Required off-street automobile parking spaces. The minimum cumulative number of spaces shall be determined by the amount of dwelling units, bedrooms, floor area, members, equipment, employees and/or seats contained in such new buildings or structures or added by alteration of buildings or structures, and such minimum number of spaces shall be maintained by the owners of such buildings or structures as shown in Table 1 below. Notwithstanding the above, during site plan review by the Planning Board, the Planning Board may substitute a banked parking area for some of the required parking spaces if appropriate for the expected customary use and property.

Calculation of required spaces. In the case of combination of uses, the total requirements for off-street automobile parking spaces shall be the sum of the requirements for the various uses, unless it can be proven that staggered hours of use would permit modification. Whenever a major fraction of a space is required, a full space shall be provided.

Dimensions for off-street automobile parking spaces. Every such space provided shall be at least nine feet wide and 18 feet long, and every space shall have direct and usable driveway access to a street or alley with minimum maneuver area between spaces as follows:

In any residential district, required automobile parking spaces shall be provided on the same lot, or, for any lot that is unable to provide such required automobile parking spaces on the same lot, required automobile parking spaces may be provided on one other lot, over which the same owner or owners have a written, legal right to use as parking for such lot and provided that such other lot is located no more than 200 feet from the lot requiring the parking.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, for any existing or proposed development the Planning Board may authorize a reduction in the minimum number of required parking spaces by no more than 20%, providing the following criteria are met:

In approving any reduction in the required number of parking spaces, the Planning Board may impose such reasonable conditions as, in the judgment of the Planning Board, may be necessary to assure that such reduction will meet the criteria set forth above. In any event, unless expressly waived by the Planning Board, such reduction shall be subject to the following additional conditions:

Unless waived by the Planning Board, the granting of the requested reduction in parking shall be conditioned on the developer or applicant executing an agreement in a form acceptable to the Planning Board agreeing to install the additional parking spaces as may be required by the above conditions.

In the event there is any significant change in use, or a subdivision of the project site, or a sale of a portion of the site, with respect to which a reduction in the required number of parking spaces has been granted, such change, subdivision, or sale may be conditioned upon a requirement that additional parking spaces be required up to the minimum that would have otherwise been required but for the reduction granted pursuant to these provisions.

Parking areas shall be paved with an all-weather, permeable or impermeable, surface of crushed stone, asphalt, brick pavers or concrete, or a combination of the above. Individual parking spaces and off-street loading areas shall be visibly marked with paint or other durable material.

At least 10% of the area of the lot utilized for off-street parking shall be devoted to landscaping with lawn, trees, shrubs or other plant material.

Where a proposed parking lot is larger than nine spaces in size, there shall be planted one deciduous canopy tree for every five parking spaces proposed in accordance with the following:

There shall be at least one tree island or other landscaping for every nine contiguous parking spaces, or no more than 100 feet between such tree islands or landscaped areas.

In the R-4 Residential Medium Density District and R-5 Residential High Density District all loading berths and parking areas of three or more spaces located within 15 feet of a lot line shall be screened by a six-foot fence, masonry wall, or compact evergreen hedge, or a landscaped strip of trees and shrubs so designed as to form a visual screen from the adjoining property.

Off-street truck loading areas shall be provided as shown in Table 2 below.

Location of required loading berths.

Dimensions for off-street loading berths.