1.   Exterior Lighting.

      A.   All exterior lighting shall be designed to prevent glare onto adjacent properties.

      B.   Pedestrian pathways need to be clearly marked and well lit, in accordance with the regulation requirements in the appropriate district and the IES Lighting Handbook, 4th Edition, Illumination Engineering Society, New York.

      C.   Lighting should be sufficient for security and identification without allowing light to trespass onto adjacent sites, particularly residential zones.

      D.   The height of fixtures shall be a maximum of 20 feet for parking lots and 14 feet for pedestrian walkways.

      E.   Where practical, exterior lighting installations shall include timers, dimmers, sensors or photocell controllers that turn the lights off during daylight hours or hours when lighting is not needed, to reduce overall energy consumption and eliminate unneeded lighting.

      F.   Site lighting shall minimize light spill into the dark night sky.

      G.   Fixtures and lighting systems used for safety and security shall be in good working order and shall be maintained in a manner that serves the original design intent of the system.

      H.   Vegetation and landscaping shall be maintained in a manner that does not obstruct security lighting and minimizes possible entrapment spaces.

      I.   At no time shall the light measured at the property line for any installation and/or facility located within the Borough exceed 0.2 Fc.

      J.   Final determination for lighting installations meeting the criteria identified above shall be the responsibility of the Borough Engineer and/or Borough Zoning Officer. If the Borough Engineer and/or Borough Zoning Officer determines that a lighting installation produces unacceptable levels of light and/or nuisance glare, the property owner shall be notified to reduce the light levels and/or eliminate the glare.

      K.   This Section shall supersede all other conflicting requirements in this Chapter.

      L.   Footcandle standards shall be regulated by the following:

 

   2.   Control of Noise. At no point on the property line or boundary of any residential, commercial or institutional district, shall the sound pressure of any operation exceed the described levels in the designated octave bands shown below for the districts indicated:

 

(Ord. 379, 7/6/2009, § 501)

   The duty to provide and maintain the off-street parking space(s) required in § 27-415 shall be the joint responsibility of the operator and owner of the use or structure in which is located the use or uses for which off-street parking is required to be provided and maintained. No land shall be used or occupied, no structure shall be designed, erected, altered, used or occupied, and no use shall be operated unless the off- street parking space herein required is provided in at least the amount and maintained in the manner herein set forth.

(Ord. 379, 7/6/2009, §502)

   1.   Whenever there is an alteration of a use which increases the parking requirements according to this Part, the total additional parking required for the alteration, change, or extension shall be provided in accordance with the requirements of this Part.

   2.   No parking area shall be used for any use which would interfere with its availability for the parking need for which it is required to serve.

   3.   For parking areas of three or more vehicles, the area not landscaped and so maintained, including driveways, shall be graded, surfaced with asphalt or other suitable material, and drained to the satisfaction of the municipal engineer to the extent necessary to prevent dust, erosion or excessive water flow across streets or adjoining property. All off-street parking spaces shall be marked so as to indicate their location. Failure to keep parking areas in satisfactory condition, i.e., free from holes, clearly delineated, or properly graded, shall be considered a violation of this Chapter.

   4.   All off-street parking lots and areas for the display, storage, sale, or movement of three or more motor vehicles shall be adequately buffered from adjacent streets and landscaped in accordance with an overall plan.

   5.   All parking spaces shall be 10 feet by 20 feet in dimension.

   6.   Parking aisles shall be a minimum of 22 feet wide.

   7.   Parking Lot Screening.

      A.   Parking lots visible from a street shall be continuously screened by a 3- foot high wall/fence and plantings. Screening shall include:

         (1)   Hedges, installed at 36 inches in height.

         (2)   Mixed planting (trees and shrubs).

         (3)   Wall sections, with no wall break of more than 9 feet, (excluding driveway openings) and landscaping to provide a continuous screen.

      B.   Parking lots abutting residential properties shall be continuously screened by a 4 to 6-foot high wall/fence and/or plantings.

   8.   Off-Street Parking Regulations for Townhouse, Apartment, and Nonresidential Uses.

      A.   Required off-street parking facilities as accessory to uses listed herein shall be solely for the parking of passenger automobiles of patrons, occupants or employees.

      B.   No motor vehicle repair work of any kind other than emergency service shall be permitted in parking lots.

      C.   In any case where a development abuts a State or Borough highway, all streets in the vicinity of the development shall be adequate to serve probable increases in traffic volume, and adequate deceleration lanes and similar facilities shall be provided as required by the Borough.

      D.   In any case where development abuts a residential district, no off-street parking shall be permitted within 10 feet of the property line of the abutting residential district. In all other districts, no off-street parking shall be permitted within the front yards within 5 feet of the side and/or rear property lines, except as provided herein. However, driveways, parking aisles and parking spaces may be permitted in side or rear yards in the C1 Commercial District when these parking improvements are shared between two or more abutting uses.

   9.   Design Requirements for LI- Light Industrial, C1-Commercial, C2- Commercial, LPO-Limited Professional Office Districts. All parking lots in industrial, commercial or residential retail districts shall be operated and maintained in accordance with all of the following conditions.

      A.   Plans for any parking lot shall be submitted to the Planning Commission prior to issuance of any zoning permit or certificate of occupancy as provided in Part 17 of this Chapter.

      B.   They shall not be used for the sale, repair or dismantling of any vehicles, equipment, materials or supplies.

      C.   They shall be properly graded for drainage; surfaced with concrete, asphaltic concrete, asphalt, oil or any dust-free surfacing and maintained in good condition, free of weeds, dust, trash or debris.

