Manchester Township York County
City Zoning Code
City Zoning Code
PART 15
OFF-STREET PARKING AND LOADING
§ 27-1501 General Parking Regulations.
[Ord. 1996-1, 1/23/1996, § 1500]
1.
Off-street parking facilities shall be provided to lessen congestion in the streets. The facilities required herein shall be available to patrons throughout the hours of operation of the particular business or use for which such facilities are provided. As used herein, the term "parking space" includes either covered garage space or uncovered parking lot space located off the public right-of-way.
2.
Each parking space shall consist of not less than an average of 300 square feet of usable area, for each motor vehicle, including interior driveways. Notwithstanding the above, all parking spaces shall be ample in size for the vehicles for which use is intended. The net parking space per vehicle shall not be less than 10 feet wide and 18 feet long. Parking spaces and the approaches thereto, shall be stone, gravel, or paved. Whenever parking spaces are opposite each other and separated by a driveway, said driveway shall be not less than 20 feet in width.
3.
A garage or carport may be located wholly or partially inside the walls of the principal building, or attached to the outer walls. The garage may be constructed under a yard or court provided that the level of such yard or court shall conform to the general level of the other yards or courts on the lot. The space above an underground garage shall be deemed to be part of the open space on the lot on which it is located.
4.
Except for residential uses in A, RL, and RM Districts, parking lots shall be considered as a building for the purpose of determining applicable setback requirements, unless adjacent to any full depth buffer zone as required by this ordinance or as modified by other sections of this chapter.
§ 27-1502 Facilities Required.
[Ord. 1996-1, 1/23/1996, § 1501]
1.
Any building hereafter erected or converted and any lot hereafter used shall be provided with not less than the minimum parking spaces as set forth below, which spaces shall be readily accessible to and within a reasonable distance from the buildings served thereby. Such spaces shall be on the same lot as the principal building or open area, except when otherwise authorized as a special exception. No parking space shall be provided in the front yard areas of dwelling, apartment houses and apartment hotels, boarding or rooming houses, churches or schools, unless authorized as a special exception, except that in Residential Districts, off-street parking spaces are not permitted in the front yard except that parking on a paved driveway in a front yard is allowed. The required parking space shall be located on the same lot as the principal building or open area in question or contiguous to said lot whenever possible. In no case shall the required parking space be located more than 600 feet from the principal use. Off-street parking facilities shall be provided as follows:
A.
Parking Requirements for Dwelling Units.
Type Dwelling Unit | Spaces per Dwelling Unit | |
|---|---|---|
Dwelling | 2.0 | |
Apartment house and apartment houses | 2.5 x number of dwelling units |
B.
Parking Requirements for Educational and Related Uses.
Educational and Related Uses | Required Parking Spaces | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Elementary schools | Two per each classroom and each other room used by students plus one space per non-instructional employee. | ||
High schools | Two per each classroom and each other room used by students plus one for each 10 full-time students plus one space per non-institutional employee. | ||
Colleges, junior colleges, technical schools, universities and related uses | As determined by the Zoning Hearing Board | ||
Other educational uses (in addition to requirements for classroom | |||
(1) | Fraternities, sororities, dormitories and related buildings | 0.5 per bed | |
(2) | School auditoriums and cafeterias if used for social functions or as meeting rooms | One per each four seats | |
(3) | Gymnasiums, stadiums, field houses, grandstands and related structures and facilities, if part of a school | One per each four seats | |
(4) | Day care centers, nursery schools or babysitting services (not as part of a dwelling) | One space per employee on maximum shifts plus spaces equal to 20% of maximum permitted occupancy | |
C.
Parking Requirements for Other than Dwelling Units or Educational Facilities.
Uses | Required Parking Spaces | |
|---|---|---|
Rooming houses, hotels, motels and tourist houses | One per guest room plus one for every two full-time employees per shift. (See separate requirements for a restaurant if part of one of these uses) | |
Theaters, auditoriums, churches, stadiums or other places of public or private assembly | One per three seats for public or private assembly | |
Retail stores | One per 200 square feet of gross floor area | |
Restaurants and bars | One per four customer seats plus one for every employee on the largest shift | |
Office building | One per 200 square feet of floor area | |
Shopping centers | 4.5 per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area | |
Industrial, wholesale and warehousing establishment (see Subsection 1G) | Minimum of one parking space for each employee on the two largest shifts but not less than one parking space per each 1,000 square feet of gross floor area, whichever is greater. | |
Garages or automobile and gasoline service stations | One per 400 square feet of floor or ground area devoted to repair or service facilities. Shall be in addition to space allocated for normal storage of motor vehicles. | |
Hospitals an sanitariums | One per three accommodations (bed) plus one per each employee on the largest shift | |
Open areas used for commercial purposes | One per 1,500 square feet of area | |
Dance halls, roller rinks, clubs, lodges and other similar places | One per 100 square feet of floor area and one per each employee on the largest shift | |
Fast food/drive-in establishments | One per two seats plus one per each employee on the largest shift | |
Mortuaries, funeral homes and undertaking establishments | One per 100 square feet of gross floor area, one per employee and one per each piece of mobile equipment, such as hearses and ambulances | |
Swimming pools | One per each four persons based upon design capacity of the pool | |
Golf courses and country clubs | Six per hole or one per two accommodations (such as lockers) whichever is greater. When such clubs are used as rentals, parking requirements for restaurants shall apply or whichever is greater. | |
Professional offices of physicians, dentists and animal hospitals and emergency medical treatment facilities | One per 250 square feet of gross floor area plus one per employee, but not less than eight total. | |
Public libraries, art galleries, museums and nonrecreational public facilities | One per each 600 square feet of floor area open to the public |
D.
