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Table of Off-Street Parking Requirements | ||
Use | Number of Off-Street Parking Spaces Required | Plus 1 Off-street Parking Space for Each: |
Table of Off-Street Parking Requirements | ||
Use | Number of Off-Street Parking Spaces Required | Plus 1 Off-street Parking Space for Each: |
Commercial Uses: | All commercial uses, as applicable, shall provide additional parking or storage needed for maximum number of vehicles stored, displayed or based at the lot at any point in time. These additional spaces are not required to meet the stall size and parking aisle width requirements of this chapter | |
Auto, boat, recreational vehicle or manufactured home sales | 1 per 15 vehicles, boats, RVs or homes displayed | Employee |
Auto service station or repair garage | 5 per repair/service bay and 1/4 per fuel nozzle with such spaces separated from accessways to pumps | Employee; plus any parking needed for a convenience store under “retail sales” |
Bed and breakfast use | 1 per rental unit plus the 2 per dwelling unit | Nonresident employee |
Bowling alley | 2 per lane plus 2 per pool table | 1.1 employees |
Car wash | Adequate waiting and drying areas | 1.1 employees |
Financial institution (includes bank) | 1 per 200 sq. ft. of floor area accessible to customers, plus “office” parking for any administrative offices | 1.1 employees |
Funeral home | 1 per 5 seats in rooms intended to be in use at one time for visitors, counting both permanent and temporary seating | Employee |
Haircutting/hairstyling | 1 per customer seat used for haircutting, hair styling, hair washing, manicuring or similar work | 1.1 employees |
Hotel or motel | 1 per rental unit plus 1 per 4 seats in any meeting room (plus any required by any restaurant) | 1.1 employees |
Indoor recreation (other than bowling alley), membership club or exercise club | 1 per 4 persons of maximum capacity of all facilities | 1.1 employees |
Laundromat | 1 per 3 washing machines | On-site employee |
Miniature golf | 1 per hole | 1.1 employees |
Offices or clinic, medical/dental | 5 per physician or physician’s assistant and 4 per dentist | 1.1 employees |
Offices, other than above | 1 per 300 sq. ft. of total floor area | |
Outdoor recreation (other than uses specifically listed in this table) | 1 per 4 persons of capacity (50% may be on grass overflow areas with major driveways in gravel) | 1.1 employees |
Personal service use, other than haircutting/hairstyling (min. of 2 per establishment) | 1 per 200 sq. ft. of floor area accessible to customers | 1.1 employees |
Restaurant | 1 per 4 seats, or 3 spaces for a use without customer seats; this parking shall be calculated separately from a shopping center | 1.1 employees |
Retail sales (other than types separately listed and other than a shopping center) | 1 per 200 sq. ft. of floor area of rooms accessible to customers | |
Retail sales of only furniture, lumber, carpeting, bedding or floor covering | 1 per 800 sq. ft. of floor area of rooms accessible to customers | |
Shopping center involving 5 or more retail establishments on a lot | 1 per 200 sq. ft. of leaseable floor area | |
Tavern or nightclub or after-hours club | 1 per 30 sq. ft. of total floor area | 1.1 employees |
Theater or auditorium | 1 per 4 seats, 1/2 of which may be met by convenient parking shared with other business uses on the same lot that are typically not routinely open beyond 9:00 p.m. | 1.1 employees |
Trade/hobby school | 1 per 2 students on-site during peak use | 1.1 employee |
Veterinarian office | 4 per veterinarian | 1.1 employee |
Industrial Uses: All industrial uses (including warehousing, distribution and manufacturing) | In addition to parking or storage needed for maximum number of vehicles stored, displayed or based at the lot at any point in time, which spaces are not required to meet the stall size and aisle width requirements of this chapter 1 per 1.1 employee, based upon the maximum number of employees on-site at peak period of times | 1 visitor space for every 10 managers on the site |
