Cranston, RI Zoning Ordinance

Site Plan Requirement. Any person applying for a used car license or automobile or truck rental license must submit to the office of the city clerk, at the time of application, a site plan at a suggested scale of one inch to twenty (20) feet which shall include the following information:

Lot dimension and area;

All buildings and structures existing and/or proposed;

Yards and spaces between buildings;

Walls, fencing, landscaping;

Parking spaces for vehicles on display, including the number of spaces, location of driveways, aisles and curb openings. For the purpose of this section, minimum size of parking spaces shall be nine feet wide by eighteen (18) feet in length. Parking spaces for vehicles on display shall be so arranged that vehicles will leave and enter the street with a forward motion.

Performance Standards. In addition to use and intensity regulations of the zoning district in which located, all facilities shall be subject to the following additional performance standards.

Lot size. Minimum area shall be twelve thousand (12,000) square feet.

Frontage. Minimum frontage shall be one hundred (100) feet.

Setbacks. The following building/structure setbacks shall be required:

Front yard	40 feet
Rear yard	20 feet
Side yard	20 feet

Driveway Openings. All facilities shall conform to the following relative to driveway openings:

No driveway opening shall be located closer than twenty (20) feet to a side or rear property line.

On a corner lot, no driveway opening shall be located closer than twenty-five (25) feet from radius curve.

No driveway opening shall be located within forty (40) feet of another driveway opening.

No driveway opening shall be more than thirty-five (35) feet in width.

Refuse and Trash Facilities. There shall be a sufficient number of trash receptacles on site. Any so called dumpster or trash receptacle shall be designed and constructed to be enclosed from public view and permit safe, easy removal of trash by truck or hand.

Construction Standards. All facilities shall conform to the following construction standards:

All areas, where subject to wheeled traffic, shall be treated with bituminous or other all-weather hard surfacing and shall have appropriate bumper or wheel guards where needed.

Where a facility adjoins, faces or extends into a residential district, a wall or fence of solid appearance or a tight evergreen hedge having a height of no less than five feet shall be erected and maintained along the rear and side property lines. No such wall, fence or hedge need be erected in or adjacent to any front yard or corner side yards.

Any light used to illuminate said facility shall be so arranged as to reflect light away from adjoining premises and streets.

Suitable separation shall be provided between the pedestrian sidewalk and the vehicular parking or moving areas utilizing appropriate bumper or wheel guards, traffic islands or fencing. Where the vehicular parking or moving areas abut a public highway, such area shall be separated from the pedestrian sidewalk by a curb at least six inches in height.

On-site landscaped areas shall be protected from vehicular traffic utilizing a curb at least six inches in height.

Review and Approval of Site Plan. The safety services and licenses committee of the Cranston city council shall consider the granting of used car sales license or automobile and truck rental/leasing license only if the city traffic engineer determines that the proposed facility conforms to the standards set forth herein.

Approval for the facility shall only be granted if the city traffic engineer determines that said use and its associated operational characteristics will not create a traffic hazard either with respect to traffic congestion, the adequacy and safety of entry and exit points or on-site vehicular traffic patterns.

(Prior code § 30-18(f))