VEHICLE PARKING AND LOADING
Part 307.
307.01 Parking Requirements
(a) Location:
(1) On-street parking shall not be permitted, nor shall parking facilities be permitted to obstruct property, roadways or rights of way.
(2) Off-street parking facilities shall be provided on the same lot with the principal use they are required to serve unless otherwise approved by the Board.
(3) In all zones, parking space on each lot shall be adequate to prevent vehicles from backing onto a roadway or right of way.
(4) Parking spaces located within four feet of abutting structures, sidewalks, or streets shall have substantial bumpers designed to protect such structures, sidewalks, or streets.
(b) Size and surfacing:
(1) Each parking space shall be not less than eight and one half (8 1/2) feet in width and shall have a minimum area of one hundred sixty (160) square feet, exclusive of drives or aisles.
(2) Parking areas and access drives shall be surfaced with a durable asphalt or concrete material and shall be graded and drained to dispose of all surface water accumulation.
(3) All parking spaces shall be so marked by use of painted lines or other permanent striping materials.
(c) Required minimum number of parking spaces
Use Minimum No. of Spaces Required
Aviation facility As determined by Board (hangar, terminal)
Banks and business offices 1 per 200 s.f. gross floor area (lots less than 10 acres)
Business offices 3 per every 4 employees (lots ten or more acres)
Child care facility 1 per 5 children at max. capacity
Hospital 1 per bed
Hotels 1 per room plus 1 per 2 employees
Industrial, light industrial, manufacturing, wholesale 2 per 3 employees on largest shift plus 1 per company-owned vehicle
Offices 1 per 2 employees
Professional offices 3 per professional plus 1 per other employee
Restaurants,eating,drinking establishments 1 per 3 seats or1 per100 s.f. gross floor area plus 1 per employee,whichever is largest
Retail/commercial 1 per 400 s.f.
Education, training facilities 1 per staff on duty plus 1 per 4 students
Transportation terminal As determined by the Board
(d) Rules of interpretation:
(1) Where individual seats are not provided, each eighteen (18) inches of benches or other similar seating shall be considered as one (1) seat.
(2) In the case of mixed uses, the parking spaces required shall be the sum of the requirements for the various individual uses, computed separately. Parking spaces for one use shall not be considered as providing the required parking for any other use. Where the computation of required parking results in a fractional number, the fraction of one-half or more shall be counted as one space.
(3) For any permitted use not covered by (c) above, the closest similar use shall govern.
(e) Compact Car Parking Spaces. In parking areas with twenty or more parking spaces, up to thirty percent (30%) of the minimum number of required parking spaces or of the total spaces, whichever is greater, may be allocated for compact cars if designed to the following standards:
(1) a compact car space shall not be less than 7.5 feet in width and 15 feet in length;
(2) compact car spaces shall be laid out in a group and appropriately identified as intended for exclusive use by compact cars;
(3) all aisle dimensions shall not be reduced from the requirements specified for all parking areas.
(f) Handicapped parking spaces.
(1) Specifically designated parking spaces for the physically handicapped shall be located as the parking spaces closest to the designated accessible primary entrance(s). Where possible, spaces shall be located so that handicapped persons do not have to cross roadways.
(2) Handicapped parking spaces shall be a minimum of twelve (12) feet wide. Two eight (8) foot wide spaces, separated by a four (4) foot wide center aisle appropriately marked may be used as an alternative.
(3) Handicapped parking spaces shall be identified and reserved by an appropriately marked sign erected on a post or building at each space.
(4) Required minimum number of handicapped spaces:
| Total Parking Required |
Parking for Handicapped |
Required |
| Less than 5 |
0, but 4-ft wide wheelchair |
access required for 1 space |
| 5-25 |
1 space |
|
| 26-40 |
25% (min. 2 spaces) |
|
| 41-100 |
4% (min. 3 spaces) |
|
| 101-200 |
3% (min. 4 spaces) |
|
| 201-500 |
2% (min. 6 spaces) |
|
| 501-1000 |
1.5% (min. 10 spaces) |
|
| 1001- |
1% |
|
(g) Reductions in Parking Requirements for Designated High Occupancy Vehicle Parking.
(1) One designated van pool parking space may be substituted for six (6) required employee parking spaces, up to a fifteen percent (15%) reduction in parking requirements.
(2) One designated car pool parking space may be substituted for three (3) required employee parking spaces, up to a fifteen percent (15%) reduction in parking requirements.
307.02 Off-Street Loading
(a) All principal buildings, including additions to existing principal buildings, in the Airport, Airport Industrial, Industrial and Airport Business and Commercial Zones shall be provided with off-street loading spaces in accordance with the following specifications:
(1) Loading berths shall be located in the side or rear yards only.
(2) No off-street loading space shall be a part of any area used to satisfy off-street parking requirements.
(3) The first required loading berth shall be not less than twenty (20) feet in depth and all additional required berths shall be forty-five (45) feet in depth, except in the case of operators of large fleets of small sized delivery trucks, when the Board may permit additional required berths to be only twenty (20) feet deep.
(4) All loading berths shall have a minimum width of twelve (12) feet and a minimum vertical clearance of fourteen (14) feet.
(5) In the case of mixed uses, the loading berths required shall be the sum of the requirements for the various individual uses computed separately. Loading berths for one use shall not be considered as providing the required loading berths for any other use.
(b) Minimum number of required loading berths
| USE |
NUMBER OF BERTHS
REQUIRED |
| Office, retail, commercial and service
establishments |
1 berth for establishments of 2,000 to
10,000 s.f.gross floor area; 1 additional berth for each 10,000 s.f. of gross floor
area in excess of 10,000 s.f. |
| Industrial, manufacturing, wholesale
establishments |
1 berth for establishments of
5,000 to 15,000 s.f. of gross floor area; 1 additional berth for each 10,000 s.f. of
gross floor area in excess of 15,000 s.f. |
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