Self-storage development | 1 per 20 storage units | 1.1 employee |
Institutional Uses: | ||
Assisted living facility and/or retirement community | 1 per 4 beds, plus 1.5 for each individual dwelling unit | 1.1 employees |
College or university | 1 per 1.5 students not living on campus who attend class at peak times (plus required spaces for on-campus housing) | 1.1 employee |
Day care center | 1 per 10 children, with spaces designed for safe and convenient drop-off and pick-up | 1.1 employees |
Hospital | 1 per 3 beds | 1.1 employees |
Library, community center or cultural center or museum | 1 per 5 seats (or 1 per 250 sq. ft. of floor area accessible to patrons and/or users if seats are not typically provided) | 1.1 employee |
Nursing home | 1 per 5 beds | 1.1 employees |
Place of worship or church | 1 per 5 seats in room of largest capacity; for pews that are no individual seats, each 48 inches shall count as 1 seat | Employee |
School, primary or secondary | 1 per 4 students aged 16 or older | 1.1 employee |
Swimming pool, non-household | 1 per 50 sq. ft. of water surface, other than wading pools | 1.1 employee |
Treatment center | 1 per 2 residents aged 16 years or older plus 1 per nonresident intended to be treated on-site at peak times | Nonresident employee |
Utility facility | 1 per vehicle routinely needed to service facility | |
Residential Uses: | ||
Boarding house | 1 per rental unit or bed for adult, whichever is greater | Nonresident employee |
Dwelling unit, other than types listed separately in this table | 2 per dwelling unit; as part of a new subdivision, if a vehicle must be moved from one space in order to access the second space, then an additional parking space shall be available for each dwelling unit, such as an on-street space in front of the dwelling or an overflow parking lot | |
Group home | 1 per 2 residents, unless the applicant proves the home will be limited to persons who will not be allowed to drive a vehicle from the property | Employee |
Home occupation | ||
Housing permanently restricted to persons 62 years and older and/or the physically handicapped | 1 per dwelling/rental unit, except 0.4 per dwelling/rental unit if evidence is presented that the non-physically handicapped persons will clearly primarily be over 70 years old | Nonresident employee |
Angle of Parking | Parking Space Min. Width (feet) | Parking Space Min. Depth (feet) | Aisle Width - One- Way Traffic (feet) | Aisle Width - Two- Way Traffic (feet) |
90 degrees | 9 | 18 | 20 | 22 |
55 to 89 degrees | 10 | 22 | 18 | 22 |
35 to 54 degrees | 10 | 21 | 15 | 20 |
1 to 34 degrees | 10 | 19 | 12 | 20 |
Parallel | 8 | 22 | 12 | 20 |
Min. = Minimum | ||||
Width of Driveway at Entrance onto a Public Street, at the Edge of the Cartway* | One-Way Use* | Two-Way Use* |
Minimum | 12 feet | 22 feet |
Maximum | 20 feet | 30 feet |
* This standard may be revised where a different standard is required by PennDOT for an entrance to a state road, or where the applicant demonstrates to the Zoning Officer that a wider width is needed for truck access | ||
Total No. of Parking Spaces on the Lot | Required Minimum No./Percent of Ada-accessible Parking Spaces |
Total No. of Parking Spaces on the Lot | Required Minimum No./Percent of Ada-accessible Parking Spaces |
1 to 25 | 1 van-accessible |
26 to 50 | 2, 1 of which must be van-accessible |
51 to 75 | 3, 1 of which must be van-accessible |
76 to 100 | 4, 1 of which must be van-accessible |
101 to 150 | 5, 1 of which must be van-accessible |
151 to 200 | 6, 1 of which must be van-accessible |
201 to 300 | 7, 1 of which must be van-accessible |
301 to 400 | 8, 1 of which must be van-accessible |
401 to 500 | 9, 2 of which must be van-accessible |
501 to 1,000 | 2% of total number of spaces, 1/8th of which must be van-accessible |
1,001 or more | 20 plus 1% of spaces for each 100 over 1000 spaces, 1/8 of which must be van-accessible |

