The provisions of this Part shall apply in all zone districts and are intended to establish minimum standards in order to avoid congestion in the streets, to protect property values and to promote the public health and safety.

In all districts, there shall be provided in connection with any business, institutional, recreational, residential or other use, off-street parking in accordance with the requirements of this Part at the time the use is erected, enlarged or increased in capacity. When several businesses or other uses share the same property, a common parking area may be created, provided the total number of spaces in the common parking area is no less than required for all uses served taken together. No parking space required for one use shall be claimed as meeting the needs for a second use unless the Planning Commission recommends, after reviewing an application for shared use of a parking lot, and the Board of Supervisors approves two uses sharing all or a part of the same parking lot because the two have substantially different times of parking demand.

On a single-family, two-family or townhouse lot, a garage and the access drive to it may be counted in determining the minimum number of required parking spaces. When dwelling units share parking and/or garage space, required parking assigned for one dwelling unit shall not block required parking of other dwelling units.

Parking to serve multiple-family buildings shall be located so that no required space is more than 200 feet from the main entrance of the building the parking serves. In the case of a nonresidential use, no required space shall be more than 600 feet from the main entrance of the building the parking serves.

Nothing in this Part shall be construed to require uses existing prior to the passage of this chapter, or passage of amendments that change the number of required spaces or other aspects of this Part, to comply with the requirements of this Part, except that any additions to such uses shall provide off-street parking to accommodate the additions.

Each parking space shall be not less than nine feet wide and 18 feet long, and shall contain at least 180 square feet.

The layout of parking lots shall be made in conformance with the current standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C.A. § 12101 et seq.

Each parking space in a parking lot intended to serve a business, institutional or multifamily residential use shall abut an access aisle. No spaces shall be accessible directly from a public street unless the street right-of-way is not more than 25 feet wide and the depth of the parking area on private property, measured at right angles to the street is not less than 20 feet.

Parking lots shall be laid out in accordance with the following table and diagram:

No parking spaces shall occur in the public street right-of-way if they are required to meet minimum off-street standards, and spaces shall be set back sufficiently on any property to allow drivers approaching and leaving the parking lot entrance a full view in all directions of traffic along the public street. Parking lots in residential zones shall be set back from property lines and streets by at least six feet with a planted buffer provided in the six-foot strip.

Any off-street parking or servicing area accessory to a business, institutional or multifamily residential use shall be surfaced with an asphaltic or cement binder pavement, graded to assure drainage of all areas toward a stormwater sewer, and designed to meet the Township stormwater control standards, if the parking area will cover or partly cover an area formerly undeveloped or with a grass or vegetative surface.

Parking lots shall have a non-shifting, well-choked, all-weather surface. Where lots are designed to have 20 or more spaces, they shall be paved with at least 4 1/2 inches crushed stone well-choked and rolled, topped by 1 1/2 inches asphalt wearing course. Surfaces shall slope not more than 6% in any direction or less than 1%. All stormwater falling on the paved surface shall be directed to a stormwater management system meeting the Township's requirements specified in the Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance [Chapter 22].

Off-street parking areas for more than 20 vehicles and off-street servicing areas shall be screened from view by observers on adjacent residentially zoned lots, including those directly across an intervening street. Screening may be a fence or hedging or a combination of each across the full width of the edge of the lot abutting the residential lot or street. A fence may be masonry, wood or metal, but shall be completely opaque, with any decorative side facing toward the abutting property or street.

Lighting of parking lots and truck servicing areas is optional, but if lighting is used, it shall be the cut-off lumenaire type, allowing minimum light trespass into the sky and mounted no more than 35 feet off the pavement below. Lighting shall be focused so that little or no light shines on surfaces not in the parking lot or servicing areas or access driveways. Globes covering light sources shall be translucent.

Where square footage is used as a measure for the minimum number of required parking spaces in the standards below, dimensions of buildings shall be measured between the outside lines of walls. No deduction shall be given for areas inside any building used for circulation, inventory storage, shipping areas, or utility or rest rooms.

Residential Uses.

Institutional Uses.

Recreational Uses.

Office Uses.

Retail Sales and Services.

Business and Manufacturing.

The Zoning Officer may, when considering off-street parking needs for a use not addressed by Subsections 2 through 7, make a reasonable determination based on square footage, vehicle dependence and similarity to a use for which parking standards are stated.

In connection with the development of any property for a retail sales, manufacturing or distribution business, where the building contains at least 5,000 square feet, or any expansion of a building so that its floor area exceeds 5,000 square feet, there shall be provided off-street loading or servicing areas in accordance with this section.

Such servicing areas shall not contain any required off-street parking spaces and shall not be less than 10 feet wide, by 35 feet long, by 14 feet high. Loading areas shall be adjacent to the use or building served. Maneuvering space shall be provided adjacent to the servicing area so that vehicles may change direction and leave as well as enter the area moving in a forward direction.

All the requirements for surfacing, lighting and screening contained in § 27-603 shall apply to servicing areas.

Access to a servicing area shall be via a driveway at least 12 feet in width for one-way traffic or 22 feet wide for two-way use, with a clearance the entire length of at least 14 feet six inches.

One servicing space shall be provided for each business containing at least 5,000 square feet of floor area up to 25,000 square feet. For each additional 20,000 square feet of floor area or fraction thereof one additional servicing space shall be provided.

Where several business buildings share the same property, servicing may occur at one location, provided the square footage of all the buildings is used to determine the number of servicing spaces required.

Any proposal to provide new parking or servicing areas or to expand existing areas, whether a separate project, or as part of new development or expansion of an existing development, shall be submitted to the Zoning Officer. Proposals for single-family or two-family dwellings are excluded.

The Zoning Officer, in addition to satisfying himself that a sufficient number of spaces of adequate dimensions are provided, shall also determine that safe access into and out of the parking lot to the public highway is available and that the requirements of this Part have been met.

The application shall show the layout of the parking area including each parking space, stop bars or curbing, access drives to the public street, lighting, sidewalks, proposed grading at two-foot contour intervals, stormwater management system (inlets, stormwater pipes and detention facility), buildings on the property, location of servicing areas, and description or section through the surfacing showing thickness of construction and materials.

The Zoning Officer shall inspect the site during and upon completion of construction to assure that the project is finished in accordance with the approved plans, subject to the penalties contained in § 27-1204 or this chapter.