Any building, improvement, or use approved that is changed after
the effective date of this Ordinance shall comply with this Article.
If the building, improvement, or use is repaired, renovated, altered,
expanded, or redeveloped without change of use in the parking and/or
location requirements, the parking requirements of the ordinance in
effect at the time of approval shall continue to apply.
Off-street parking lots of more than two motor vehicles capacity
shall conform to the following standards of construction:
A. The area shall have a dust free, hard surface and shall be provided
with bumper guards, as needed. Vehicles shall not extend over property
lines, pedestrian areas or bump any wall or landscaping.
B. Where such area adjoins an exclusively residential district or use,
a landscaped fifteen foot setback and an opaque evergreen hedge or
fence not less than five feet high shall be erected at the edge of
the setback and maintained between such area and the adjoining residential
district or use.
C. Lighting fixtures shall be so arranged as to be directed downward
and away from abutting property and away from adjacent roadways, and
shall be at an intensity not greater than that of existing lighting
in the area. In addition to these regulations, exterior lighting shall
also be regulated by the provisions of 155-15, et seq.
D. Provisions for temporary bicycle parking are encouraged for all off-street
parking areas. The minimum number of required parking spaces for automobiles
may be reduced when bicycle parking is provided. For every five bicycle
parking spaces provided, the requirement for automobile parking spaces
may be reduced by one.
E. On any business or industrial use, parking shall not be permitted
within any front yard or required buffer.
F. Plans and specifications for the required parking facility and its
access drives shall be submitted during development plan review, if
applicable, or, at the time of a building permit application.
G. Each parking space shall have a minimum width of nine feet, a minimum
length of eighteen feet and shall be served by ten feet wide minimum
aisles to permit access into all parking spaces. Parking spaces may
be drawn on various angles in relation to driveways or aisles, so
long as the parking spaces contain the area required.
H. Circulation areas shall be designed so that vehicles can proceed
safely without danger to pedestrians, other vehicles and without interfering
with other parking spaces.
I. Landscaping Standards. Parking areas shall be landscaped before a
final approval or Certificate of Occupancy can be issued by the Building
Official to the following standards:
(1) Landscape Plan. All proposed landscaping shall be shown on a separate plan entitled "Landscape Plan" as required by Section
218-74 of the Zoning Ordinance.
(2) Required Plantings.
(a)
The minimum required amount of interior landscaping shall be
ten percent of any newly installed parking area, which includes driveways,
borders, sidewalks, parking stalls and travel lanes.
(b)
Double rows of parking spaces shall be terminated at each end
by landscaped borders which extend the entire length of the adjacent
parking stalls. The borders shall have a minimum width of ten feet,
however, a tapered design is allowed provided the border measures
ten feet at its widest point.
(c)
The interior of parking lots shall have, at a minimum, landscaped
center islands at every other double row. Pedestrian paths may be
incorporated within center islands provided a minimum total width
of four feet is maintained for vegetated areas.
(d)
Interior islands and divider medians shall be appropriately
marked with reflectors to protect them from encroachment of motor
vehicles in a manner approved by the Planning Commission or Town Planner.
(e)
The interior of parking areas and all internal circulation areas
to the site shall be shaded by deciduous trees either retained or
planted by the developer. As indicated on the landscape plan, each
tree shall provide a canopy with a radius of at least fifteen feet,
and the total tree canopy shall be sufficient to cover at least thirty
percent of the parking area under conditions of mature growth.
(f)
Shade trees shall be located so that they are surrounded by
at least twenty-five square feet of evenly distributed unpaved area,
which may be counted towards calculating the required landscaped area.
Trees located in sidewalks shall be selected to mature within the
space designed for them without eventually disrupting the sidewalk
from below.
(g)
Raised islands shall be required to protect landscaping and
to channel traffic safely. Where depressed landscaped islands are
proposed to be used as part of the overall stormwater treatment approach,
perforated curbing or some similar protective measure shall be used
to ensure automobiles do not trespass into these areas.
(h)
All parking areas of ten or more spaces shall include shade
trees planted forty feet on center around the perimeter of the parking
area. Such distance may be increased or decreased in development plan
review for the purposes of ingress and egress drives.
(i)
All trees planted shall be nursery certified as disease and
pest free.
All newly developed nonresidential structures shall provide off-street loading facilities unless specifically exempted elsewhere in the Zoning Ordinance. Plans for such loading facilities shall be submitted with an application for a building permit or within development plan review where applicable for the main use. Where a loading facility is abutting a residential district, the restrictions contained in §
218-74, Landscaping. Such a loading facility shall not allow the projection of vehicles into a street right-of-way.