A.
The following regulations and schedules with specific requirements
shall apply to all off street parking and loading facilities for all
uses of land in all districts:
(1)
Off-street parking space shall be provided as further specified in
this chapter and shall be furnished with necessary passageways and
driveways. All such space shall be deemed to be required space on
the lot on which it is situated, and no such space shall be encroached
upon or reduced in any manner. All parking areas, passageways and
driveways shall be constructed in accordance with the design specifications
of the subdivision provisions of this chapter and in accordance with
all applicable federal and state regulations requiring handicapped
parking. Landscaping consisting of attractive trees, shrubs, plants
and grass lawns shall be required and planted in accordance with the
site plans. Special buffer planting shall be provided along the side
and rear property lines so as to provide protection to adjacent properties
when such lot lines abut residential zones or uses.
(2)
The collective provision of an off-street parking area by two (2)
or more buildings or uses located on adjacent lots is permitted, provided
that the total of such facilities shall not be less than the sum required
of the various buildings or uses computed separately, and further
provided that the land upon which the collective facilities are located
is owned or leased by one (1) or more of the collective users.
(3)
All off-street parking and loading facilities shall be designed in
accordance to the dimensions as contained herein.
(4)
No off street loading area or off street parking area or part thereof
for three (3) or more vehicles shall be closer than ten (10) feet
to any dwelling, school, hospital or other institution for human care
located on an adjoining lot.
(5)
For development other than single-family dwellings, any off street
parking area or off street loading area for three (3) or more vehicles
shall be improved with an impervious cover according to the standards
of this Article. All parking and loading spaces shall be marked so
as to provide for the orderly and safe loading, parking and storage
of motor vehicles.
(6)
All off street parking areas and off street loading areas shall be
graded and drained so as to dispose of all surface water without detriment
to surrounding uses as determined by the Municipal Engineer. No access
drive or driveway in any residential district shall be used to provide
access to uses other than those permitted in such residential district.
(7)
Any public or private parking or loading area for three (3) or more
vehicles, including a commercial parking lot, shall be developed and
maintained in accordance with municipal requirements.
(8)
Off street parking areas for three (3) or more vehicles and off-street
loading areas adjoining residential districts shall be effectively
screened by a fence or hedge as provided in this chapter. The screening
shall be on the side or sides which adjoin or face premises in any
residential district or institutional premises.
(9)
All parking areas and appurtenant passageways and driveways serving
commercial and industrial uses shall be illuminated adequately during
the hours between sunset and sunrise when the use is in operation
upon the premises. Adequate shielding shall be provided by commercial
and industrial users to protect adjacent residential zones from the
glare of such illumination and from that of automobile headlights.
The operator of any commercial or industrial premises may reduce the
amount of lighting after 12:00 midnight by not more than fifty percent
(50%) of the total lighting required during the period between sunset
and sunrise.
(10)
All parking areas shall have artificial lighting that will provide
an average lighting level of five-tenths (0.5) horizontal footcandle
throughout the parking area. Freestanding light poles shall be no
higher than the height of the highest principal building served by
the parking area or twenty (20) feet, whichever is less.
(11)
Parking areas may be located in any rear or side yard but may
not be located in any required front yard area except where a parking
space in front of an operable garage and except where specifically
permitted elsewhere in the Article.
[Added 9-21-2005 by Ord.
No. 1304-2005]
(12)
Parking spaces, driveways and aisles shall be clearly marked
and delineated. For safety and fire-fighting purposes, free access
between adjacent parking areas shall be provided.
