Off-street parking spaces shall be provided and kept available
as an accessory use to all uses of buildings, structures and lots
in amounts not less than the following:
A.
For residential uses: two improved parking spaces for each dwelling
unit.
B.
For office or commercial uses: one paved parking space for every
200 square feet of floor area contained in the buildings or structures
devoted to such use.
C.
For industrial uses: paved parking area equivalent to the total ground
coverage of the use, with a minimum of two spaces per each three employees.
D.
For hotel or motel uses: one paved parking space per guest bedroom
plus one per three employees.
A garage or carport may be used to meet the requirements of
this article. A driveway may be used to meet such requirements only
where it serves a one-family dwelling.
Any application for a building permit where five or more parking
spaces are required shall be submitted to the Planning Board for site
plan approval before issuance of the building permit. In approving
the site plan, the Planning Board shall require curbs, paved sidewalks,
drainage facilities, in accordance with specifications approved by
said Board as adequate to serve the property and use involved, and
may require adequate lighting to assure public safety and appropriate
screening for the protection of adjacent properties when determined
to be in the public interest.
Accessory off-street parking areas shall be marked off into
parking spaces with a minimum width of 10 feet and a minimum length
of 18 feet, or, in the case of parking spaces for trucks or special
equipment, parking spaces of a minimum size to be determined by the
municipality based on the nature of the parked vehicles.
The provisions of this article shall not apply to any building
or structure or lot lawfully in use at the effective date of this
article, whether continued as such use or thereafter converted or
changed without enlargement to a different lawful use having the same
parking requirements. However, no building or structure or lot lawfully
in use at the effective date of this article shall be enlarged unless
the off-street parking space requirements of this article are complied
with to the same extent as would be required if the entire preexisting
building or structure or lot and the proposed enlargement were being
submitted as if it were a new application for a building permit for
the entire project.
The Board of Appeals may waive the requirements, in whole or
in part, for the off-street parking spaces stipulated in this article
if it finds that practical difficulties or unnecessary hardship exist
in a particular case and that such waiver will not unduly burden the
existing parking facilities in the area and that no other suitable
and adequate lot can be reasonably put to such use within 500 feet
of the premises involved.
