East Berlin City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XI
Parking and Loading Regulations
§ 500-67 Required parking facilities.
Unless otherwise regulated in this article or elsewhere in this chapter, the following minimum parking facilitates are required. Any structure or building hereafter erected, converted, or enlarged for any of the following uses, or any open area hereafter developed for commercial, residential, or similar purposes, shall be provided with not less than the minimum off-street parking spaces, as set forth below. All spaces shall be readily accessible to the uses served thereby.
Type of Use | Number of Parking Spaces Required |
|---|---|
Accessory dwelling unit | 1 |
Apartment, including conversion apartment | 1 for apartments with 2 or fewer bedrooms 2 for apartments with 3 or more bedrooms |
Automobile, motorcycle, boat, and similar vehicle sales | 1 for every 500 square feet of enclosed sales and service space |
Bar/nightclub | 1 for every 200 square feet of floor area |
Bed-and-breakfast inn | 1 for every guest room, plus 2 for the dwelling unit |
Business/professional/medical office | 1 for every 400 square feet of floor area |
Child-care center | 1 for every employee on the largest shift, plus 1 for child dropoff and pickup purposes |
Commercial recreation | For indoor commercial recreation uses, 1 space for every 500 square feet of floor area. For outdoor recreation uses, 1 space for every 10,000 square feet of land area devoted to the outdoor recreation use |
Distribution center | 1 for every 2,000 square feet of floor area |
Family child care | 1 for child dropoff and pickup purposes in addition to that required by this section for the residence |
Financial institution with drive-through service | 1 for every 500 square feet of floor area |
Financial institution without drive through service | 1 for every 400 square feet of floor area |
Funeral home | 1 for every 400 square feet of floor area |
Gallery/museum | 1 for every 500 square feet of floor area |
Governmental use | 1 for every 500 square feet of floor area devoted to citizen service |
Group child care | 1 for every employee on the largest shift, plus 2 for child dropoff and pickup |
Group home | 1 for every 2 residents plus 1 for the operator |
Halfway house | 1 for every 2 clients, plus 1 for every employee on the largest shift |
Health club | 1 for every 400 square feet of floor area |
Heavy industrial use | 1 for every 1,000 square feet of floor area |
Home occupation | 1 for every 300 square feet of floor area devoted to the home occupation use |
Hospital, clinic, and related medical care facility | 1 for every 500 square feet of floor area |
Hotel/motel | 1 for every lodging unit plus 1 employee space for every 10 lodging units |
Infill development | The total minimum parking spaces required shall be the sum of the minimum parking spaces required for each individual use within an infill development |
Light industrial use | 1 for every 1,000 square feet of floor area |
Mixed use property | The total minimum parking spaces required shall be the sum of the minimum parking spaces required for each individual use within a mixed use property |
Personal care home | 1 for every 4 clients, plus 1 for the operator |
Personal service shop | 1 for every 400 square feet of floor area |
Place of worship | 1 for every 750 square feet of floor area of the primary room of assembly |
Public and noncommercial park and recreation use | 1 for every 10,000 square feet of land area devoted to the public or noncommercial park and recreation use |
Recycling facility | 1 for every 2,000 square feet of floor area |
Rental storage | Where an on-site rental office is present, 1 for every 400 square feet of office floor area |
Restaurant with drive-through service | 1 for every 400 square feet of floor area |
Restaurant without drive-through service | 1 for every 300 square feet of floor area |
Retail store with drive-through service | 1 for every 500 square feet of floor area |
Retail store with gasoline sales | 1 for every 500 square feet of floor area |
Retail store without drive-through service and gasoline sales | 1 for every 400 square feet of floor area |
School | For elementary schools and middle schools, 4 spaces for every 5 employees on site during the school day For high schools, 4 spaced for every 5 employees on site during the school day, plus 1 space for every 5 students |
Shopping plaza | 1 for every 350 square feet of floor area |
Single-family detached dwelling | 2 |
Single-family semidetached dwelling | 2 for each dwelling unit |
Studio | 1 for every 500 square feet of floor area |
Theater | 1 for every 5 seats |
Two-family dwelling | 2 for each dwelling unit |
Townhouse, including infill townhouse | 1 for townhouses with 2 or fewer bedrooms 2 for townhouses with 3 or more bedrooms |
§ 500-68 Parking design standards.
All off-street parking areas shall be designed to meet the following standards:
A.
Where three or more parking spaces shall be provided in accordance with the provisions of § 500-67, such spaces shall be provided in a parking lot.
B.
Surfacing. Surfacing of off-street parking lots shall comply with the following standards:
(1)
All parking lots serving nonresidential uses, and all parking lots serving residential uses and having 10 or more parking spaces, shall be paved. Suitable paving material shall be asphalt or concrete.
(2)
Parking lots serving residential uses and having fewer than 10 parking spaces need not be paved, but shall be constructed with a durable, dust-free driving surface.
(3)
Any parking spaces needed to meet Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements for handicapped accessible parking shall be surfaced in accordance with ADA guidelines.
C.
Parking lots with 50 or more parking spaces shall be designed with a dedicated access drive and dedicated circulation drives. No parking space may be accessed from a dedicated access drive or a dedicated circulation drive. Access drives and circulation drives shall be uniform in width and provide for 90° intersections from one access or circulation drive to another and to parking aisle drives.
D.
Parking lots with 50 or more parking spaces shall provide landscaping strips to separate the parking aisles from dedicated access and circulation drives. Landscaping strips shall be designed with a minimum width of five feet.
E.
Access drives, circulation drives, and parking aisle drives shall be a minimum of 20 feet in width where two-way directional travel is proposed and shall be a minimum of 12 feet in width where one-way directional travel is proposed.
F.
