Cranston City Zoning Code
Chapter
17.48 GASOLINE SERVICE STATIONS
§ 17.48.010 Gasoline service stations.
A.
Generally.
Any gasoline service station, filling station, in any district shall
conform at least to the following regulations. Where the intensity
regulations for any district in which a gasoline service station is
located are more restricting than the regulations contained hereinafter,
all gasoline service stations or filling stations shall conform to
the more restrictive dimensional requirements.
B.
Frontage
and Area. Every gasoline service station shall have a minimum frontage
of one hundred twenty (120) feet and a minimum area of twelve thousand
(12,000) square feet.
C.
Setbacks.
Every structure erected for use as a gasoline service station shall
have a minimum setback from the street right of way of forty (40)
feet and a minimum setback from all property lines of ten (10) feet.
Pump islands shall be permitted in front yard and set back a minimum
of fifteen (15) feet from all property lines.
D.
Construction
Standards. All vehicle service areas shall be constructed to conform
to the following standards:
1.
Suitable
separation shall be made between the pedestrian sidewalk and the vehicular
parking or moving area with the use of appropriate bumper, wheel guards
or traffic islands. Where the portion of the property used for vehicular
traffic abuts a street, such portion shall be separated from the street
line by a curb at least six inches high.
2.
The
entire area used for vehicle service shall be paved, except for such
unpaved area as is landscaped and protected from vehicle use by a
low barrier.
3.
Hydraulic
hoist, pits, lubricating, greasing, washing and repair equipment shall
be entirely enclosed within a building. Tire and battery service and
minor automobile repair, excluding automobile body repair and painting
may be carried out within the premises.
4.
The
maximum widths of all driveways at the sidewalk shall be thirty (30)
feet.
5.
Minimum
angle of driveway intersection with the street from the curb line
to lot line shall be sixty (60) degrees.
6.
The
distance of any driveway from any property line shall be at least
twenty (20) feet.
7.
The
distance between curb cuts shall be no less than forty (40) feet.
E.
Wall
Next to Residential Use. A wall or evergreen screening offence five
feet high shall be erected along all property lines abutting residential
use.
(Prior code § 30-18(j))