Middleburg City Zoning Code
PART 8
OFF-STREET PARKING AND LOADING
§ 27-801 Minimum Parking Requirements.
[Ord. 206, 2/4/1985; as amended by Ord. 218, 7/21/1987]
In all districts, off-street parking is required for any building or use which is hereafter erected, extended, enlarged or increased in capacity. Space with adequate access to a street shall be constructed, for use of the owners or occupants and their invitees and licensees, as follows:
Use Classification | Required Parking (Spaces) | |
|---|---|---|
Residential | ||
Any residential use consisting of 1 or more housekeeping and/or rooming (boarding) units unless exempted below | 1 for each housekeeping and/or rooming (boarding) unit | |
Commercial retail | ||
Eating and drinking establishments | 1 for each 125 sq. ft. of gross floor area devoted to public use | |
Outdoor commercial area, including motor vehicle sales agency | 1 for each 1,500 sq. ft. of ground devoted to such use | |
Retail establishments, including stores, shops and/or similar activities | 1 for each 250 sq. ft. of gross floor area on the ground floor, plus 1 for each 450 sq. ft. of gross floor area on all other floors | |
Commercial service | ||
Banking and bank related functions | 1 for each 100 sq. ft. of gross floor area | |
Funeral homes and mortuaries | 1 for each 50 sq. ft. of gross floor area available for seating purposes in a chapel or other rooms used for public assembly | |
Hotel, tourist courts, motels and inns | 1 for each room, plus 1 for each 150 sq. ft. of gross floor area in other uses | |
Offices of a general business nature | 1 for each 500 sq. ft. of gross floor area | |
Service establishments, including personal and business services | 1 for each 250 sq. ft. of gross floor area on the ground floor, plus 1 for each 450 sq. ft. of floor area on all other floors | |
Veterinary hospital, clinic or boarding kennel | 1 for each 150 sq. ft. of gross floor area | |
Institutional | ||
Church, chapel or synagogue | 1 for each 4 seats in main auditorium or 1 for each 8 linear feet of pews | |
Criminal rehabilitation center, jail or prison | 1 for 3 employees, computing on the basis of the estimated maximum number of employees at any 1 time. | |
Hospital | 1 for each patient bed | |
Membership club, lodge, fraternity or similar organization | 1 for each 3 beds, plus 1 for each 200 sq. ft. of gross floor area devoted to other than residential uses | |
Nonprofit school | 1 for each classroom, plus 2 for each administrative office, plus 1 for each 15 students in grades 10 through 12 | |
Nursing, convalescent or rest home and similar health services | 1 for each 3 patient beds | |
School | ||
Art, music or dancing | 1 for each 150 sq. ft. of gross floor area | |
Business or stenographic, barber, beauty or other school offering instruction in a similar field or vocation | 1 for each 150 sq. ft. of floor space devoted to classroom and administrative office use | |
University, college, junior college or professional school | 1 for each 3 student | |
Culture, entertainment and recreation | ||
Auditorium or exhibition hall | 1 for each 4 seats | |
Bowling alley | 4 for each alley | |
Dance hall or ballroom | 1 for each 250 sq. ft. of gross floor area or 1 for each 4 seats, whichever is greater | |
Field house or gymnasium | 1 for each 250 sq. ft. of gross floor area or 1 for each 4 seats, whichever is greater | |
Ice skating or roller skating rink, billiard or pool hall or similar commercial recreation establishment | 1 for each 200 sq. ft. of gross floor area | |
Libraries, museums, art galleries or similar activities | 1 for each 300 sq. ft. or gross floor area | |
Motion picture theater or legitimate theatre | 1 for each 4 seats | |
Park, playground and game court | 1 for each 5,000 sq. ft. of playing field area | |
Planetarium, aquarium, botanical garden or similar activities | 1 for each 3 seats but not less than 1 for each 800 sq. ft. of gross floor area, or 1 for each 1,000 sq. ft. of grounds in a garden | |
Sports stadium or arena | 1 for each 4 seats | |
Transportation, communication and utilities | ||
Mass-transit passenger station | ||
Local bus, intercity bus and charter bus passenger station | 1 for each 200 sq. ft. of gross floor area | |
Motor freight terminal, bus or motor freight garage and equipment storage facilities | 1 for each 3 employees computed on the basis of the estimated maximum number of employees at any 1 time | |
Wholesale trade or storage establishment | 1 for each 3 employees computed on the basis of the maximum number of employees at any 1 time, but not less than 1 for each 3,000 sq. ft. of gross floor area | |
Manufacturing or industrial establishment | 1 for each 3 employees computed on the basis of the maximum number of employees at any 1 time, but not less than 1 for each 1,500 sq. ft. of gross floor area | |
Any use not herein specifically provided for | 1 for each 1,000 sq. ft. of ground area or gross floor area or fraction thereof, whichever is greater | |
§ 27-802 Design and Dimensional Requirements for Parking Facilities.
[Ord. 206, 2/4/1985]
The following design standards shall be required for all off-street parking facilities with a capacity of three or more vehicles built after the effective date of this chapter. Where existing parking facilities are increased in capacity after the effective date of this chapter, the expanded portion thereof shall be designed in accordance with the requirements of this section.
A.
Each parking area shall contain at least 300 square feet of usable space per vehicle, including interior driveways. The net parking space (stall) per vehicle shall be at least nine feet by 18 feet.
