Pennsauken Township
City Zoning Code
City Zoning Code
§ 141-87
Off-street parking and loading.
The following off-street parking and loading regulations shall apply:
A.
Required off-street parking facilities. Any building or other structure erected or used and any lot used or occupied in any district in which the following uses may exist or be permitted shall be provided with minimum off-street parking spaces as set forth below, together with separate loading space if applicable and, in addition, adequate passageways, driveways or other means of vehicular circulation and access to and from a street or way:
(1)
Dwelling: two all-weather parking spaces per family; provided, however, that for multifamily dwellings and townhouse dwellings, such spaces shall be paved with four inches of gravel subbase, six inches of quarry-blend base and two inches of FABC-1.
(2)
For any of the following uses the required spaces shall be paved and curbed:
(a)
Church, school, public auditorium, assembly or meeting room or other similar place for public or semipublic assembly: one space for every four seats provided for assembly.
(b)
Stadium or theater: one space for every four seats.
(c)
Hospital or convalescent home: one space for every four beds, plus one space for every two employees on day shift.
(d)
Community center or library: one space for every 800 square feet of floor space in public use.
(e)
Institutional home: one space for every five occupants, plus one for every employee on day shift.
(f)
(g)
Shopping center: for four or more retail establishments using common off-street parking space: 5 1/2 spaces for every 1,000 square feet of gross leasable area, as defined herein.
(h)
Department store, supermarket and large drugstore selling a variety of merchandise, as an individual establishment and not a part of a combination of other stores or shopping center: one space for every 250 square feet of sales area.
(i)
Motel: one space for every rental unit, plus one space for every employee on the day shift, plus one space for every four seats in meeting and dining rooms.
(j)
Office building: one space for every 100 square feet of office rental space, excluding halls and lavatories in common usage, elevators, stairs and utility rooms.
(k)
Office space:
[1]
In a shopping center and containing offices totaling not more than 20% of the gross leasable area contained in the stores and offices combined, whether in a freestanding building or not: no additional parking spaces required above that calculated on the total gross leasable area of which the offices are a part.
[2]
When in a shopping center and containing more than 20% of the total gross leasable area in stores and offices combined, that gross leasable area in offices (over and above the 20%) shall be calculated and spaces added in accordance with office building hereinabove, in addition to the parking spaces required for the total shopping center.
[3]
Office space not in a shopping center, whether in a freestanding building or not: see office building hereinabove.
(l)
Restaurant, cafe, diner and tearoom: one space for every four seating spaces for patron use, plus one space for every employee on duty during the peak hour of the twenty-four-hour day.
(m)
Laboratory, warehouse and industrial and wholesale establishment: one space for every one employee; or, if work shifts are used, one space for every one employee in the two largest work shifts combined; provided that, and in either event to allow for expansion, there shall be sufficient unpaved ground space, if necessary, so located, graded and maintained in grass which, when combined with the paved area, will provide for total parking of one space for every 100 square feet of usable building floor space, excluding lavatories and utility rooms.
(n)
Other commercial building: one parking space for every 300 square feet of floor area in commercial use.
(o)
Open areas used for commercial purposes: one space for every 1,000 square feet of open area used for commercial purposes.
B.
Location of off-street parking. Off-street parking for uses listed under the foregoing Subsection A shall be located on the same lot as the use to which it refers; provided, however, that:
(1)
Nothing in this chapter shall preclude the location of the required off-street parking spaces for townhouse dwellings and garden-type multifamily dwellings in common parking areas or garage compounds off the premises on nearby lots, as long as no dwelling served by such common parking areas or compounds shall be more than 250 feet away.
C.
Ingress and egress. Off-street parking areas shall be so designed and so located that:
(1)
No vehicle can conveniently back out directly into a street or way.
(2)
For single-family detached dwellings and single-family semidetached dwellings on a corner lot, the driveways shall be located as far away from the street intersection as possible.
(3)
Driveways for all other uses shall be located not less than 30 feet from a street intersection, measuring from the near side of the driveway to the near curb line of such street.
D.
Required off-street loading and unloading facilities. In addition to required off-street parking spaces, every use permitted in this chapter shall be provided with off-street loading and unloading space which, except for single-family detached, single-family semidetached and townhouse dwellings, shall be completely separate and distinct from the required off-street parking spaces.
E.
Reduction of facilities. Facilities for off-street parking and off-street loading and unloading existing at the effective date of this chapter shall not subsequently be reduced to an amount less than that required herein, and such facilities provided to comply with the provisions of this chapter shall not subsequently be reduced below the requirements of this chapter.