Burlington City Zoning Code

Application. No new building shall hereafter be erected, and no existing building be altered to increase its floor area or increase employment or occupancy unless and until off-street parking facilities as set forth in this chapter, where applicable, shall be provided for the storage or parking of passenger motor vehicles for the use of occupants, employees or patrons of buildings erected or for the portion enlarged or altered.

Size. An off-street space available for the parking of a motor vehicle and which in this chapter is held to be an area nine feet wide and 20 feet long for head-to-head parking and nine feet wide and 18 feet long for perpendicular parking against a curb or curb stop, exclusive of passageways and driveways appurtenant thereto and giving access thereto. Entrance and exit roadways shall not be computed as parking space except for single-family residences. No area in existing right-of-way areas in public roads shall be used to satisfy the parking space requirements.

Access. Unobstructed access to and from a street shall be provided.

Drainage and surfacing. All open parking areas shall be properly drained, and all such areas shall be provided with a paved surface as approved by the City Engineer and shall be clearly marked for car spaces.

Parking space requirements. Parking space requirements shall be met on the same lot with the principal use to which it is accessory whenever possible. If this is not possible, the parking space shall be provided on another site with no parking space further than 500 feet from the entrance to the building. Such parking space which is provided on another site shall not be on the opposite side of a highway or heavily traveled street from the principal use to which it is accessory. The area of the property on which the separate parking lot is located may be included in the total minimum lot area required. In the case of a single-family detached dwelling or two-family detached dwellings, parking space must be provided on the same lot as the dwelling.

Parking in residential districts.

Mixed uses. In the case of mixed uses, the parking facilities required shall be the sum of the requirements for the various individual uses, computed separately in accordance with the limiting schedule. Parking facilities for one use shall not be considered as providing the required parking facilities for any other use.

Driveway clearance. Off-street parking areas should be designed to prevent the maneuvering of vehicles onto or out of parking spaces or the storage of vehicles within any portion of an entrance driveway or driveway lane that is within 20 feet of the right-of-way line of a road. Off-street parking areas should be so designed to permit all vehicles to turn around on the site in order to prevent the necessity of any vehicle backing on to the road from such site.

Shade trees. Off-street parking areas which provide parking for 20 or more vehicles shall be provided with shade trees of a type and size approved by the Land Use Board. The shade trees shall be located in a planned manner within the parking lot areas in quantity equal to not less than one shade tree for every 10 parking spaces.

TC-1 District. Parking in the TC-1 District shall be where permitted by ordinance.

Parking standards. See Chapter 207, Attachment 5, Parking and Loading Requirements, for parking requirements for all transects and districts except TC-1.

Loading and service areas.