Off-street parking shall be provided for all uses in structures hereafter constructed or enlarged or in which there is a change of use in accordance with the following requirements:

12.1.1

Assisted living facility: 1 space for each two units plus 1 space for each 2 employees.

12.1.2

Auditorium or other place of public assembly - one parking space for each four (4) fixed seats of capacity or one (1) parking space for each sixty (60) square feet of floor area available to patrons in cases where the capacity is not determined by the number of fixed seats.

12.1.3

Boarding or rooming house or tourist home - one parking space for each guest bedroom, plus one parking space for the resident family.

12.1.4

Bowling alley - three (3) parking spaces for each lane.

12.1.5

Club - one parking space for each one-hundred (100) square feet of floor area available to patrons.

12.1.6

Commercial recreation center - one parking space for each employee and one space for each four (4) participants and/or patrons.

12.1.7

Dwellings, single-family - one parking space located behind the building line. Two-family - three (3) parking spaces located behind the building line. Multi- family - two (2) parking spaces per dwelling unit.

12.1.8

Motor vehicle service station or establishment - a minimum of seven (7) spaces, without repairer's license - maximum of four (4) vehicles on-site in any forty- eight (48) hour period. With limited repairer's or general repairer's license - maximum of eight (8) vehicles in any forty eight (48) hour period. No vehicle may be kept in outside storage over two (2) weeks.

12.1.9

Home occupation or home professional office - two (2) parking spaces, in addition to one (1) parking space for each employee and the requirement for the dwelling to which such use is accessory.

12.1.10

Hospital or convalescent home - one parking space for every two (2) beds.

12.1.11

Hotel or motel - one (1) parking space for each guest bedroom or suite, plus one.

(1) parking space for each three (3) persons customarily employed at one time.

12.1.12

Manufacturing or industrial establishment, whole establishment or laboratory - one (1) parking space for each two (2) employees customarily employed at one time.

12.1.13

Mortuary establishment - one parking space for each seventy-five (75) square feet of floor area devoted to assembly rooms for services.

12.1.14

Office, office building, bank, medical or dental clinic - one parking space for each two hundred fifty (250) square feet of floor area.

12.1.15

Philanthropic or eleemosynary Institution - one parking space for each two hundred fifty (250) square feet of floor area devoted to office or administrative use.

12.1.16

Restaurant or tavern - one parking space for each fifty (50) square feet of public floor area.

12.1.17

Retail store, personal service store or studio, shop for custom work - one (1) parking space for each two hundred fifty (250) square feet of floor area.

12.1.18

Roadside stand - four (4) parking spaces in addition to the requirement for any dwelling.

12.1.19

School, public or parochial - twenty (20) parking spaces plus one (1) parking space for each employee, plus one (1) parking space for each three (3) students in the eleventh and twelfth grades or above.

12.1.20

Other uses not specifically listed - the same requirement as for most similar listed use.

12.1.21

Mixed uses - total requirement shall be the sum of the requirements of the component uses computed separately.

12.1.22

Day care centers - one (1) for each employee plus one space for each five (5) persons attending the facility.

12.1.23

Commercial education facility - one (1) for each employee plus one (1) space for each one hundred (100) square feet of floor area available to patrons.

12.1.24

Emergency shelter for the homeless - one (1) space for each employee.

12.1.25

Vocation Training & Employment services: One (1) parking space for each full time staff member based in the facility, two spaces for visitors and an additional handicapped only parking space.

12.1.26

School bus parking facility - one (1) parking space for each school bus on site, one (1) parking space for each bus driver originating from the site, one (1) parking space for each worker on the site.

12.1.27

Climate controlled indoor self-storage - two (2) parking spaces for employee parking and one (1) parking space for each 100 storage units.

Every building or structure, lot or land hereafter put into use for business or industrial purposes or for a hospital, and which has an aggregate floor area of seventy five hundred (7,500) square feet or more devoted to any such use, shall be provided with off-street truck loading spaces in accordance with the following schedule:

12.3.1

In all districts, a paved access drive to a garage may be located within the required setbacks.

