Residential land uses (A1, A2, A3, A4, A10, A11, A12). Two off-street parking spaces per dwelling unit.

Residential land uses (A5, A6 and A7). Off-street parking spaces shall be required in accordance with the table below:

Residential (use A8). See § 465-17A(8)(c).

Residential (use A9). Two spaces per three beds.

Institutional, recreational and educational.

Institutional (uses B10, B11). One space for each patient bed and including cribs and bassinets, plus one space for every employee on the premises at any one time, plus two spaces per examination room intended for outpatient care. Institutions providing long-term custodial care for children under 16 years of age need not provide more than one space for each 10 beds.

Office (uses C1, C2, D16, H6). One space for every 200 square feet of gross floor area.

Shopping center (use D1). Five and one-half spaces per 1,000 square feet of floor area (gross).

Retail and consumer service (uses D2 through D8, D13, E5 and H6). One space for every 100 square feet of gross floor area.

Mortuary or funeral home (use D10). One off-street parking space for each four seats provided for patron use, or at least one off-street parking space for each 50 square feet of gross floor area used or intended to be used in the operation of the establishment, whichever requires the greater number of off-street parking spaces, plus one additional space for each full-time employee.

Motel, hotel, tourist home (D11). One space for each unit. In addition, Subsection E above shall be applicable for any eating place, including banquet facilities, on the premises.

Automotive service (uses E3 and E4). One space for every 100 square feet of gross floor area, plus one space for every employee on the premises at any one time.

Communication facilities, supply and sanitary utilities (uses F1, F5). Two off-street parking spaces at each terminal or substation plus one space for each full-time employee.

Fire station (F2). Six off-street parking spaces for each fire truck, and one off-street parking space for each 300 square feet of community room.

Transportation facilities (uses F4 and G9). Off-street parking spaces adequate to serve customers, patrons, visitors, employees and vehicles normally parked on the premises.

Industrial (uses D9, D15, F3, G1 through G9, and G14). One space for every employee on the largest shift of workers employed on the premises, plus one space for every two employees on the next shift following the largest shift of workers, if an overlapping relief shift is employed.

Home occupation (uses H1 and H8). In addition to one off-street parking space for the resident practitioner, each home occupation shall have the same number of off-street parking spaces required for the same use in the appropriate portion of § 465-38.

Pedestrian design standard.

Surface parking design.

Massing.

Building design standards.

Walls and windows.

Streetscape improvements.

Exterior lighting.

Refuse areas. The storage of refuse shall be provided inside the building or within an outdoor area enclosed by either walls or opaque fencing. Any refuse area outside of the building shall be designed to be architecturally compatible with the building, shall not be located in the front of the building, and be entirely screened by a fence or enclosure which is at least six feet high.

Screening.

Urban garden standards.

Public amenities.

Density bonus provisions. Density bonus provisions apply only to Use A16, Live-work unit, and Use A17, Mixed-use building. Density bonuses are cumulative up to 80 units per acre.

Existing parking. Buildings and uses in existence at the date of adoption of this chapter shall not be subject to the requirements of this article so long as the kind and extent of use is not changed, provided that any parking facility now serving such buildings or uses shall not in the future be reduced below such requirements.

Change in requirements. Whenever there is an alteration of a structure or a change or extension of a use which increases the parking requirements according to the standards of § 465-38, the total additional parking required for the alteration, change or extension shall be provided in accordance with the requirements of that section.

Conflict with other uses. No parking area shall be used for any purpose that interferes with its availability for the parking need it is required to serve.

Continuing character of obligation. All required facilities shall be provided and maintained so long as the use exists which the facilities were designed to serve. Off-street parking facilities shall not be reduced in total extent after their provision, except upon the approval of the Zoning Hearing Board and then only after proof that, by reason of diminution in floor area, seating area, the number of employees, or change in other factors controlling the regulation of the number of parking spaces, such reduction is in conformity with the requirements of this article. Reasonable precautions shall be taken by the owner or sponsor of particular uses to assure the availability of required facilities to the employees or other persons whom the facilities are designed to serve. Such facilities shall be designed and used in such a manner as to at no time constitute a nuisance, a hazard or an unreasonable impediment to traffic.

Joint use. Two or more uses in the same zoning district may provide for required parking in a common parking lot if the total space provided is not less than the sum of the spaces required for each use individually. However, the number of spaces required in a common parking facility may be reduced below this total by special exception under Article X if it can be demonstrated to the Zoning Hearing Board that the hours or days of peak parking need for the uses are so different that a lower total will provide adequately for all uses served by the facility.

Fractional spaces. Where the computation of required parking space results in a fractional number, the fraction of 1/2 or more shall be counted as one.

Parking lot location. To provide an uninterrupted front yard vista in residential areas, all parking lots shall be situated behind the building setback line on the side or in the rear yard of a lot in the R-1, R-2, R-2A, R-3, R-4 and C-3 Districts.

[1]Parking lot dimensions shall be no less than those listed in the following table:

Parking areas 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.

The width of entrance and exit drives in parking lots shall be:

For the purpose of servicing any property held under single and separate ownership, entrance and exit drives crossing the street lot line shall be limited to two for each 400 feet of lot frontage on any single street and their center lines shall be spaced at least 50 feet apart. On all corner properties there shall be a minimum distance of 80 feet measured at the lot line between the center line of any entrance or exit drive and the property line corner of the street parallel to said access drive.

In no case shall parking areas be designed to require or encourage cars to back into a public street in order to leave the lot. This provision shall not apply to residential uses A1, A3, A4, and A12.[2]

All artificial lighting used to illuminate any parking space or spaces shall be so arranged that no direct rays from such lighting shall fall outside the property being illuminated.

All off-street parking lots shall be designed to provide adequate internal circulation.

All off-street parking lots and their access drives for multifamily dwellings (uses A6, A7, A8) shall be at least 20 feet from any principal building on the lot.

Private driveways shall provide access to the street of lower classification when a corner lot is bounded by streets of two different classifications as herein defined.

All off-street parking lots and aisles shall be designed with slopes less than 5%.

Every department store, freight terminal, railroad yard, hospital, retail establishment, storage warehouse, wholesale establishment, sanitarium, industrial plant or manufacturing establishment exceeding 6,000 square feet or more aggregate gross floor area arranged, intended or designed for such use, shall be provided with off-street truck loading or unloading berths in accordance with the following table:

Every auditorium, convention hall, exhibition hall, funeral home, office building, restaurant, hotel, sports arena or welfare institution exceeding 6,000 square feet or more of aggregate gross floor area arranged, intended or designed for such use, shall be provided with off-street truck loading and unloading berths in accordance with the following table:

Every multifamily dwelling of 20 units or more shall have at least one off-street loading berth. Additional berths for off-street truck loading and unloading shall be provided in accordance with the following table:

Each required berth shall be no less than 14 feet wide, 50 feet long and 17 feet high, exclusive of drives and maneuvering space, and located entirely on the lot being served.