Off-street parking spaces for the storage or parking of passenger vehicles of occupants, employees and patrons of main buildings and structures hereafter erected or enlarged shall be provided and kept available in accessory private garages or in accessory parking areas in amounts not less than specified in this Article
XVII, provided that nothing in this Article shall prevent the repairing, reconstruction or rebuilding and continued use, pursuant to Article
XIX, of any nonconforming building or structure lawfully existing at the effective date of this chapter.
In all districts, the minimum required number
of parking spaces to be provided in private garages or parking areas
accessory to main residential buildings permitted in any given district
shall be in accordance with the following regulations:
A. Lodging house: one parking space for each guest bedroom.
B. Multifamily house: three parking spaces for each two
dwelling units, except in a Business-2 District, where one parking
space for each dwelling unit shall be required.
C. Single- and two-family dwellings: at least two parking
spaces are required on site for each dwelling unit.
[Amended 2-6-2007 by L.L. No. 2-2007]
In all districts, the minimum required number
of parking spaces to be provided in private garages or parking areas
accessory to main buildings or structures or uses of land permitted
in any given district shall be in accordance with the following regulations:
A. Auditorium, theater or other place of public assembly:
one parking space for each four fixed seats of capacity or one parking
space for each 60 square feet of floor area available to patrons in
cases where the capacity is not determined by the number of fixed
seats. Benches shall be deemed to have a capacity of one person for
each 20 inches of length.
B. Bank, financial institution, business, public utility
or professional office, including medical and dental clinics: one
parking space for each 300 square feet of aggregate floor area.
C. Church: one parking space for each six seats.
D. Club, community center: one parking space for each
200 square feet of floor area available to patrons.
E. Filling station, public garage or service station:
sufficient parking spaces for all vehicles being serviced simultaneously,
with five parking spaces minimum.
F. Funeral parlor or mortuary establishment: one parking
space for each 100 square feet of floor area devoted to chapel or
reposing rooms or assembly rooms or services.
G. Hospital: One parking space for each three beds.
H. Restaurant or bar: Five parking spaces minimum, plus
one additional parking space for each 100 square feet of floor area
available to patrons in excess of the first 1,000 square feet.
I. Retail store, personal service shop or studio, except
as otherwise provided: one parking space for each 200 square feet
of floor area available to patrons of every building or group of semidetached
buildings.
J. School: one parking space for each employee, plus one parking space for each five students above the eleventh grade level or such number of parking spaces as are required for the assembly hall, computed pursuant to §
98-113A, whichever is the greater.
K. Nonnuisance industry, publishing or printing plant,
dry-cleaning plant, metal working, tinsmith, plumbing or carpenters
shop, wholesale or storage: one parking space for each three persons
customarily employed on the premises but not less than one parking
space for each 500 square feet of floor area.
L. Other uses not specifically listed: the same requirement
as for the most similar listed use. For any unlisted use which is
not similar to a listed use, the parking requirements shall be determined
by the Board of Trustees.
M. Mixed uses: Total requirement shall be the sum of
the requirements for each use, computed separately in accordance with
the provisions of this Article.
Every building or structure, lot or land hereafter
put into use for any nonresidential purpose and which has an aggregate
ground or first floor area of 4,000 square feet or more devoted to
any such use, shall be provided with at least one off-street truck
loading space.