(13)
It shall be the responsibility of the owner of the property
to maintain all off-street parking, loading and unloading areas, driveways,
aisles and accessways in good condition, free of sagging condition,
potholes, cracked pavement, etc. All lighting, bumpers, markings,
signs, drainage and landscaping shall be similarly kept in workable,
safe and good condition. Parking space striping shall be inspected
periodically by the Municipal Engineer every three (3) years. If the
condition of the lighting, bumpers, markings, signs, drainage and
landscaping has deteriorated to a condition deemed by the municipality
to warrant renewal, the owner shall repair the markings to the satisfaction
of the Municipal Engineer. Irrespective of the above-described inspection
period, if the Municipal Engineer or the Traffic and Safety Division
of the Police Department determines that that layout of the parking
space lines, curbs, islands or other traffic guidance features and
drainage, landscaping or lighting is such as to adversely affect safety,
the Municipal Engineer can require the owner to redesign and install
such traffic guidance and parking features. The owner shall be responsible
to pay all application, escrow and inspection fees. Where such redesign
is ordered by the Municipal Engineer, the revised design must be reviewed
and approved by the Planning Board or Zoning Board of Adjustment prior
to the start of repairs, construction and/or repainting. If the owner
fails to undertake repairs after proper notification by the Municipal
Engineer, the Municipal Council may authorize repairs to be made at
the owner's expense if, in the Municipal Council's opinion, conditions
constitute a hazard to the safety and welfare of the municipality's
residents and visitors or may revoke the owner's certificate of occupancy
and require the property to be vacated.
B.
Parking spaces, loading spaces and aisles.
(1)
Each off-street parking space shall measure not less than nine by
eighteen (9 x 18) feet, exclusive of access drives and aisles, except
that parallel curb parking spaces shall be nine by twenty-three (9
x 23) feet.
(2)
Loading spaces shall not be less than fifty by twelve (50 x 12) feet.
(3)
All traffic aisles between parking spaces for ninety-degree parking
shall be twenty-four (24) feet wide.
C.
Design standards for driveways and access aisles.
(1)
All entrance and exit driveways to public streets shall be located
to afford maximum safety to traffic on the public streets.
(2)
Any exit driveway or driveway land shall be so designed with regard to profile, grading and location to permit the sight distance in accordance with § 430-69C, Sight-triangle easements.
(3)
The dimensions of driveways shall be designed to adequately accommodate
the volume and character of vehicles anticipated to be attracted daily
onto the land development for which a site plan is prepared.
(a)
Driveway dimensions. Driveway width at the curbline should be
limited to fifteen (15) to thirty-five (35) feet.
(b)
Number of driveways. The number of driveways provided from a
site directly to any one (1) municipal street shall be recommended
as follows:
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Length of Site Frontage
(feet)
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Recommended Number of Driveways
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100 or less
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1
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More than 100 up to 800
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2
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Over 800
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To be specified by the municipal agency upon receipt of advice
of the Municipal Engineer
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(4)
No driveway to or from a parking area shall be located closer than
one hundred (100) feet from the nearest right-of-way line of an intersection
of a collector or arterial street. However, any major use, such as
a shopping center or office complex, which, in the opinion of the
municipal agency, will generate large traffic volumes shall not be
located closer than two hundred (200) feet from the nearest right-of-way
line of an intersection of a collector or arterial street.
(5)
No part of any driveway may be located within five (5) feet of a
side property line, including the extension to the curbline, for single-
and/or two-family dwellings and within twenty (20) feet of a side
property line, including the extension to the curbline, for all other
uses. However, upon application to the municipal agency and approval
of the design by the Municipal Engineer, the municipal agency may
permit a driveway serving two (2) or more adjacent sites to be located
on or within ten (10) feet of a side property line, including the
extension to the curbline between the adjacent sites.
(6)
Driveway angle, one-way operation. Driveways used by vehicles in
a one-way direction of travel (right turn only) shall not form angles
smaller than forty-five degrees (45°) with the public street,
unless acceleration and deceleration lanes are provided.
(7)
Driveway angle, two-way operation. Driveways used for two-way operation
will intersect the public street at any angle as near ninety degrees
(90°) as site conditions will permit, and in no case shall it
be less than sixty degrees (60°).
(8)
Parking areas for twenty-five (25) or more cars and access drives
for all parking areas on arterial roadways provide curbed return radii
of not less than fifteen (15) feet for all right-turn movements and
left-turn access from one-way streets and concrete aprons on entrance
and exit drives.