In addition to all of the above minimum requirements, additional spaces for visitor parking and salesman shall be provided according to the specific requirements for each use.
E.
No part of the public right-of-way of any street or road shall be used in computing the required area for parking, however, parallel parking may be permitted along the curb or edge of an access drive or private road, providing the spaces are not less than eight feet by 20 feet in addition the required width for the circulation of vehicles.
F.
When the parking requirements are not specified herein for a building or use for which an application for a permit has been filed, the Zoning Hearing Board shall require that adequate off-street parking space be provided to serve the needs of the proposed uses in conformance with the standards set forth above, or upon consideration of all factors entering into the parking needs of each such use:
G.
For Industrial, wholesale and warehousing establishments, the Zoning Hearing Board may authorize the reduction of the number and size of paved off-street parking spaces as a special exception in cases where the applicant can justify a reduction and still provide adequate parking facilities to serve the proposed uses of the building and/or land and show reserved areas for expansion of the paved parking for future uses.
§ 27-1503 Large Parking Area.
[Ord. 1996-1, 1/23/1996, § 1502]
In parking areas of 1/2 acre or more, at least 5% of the total area shall be devoted to landscaping within the interior of the parking area.
§ 27-1504 Access.
[Ord. 1996-1, 1/23/1996, § 1503]
Unobstructed access to and from a street shall be provided. Such access shall consist of at least one ten-foot lane for parking areas with less than 20 spaces, and at least two 10 foot lanes for parking areas with 20 spaces or more. No entrance or exit for any off-street parking area shall be located within 50 feet of any street intersection.
§ 27-1505 Residential Driveway Regulations.
[Ord. 1996-1, 1/23/1996, § 1504]
1.
All Single-family and two-family dwelling driveways shall conform to the following:
A.
The number of driveways may not exceed two per lot on a street frontage.
B.
A driveway may not cross a street right-of-way line.
(1)
Within 50 feet of the right-of-way line of an intersecting street on the same side of the street.
(2)
Within five feet of a hydrant.
(3)
Within 20 feet of another driveway on the same property.
(4)
Within three feet of the property line.
(5)
Driveways accessing a state highway are allowed only by virtue of a permit issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and no development will be approved without such permit.
C.
Driveways may not exceed 20 feet at the right-of-way line.
D.
Driveways must be located in safe relationship to sight distance and barriers to vision. The drive may not exceed a slope of 7% within 15 feet of the street right-of-way line. Where a drive enters a bank through a cut, the shoulders of the cut may not exceed 50% in slope within 25 feet of the point the drive intersects the right-of-way.
E.
A clear sight triangle in conformance with the Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance [Chapter 22] shall be provided for driveways.
F.
Residential single family and single family attached dwelling may utilize driveways as part of required parking.
G.
Any residential dwelling located along and accessing directly an arterial or collector street shall provide an area to be utilized as turnaround area-minimum size nine by 10 to the side of the main driveway so that entrance to the road can be performed in a safe manner.
§ 27-1506 Nonresidential Access Drive Requirements.
[Ord. 1996-1, 1/23/1996, § 1505]
1.
Number Per Lot. Except as specified elsewhere, the number of access drives intersecting with each street shall not exceed two per lot. The Zoning Hearing Board may grant a variance for additional access points where required to meet exceptional circumstances and where frontage of unusual length exists.
2.
Setbacks. All access drives shall be set back at least.
A.
One hundred feet from the intersection of any street right-of-way lines.
B.
One hundred feet from any other access drive or driveway located upon the same lot (measured from cartway edges).
C.
Fifteen feet from any side and/or rear property lines; however, this setback can be waived along one property line when a joint parking lot is shared by adjoining uses.
3.
Clear-Sight Triangle. Access drives shall be located and constructed so that a clear-sight triangle a minimum of 100 feet as measured along the street center line and along the driveway center line is maintained; no permanent obstructions and/or plant materials over 30 inches high shall be placed within this area. In addition, all proposed access drives must have a minimum adequate safe stopping sight distance base on PennDOT standards.
4.
