Rockaway Township City Zoning Code
§ 54-29.15
Off-street parking and loading, circulation and access.
[Ord. No. 95-24 § 54-92; Ord. No. 99-19 § 2; Ord. No. 05-5 § 1]
A.
General. Off-street parking and loading facilities shall be designed to:
(1)
Provide adequate space in appropriate locations for vehicles of employees, patrons, and visitors and for shipping and delivery vehicles, including future space needs;
(2)
Be compatible with the internal circulation system of a site;
(3)
Avoid substantial negative impacts to adjacent properties;
(4)
Discourage illegal and improper parking of vehicles;
(5)
Provide only the minimum amount of pavement necessary to meet site needs, and to avoid a "sea of pavement" appearance;
(6)
Ensure proper drainage;
(7)
Provide for access by disabled persons; and
(8)
Allow for appropriate property maintenance and security.
B.
Location.
(1)
All off-street parking and loading facilities shall be located on the same lot with the building they are serving.
(2)
Off-street parking is permitted in any front, side and rear yard in any nonresidential zone, subject to plan approval by the Board. Notwithstanding the above, any parking area located in the front yard of a nonresidential zone shall not be permitted closer than 15 feet to the front street line and the parking area pavement shall be devoted exclusively to landscaping, maintained in good condition, except for such driveway area as may be necessary to furnish ingress and egress into the required parking area that may cross the fifteen-foot landscaped area.[1]
[1]
Note: See Land Use and Development Appendix A following this chapter for off-street parking requirements for nonresidential land uses.
(3)
Off-street parking is permitted in any side or rear yard for multifamily residential uses and for nonresidential uses permitted in a residential district.
(4)
Parking areas shall be located no closer than 10 feet to any side or rear property line, provided that a thirty-foot setback shall be required for property in the I, M, O-1, O-2, OB-RL, OR-3 and PED Zones.
(5)
Loading areas for receipt and delivery are permitted in the side and rear yard, and must be located at least 10 feet from any property line, provided that a twenty-five-foot setback shall be required where the loading area abuts a residential use or zone.
C.
Dimensions of parking and loading spaces. Parking and loading spaces shall be designed to provide a rectangular area with the following minimum dimensions, which shall exclude any roadway, driveway or access aisle adjacent to the parking or loading space: A minimum nine by twenty-foot parking stall shall be required, provided that any lot containing a supermarket shall be required to have ten-foot by twenty-foot spaces. See paragraph G, below, for regulations pertaining to parking spaces for the handicapped. Loading space dimensions shall be 12 feet by 35 feet, provided that a twelve-foot by sixty-foot floor loading stall shall be required for tractor trailers.
D.
Driveways and access aisles. All parking areas and structures shall be provided with adequate means of ingress and egress which shall be designed to meet the following standards:
(1)
Driveways for parking and loading facilities shall comply with the following width standards:
One-Way Driveway | Two-Way Driveway | |
|---|---|---|
Minimum/Maximum Width Use Category | Minimum/Maximum Width | |
Multifamily Residential | 12'/12' | 20' |
Nonresidential | 12'/15' | 24'/30' |
(2)
Access aisles serving parking areas for multifamily residential and nonresidential uses shall have the following minimum widths, provided that any access aisle less than 24 feet wide shall only be permitted if designed for one-way traffic only.
Angle of Parking Spaces | Minimum Aisle Width |
|---|---|
0 degree angle (parallel) | 12' |
30 degree angle | 11' |
45 degree angle | 13' |
60 degree angle | 18' |
90 degree angle | 24' |
(3)
The maneuvering area for loading areas shall meet the following standards:
Vehicle Type | Loading Space Depth | Maneuvering Area Depth | Total Depth |
|---|---|---|---|
Tractor trailer | 60 feet | 45 feet | 105 feet |
All other vehicles | 35 feet | 30 feet | 65 feet |
(4)
Roadways and parking areas shall be designed so that no through street serves as the access aisle for parking or loading areas.
(5)
In the following situations, off-street parking and loading areas shall be designed so that all vehicles may turn around within the parking or loading area, thus preventing the necessity of any vehicle backing into a public street:
(6)
The center line of all driveways serving multifamily residential and nonresidential uses shall be located at least 200 feet from the center line of the intersection of any two streets.
(7)
No driveway shall be constructed in any district other than the R-20AC, R-5AC, R-88, R-20 and R-13 districts that exceeds a grade of 8%.
E.
Pavement.
(1)
All off-street parking areas and driveways for nonresidential districts shall be surfaced with either bituminous concrete pavement with a three-inch stabilized base and 1.5 inch surface course mix number five, or six inches of reinforced concrete, or the equivalent as approved by the Township Engineer.
(2)
All parking areas and driveways for residential uses in residential districts shall be paved in accordance with the requirements set forth in Subsection 54-30.12B(5).
(3)
Provision shall be made for adequate drainage facilities for all parking and loading areas and other paved areas. All such installations shall be connected with an adequate, approved system and shall be adequate to accommodate the storm drainage runoff of the facility it is designed to serve. All drainage facilities shall be approved by the Township Engineer prior to the Board approval.
(4)
Pavement for parking and loading areas shall be designed to provide a minimum slope of 0.5% and a maximum slope of 5%.
F.
Striping and signs.
(1)
All spaces within any parking or loading area shall be clearly marked and maintained to show the arrangement of spaces within the parking and loading areas.
(2)
In the R-B Regional Business district, each parking space shall be marked on the pavement by a double painted line 18 inches on center.
(3)
Parking spaces designed for disabled persons shall have the International Symbol of Accessibility painted on the pavement of the spaces, and shall be identified with a sign displaying the symbol and appropriate wordage to include "DISABLED PERSONS WITH VALID ID ONLY" and a penalty notice for violations as required by law.
(4)
No sign other than entrance, exit, identification and conditions-of-use signs shall be maintained in any parking area. No such sign shall be larger than four square feet in area.
G.
Parking for disabled persons. In any parking lot designed to accommodate the public, designated parking spaces for handicapped persons shall be required as follows:
Total Parking Spaces In Lot | Required Number of Handicapped Spaces |
|---|---|
Up to 50 | 1 |
51 to 200 | 2 |
Over 200 | 2 plus 1% of total spaces |
The parking stalls for the handicapped shall be designed with an eight-foot width with adjacent access aisle at least five feet wide. |
H.
Pedestrian circulation. Paved walkways will be provided as necessary to insure safe pedestrian circulation throughout the parking lots and into building entrances.
I.
Compliance with highway access management codes. All developments shall conform with any State highway access management code adopted by the Commissioner of Transportation under Section 3 of the "State Highway Access Management Act," P.L. 1989, c. 32 (C.27:7-91), and any County access management code adopted by the County under C. 27:16-1, as such codes may apply to the development.