration and deceleration lanes, turning lanes, one-way traffic flow, traffic and land markings and signs. The plan for traffic control shall provide off-site traffic flow and safety. The developer shall be responsible for the construction of any such traffic control devices.
Receptacles or compactors for trash, refuse, recyclables and the like, located on a nonresidential lot or parcel in a nonresidential zoning district, that are contiguous, abutting or adjacent to residentially zoned property shall not be accessed for pickup, delivery or removal between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
