[Amended 2-4-1985]
A. 
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 shall not be encroached upon or reduced in any manner. All parking areas, passageways and driveways (except when provided in connection with one-family and two-family residences) shall be surfaced with a dustless, durable, all-weather pavement, clearly marked for car spaces and shall be adequately drained, subject to the approval of the Planning Board. 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. The buffer area shall adhere to the provisions of Article XXVI.
B. 
None of the off-street parking facilities that are required in this chapter shall be required for any existing building or use, unless said building or use shall be enlarged, in which case the provisions of this chapter shall apply only to the enlarged portions of the building or use. If the use is to be changed, the provisions of this chapter shall apply to the new use.
C. 
The collective use of an off-street parking area by two 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 or more or the collective users. The exception to this provision is the TMU Zone where such parking is specifically permitted.
[Amended 2-3-1997 by Ord. No. 97-2]
D. 
No display vehicles or trailer devices for commercial purposes shall remain in any district for longer than a twenty-four-hour period.
E. 
Parking areas may be located in any rear or side yard, but may not be located in any required front yard area except where specifically permitted elsewhere in this chapter.
F. 
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.
G. 
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 conditions, potholes, cracked pavement, etc. All lighting, bumpers, markings, signs, drainage and landscaping shall be similarly kept in workable, safe and good condition. If the owner fails to undertake repairs, after proper notification by the Building Inspector, the Mayor and Council may authorize repairs to be made at the owner's expense if, in the Mayor and Council's opinion, conditions constitute a hazard to the safety and welfare of the Township residents and visitors or may revoke the owner's certificate of occupancy and require property to be vacated.
The following general provisions are applicable only to C-1, C-2, G-O, O-R, I-1 and I-2 Districts:
A. 
All parking areas and appurtenant passageways and driveways shall be illuminated adequately during the hours between sunset and sunrise when the use is in operation. Adequate shielding shall be provided to protect adjacent residential zones from the glare of such illumination and from that of automobile headlights.
B. 
Not more than two driveways used as a means of ingress or egress for off-street parking areas shall be permitted for each 300 feet of frontage on a public street, nor shall any driveway be located closer than 100 feet to the intersection of two public streets.
C. 
All parking areas for 20 or more vehicles shall be landscaped with hedging and/or shade trees of a type and quantity approved by the Planning Board.
D. 
All parking areas for 10 or more vehicles shall have artificial lighting that will provide an adequate lighting level throughout the parking area. Freestanding light poles shall be no higher than the height of the highest principal building served by the parking area plus five feet.
E. 
Required parking area shall be provided within 150 feet of all uses. It shall be measured from the nearest point of public entrance to the building that such facility is required to serve. All parking spaces located at the rear of any commercial use shall have public access to rear entrances and exits.
F. 
Traffic patterns shall be reviewed with regard to ingress and egress, as well as the internal system of vehicular and pedestrian movement, so as to avoid congestion, provide adequate space for maneuvering into parking spaces, provide for the safety of pedestrians going to and from buildings and parking areas and the separation of truck traffic serving the uses from pedestrian traffic.
G. 
Truck loading and unloading areas shall be provided in sufficient amount to permit the transfer of goods and products on other than a public street or public parking area.
H. 
For every building, structure or part thereof having over 5,000 square feet of gross building area erected and occupied for commerce, hospital, laundry, dry cleaning, places of public and quasi-public assembly, industry and other similar uses involved in the receipt and distribution by vehicles of materials or merchandise, there shall be provided and permanently maintained adequate space for standing, loading and unloading services in order to avoid undue interference with the public use of streets or alleys. Every building, structure or addition thereto having a use which complies with the above definitions shall be provided with at least one truck standing, loading and unloading space on the premises, not less than 12 feet in width, 35 feet in length and 14 feet in height. Such buildings that contain in excess of 25,000 square feet of gross building area will be required to provide additional off-street loading spaces as determined by the Planning Board during site plan review.
