[Amended 5-17-2000 by L.L. No. 1-2000]
A. Off-street parking requirements for new parking lot
installations, expansions, conversions to multifamily/bed-and-breakfast
and reconstructed parking lots shall include all of the following
requirements as stated below. Such parking space shall be at least
200 square feet.
[Amended 5-16-2007 by L.L. No. 3-2007]
|
Use
|
Minimum Required Parking Spaces
|
---|
|
Studio apartment
|
1 for each unit
|
|
Single- and two-family residences
|
2 for each dwelling unit
|
|
Senior citizen
|
1.25 for each dwelling unit
|
|
Multiple dwelling units, apartment houses, townhouses
|
2 for each dwelling unit
|
|
Motels, hotels
|
1 for each sleeping room
|
|
Retail uses
|
1 for each 200 square feet of retail floor space
(exclusive of storage, office, rest rooms, maintenance/mechanical
spaces)
|
|
Retail - furniture or hardware store
|
1 for each 500 square feet of retail space
|
|
Office - medical or dental
|
5 per doctor in the practice plus 1 per employee
|
|
Office - other professional
|
1 for each 200 square feet of office space
|
|
Restaurants
|
1 for each 25 square feet of floor space
|
|
Churches, schools (public or semipublic), theaters,
and other places of assembly
|
1 for each 4 seats at maximum capacity
|
|
Industrial or manufacturing
|
1 for each 600 square feet of gross floor area
|
|
Warehouses
|
1 for each employee
|
|
Funeral homes
|
10 per viewing room
|
|
Institutions, hospitals, nursing homes
|
1 for each 2 patients or residents
|
|
Bed-and-breakfasts
|
1 for every sleeping room
|
B. On-site requirements may be waived by the Planning
Board up to 100% of the spaces required, provided that identical space
is provided in a permanent and accessible manner by the applicant
within 300 feet of the use or within 1,000 feet of any municipal parking
lot.
C. Zoning setback for residential parking and driveway
shall be zero feet.
D. Zoning setback for commercial parking and driveway
shall be 10 feet when adjacent to a residential district.
E. In all districts, exclusive of driveways, parking
areas for one or more vehicles shall be restricted to the side and/or
rear of any building in order to preserve the green area and integrity
of our Village.
F. Design requirements.
(1) Off-street parking space shall not be less than 10
feet in width and 20 feet in depth, equaling 200 square feet, exclusive
of accessways and driveways.
(2) Off-street parking areas for nonresidential uses shall
provide an additional area of 100 square feet of area per each off-street
parking space to provide sufficient area for access drives and aisles.
(3) Off-street parking areas with a capacity for more
than 20 vehicles shall delineate fire lanes and post "No Parking"
markers for the fire lanes.
(4) All parking areas, passageways and driveways shall
be adequately drained and surfaced with a dustless, durable, all-weather
surface, subject to approval of the Planning Board.
(5) Each off-street space shall be so designed, maintained
and regulated that no parking or maneuvering incidental to parking
shall be on any public street, walk or alley.
(6) The collective provision of off-street parking areas
by two or more buildings or uses located on adjacent lots may be approved
by the Planning Board, provided that the total of such facilities
shall not be less than the sum required of the various buildings or
uses computed separately.
(7) No more than two driveways, of not less than 20 feet
nor more than 30 feet in width, shall be used as a means of ingress
and egress for each nonresidential use, except where the deviation
in the number of or width of such driveways may be deemed necessary
by the Planning Board because of traffic safety conditions.
G. Screening and landscaping.
(1) Off-street parking areas for more than five vehicles
shall be effectively screened on the sides that the Planning Board
shall determine for the safety and protection of the neighbors. Screening
may be by fence of acceptable design, unpierced masonry wall, landscaped
berm or compact evergreen hedge. Such fence or hedge shall not be
less than six feet in height and shall be maintained in good condition.
(2) When a parking area for five or more vehicles is within or abuts a residential district, a planted buffer area shall be provided in addition to the fence or wall specified in Subsection
G(1) above. Landscaping utilized to provide this buffer shall not be less than two feet in height at the time of planting and spaced not more than three feet apart. The planted buffer area shall not be less than 10 feet in depth.
H. Lighting:
(1) All off-street parking areas and appurtenant passageways
and driveways shall be illuminated adequately during the hours between
sunset and sunrise when the use is in operation.
(2) Any lights used to illuminate an off-street parking
area shall be so arranged as to reflect the light away from all adjoining
property.