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Table of Off-Street Parking Requirements | ||
Use | Number of Off-Street Parking Spaces Required | Plus 1 Off-street Parking Space for Each: |
Table of Off-Street Parking Requirements | ||
Use | Number of Off-Street Parking Spaces Required | Plus 1 Off-street Parking Space for Each: |
Commercial Uses: | All commercial uses, as applicable, shall provide additional parking or storage needed for maximum number of vehicles stored, displayed or based at the lot at any point in time. These additional spaces are not required to meet the stall size and parking aisle width requirements of this chapter | |
Auto, boat, recreational vehicle or manufactured home sales | 1 per 15 vehicles, boats, RVs or homes displayed | Employee |
Auto service station or repair garage | 5 per repair/service bay and 1/4 per fuel nozzle with such spaces separated from accessways to pumps | Employee; plus any parking needed for a convenience store under “retail sales” |
Bed and breakfast use | 1 per rental unit plus the 2 per dwelling unit | Nonresident employee |
Bowling alley | 2 per lane plus 2 per pool table | 1.1 employees |
Car wash | Adequate waiting and drying areas | 1.1 employees |
Financial institution (includes bank) | 1 per 200 sq. ft. of floor area accessible to customers, plus “office” parking for any administrative offices | 1.1 employees |
Funeral home | 1 per 5 seats in rooms intended to be in use at one time for visitors, counting both permanent and temporary seating | Employee |
Haircutting/hairstyling | 1 per customer seat used for haircutting, hair styling, hair washing, manicuring or similar work | 1.1 employees |
Hotel or motel | 1 per rental unit plus 1 per 4 seats in any meeting room (plus any required by any restaurant) | 1.1 employees |
Indoor recreation (other than bowling alley), membership club or exercise club | 1 per 4 persons of maximum capacity of all facilities | 1.1 employees |
Laundromat | 1 per 3 washing machines | On-site employee |
Miniature golf | 1 per hole | 1.1 employees |
Offices or clinic, medical/dental | 5 per physician or physician’s assistant and 4 per dentist | 1.1 employees |
Offices, other than above | 1 per 300 sq. ft. of total floor area | |
Outdoor recreation (other than uses specifically listed in this table) | 1 per 4 persons of capacity (50% may be on grass overflow areas with major driveways in gravel) | 1.1 employees |
Personal service use, other than haircutting/hairstyling (min. of 2 per establishment) | 1 per 200 sq. ft. of floor area accessible to customers | 1.1 employees |
Restaurant | 1 per 4 seats, or 3 spaces for a use without customer seats; this parking shall be calculated separately from a shopping center | 1.1 employees |
Retail sales (other than types separately listed and other than a shopping center) | 1 per 200 sq. ft. of floor area of rooms accessible to customers | |
Retail sales of only furniture, lumber, carpeting, bedding or floor covering | 1 per 800 sq. ft. of floor area of rooms accessible to customers | |
Shopping center involving 5 or more retail establishments on a lot | 1 per 200 sq. ft. of leaseable floor area | |
Tavern or nightclub or after-hours club | 1 per 30 sq. ft. of total floor area | 1.1 employees |
Theater or auditorium | 1 per 4 seats, 1/2 of which may be met by convenient parking shared with other business uses on the same lot that are typically not routinely open beyond 9:00 p.m. | 1.1 employees |
Trade/hobby school | 1 per 2 students on-site during peak use | 1.1 employee |
Veterinarian office | 4 per veterinarian | 1.1 employee |
Industrial Uses: All industrial uses (including warehousing, distribution and manufacturing) | In addition to parking or storage needed for maximum number of vehicles stored, displayed or based at the lot at any point in time, which spaces are not required to meet the stall size and aisle width requirements of this chapter 1 per 1.1 employee, based upon the maximum number of employees on-site at peak period of times | 1 visitor space for every 10 managers on the site |
