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 this section, the total additional parking required for the alteration, change, or extension shall be provided prior to issuance of an occupancy permit. The applicant must demonstrate the ability to provide any required additional parking before the zoning permit for the change of use will be approved.

Shared Parking. Shared parking shall be a conditional use subject to the following conditions:

Continuing Character of Obligation. All required parking facilities shall be provided and maintained so long as the use, which the facilities were designed to serve exists. Off-street parking facilities shall not be reduced unless by reason of decrease in floor area, seating area, the number of employees, or change in other factors controlling the regulation of the number of parking spaces, and such reduction is in conformity with the requirements of this Part. Reasonable precautions shall be taken by the owner to assure the availability of required facilities to the employees or other persons whom the facilities are designed to serve. Such facilities shall be designated and used in such a manner as not to constitute a nuisance, hazard, or unreasonable impediment to traffic.

Reduction in Required Parking. Notwithstanding the standards found in Schedule 27-VI, the amount of parking required therein and the size of spaces may be modified by the Board of Supervisors in connection with any application involving combinations of uses, multi-purpose facilities, very large enterprises, or other special situations relating to use and occupancy. Such modifications shall be based on consideration of the following factors:

Location of Parking Spaces. Required off-street parking spaces shall be located on the same lot as the use to which they are accessory, or within a radius of 400 feet of the principal use served and within the same zoning district as the principal use.

Off-street parking space may be developed on any required side, front, or rear yard, but not within any required buffer yard.

Access to Parking Space. Each parking lot shall have adequate and well designed ingress and egress. For the purpose of servicing any property held under single or separate ownership, entrance or exit drives crossing the street lot line shall be limited to two along the frontage of any single street. The spacing between these two drives shall be no closer than 50 feet where they are one-way drives and no closer than 200 feet where they are two-way drives. These access points shall be limited to well-defined points and shall be so designed to provide maximum safety for other adjoining or nearby uses.

Parking Lot Dimensions. Parking lot dimensions shall be no less than those listed in the following table:

Parking Lot Layout. All off-street parking spaces shall be arranged and marked so as to indicate their location for the orderly and safe movement, loading, parking and storage of vehicles.

Parking areas shall be designated so that each vehicle may proceed to and from the parking space provided for it without requiring the moving of any other vehicle.

Pavement markings for parking stalls of 10 feet or wider may be painted with a single line. For stalls less than 10 feet wide, the pavement marking shall be in the shape of elongated "U" or hairpin shape. The outside width of each hairpin marking shall be 18 inches wide.

Lighting. Lighting shall be provided in accordance with standards of the Illuminating Engineer Society (IES). Parking areas to be adequately illuminated for use by more than three cars after dark.

Parking and Loading Space Lot Paving Materials and Drainage. For parking areas of three or more vehicles, the area not landscaped and so maintained, including driveways, shall be graded, surfaced with a dustless, durable all-weather pavement parking surface, and drained to the extent necessary to prevent dust, erosion, or excessive water flow across streets or adjoining property in accordance with the Township Subdivision and Land Development requirements [Chapter 22].

Development of Parking and Loading Spaces. All off-street parking and loading areas, with the exception of those required for single-family two-family residential, shall conform with the following:

Shopping Cart Corrals. Shopping cart corrals shall be provided at a rate of one corral for every 25 parking spaces and shall be distributed equally throughout the parking lot. Shopping cart corrals or other shopping cart storage areas shall not interfere with or encroach into parking lot spaces, aisles, or other vehicular of pedestrian travel ways.

Every building or structure, lot or land hereafter put to a nonresidential use or existing building or structure enlarged for a nonresidential use, shall provide one off-street truck loading space for the first 10,000 square feet of gross floor area plus a minimum on one additional off-street truck loading area for each additional 40,000 square feet of gross floor area or part thereof.

Each required space shall be no less than 12 feet in width, 35 feet in length, with fourteen-foot overhead clearance exclusive of drives and maneuvering space and located entirely on the property being served, except in the case of tractor trailer spaces, which must be at least 14 feet in width and 60 feet in depth.

There shall be appropriate means of access to a street as well as adequate maneuvering space.

Such facilities shall be designed and used in such a manner as to not constitute at any time a nuisance or a hazard or unreasonable impediment to traffic.

The Board of Supervisors, based on a Planning Commission recommendation, may determine when tractor trailer spaces are required, taking into consideration location, site development, and proposed uses.

Designation. The Zoning Officer shall require and designate public or private fire lanes as deemed necessary for the efficient operation of fire apparatus. Fire lanes shall have a minimum width of 18 feet (5,486mm).

Obstruction. Designated fire lanes shall be maintained free of obstructions and vehicles and shall be identified in an approved manner.

Maintenance. All designated fire lane signs or markings shall be maintained in a clean and legible condition at all times and replaced when necessary to ensure adequate visibility.