12.3.2

No portion of a parking area shall be located closer than ten (10) feet to the boundaries of the parcel to be used or to any highway right-of-way. The parking area is taken to be that area where a vehicle is normally stored or parked and shall not be part of an access drive.

12.3.3

In all districts, required parking areas for dwellings shall be on the same lot with the main dwelling.

12.3.4

Required accessory parking and loading areas for non-residential uses shall be within three hundred (300) feet of the main building or use to be served. Any accessory parking area which is not upon the same lot as the main building or use and its necessary access-ways shall be reserved for off-street.

12.3.5

In all districts, required parking areas and truck loading shall have safe and adequate access to a public street either by a driveway on the same lot or by means of a permanent easement across an adjoining lot.

12.3.6

An off-street truck loading space shall have a minimum width of ten (10) feet, a minimum length of twenty-five (25) feet and a minimum clear height of fourteen (14) feet, excluding its access from the street.

12.3.7

All off-street parking spaces shall have a minimum width of nine (9) feet and a minimum length of seventeen (17) feet exclusive of access drive.

12.3.8

In all zones, all driveways, parking areas, and access aisles, automobile dealer lots, and all off-street truck loading spaces shall be suitably paved, drained and lighted, and appropriately planted and fenced for the protection of adjacent properties, and shall be arranged for convenient access, egress, snow removal and safety of vehicles and pedestrians. Such facilities shall be maintained in good condition by the owner.

12.3.8.1

Parking lot aisle widths shall conform to the following table:

12.3.8.2

For parking stall angles not list, the appropriate aisle width shall be determined by the Town Engineer.

12.3.8.3

Stacked parking shall not be allowed for any non-residential use or mixed residential/commercial use. Stacked parking is any parking where a parking stall does not have direct access to a parking aisle or access way without going through another parking stall.

12.3.9

When the number of parking spaces calculated as provided in Section 12 results in the requirement of a fractional space, any fraction under one-half (1/2) may be disregarded and any fraction over one-half (1/2) shall be construed as requiring a full space.

12.3.10

In the case of an expansion of a non-conforming building or the expansion of a permitted use, which does not meet the parking and loading requirements of Section 12 above, such expansion shall be subject to the following requirements:

12.3.10.1

That portion of the building or use, which constitutes the expansion, is subject to the requirements of Section 12.

12.3.10.2

An additional twenty-five (25) percent of the off-street parking requirements for the existing use shall be required; provided, however, that such provision does not exceed one hundred (100) percent of the requirements of Section 12.

12.3.11

In all residential districts including PRD and MHP districts, the outside parking of any commercial vehicle in excess of one ton carrying capacity is prohibited with the exception of farm vehicles which are permitted in all districts in conjunction with commercial or non-commercial farming and agricultural use, provided the vehicles are parked on said premises.

12.3.12

Floor area defined. For the purpose of the off-street parking requirements, "floor area" in the case of office uses, service uses, retail trade uses, and cultural, entertainment and recreational uses, shall mean the gross floor area used, designed or intended to be used for service to the public as customers, patrons, clients, patients, or members, including those areas occupied by fixtures and equipment used for the display and/or sale of merchandise. "Floor area" shall not include areas used principally for non-public purposes such as storage and incidental repair, for rest rooms, for utilities, or for required stairways or elevators.

12.3.13

In any zone, as per C.G.S. 8-2c, the Planning & Zoning Commission may reduce the number of off-street parking spaces which must be installed by the developer subject to the following conditions:

12.3.13.1

The total reduction of spaces shall not exceed twenty (20) percent of the required number of spaces.

12.3.13.2

The developer shall pay a fee of $500 for each space eliminated. This fee to be used in accordance with the guidelines established in C.G.S. 8-2c.

