The Superintendent of Buildings shall determine the amount of off-street parking and loading spaces and the size and location thereof. Subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees, the Superintendent of Buildings shall determine the design of off-street parking and loading spaces and the means of ingress and egress for the same. The Board of Trustees may require such screening of off-street parking and loading spaces as it may find to be necessary in order to prevent detriment to neighboring property or annoyance to the occupants thereof.

No use shall be maintained in the Village unless off-street parking spaces as specified in the Schedule of Minimum Spaces Required in this article are provided and a parking plan has been approved by the Board of Trustees. For any premises where there are multiple uses, the number of required parking spaces shall be the sum of the requirements for all uses thereat.

No building, or part thereof, shall be expanded or altered so as to increase the gross floor area, or change the use thereof, unless off-street parking, as specified in the Schedule of Minimum Spaces Required shall be provided, and a parking plan has been approved by the Board of Trustees.

No parking of vehicles shall be permitted on lawns or sidewalk areas nor, as to multifamily developments, in fire lanes, buffer areas or within five feet of any property line.

All driveways and parking areas serving one-family and two-family dwellings shall have one curb cut, unless otherwise approved by the Board of Trustees, and shall be paved or graveled to handle adequately the vehicles for which provision is made. All driveways and parking areas serving multifamily developments shall be paved in accordance with the specifications of the Village Building Department.

The off-street parking facilities required for one-family and two-family multifamily developments shall be on the same lot or parcel of land as the building they are intended to serve.

All parking areas serving multifamily developments shall be designed to permit each vehicle to proceed to and from the parking space provided for it without the moving of any other vehicle, except in the case of a space in front of an enclosed garage. Aisles providing access to parking spaces shall have the following minimum dimensions:

Where the angle of the parking is different on both sides of the aisle, the larger aisle width shall prevail.

All parking stalls shall have a minimum width of nine feet and a minimum depth of 18 feet, except that all handicapped spaces shall have a minimum width of 16 feet.[1]

No part of the parking area shall be used for the storage or abandonment of any article or material.

No commercial vehicle shall be parked or stored outdoors overnight in any residential zone, and only one such vehicle per lot may be housed in such district(s), provided that it is completely housed within a garage and not visible at all times.

Where required by the Superintendent of Buildings, access driveways shall be marked with arrows indicating proper flow of traffic and individual parking spaces shall be shown.

Parking areas serving multifamily developments shall be illuminated. Such illumination, lighting and screening shall be subject to the prior written approval of detailed plans submitted to the Superintendent of Buildings and shall be so constructed, arranged and shielded that no direct light rays from any light or fixture used in such illumination shall constitute a nuisance to the occupants of any neighboring residences or buildings. Any lighting or illumination constituting such a nuisance is hereby strictly prohibited.

The total area of driveway, parking space, pavement, gravel or any combination thereof in the front yard of a dwelling that is intended and used for the parking of vehicles shall not exceed the amount of square footage derived by multiplying the shortest distance in feet between the front line of the plot and the nearest point of the building by 20.

Landscaping. To the maximum extent possible, each off-street parking area shall have a minimum landscaped area equivalent to one parking space per every 10 parking spaces, with 1/2 said area having shrubs no higher than three feet and the other half having trees with branches no lower than seven feet. Such landscaped areas shall be distributed throughout the parking area in order to break the view of long rows of parked cars in a manner not impairing visibility, and shall be provided separate and apart from the requirements for buffers as specified elsewhere in this chapter.

Surfacing and curbing. All driveways and parking areas serving nonresidential uses shall be paved and curbed in accordance with the specifications of the Village Department of Buildings.[1]

Access driveways shall be marked with arrows indicating proper flow of traffic, and individual parking spaces shall be striped.

Parking areas shall be illuminated. Such illumination, lighting and screening shall be subject to the prior written approval of detailed plans submitted to the Superintendent of Buildings and shall be so constructed, arranged and shielded that no direct light rays from any light or fixture used in such illumination shall constitute a nuisance to the occupants of any neighboring residences or buildings. Any lighting or illumination constituting such a nuisance is hereby strictly prohibited.

Location of parking and loading.

The provision of parking spaces shall also include adequate driveway and necessary turning areas for handling the vehicles for which provision is made. Parking areas shall be designed to permit each motor vehicle to proceed to and from the parking space provided for it without requiring the moving of any other motor vehicles.

Notwithstanding the requirements herein, whenever a building existing at the time of the adoption of this article shall be structurally altered or added to in an amount less than 10% of its total floor area, only that portion of the area of the existing building which has been structurally altered or added to need comply with the Schedule of Minimum Spaces Required.

The applicant shall cause a parking plan to be prepared by a licensed engineer, licensed architect or licensed landscape architect at a scale sufficient in size to permit adequate review as determined by the Board of Trustees. Said plans shall show the location, layout, design and arrangement of all off-street parking and loading spaces, including ingress and egress, curb cuts, sizes of such spaces, width of circulation aisles and distances from property lines.

All off-street parking shall consist of parking spaces having a direct means of access thereto from the public street, all paved to specifications of the Village.

All off-street parking spaces shall be at least nine feet wide by 20 feet long. The Board of Trustees, as part of its site plan and/or parking plan review, may vary the size of off-street parking spaces to provide for small-car parking.

All off-street parking spaces shall be on or below ground level.

Municipal parking within 300 feet of the building may be used to satisfy all or part of the parking requirements, subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees in connection with site plan and/or parking plan approval. Before approving any waiver of parking requirements pursuant hereto, the Board of Trustees shall find that such waiver will not:

Prior to making such findings and granting any waiver pursuant hereto, the Board of Trustees may require the applicant to submit traffic and/or parking studies prepared by recognized experts and may request advisory reports from the Village Traffic Commission, Police Commissioner, Fire Chief or other Village officials or agencies. Requested advisory reports shall be submitted within 30 days of the Board's request. The applicant shall reimburse the Village for the cost of such reports or studies.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Board of Trustees may waive up to 90% of the parking requirement if applicant shall pay to the capital reserve fund for parking the substitute value of all parking spaces so waived by the Board of Trustees, provided that the applicant's site is within 500 feet of a municipal lot. The Board of Trustees shall, from time to time, establish the value of such parking spaces and such value shall be set forth in the Schedule of Fees.