Montgomery City Zoning Code
§ 16-5.8
Off-Street Parking, Loading Areas and Driveways.
[Ord. #85-482, S 508; Ord. #88-584, SIVG-K; Ord. #89-628, S 4, 5; Ord. #89-633, S 1; Ord. #03-1119, SS 10, 11; Ord. #09-1312, S 1; amended 12-17-2020 by Ord. No. 20-1646; 4-18-2024 by Ord. No. 24-1722; 4-18-2024 by Ord. No. 24-1723]
b.
Lighting. Lighting used to illuminate off-street parking areas shall be arranged to reflect the light away from residential premises and public streets and shall be in accordance with subsection 16-5.4. The lighting of all off-street parking areas shall be shown, including any deferred parking areas in accordance with subsection 16-5.8c hereinbelow.
c.
Paving and Curbing.
1.
All parking and loading areas and access drives shall be paved as provided below except that the Board, at the request of the applicant and in consideration of the specific parking needs of the applicant, may permit a reduction in the paved area devoted to parking provided:
(a)
The submitted plan shall include all the parking spaces required by this chapter and shall include those spaces to be paved and those requested not to be paved;
(b)
All parking areas not to be paved shall be suitably landscaped and such landscaping shall be indicated on the submitted plan and be in addition to landscaping otherwise required or necessary;
(c)
The drainage system for the site shall be designed to accommodate the surface water runoff from all parking and driveways areas, considering all such areas to be paved, whether proposed to be paved as part of the application approval or deferred to a possible future date; and
(d)
The applicant shall agree in writing on the submitted plan to pave any or all of the nonpaved parking areas should the paved parking areas prove to be inadequate to accommodate the on-site parking needs of the premises.
(e)
All driveways for residential lots shall be paved within the road right-of-way or easement with a six inch thick reinforced concrete apron where curbs are provided, or bituminous concrete to the same specification of the abutting road. Alternate materials, such as paver blocks, may be installed in conformance with the Standard Construction and Detail Sheets, as promulgated by the Township Engineer in accordance with law.
(f)
See Standard Construction and Detail Sheets sheets for standards for unpaved and paved driveways.
2.
All parking and loading areas and access drives shall be paved as outlined below unless otherwise specified by the board and approved as part of the development application approval. All parking areas, regardless of size and location, shall be suitably drained and maintained.
(a)
Areas of ingress and egress, parking stalls, loading and unloading areas, major interior driveways or access aisles and other areas likely to experience heavy traffic shall be paved with not less than four inches of compacted base course of plant mixed bituminous, stabilized base course (Mix No. 1-2), constructed in layers of not more than two inches compacted thickness and prepared and constructed in accordance with New Jersey State Highway Standards and Specifications for Roads and Bridge Construction (1983) and any amendments thereto. A minimum of two inches compacted wearing surface of bituminous concrete mixtures (Mix No. 1-5) shall be constructed thereon in accordance with the aforesaid New Jersey Highway Department specifications and amendments thereto.
(b)
Where subgrade conditions of proposed paved areas are wet, yielding or of such a nature that surfacing would be inadvisable without first treating the subgrade, the areas shall be excavated to a suitable depth below the proposed grade and filled with Type 5, Class A quarry process stone or a suitable upgrade material as approved by the Township Engineer. Where required by the Township Engineer, a system of subsurface drains or an alternate solution approved by the Township Engineer shall be constructed beneath the surface of the paved area and connected to a suitable drain. After the subbase material has been properly placed and compacted, the surfacing material, as described heretofore, shall be constructed thereon.
3.
All paved parking and loading areas and access drives shall be curbed, except single-family residential drives.
4.
All off-street parking lots shall have adequate designations to indicate traffic flow and parking spaces.
5.
All construction shall be in accordance with the Standard Construction and Detail Sheets, as promulgated by the Township Engineer and adopted by the Township according to law, and the New Jersey State Highway Standards for Road and Bridge Construction, latest edition, and any amendments thereto.
6.
Driveway grades shall not be less than 1% and shall not exceed 10%. Parking areas and access drives or aisles shall not be less than 1% in grade and shall not exceed 6% in grade.
d.
Access. The center lines of any separate access points to a single lot shall be spaced at least 125 feet apart, shall handle no more than three lanes of traffic and shall be set back from the street line of any intersecting street at least 50 feet or 1/2 the lot frontage, whichever is greater, except that in no case need the setback distance exceed 200 feet. Continuous open driveways having a width in excess of 16 feet at the street line shall be prohibited except that two-way driveways serving nonresidential uses and multiple-family developments shall be at least 24 feet wide. In all instances, due consideration to the proposed width, curbing, direction of traffic flow, radii of curves and method of dividing traffic lanes shall be given. Curbing shall be depressed at the driveway or the curbing may be rounded at the corners and the driveway connected with the street in the same manner as another street. All points of access to nonresidential and multi-family development shall be graded and adequate drainage facilities installed to prevent storm water runoff from entering the public road.
e.
Location of Parking and Loading. Required off-street parking and loading spaces shall be in accordance with the requirements specified in Sections 16-4 and 16-6 of this chapter and shall be located on the same lot or premises as the use served, regardless of the number of spaces required by this chapter. No parking of vehicles shall be permitted in fire lanes, streets, driveways, landscaped areas, aisles, buffer areas, sidewalks or turning areas. No perpendicular or angled parking shall be incorporated into through access aisles to parking areas; however, perpendicular or angled parking may be incorporated into no-outlet aisles to parking areas provided that those aisles do not provide sole access dwelling units containing more than a total of 250 bedrooms. Where perpendicular or angled parking is permitted, the unencumbered aisle behind such perpendicular or angled parking shall be a minimum of 28 feet. Internal roads, parking access aisles, parking areas, curbs and landscaping shall be designed to reasonably accommodate the turning movements of emergency vehicles regularly and routinely serving Montgomery Township without requiring the mounting of curbs or interference with landscaping. Where there is a row of contiguous perpendicular or angled parking stalls, there shall be a gap of at least nine feet in width defined by mountable curbing to allow access by emergency vehicles to the facade of each building facing such parking.
f.
Type of Facility.
1.
Parking spaces may be on, above or below the surface of the ground. When parking spaces are provided within a garage or other structure, said structure shall adhere to the proper accessory or principal building setbacks, as applicable.
2.
The provision of parking spaces also shall include adequate driveway and necessary turning areas for handling the vehicles for which provision is made. All single-family residential lots not within a planned development, and all single-family residential lots within a planned development and having direct driveway access to a non-local street, shall be provided with an on-site turnaround to permit vehicular access to the road in a head-on direction.
All side entry garages on nonclustered single-family residential lots or on clustered single-family lots within a Residential Cluster I planned development shall be provided with a paved or stoned area a minimum of 33 feet in length in front of the garage door(s) in order to allow for adequate ingress and egress to the garage; clustered single-family residential lots within a Residential Cluster II or Planned Residential Development shall be provided with such paved or stoned area a minimum of 25 feet in length.
Except for the driveway providing access to a garage, all parking areas shall be designed to permit a motor vehicle to proceed to and from a parking space without requiring the moving of any other motor vehicles. Aisles providing access to parking areas shall have the following minimum dimensions; where the angle of parking is different on both sides of the aisle, the large aisle width shall prevail:
Angle of Parking Space | One-Way Aisle | Two-Way Aisle |
|---|---|---|
90° | 22' | 24' |
60° | 18' | 20' |
45° | 15' | 20' |
30° | 12' | 18' |
Parallel | 12' | 18' |