12.3.13.3

In granting an exemption from the required off-street parking requirements the Commission, by two-thirds vote, must find that the reduced number of spaces will not result in an increase of on-street parking.

12.3.14

The replacement, installation or addition of off-street parking or parking aisles areas, in the cumulative aggregate amount of fifteen hundred (1500) or more square feet on any lot from January 15, 1988, being the date of initial adoption of this regulation, shall require site plan approval from the Planning & Zoning Commission.

12.3.14.1

This requirement shall not apply to single or two-family residential structures.

12.3.14.2

For the purpose of this section, the applicant shall submit an engineered Site Plan showing at a minimum the location, topography, landscaping, and drainage for the proposed parking area.

12.3.14.3

The fee for this section shall be the same as those outlined in Section 19.2.6.

12.3.14.4

This procedure is instituted to ensure that increases in storm water run-off resulting from increases in paved parking areas are managed in such a way so as to not cause flooding of public facilities or adjoining properties.

per Section 4.24.4.4 and 4.25.4.4 Planned Development Zone:

The Planning and Zoning Commission shall institute access management wherever possible as a means to manage driveways and intersections on state highways and other major streets in Vernon to reduce congestion and traffic conflicts. Provisions for immediate or future driveway connections to adjoining lots of similar existing or potential uses shall be made when such driveway connections will facilitate efficient emergency response and/or when such connections will enable the public to travel between adjoining lots without the need to travel upon a highway or street. The property owners' right to use and the obligation to maintain common driveways shall be assured by a written dedication and/or agreement between adjoining property owners to be recorded in the Vernon Land Records. Where street geometry, traffic volumes or traffic patterns warrant, the Commission may:

12.5.1

Limit the number of driveways that provide access to a lot from the street.

12.5.2

Designate the location of any street access.

12.5.3

Require the use and/or provision of a common driveway with an adjoining lot, an access easement to an adjoining lot for shared access, and limit access to and from a street.

12.5.4

As part of an application approval, the Commission may require a property owner to:

12.5.4.1

Establish mutual driveway or other easements to provide a single point of access for two or more abutting lots in a location acceptable to the Commission.

12.5.4.2

File such easements on the land records in favor of the abutting lot owners and/or the Town of Vernon as shall be acceptable to the Commission and the Town Attorney, and/or

12.5.4.3

Utilize a mutual driveway or other easement that exists on an abutting lot in lieu of having a separate curb cut onto a road or street.

12.5.5

No property shall be penalized for the elimination of existing or proposed parking spaces in order to accommodate shared access driveway connections if such elimination reduces the number of spaces below that required by section 12.1, and the property owner(s) shall not be required to pay a fee for each space eliminated as otherwise required by section 12.3.13.

12.6.1

In order to minimize paved surfaces and eliminate the need to construct unnecessary parking spaces, the Commission may reduce the cumulative minimum parking requirements within a mixed-use development or for adjacent commercial or industrial properties if the applicant provides a parking study (based on empirical field data or similar data gathered by surveys by the American Planning Association, Institute of Transportation Engineers, or similar organizations) that demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Commission that one or more of the following conditions exist to warrant the reduction:

12.6.1.1

Differences in the timing of peak parking demands among existing and/or proposed uses result in a net peak parking demand that is significantly lower than the cumulative minimum parking requirements;

12.6.1.2

Synergistic relationships among uses create captive markets, resulting in multiple purpose walking trips within the development; and/or

12.6.1.3

The development is likely to generate bus, bicycle, or pedestrian trips and accommodations exist or are proposed to support these alternative modes of transportation.

12.6.2

If any use of the property changes at any time that negatively affects one or more of the conditions approved pursuant to section 12.6.1, this approval shall become invalid unless re-approved for the new use.

12.6.3

Shared parking that straddles the property line(s) of adjacent properties of a mixed use, commercial, or industrial development shall not be subject to the provisions of section 12.3.2. However, no such shared parking shall be located closer than ten (10) feet to any highway or street line.