Self-storage development | 1 per 20 storage units | 1.1 employee |
Institutional Uses: | ||
Assisted living facility and/or retirement community | 1 per 4 beds, plus 1.5 for each individual dwelling unit | 1.1 employees |
College or university | 1 per 1.5 students not living on campus who attend class at peak times (plus required spaces for on-campus housing) | 1.1 employee |
Day care center | 1 per 10 children, with spaces designed for safe and convenient drop-off and pick-up | 1.1 employees |
Hospital | 1 per 3 beds | 1.1 employees |
Library, community center or cultural center or museum | 1 per 5 seats (or 1 per 250 sq. ft. of floor area accessible to patrons and/or users if seats are not typically provided) | 1.1 employee |
Nursing home | 1 per 5 beds | 1.1 employees |
Place of worship or church | 1 per 5 seats in room of largest capacity; for pews that are no individual seats, each 48 inches shall count as 1 seat | Employee |
School, primary or secondary | 1 per 4 students aged 16 or older | 1.1 employee |
Swimming pool, non-household | 1 per 50 sq. ft. of water surface, other than wading pools | 1.1 employee |
Treatment center | 1 per 2 residents aged 16 years or older plus 1 per nonresident intended to be treated on-site at peak times | Nonresident employee |
Utility facility | 1 per vehicle routinely needed to service facility | |
Residential Uses: | ||
Boarding house | 1 per rental unit or bed for adult, whichever is greater | Nonresident employee |
Dwelling unit, other than types listed separately in this table | 2 per dwelling unit; as part of a new subdivision, if a vehicle must be moved from one space in order to access the second space, then an additional parking space shall be available for each dwelling unit, such as an on-street space in front of the dwelling or an overflow parking lot | |
Group home | 1 per 2 residents, unless the applicant proves the home will be limited to persons who will not be allowed to drive a vehicle from the property | Employee |
Home occupation | ||
Housing permanently restricted to persons 62 years and older and/or the physically handicapped | 1 per dwelling/rental unit, except 0.4 per dwelling/rental unit if evidence is presented that the non-physically handicapped persons will clearly primarily be over 70 years old | Nonresident employee |
Angle of Parking | Parking Space Min. Width (feet) | Parking Space Min. Depth (feet) | Aisle Width - One- Way Traffic (feet) | Aisle Width - Two- Way Traffic (feet) |
90 degrees | 9 | 18 | 20 | 22 |
55 to 89 degrees | 10 | 22 | 18 | 22 |
35 to 54 degrees | 10 | 21 | 15 | 20 |
1 to 34 degrees | 10 | 19 | 12 | 20 |
Parallel | 8 | 22 | 12 | 20 |
Min. = Minimum | ||||
Width of Driveway at Entrance onto a Public Street, at the Edge of the Cartway* | One-Way Use* | Two-Way Use* |
Minimum | 12 feet | 22 feet |
Maximum | 20 feet | 30 feet |
* This standard may be revised where a different standard is required by PennDOT for an entrance to a state road, or where the applicant demonstrates to the Zoning Officer that a wider width is needed for truck access | ||
Total No. of Parking Spaces on the Lot | Required Minimum No./Percent of Ada-accessible Parking Spaces |
Total No. of Parking Spaces on the Lot | Required Minimum No./Percent of Ada-accessible Parking Spaces |
1 to 25 | 1 van-accessible |
26 to 50 | 2, 1 of which must be van-accessible |
51 to 75 | 3, 1 of which must be van-accessible |
76 to 100 | 4, 1 of which must be van-accessible |
101 to 150 | 5, 1 of which must be van-accessible |
151 to 200 | 6, 1 of which must be van-accessible |
201 to 300 | 7, 1 of which must be van-accessible |
301 to 400 | 8, 1 of which must be van-accessible |
401 to 500 | 9, 2 of which must be van-accessible |
501 to 1,000 | 2% of total number of spaces, 1/8th of which must be van-accessible |
1,001 or more | 20 plus 1% of spaces for each 100 over 1000 spaces, 1/8 of which must be van-accessible |