I. 
Access to truck standing, loading and unloading space shall be provided directly from a public street or alley or from any right-of-way that will not interfere with public convenience and will permit orderly and safe movement of truck vehicles.
J. 
Loading spaces as required under this section shall be provided in addition to off-street parking space and shall not be considered as supplying off-street parking space.
K. 
Whenever an off-street loading and unloading area shall be located next to a residential zone, said loading and unloading area shall be suitably screened and buffered subject to approval by the Planning Board and in accordance with the requirements of Article XXVI.
L. 
No off-street loading and unloading area shall be permitted in any required front yard area.
A. 
Parking space size. Each off-street parking space shall measure not less than nine feet wide and not less than 18 feet deep, exclusive of access drives and aisles, except that parallel curb parking spaces shall be nine feet wide and 23 feet deep. Except in the case of one-family dwellings, no parking areas provided hereunder shall be established for less than four spaces.
B. 
Access aisles and driveways.
(1) 
No access drive, driveway, pathway or any other means of egress or ingress shall be located in any residential zone to provide access to uses other than those permitted in any such residential zone.
(2) 
All driveways shall cross sidewalk areas at grade.
(3) 
No driveway to or from a parking area shall be located closer than 100 feet to the nearest right-of-way line of an intersecting street. However, any major use, such as a shopping center or industrial use, which, in the opinion of the Planning Board, will generate large traffic volumes shall not be located closer than 200 feet to the nearest right-of-way line of an intersecting street.
(4) 
Driveways shall have a minimum width of 12 feet for one-way traffic and 25 feet for two-way traffic for all other uses.
(5) 
Aisles from which cars directly enter or leave parking spaces shall not be less than:
(a) 
Twenty-five feet wide for perpendicular parking.
(b) 
Twenty-two feet wide for sixty-five-degree angle parking.
(c) 
Twenty feet wide for thirty-degree and forty-five-degree angle parking.
(d) 
Twenty-five feet for all aisles following two-way traffic.
C. 
Sidewalks and curbing.
(1) 
Sidewalks with a minimum width of four feet shall be provided in all parking areas for five or more vehicles, between parking areas and principal structures, along aisles and driveways and wherever pedestrian traffic shall occur.
(2) 
Sidewalks shall be raised six inches above the parking area, except where crossing streets or driveways, and curbed as a protection to pedestrians using the walks.
(3) 
Sidewalks and parking areas must be arranged to prevent cars from extending over sidewalk areas.
[Amended 9-8-2009 by Ord. No. 09-15]
The following off-street parking spaces and restrictions are required for R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4, R-4A, R-5, R-6, R-M and R-T Districts:
A. 
One-family, two-family, duplex, mobile home and townhouse dwellings: two off-street parking spaces per dwelling unit. The required parking spaces may be within an enclosed garage, or vehicles may be parked on an improved surface maintained in a weed-free condition. Off-street parking is not permitted on grass surfaces in any front, side or rear yards.
B. 
The following types of vehicles are prohibited from being parked on any lot zoned for residential purposes, as well as on both sides of the street in front of any residential use or directly across the street from any residential use, except when engaged in providing emergency repair services or actively engaged in moving the residents of the premises:
(1) 
Trucks commonly identified as box, walk-in, rack or stake body trucks of any gross vehicle weight, as shown and consistent with nonpermitted commercial vehicles of a similar type displayed in Exhibit A on file with the Department of Community Development; and
(2) 
Tractors and tractor-trailers.
[Amended 4-29-1996 by Ord. No. 96-10; 2-3-1997 by Ord. No. 97-2]
The following off-street parking spaces are required for nonresidential uses:
A. 
Industrial manufacturing, research plants and warehouses.
(1) 
Storage, warehousing, distribution and shipping activities: at least one space for each 2,500 square feet of gross floor area.