(9)
Parking areas for fewer than twenty-five (25) cars may utilize concrete
aprons without curb returns at entrance and exit drives which are
not located on a minor arterial or principal arterial highway.
(10)
Access drives for single- and two-family dwellings shall utilize
concrete aprons without curb returns, regardless of size or location.
(a)
Such drives shall have a minimum width of ten (10) feet and
a maximum width of twenty-four (24) feet when they provide access
to a garage and/or driveway.
(b)
All such residential driveways shall be paved with a minimum
of four (4) inches dense aggregate grade subbase and two (2) inches
FABC, Mix 1-5.
(11)
Maximum curb depression width for single- and two-family dwellings
shall be the driveway width plus four (4) feet, but not more than
twenty-five (25) feet.
(12)
Where a driveway connecting to a public street serves traffic
from parking areas of a major traffic generator, an acceleration and/or
deceleration lane may be required in accordance with the Policy of
Geometric Design of Rural Highways 1984 or latest revision, American
Association of State Highway Officials.
(13)
The number of driveways, in such locations and of such widths,
as shall be certified by the engineering official having jurisdiction
over road design to be necessary and proper in order to achieve compatibility
with the road design in view of the site condition shall be permitted
and shall be deemed to constitute compliance herewith.
(14)
If the road to which the driveways connect is a municipal street,
the certifying official shall be the Municipal Engineer. If it is
a county road, the certifying official shall be such County Engineer
as may be in charge of road design. If it is a state road, the certifying
official shall be such official of the New Jersey Department of Transportation
division, bureau or other unit in charge of road design for that road.
(15)
Aisles from which cars directly enter or leave parking spaces
shall be no less than:
D.
Driveway aprons.
(1)
Driveway aprons shall be required between the curbing and the sidewalk. They shall be six (6) inches of concrete according to specifications required for curbing described in Article XII.
(2)
Parking areas shall be so arranged as to provide adequate access
to all buildings in case of fire or other emergency. No parking shall
be allowed within thirty (30) feet of the outer walls of any structure
or within such other adequate distance as the Planning Board, in consultation
with municipal fire officials, may approve. The developer shall post
adequate signs and provide pavement markings, approved by the Planning
Board, prohibiting such parking and designating such areas as fire
zones.
E.
Parking areas in commercial and industrial districts.
(1)
Off-street parking areas which abut a residential or institutional
use on any side shall be set back a minimum of twenty-five (25) feet
from the lot line and adequately buffered and screened from such use
with planting or fencing.
(2)
All parking areas for ten (10) or more vehicles shall be landscaped
with hedges, shrubbery and/or shade trees of a type and quality approved
by the approving board.
(3)
All parking areas for twenty (20) or more vehicles shall contain
grassed or landscaped island areas of at least six (6) feet in width
separating rows of parking spaces. Such island areas shall be spread
throughout the parking area in accordance with a site plan approved
by the approving board and shall occupy a minimum of ten percent (10%)
of the area formed by the outer perimeter of the paved parking area.
The island areas shall contain a minimum of one (1) shade tree for
each five (5) parking spaces in the parking area and shall be landscaped
in accordance with a landscaping plan approved by the approving board.
(4)
For commercial and all nonresidential uses in business districts,
required parking shall be provided within two hundred (200) feet of
such use, measured from the nearest point of the building that such
facility is required to serve.
F.
Barrier-free parking. All parking areas shall be designed in accordance
with the applicable New Jersey state statutes for barrier-free and
handicapped parking. This shall apply to the access from the parking
stalls to the various uses in which the parking is provided for.
G.
Connection of parking facilities. As part of the layout of the parking
facility for various uses, the applicant, with guidance from the Technical
Review Committee, shall provide for, if possible, the connection of
adjoining parking facilities of the two (2) adjacent uses. The intent
of this subsection is to eliminate the drive cuts along various local,
county and state roadways but provide for the movement of vehicles
between parking facilities of various uses similar in nature.
H.
All parking areas and driveways shall be designed with adequate radii
to permit movement of all emergency vehicles.