B.
Parking facilities shall be designed so that each motor vehicle may proceed to and from the parking space provided for it without requiring the moving of any other motor vehicle.
C.
All entrances and exit drives must be approved by the Borough Engineer.
D.
Landscaping/screen plantings shall be provided where the parking lot abuts a residential property. Screen plantings shall consist of nondeciduous trees or shrubs, which shall be capable of growing to at least six feet in height and planted in such a manner as to visually separate the parking area and adjacent residential property as much as possible. Where landscaping is provided in parking areas, bumper protection shall be provided for plantings.
§ 27-803 Joint Use of Parking Facilities.
[Ord. 206, 2/4/1985; as amended by Ord. 218, 7/21/1987]
Required parking space for two or more uses occupying contiguous lots may be provided in a common parking facility, provided that the number of spaces is not less than 75% of the sum of spaces required for each use individually.
§ 27-804 Location of Parking Facilities.
[Ord. 206, 2/4/1985]
The regulations shall apply for all off-street parking facilities built after the effective date of this chapter.
A.
All parking spaces required under this Part shall be located within the front and side yard lines or building lines as now or hereafter established for the district in which such parking spaces are located.
B.
All parking facilities hereinafter constructed within the rear yard lines shall be located a minimum of five feet from the right-of-way line of a public street or alley.
C.
The parking spaces shall be provided on the premises, except that, after Zoning Hearing Board approval, all or part of the required number of spaces may be provided on a separate lot or lots within 300 feet walking distance from such premises. In such case, the area of such separate lot may not be considered as a portion of the lot area on which the maximum permitted floor area ratio, as specified in § 27-503, is calculated.
§ 27-805 Interference with Parking Spaces.
[Ord. 206, 2/4/1985]
No parking area shall be used in such a way as to interfere with its providing the required number of off-street parking spaces specified in this Part.
§ 27-806 Continuation of Required Facilities.
[Ord. 206, 2/4/1985]
The schedules of requirements for off-street parking space and off-street loading space applicable to newly erected, substantially altered or converted structures shall be a continuing obligation of the owner of the property on which any such structure is located so long as the structure is in existence with the continuation of its use requiring vehicle parking or vehicle loading facilities.
A.
It shall be unlawful for an owner of any building affected by this chapter to discontinue, change or dispense with or cause the discontinuation, change or dispensation of the required vehicle parking or loading spaces without establishing alternative parking or loading facilities which meet with the requirements of and are in compliance with this chapter.
B.
Whenever a certificate of occupancy has been granted and the plans so approved contain off-street parking and loading provisions, the subsequent use of such property shall be deemed to be conditional upon the unqualified continuance and availability of the parking and loading space provisions contained in such plans.
C.
Should the owner of any building for which a certificate of occupancy has been granted, which contained off-street parking or loading requirements, expand the use so as to increase the number of requirements for off-street parking or loading facilities, it shall be unlawful and a violation of this Part to begin or maintain such expanded or altered use until the increased off-street parking or loading provisions of this Part are complied with, and an amended certificate of occupancy is obtained from the Zoning Officer.
§ 27-807 Expansions.
[Ord. 206, 2/4/1985; as amended by Ord. 218, 7/21/1987]
When a use is expanded in size, the owner and/or occupant shall be required to provide that number of off-street parking and/or loading/unloading facilities for 75% of the expanded portion of such use.
§ 27-808 Off-Street Loading Requirements.
[Ord. 206, 2/4/1985]
Except in R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4, NC and C Districts, one or more loading berths or other space shall be provided for standing, loading and unloading operations either inside or outside a building and on the same or adjoining premises with every building or structure hereafter erected or enlarged, in accordance with the following table. A loading berth shall have minimum plan dimensions of 12 feet by 45 feet and 14 feet overhead clearing plus necessary access space. A "loading space" need not necessarily be a full berth but shall be sufficient to allow normal loading and unloading operations of a kind and magnitude appropriate to the premises served thereby. The Zoning Officer or his authorized agent shall determine the sufficiency of loading space, and in no case shall the use of such space hinder the free movement of vehicles and pedestrians over a street, sidewalk or alley.
Use Classification | Required Loading | |
|---|---|---|
Retail operations (including restaurant and dining facilities within hotels and office buildings) with gross floor area over 20,000 sq. ft. | 1 berth for each 20,000 sq. ft. of gross floor area or major fraction thereof | |
Retail operations and all ground floor nonresidential uses with a gross floor area less than 20,000 sq. ft. and wholesale and industrial operations with a gross floor area less than 100,000 sq. ft. | A loading space (not necessarily a full berth) as defined above in this section | |
Office buildings, hospitals and hotels with a gross floor area of 100,000 sq. ft. or more Manufacturing, wholesale and storage operations with a gross floor area of 10,000 sq. ft. or over as follows: | 1 berth for each 100,000 sq. ft. of floor area or major fraction thereof | |
10,000 — 40,000 | 1 berth | |
40,000 — 100,000 | 2 berths | |
100,001 — 160,000 | 3 berths | |
160,001 — 240,000 | 4 berths | |
240,001 — 320,000 | 5 berths | |
For each additional 90,000 sq. ft. | 1 additional berth | |
Any building with a gross floor area over 20,000 sq. ft., not specifically mentioned herein which requires the receipt or distribution of material by vehicles | ||