Customers and service traffic shall be separated to the extent feasible given constraints of existing properties. Loading and unloading areas, including areas provided for refuse removal, shall be located so as not to interfere with customer or employee parking areas. No loading/unloading or refuse removal functions may be conducted within parking aisle drives.
G.
Parking lots with 50 or more parking spaces shall provide dedicated pedestrian walkways or sidewalks. Such walkways or sidewalks shall be a minimum of four feet in width and shall be arranged so that a person using a parking space may walk from the parking space to the use the parking space serves without having to walk along or through other parking spaces or parking aisle drives to access the use.
H.
Parking aisle drives terminating in a dead end shall be provided with sufficient back-up or turn-around area for the end spaces.
I.
Each parking space shall be not less than 10 feet wide by 20 feet long.
J.
Parking space markers. All parking spaces shall be marked to show the location of the parking spaces within the parking lot. Parking space markings shall comply with the following requirements:
(1)
Parking spaces within parking lots surfaced with asphalt or concrete shall be marked by four-inch-wide painted lines or four-inch-wide road surface tape. Paint or road surface tape shall be reapplied as necessary to ensure continuous visibility of the limits of each parking space.
(2)
Parking spaces within parking lots provided with a surface other than asphalt or concrete are not required to be delineated with paint or road surface tape. In such instances, a bumper block shall be used to define the location and orientation of each parking space. Bumper blocks shall be replaced at any time when said markings become damaged.
K.
Lighting. All lighting shall be arranged so as to prevent direct view of the light source from adjoining properties and/or public rights-of-way. Light standards shall be protected from vehicular traffic by curbing or landscaping.
L.
Parking lot landscaping. All parking lots within the C and MU Districts, and all other parking lots exceeding 25 parking spaces, shall be landscaped in accordance with the following requirements:
(1)
Landscaping within the parking lot shall be required and shall conform to the following requirements:
(a)
Terminal islands shall be provided at both ends of all rows of abutting parking spaces.
(b)
Each terminal island shall measure not less than five feet in width and 15 feet in length.
(c)
Each terminal island shall include at least one major deciduous tree or two minor deciduous trees, with the remaining area landscaped with appropriate ground cover or grass.
(d)
Where parking space rows are proposed with 20 or more parking spaces, mid-row islands shall be provided at a frequency where no more than 20 contiguous parking spaces are provided without separation from other spaces in said row. Mid-row islands shall have the same dimensions as terminal islands.
(e)
Mid-row islands located within abutting parking space rows (including those separated by a divider strip) shall have the same dimensions as terminal islands. Mid-row islands within a single parking space row shall measure not less than five feet in width and 7 1/2 feet in length.
(f)
Each mid-row island shall include at least one major deciduous tree or two minor deciduous trees, with the remaining area landscaped with appropriate ground cover or grass.
(g)
A divider strip between abutting rows of parking shall be installed.
(h)
Divider strips shall be a minimum of five feet in width.
(i)
At least one major deciduous tree shall be planted for every forty-foot interval within the divider strip. Alternatively, at least two major deciduous trees shall be planted for every twenty-foot interval within the divider strip. The remaining area of the divider strip shall be landscaped with ground cover or grass. Pedestrian walkways, if required by § 500-68G above, may be substituted for a portion of the required ground cover or grass to facilitate pedestrian movements through the parking lot.
(j)
Curbing or wheel stops shall be provided around all terminal islands, mid-row islands, and divider strips to prevent vehicular encroachment.
(2)
All parking lots within the C and MU Districts, and all other parking lots exceeding 25 parking spaces, shall be surrounded by a perimeter landscaping strip which meets the following requirements:
(a)
Perimeter landscaped areas shall be provided around the perimeter of all parking lots, except where the one side of the parking lot is bounded by a principal structure.
(b)
The minimum width of the perimeter landscaping area around a parking area shall be five feet, measured outward from the edge of the parking lot.
(c)
At least one major deciduous tree shall be planted for every thirty-foot interval within the perimeter landscaping area. Alternatively, at least one minor deciduous tree shall be planted for every fifteen-foot interval within the perimeter landscaping area. The remaining area of the perimeter landscaping strip shall be landscaped with appropriate ground cover or grass.
(3)
Trees planted in terminal islands, mid-row islands, divider strips, and perimeter landscaped areas shall be maintained in a manner that ensures visibility at all vehicle and pedestrian intersections within and surrounding the parking lot.
(5)
Landscaping compliance table. A table shall be provided with every landscaping plan with sufficient detail to demonstrate compliance with the landscaping requirements of this section. At a minimum, the table shall include the following:
§ 500-69 Required off-street loading/unloading facilities.
At least one off-street loading/unloading space shall be provided for all commercial and industrial concerns in excess of 3,500 square feet of floor area. The number of loading/unloading spaces shall be left to the discretion of the developer.
§ 500-70 Loading/unloading facilities design standards.
All loading/unloading spaces shall be designed in accordance with the following standards:
A.
Loading/unloading spaces shall be at least 14 feet wide, 60 feet long and shall have at least a fifteen-foot vertical clearance.
B.
Loading/unloading spaces shall be provided a maneuvering area of sufficient size such that each loading space is provided safe and convenient access. Truck turning templates shall be provided on all site plans to depict the means by which trucks will access the loading/unloading space(s).
C.
Loading/unloading spaces shall be paved. Suitable paving material shall be asphalt or concrete.
D.
Required off-street parking space (including aisles) shall not be used for loading and unloading purposes except during hours when business operations are suspended.
E.
Loading/unloading spaces shall be designed so that trucks need not back in or out, or park in, any public right-of-way.
F.
No truck shall be allowed to stand in a public right-of-way, a parking lot (including parking aisle drives) or in any way block the effective flow of persons or vehicles.