A. 
Off-street parking facilities shall be provided to lessen congestion in the streets. The facilities required herein shall be available to patrons throughout the hours of operation of the particular business or use for which such facilities are provided. As used herein, the term "parking space" includes either covered garage space or uncovered parking lot space located off the public right-of-way.
B. 
The net parking space per vehicle shall not be less than nine feet wide and 20 feet long with a twenty-foot access drive or not less than nine feet wide and 18 feet long with a twenty-four-foot or larger access drive.
[Amended 12-29-2004 by Ord. No. 181]
C. 
A garage or carport may be located wholly or partly inside the walls of the principal building, or attached to the outer walls. The garage may be constructed under a yard or court, provided that the level of such yard or court shall conform to the general level of the other yards or courts on the lot. The space above an underground garage shall be deemed to be part of the open space of the lot on which it is located.
[Amended 12-16-2019 by Ord. No. 271; 10-20-2025 by Ord. No. 300]
A. 
Any of the following buildings hereafter erected and any building hereafter converted into one of the following buildings and any open area hereafter used for commercial purposes shall be provided with not less than the minimum parking spaces as set forth below; these spaces shall be readily accessible to, and within a reasonable distance from, the buildings served thereby. Parking spaces shall be on the same lot as the principal building or open area, except when otherwise authorized as a special exception, and when situated within 600 feet of the principal building or open area in question.
B. 
Reasonable and appropriate off-street parking requirements for structures and uses which do not fall within the categories listed shall be determined by the Planning Committee upon consideration of all factors entering into the parking needs of each such use.
C. 
Off-street parking shall be provided as follows:
Use
Parking Spaces Required
Airport (commercial)
50 spaces minimum
Ambulance facility
3 spaces per ambulance
Auto sales and service
Parking area 50% of floor space
Auto service station
5 spaces per service bay plus 1 space per employee
Banks, financial institutions
Parking area 50% of floor space
Boarding or lodging house, tourist home, bed-and-breakfast
One space per guest room and two spaces per residential family
Bowling lanes
5 spaces per bowling lane
Churches
1 space for each 3.5 persons for which seating is provided in the sanctuary
Commercial retail sale (freestanding or less than 2,000 square feet floor area)
1 space per 200 square feet retail floor space
Community center, library, museum
1 space per 300 square feet floor space
Private club, lodge
1 space for each 2 persons for which seating is provided
Educational (schools) secondary schools
4 spaces per classroom plus one space for each 5 seats in any auditorium or other place of assembly
Elementary schools
2 spaces per classroom plus one space for each 5 seats in any auditorium or other place of assembly
Fire stations
10 spaces minimum
Hospitals
1 space per each employee plus 1 space per three beds
Hotel, motel, resort (see Restaurant; if applicable, additional space is required)
1 space per guest room plus 1 space per employee
Manufacturing plant
1 space per employee on maximum working shift
Medical or dental offices/clinics
5 spaces per practitioner plus employee parking
Funeral home
20 spaces minimum
Nursing home
1 space per 400 square feet floor space
Office building
1 space per 300 square feet floor space
Professional building (other than medical)
2 spaces per 300 square feet floor space
Recreational establishment (other than theaters, swimming pools and bowling lanes)
1 space per 80 square feet floor space and/or as determined by extent of outdoor use
Restaurants, taverns, lodges, nightclubs
1 space per 50 square feet customer floor space plus 1 space per employee
Shopping center (retail greater than 2,000 square feet floor space
5.5 spaces per 1,000 square feet of gross leasable retail floor space
Swimming pool
1 space for every 7 persons lawfully permitted at any one time
Theaters, auditoriums, stadiums
1 space per every 2 seats
Transportation terminals (trucking, etc.)
1 space per main shift employee
Warehouses or wholesale establishments
1 space per main shift employee plus 2 spaces per wholesale establishment
D. 
In addition to all of the above minimum requirements, additional spaces may be required according to the specific use.
E. 
No part of the public right-of-way of any street or road shall be used in computing the required area for parking.
[Amended 12-16-2019 by Ord. No. 271]
The Planning Committee may authorize the reduction of the number of the off-street parking spaces in cases where the applicant can justify the reduction and still provide adequate parking facilities to serve the proposed uses of the building or land.
A. 
In addition to the off-street parking spaces required above, all commercial and industrial establishments, hospitals or sanitariums, and other similar uses shall provide adequate off-street area for loading and unloading of supplies to and from vehicles.
B. 
In no case where a building is erected, converted, or enlarged, shall the public rights-of-way be used for loading or unloading space.
Parking for more than 25 vehicles shall be paved with a material approved by the Township, including the loading areas and access drives, within 90 days of the date of occupancy unless an extension of time has been authorized by the Township Board of Supervisors.
A strip of land at least five feet wide shall be reserved as open space between any street line and any parking area. The reserve strip may be protected by wheel bumpers or curbs and shall be landscaped in grass, shrubs, trees or other previous landscape materials as approved by the Township. In parking areas on 1/2 acre or more, at least 5% of the total area shall be devoted to landscaping within the interior of the parking area.
All parking and loading areas and access drives shall be designed according to the following standards:
A. 
Access drives shall be laid out so that there will be no need for motorists to back over public right-of-way.
B. 
Access drives shall not be less than 20 feet nor exceed 40 feet in width, unless greater width is required to meet PennDOT standards.
[Amended 12-29-2004 by Ord. No. 181]
C. 
The number of access drives shall not exceed two per lot on any one street frontage.
D. 
Access drives shall not enter a public street:
(1) 
Within 75 feet of the street center line of an intersecting street. Notwithstanding the above and when deemed reasonably necessary for safety by the Planning Committee, this dimension may be modified for access drives to shopping centers, other commercial, industrial, public or institutional uses. Such access drives shall be located in a manner to permit safe ingress and egress.
[Amended 12-16-2019 by Ord. No. 271]
(2) 
Within five feet of a fire hydrant.
(3) 
Within 40 feet of another access drive.
(4) 
Within five feet of a property line unless two adjoining owners mutually agree to a common access drive.
E. 
General safety requirements: sight distance. Access drives shall be located in safe relationship to sight distance and barriers to vision, and shall not exceed a slope of 10% within 25 feet of the street pavement. Where drives enter a bank through a cut, unless a retaining wall is used, the side slopes of the cut shall be graded to not more than 1/2 foot vertical to one foot horizontal within 10 feet of the point the drive intersects with the right-of-way line.
F. 
Submission of plans. A scaled drawing of proposed off-street parking and loading areas, access drives, and walks shall be submitted as part of any land use permit application. Any application requiring access onto a state highway shall be approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation prior to Township approval.