Access Drive Width. Access drives shall provide a twelve-foot wide cartway for each lane of travel. However, in no case shall any access drive cartway be less than 18 feet wide. See table below for further explanation:
Number of Lanes | Direction of Travel | Required Access Drive Width | |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | one way | 18 feet | |
2 | one or two way | 24 feet | |
3 or more | one or two way | 12 feet/lane |
5.
PennDOT Permit. Any access drive intersecting with a state-owned road shall require the obtainment of Pennsylvania Department of Transportation driveway permit.
§ 27-1507 Drainage and Surfacing.
[Ord. 1996-1, 1/23/1996, § 1506]
All residential and non-residential access drives and required open parking areas shall be properly drained and all such areas shall be paved, except that parking spaces and access drives in the A-Agricultural District shall only be required to be paved to the front setback line.
§ 27-1508 Joint Facilities.
[Ord. 1996-1, 1/23/1996, § 1507]
Required parking spaces, open or enclosed, may be provided in spaces designated to serve jointly two or more establishments whether or no located on the same lot, provided that the number of required spaces in such joint facilities shall be not less than the total required for all such establishments.
§ 27-1509 Combined Spaces.
[Ord. 1996-1, 1/23/1996, § 1508]
When any lot contains two or more uses having different parking requirements, the parking requirements for each use shall apply to the extent of that use. Were it can be conclusively demonstrated that one or more such uses will be generating a demand for parking spaces primarily during periods when the other use or uses is not or are not in operation, the Board may reduce the total parking spaces required for that use with the least requirement.
§ 27-1510 Multiple Uses in Single Structure.
[Ord. 1996-1, 1/23/1996, § 1509]
When two or more uses that require off-street parking spaces are located in a single structure, the separate parking requirements for each use shall be applied.
§ 27-1511 Off-Street Loading Requirements.
[Ord. 1996-1, 1/23/1996, § 1510]
1.
Off-street loading, berths, open or enclosed are permitted accessory to any use (except one or two family residences) subject to the following minimum provisions:
A.
Uses for Which Required. Accessory off-street loading berths shall be provided for any use specified below. Any land which is developed as a unit under single ownership and control shall be considered a single lot for the purpose of these minimum loading requirements:
(1)
For a public library, museum, or similar quasi-public institution, or governmental building, community center, hospital or sanitarium, nursing or convalescent home, institution for children or the aged, or school with floor area of 10,000 square feet, one berth; for each additional 25,000 square feet or fraction thereto, one additional berth.
(2)
For buildings with professional, governmental or business offices or laboratory establishments, with floor area of 10,000 to 25,000 square feet, one berth, for each additional 25,000 square feet or fraction thereof up to 100,000 square feet, one additional berth; for each additional 50,000 square feet or fraction thereof, one additional berth.
(3)
For buildings with offices and retail sales and service establishments, berth for 8,000 to 25,000 square feet of floor area, and one additional berth for each additional 25,000 square feet of floor area or fraction thereof so used.
(4)
For undertakers and funeral homes, one berth for each chapel. (Such berths shall be at least 10 feet wide, 20 feet long and 14 feet high.)
(5)
For hotels, motels, and resorts, one berth for each 25,000 square feet of floor area.
(6)
For manufacturing, wholesale and storage uses and for dry-cleaning and rug cleaning establishments and laundries, one berth for 5,000 to 10,000 square feet of floor area in such use, and one additional berth for each additional 20,000 square feet of floor area or fraction thereof so used.
B.
Size of Spaces. Each required loading berth shall be at least 12 feet wide, 40 feet long and 14 feet high.
C.
Location and Access. Unobstructed access, at least 10 feet wide, to and from a street shall be provided. Such access may be combined with access to a parking lot. All permitted or required loading berths shall be on the same lot as the use to which they are accessory, except as provided in Subsection 1D. No entrance or exit for any off-street parking area shall be located within 100 feet of any street intersection. No off-street loading berth shall be located in any front yard.
D.
Joint Facilities. Permitted or required loading berths, open or enclosed, may be provided in spaces designed to serve jointly two or more adjacent establishments provided that the number of required berths in such joint facilities shall not be less than the total required for all such requirements, unless the provisions of § 27-1509 apply.
§ 27-1512 Handicapped Parking.
[Ord. 1996-1, 1/23/1996, § 1511]
Handicapped parking shall be required for uses other than dwelling units. Parking spaces for handicapped can be no less than 12 feet six inches wide and must meet the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Required minimum number of handicapped accessible spaces include the following:
Total Parking In Lot | Required Minimum Number of Accessible Spaces |
|---|---|
1-25 | 1 |
26-50 | 2 |
51-75 | 3 |
76-100 | 4 |
101-150 | 5 |
151-200 | 6 |
201-300 | 7 |
301-400 | 8 |
401-500 | 9 |
501-1,000 | 2% of total |
Over 1,000 | 20 plus one for each 100 over 1,000 |
§ 27-1513 Fire Lanes.
[Ord. 1996-1, 1/23/1996, § 1512]
All paved areas abutting buildings where parking is prohibited shall be posed as "Fire Lane-Parking Prohibited."