The following off-street parking spaces are required:
A. All residential uses: one parking space per dwelling unit.The standard
review may be superseded by the requirements of the New Jersey Residential
Site Improvement Standards Act, N.J.A.C. 5:21-4.14, as amended and
in effect at the time of the applicant filing their application.
[Amended 1-11-2021 by Ord. No. MC 3753]
B. Motels: one parking space per sleeping or dwelling unit.
C. Retail establishment, wholesale store and personal service establishment:
(1) Each retail store, wholesale store and personal service shop in any
one building or structure, which building or structure contains not
more than 2,500 square feet of floor areas: no parking spaces shall
be required.
(2) Each retail store, wholesale store or personal service shop in any
one building or structure, which building or structure contains more
than 2,500 square feet of floor area but not more than 20,000 square
feet of floor area: four parking spaces, plus one parking space for
each 333 square feet above 2,500 square feet of floor area.
(3) Each retail store, wholesale store and personal service shop in any
one building or structure, which building or structure contains more
than 20,000 square feet of floor area: 62 parking spaces, plus one
parking space for each 250 square feet above 20,000 square feet of
floor area.
D. Banks, financial and business offices and professional and commercial
offices:
(1) Banks, financial and business offices and professional and commercial
offices: one parking space for every 400 square feet of building area
or major fraction thereof.
(2) Exceptions.
(a)
Those premises which lie within the business zone as delineated
on the Zoning Map of the Township of Irvington, fronting on Springfield
Avenue, northerly side of the street, between Maple Avenue westerly
to Florence Avenue; and those premises which lie in the business zones
as delineated on the Zoning Map of the Township of Irvington, fronting
on Springfield Avenue, southerly side of street, between Maple Avenue
westerly to 40th Street, and which are used and maintained as a commercial
or professional office type of enterprise shall be required to maintain
two parking spaces for each 1,200 square feet of floor area.
(b)
Those premises which lie in a business zone as delineated on
the Zoning Map of the Township of Irvington and which are used as
a commercial or professional office type of enterprise and which lie
within 350 feet of a municipal parking lot need not provide off-street
parking, provided that they rent space from the municipal parking
garage on a yearly basis.
E. Supermarkets, self-service food stores: one parking space for every
250 square feet of building area.
F. Automobile service stations: one parking space for each service bay, plus one parking space for every employee present for duty at the time the highest number are present on a daily basis. [See Ord. No. MC 2492, Article
X, Section 2C and 2D.]
G. Motor vehicle sales and service:
(1) Any building or structure containing not more than 2,500 square feet
of floor area: two parking spaces shall be required.
(2) Any building or structure containing more than 2,500 square feet
of floor area but not more than 20,000 square feet of floor area:
two parking spaces, plus one parking space for each 333 square feet
above 2,500 square feet of floor area.
(3) Any building or structure which contains more than 20,000 square
feet of floor area: 62 parking spaces, plus one parking space for
each 250 square feet above 20,000 square feet of floor area.
H. Used car sales: five parking spaces, plus one parking space for each
employee present for duty at the time the highest number are present,
on a daily basis.
I. Restaurants, cafeterias, taverns and bars, having more than 1,500
square feet of floor area: 10 parking spaces, plus one parking space
for each 100 square feet of floor area over 1,500 square feet.
J. Bowling alleys: four parking spaces for each bowling lane.
K. Auditoriums, exhibition halls, union halls, community centers, dance
halls, churches, theaters, stadiums, assembly halls and similar places
of public assembly having fixed seating facilities: one parking space
for every 100 square feet of total building area.
L. Hospitals, nursing homes and similar institutional uses for care
of the ill or aged: two parking spaces for every six beds.
M. Mortuaries and funeral homes: two parking spaces for every 50 square
feet of floor area in the slumber rooms, parlors or individual funeral
service rooms.
N. Industrial manufacturing establishments: three parking spaces for
every five employees on the largest shift.
O. Public swim clubs: one parking space for every full-time employee,
and one parking space for every four separate memberships.
P. Within the B-1 Neighborhood Business District, off-street parking
space shall be provided for each employee present at the time of the
greatest number of employees present.
Q. Research and office building uses in any district shall provide one
off-street parking facility for every 400 square feet of floor space,
unless an amount is required under any other ordinance. Said required
area shall be permitted in the side and rear yards, but not in the
front yard, provided that said permitted area is at no point closer
than 25 feet to any property line and not closer than 10 feet to any
residential zone.
R. Off-street parking for schools shall be provided in the following
ratio: elementary schools shall provide one parking space for each
staff member and/or employee, plus adequate space for buses and delivery
vehicles. All other schools shall provide 1 1/2 parking spaces
for each member or employee, plus adequate space for buses and delivery
vehicles. These requirements may be increased if, in the judgment
of the Board of Adjustment and/or the Planning Board, the unavailability
of bus services, the particular location or a relatively high percentage
of pupils driving or anticipated to be driving cars to school make
such increased requirements desirable.
S. Driveways shall have a minimum width of 10 feet.