All nonresidential and multifamily parking and
loading areas shall meet the following requirements:
B.
All parking and loading areas shall be graded and
equipped with adequate drainage facilities as approved by the Township
Engineer.
C.
All parking and loading spaces shall be appropriately
marked with painted lines and each parking space shall be at least
10 feet by 20 feet.
D.
All parking areas shall provide for adequate ingress
and egress and safe and convenient traffic circulation. Access drives
and aisles shall be of sufficient width to permit safe access to parking
spaces and safe traffic movement.
E.
Off-street parking areas shall be effectively screened
on any side which adjoins or faces premises situate in any residential
zone, by vision-proof fence, wall, hedge or natural landscaping of
not less than six feet in height, maintained in good condition.
G.
Off-street parking areas shall be used solely for
the parking of passenger automobiles and no commercial repair work
or service work of any kind shall be conducted on the parking lot
nor shall such lots be used for parking of disabled, dismantled, inoperable
or unregistered vehicles.
H.
One loading zone at least 15 feet by 40 feet, or as
required for reasonable safety and convenient access, shall be provided
for all commercial and industrial uses and so designated on the site
plan. Such area shall be marked appropriately at the site and shall
be used solely for the parking of commercial vehicles during loading
and unloading.
I.
Parking areas shall have a maximum grade of 8%, and
shall be enclosed by concrete curbing, Belgian block curbing, at least
six inches above the paved surface and located at least five feet
from any property line or nearest structural wall of any building,
and at least 10 feet from any abutting street right-of-way. In the
commercial or industrial zone proper access and circulation between
adjoining parking areas shall be provided, and the two lots shall
be divided by buffer zones appropriately landscaped with trees, grass
and/or shrubs.
J.
All parking areas shall be designed with service aisles
to meet the following standards:
(1)
Cross aisle, one-way, fourteen-foot width.
(2)
Cross aisle, two-way, twenty-five-foot width.
(3)
Parallel parking, twelve-foot aisle width.
(4)
Forty-five-degree angle parking, fourteen-foot aisle
width.
(5)
Sixty-degree angle parking, eighteen-foot aisle width.
(6)
Ninety-degree angle parking, twenty-five-foot aisle
width.
(7)
The turning radius shall be at least 15 feet.
(8)
In addition there shall be a minimum distance of six
feet between parallel parking spaces when found necessary to provide
convenient access.
K.
All off-street parking areas shall be subject to the
approval of the appropriate Township body to insure their adequacy,
relation to traffic safety, landscaping and protection of adjacent
properties. Concrete sidewalks connecting the parking areas to the
building entrances shall be provided and shall be constructed in accordance
with the Department of Transportation standards.
L.
Maximum area of impervious surface and curbing. Off-street parking lots and loading areas, together with their access aisles, driveways and fire lanes and other paved or impervious areas on the lot, exclusive of the buildings, shall not occupy more than 30% of the lot area or in accordance with the standards as set forth in Table 5, "Schedule of General Zoning Regulations for Andover Township," or Article VI, "Conditional Uses," in Chapter 190, "Zoning."
[Amended 4-26-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-05]
M.
Buffering of uses within the I Industrial and GI General
Industrial Zone districts. A minimum buffer area of 100 feet in width
shall be provided and maintained on property located within the I
Industrial and General Industrial Zone districts along any common
property line with a residential zone district or residential use.
[Amended 4-26-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-05]
Any lighting in connection with off-street parking
areas shall be so arranged and shielded as to reflect the light down
and away from adjoining streets or properties and shall be adequate
to provide safety and security and in accordance with the following
standards:
A.
All existing or proposed exterior lighting, freestanding
and/or on building, for size, nature of construction, lumens, heights,
area and direction of lumination, footcandles produced, as well as
time controls proposed for outdoor lighting and display, shall be
indicated.
B.
The height of light poles shall be limited to the
maximum height of structures permitted in the particular zoning district
where they are located, or 25 feet, whichever is less.
C.
The light itself shall be shielded to restrict the
maximum apex angle of illumination to 150º.
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Recommended for Average Maintained
Horizontal Illumination
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Commercial
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Intermediate
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Residential
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Area Classification
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Footcandle
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Lux
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Footcandle
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Lux
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Footcandle
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Lux
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Vehicular roadways
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Freeway*
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0.6
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6
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0.6
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6
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0.6
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6
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Major and expressway*
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2.0
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22
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1.4
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15
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1.0
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11
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Collector
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1.2
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13
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0.9
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10
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0.6
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6
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Local
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0.9
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10
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0.6
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6
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0.4
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4
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Alleys
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0.6
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6
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0.4
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4
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0.2
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2
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Pedestrian walkways
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Sidewalks
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0.9
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10
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0.6
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6
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0.2
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2
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Pedestrian ways
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2.0
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22
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1.0
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11
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0.5
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2
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*NOTE: Both mainline and ramps.
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For other critical areas,
the recommended footcandles shall be as follows:
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At intersections,
2.0.
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Parking areas, 1.0.
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Maximum at property
lines, 1.0.
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Residential areas,
0.6 (average), 0.1 (minimum).
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Plant entrances,
2.0.
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All portions of property not used for off-street
parking shall be attractively landscaped with grass lawns, trees,
and shrubs as approved by the appropriate Township body.
A.
Standards for the grading, improvement and construction of streets or driveways and for any required walkways, curbs, gutters, streetlights, fire hydrants and water, drainage, sewage facilities and other improvements found necessary shall be as provided in Chapter 155, Streets and Sidewalks, of this Code or as approved by the Township Engineer.
B.
Where certain utilities to be installed are under
other governmental authority or jurisdictions, the standards shall
be provided by those jurisdictions and shall be adhered to by the
developer. A letter approving the proposed installations and a statement
as to who shall carry out the construction shall be required.
C.
All utility access shall be underground.
No development shall take place in a delineated
floodway area, and shall be permitted in a delineated flood fringe
area only where it is determined by the Township Engineer that the
first-floor elevation shall be above the flood level, and that construction
and landfilling shall not significantly increase flooding in other
areas.