      D.   They shall be provided with entrances and exits so located as to minimize traffic congestion and the effect of headlight glare.

      E.   They shall be provided with wheel or bumper guards so located and arrange that no part of any parked vehicle will extend beyond the boundaries of the parking lot.

      F.   Lighting facilities shall be so arranged that they neither unreasonably nor unnecessarily disturb occupants of adjacent residential properties nor interfere with traffic by location, design or glare.

      G.   A planting strip shall be provided along each property line which is opposite or adjacent to a residential district, on which shall be planted hedge, evergreens or other suitable shrubbery, so arranged as to minimize noise, glare and dust from all parking facilities.

      H.   There shall be no more than one attendant shelter building containing not more than 50 feet of gross floor area and set in a distance of not less than 20 feet from any boundary of the parking which abuts a residential district.

      I.   The Planning Commission shall review all plans for parking lots submitted to them and shall submit these plans, with recommendations thereon, to the Borough Council for final approval.

      J.   Upon receipt of plans for parking lots and recommendations thereon by the Planning Commission, the Borough Council shall have the power of approval or disapproval of these plans. The Secretary of the Borough Council shall notify, in writing, the Zoning Officer of their final decision and any special conditions agreed upon regarding any parking lot.

   10.   Parking Held in Reserve. If the number of spaces required by § 27-415 is substantially greater than the number of spaces anticipated by the applicant, reserve parking may be used in accordance with the following criteria:

      A.   Suitable area must be available on the site for 100 percent of the parking required by § 27-415 of this Chapter.

      B.   The total number of spaces required under this Chapter may be reduced up to 50 percent by Borough Council, upon recommendation of the Borough Planning Commission. All stormwater controls shall be engineered and constructed based on total parking requirements, including the reserve.

      C.   Suitable and sufficient area must be reserved for the balance of the total number of spaces required by § 27-415. Whenever a parking capacity problem is identified, Borough Council may require installation of additional parking spaces, upon recommendation of the Borough Planning Commission.

      D.   Parking capacity will be reevaluated by the Borough Zoning Officer should any change occur in the use, ownership, size of building, or number of residents or employees. Following reevaluation, Borough Council may require construction of additional parking spaces, up to the maximum allowed by § 27-415, upon recommendation of the Borough Planning Commission.

      E.   The Zoning Officer may deny or revoke the Use and Occupancy permit of any use that fails to comply with this provision.

      F.   The applicant shall provide a financial guaranty to cover the cost of engineering and installation of the reserved parking spaces, for a period of 60 months following installation of the initially constructed spaces. The type and amount of the guaranty must be approved by Borough Council upon recommendation of the Borough Planning Commission.

      G.   To qualify for the use of the reserve parking concept, the applicant shall provide evidence supporting reduced parking needs to the Borough Planning Commission for their review and recommendations.

(Ord. 379, 7/6/2009, § 503)

   The parking spaces required in § 27-415 of this Chapter may be located elsewhere than on the same lot when authorized as a special exception, subject to the following conditions:

      A.   The owners of two or more establishments shall submit with their application for special exception, a site plan showing joint use and location of a common off-street parking area.

      B.   Some portion of the common off-street parking area lies within 200 feet of an entrance regularly used by the patrons into the buildings served thereby.

      C.   The Zoning Hearing Board may reduce the required aggregate amount of required spaces upon determination that greater efficiency is effected by joint use of a common parking area, but in no case shall the resulting provided parking be less than 20 percent of the spaces that would have been required under § 27-415.

(Ord. 379, 7/6/2009, §504)

   In order to encourage the renovation and re-use of older, potentially historic structures, particularly in the main commercial core, the Zoning Hearing Board may permit certain special exceptions from parking requirements if the following conditions are satisfied:

      A.   These bonus provisions shall apply to structures in the C1 Commercial, C2 Commercial Downtown and LPO Limited Professional Office Districts.

      B.   Gross floor area of building additions or new buildings required for the conversion shall not exceed 20 percent of the gross floor area of the building being renovated, unless permitted within the zoning district.

      C.   When these requirements are met, the following bonus provisions may be granted:

         (1)   Fifty percent of the required parking shall be on-site and the other 50 percent may be provided off-site within 500 feet of the lot.

         (2)   Maximum impervious coverage may be increased to 90 percent of the lot area.

(Ord. 379, 7/6/2009, § 505)

   In connection with any building or structure which is to be erected or substantially altered and which requires the receipt or distribution of materials or merchandise by trucks or similar vehicles, there shall be provided off-street loading berths not less than the minimum requirements specified in this Section:

      A.   Areas provided for the loading and unloading of delivery trucks and other vehicles and for the servicing of shops by refuse collection, fuels and other service vehicles shall be arranged so that they may be used without:

         (1)   Blocking or interfering with the use of access ways, automobile parking facilities or pedestrian ways.

         (2)   Backing out into a street.

      B.   All required loading berths shall be located on the same lot as the use to be served, and no portion of the vehicle shall project into any traffic lane. No loading berth for vehicles of more than 2-ton capacity shall be located less than 100 feet from any residence district. No permitted or required loading berth shall be located within 50 feet of any property line. No loading facilities shall be constructed between the building setback line and a street right-of-way line or within a required yard.

      C.   All off-street loading areas shall be adequately buffered from adjacent streets and properties and landscaped in accordance with an overall plan.

      D.   A required off-street loading berth shall be at least 15 feet in width by at least 50 feet in length, exclusive of aisle and maneuvering space, and shall have a vertical clearance of at least 16 feet.

(Ord. 379, 7/6/2009, § 506)