[Amended 2-18-2020 by Ord. No. 20-04]
(2) 
Manufacturing or fabrication activities: at least one space for each 500 square feet of gross floor area.
(3) 
[1]Visitor parking: at least one parking space for each five executive office workers.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection A(3), which pertained to administrative and executive office activities, was repealed 2-18-2020 by Ord. No. 20-04. This ordinance also redesignated former Subsection A(4) and (5) as Subsection A(3) and (4), respectively.
(4) 
Research and development facilities: one parking space for each 500 square feet of gross floor area, excluding basements and penthouse structures.
B. 
Commercial, retail, general office and other nonresidential uses.
(1) 
Beauty and barber shops: one parking space for each 250 square feet of gross floor area.
(2) 
Supermarkets and self-service food stores: one parking space for each 250 square feet of gross floor area.
(3) 
Medical and dental offices: one parking space for each 200 square feet of gross floor area.
(4) 
Banks, financial and business offices and professional offices: one parking space for each 250 square feet of gross floor area.
(5) 
Furniture, appliance and hardware stores: one parking space for each 400 square feet of gross floor area.
(6) 
All other retail and service stores: one parking space for each 200 square feet of gross floor area.
(7) 
Restaurants, taverns, cafeterias and diners: one parking space for each 100 square feet of gross floor area.
(8) 
Drive-in restaurants: one parking area for each 20 square feet of gross floor area.
(9) 
Laundromats: one parking space for each 200 square feet of gross floor area.
(10) 
Bowling alleys, indoor tennis, handball, racquetball courts and similar uses: six parking spaces for each lane or court.
[Amended 11-16-2020 by Ord. No. 20-23]
(11) 
New car sales and service: one parking space for each 200 square feet of gross floor area, not including spaces used for storage of new or used vehicles being offered for sale or being serviced, plus one parking space for each employee during the largest shift.
(12) 
Motor vehicle service stations: one parking space for each service bay, plus one parking space for each employee, with a minimum of two parking spaces for employees.
(13) 
Auditoriums, churches, conference or concert halls, community centers and similar places of public assembly not having fixed seating facilities: one parking space for every four persons who may legally be admitted therein at one time under the state fire prevention laws.
[Amended 11-16-2020 by Ord. No. 20-23]
(14) 
Auditoriums, churches, conference or concert halls, community centers and similar places of public assembly having fixed seating facilities: one parking space for every four seats.
[Amended 11-16-2020 by Ord. No. 20-23]
(15) 
Theaters: one parking space for every three theater seats, plus one parking space for each projected employee at maximum shift.
(16) 
Hospitals and similar institutional uses for care of the ill or aged: one parking space for each 300 square feet of gross floor area.
(17) 
Mortuaries and funeral homes: one parking space for each 100 square feet of gross floor area.
(18) 
Transportation and terminal facilities: one parking space for every 50 square feet of gross floor area.
(19) 
Parks and other outdoor recreation sites: five parking spaces for each gross acre of land up to 50 acres, and one parking space per gross acre of land above 50 acres.
(20) 
Shopping center: one parking space for each 150 square feet of gross floor area.
[Added 11-16-2020 by Ord. No. 20-23]
(21) 
Adult day-care facilities: one parking space for each 300 square feet of gross floor area.
[Added 11-16-2020 by Ord. No. 20-23]
(22) 
Clinics: one parking space for each 200 square feet of gross floor area.
[Added 11-16-2020 by Ord. No. 20-23]
(23) 
Indoor recreation facilities, gyms, games of skill including video game arcades: one space per for each 200 square feet of gross floor area.
[Added 11-16-2020 by Ord. No. 20-23]
(24) 
When the use is not specifically mentioned in this section, the requirements of off-street parking facilities for a use most similar, compatible or consistent with the use that is mentioned shall apply. In the event that there is no similar, compatible or consistent use, off-street parking requirements shall be determined by the Board, based upon accepted industry standards.
[Added 11-16-2020 by Ord. No. 20-23]