In all zones, parking space for automobiles and the means of access thereto shall be provided on every lot for every dwelling unit located thereon, provided that in any business zone, such parking space may be provided in the manner and location herein permitted for required parking facilities accessory to the business use.

No building permit or occupancy permit shall be issued for any business, commercial activity or multifamily residential use until a plan of the site has been submitted to and approved by the Planning Board, which plan shall show the provisions to be made for off-street parking space, control facilities, curb cuts and approach area adequate to prevent traffic hazards, congestion or excessive interference with normal traffic movement on adjacent public streets and thoroughfares.

For each use of for each structure designed or altered for or occupied by any use as permitted in any zone, there shall be provided off-street parking space as follows:

Parking and/or loading areas of any size area may not be extended to the property lines. A minimum five-foot buffer will be provided along the lot lines. This area shall not be impervious and shall be maintained as lawn with appropriate shrubbery and/or shade trees.

Every off-street parking area with 50 or more spaces shall be provided with:

Landscaped residential buffer. Whenever a nonresidential use adjoins a residential use or zone, there shall be established between off-street parking and/or loading areas and such adjoining residential use or zone a naturalized landscaped buffer not less than 40 feet in width. The Planning Board may relieve the applicant of a portion of this buffer requirement where a portion of a nonresidential lot is to remain undeveloped adjacent to a residential use or zone and where, in the opinion of the Board, such buffer plantings should not be required. The landscaped buffer shall be planted with a dense mixture of coniferous and deciduous trees and shrubs. Deciduous trees shall be not less than 11 feet to 13 feet in height at the time of planting, and coniferous trees shall be not less than six feet to 10 feet in height at the time of planting. Shrubs shall be a minimum of four to five feet in height at the time of planting. Plantings shall be provided at a rate of not less than 45 trees per 100 linear feet and not less than 55 shrubs per 100 linear feet of landscaped buffer. In order that there shall be no headlight penetration to adjoining residential uses or zones, and to minimize noise impacts from parking and loading areas to adjoining residential uses and zones, there shall be provided within the landscaped buffer a berm not less than five feet in height and a six-foot-high fence, such as a stockade fence, which shall be provided in addition to the landscaping required. At the sole discretion of the Planning Board, the berm or fence, or both, may not be required where the Board finds that either the landscaped buffer with a berm or the landscaped buffer with a fence is found to adequately prevent off-site light and noise impacts to adjoining residential uses and/or zones from off-street parking and loading areas. At the sole discretion of the Planning Board, and where a reduced buffer width is found by the Board to adequately screen and buffer adjoining residential uses and/or zones, the width of the required landscaped buffer may be reduced to not less than 25 feet, when planted with landscaping, and may or may not include a berm and/or fence as may be determined necessary by the Planning Board. The number of trees and shrubs in a reduced width landscaped buffer shall be provided at the rate proportional to the buffer otherwise required (i.e., 28 trees and 35 shrubs).

In order to prevent congestion in streets adjacent to any lot occupied by any permitted church, fraternal, charitable or educational institution but, recognizing that the imposition of inflexible standards for the provision of off-street parking and loading facilities may result in excessive hardship of practical difficulty, no structure designed or intended for such occupancy shall be constructed, altered or enlarged until a plot plan is submitted to the Planning Board for approval with regard to the adequacy of the area required, the Planning Board shall use for reference the standards imposed herein upon commercial and business uses which are comparable in nature as places of assembly or in other functional characteristics.

Any such parking space within 200 feet of a residential zone shall be suitably screened by protective planting strip designed and laid out with suitable shrubbery or utilizing natural shrubbery or trees so as to provide an effective natural screening of such parking spaces.

Nonresidential zones and uses. Every structure erected, designed or altered for occupancy for any permitted commercial or business use as permitted in this chapter shall provide, at the side or rear of its lot, access and space for the loading and unloading of delivery trucks which shall be accessible from public and private alley or other way to be used for such purpose. There shall be a minimum loading space provided of 250 square feet for every 25 feet of principal store frontage to be measured along that side of the structure which provides the primary means of access to the public.

Industrial zones and uses. Adequate space shall be provided at the side or rear of the lot for the loading and unloading of all vehicles serving any industrial use. If at any time the volume of product handling and related vehicular movements increases to such extent that congestion, delay and traffic hazards on public rights-of-way are thereby created, the existing off-street loading and unloading facilities shall be deemed to be inadequate by the Zoning Board, and upon such finding, the Board shall notify the owner, lessee or other responsible official in writing of such finding, and upon receipt of such notification, the industry shall have a period of not more than 90 days during which such inadequacies shall be corrected. Upon failure to comply, the occupancy permit shall be revoked and the use shall terminate its activity until it shall comply with this provision.