Off-street parking facilities shall be provided to lessen congestion in the streets. The facilities required herein shall be available to patrons throughout the hours of operation of the particular business or use for which such facilities are provided. As used herein, the term "parking space" includes either covered garage space or uncovered parking lot space located off the public right-of-way.

The net parking space per vehicle shall not be less than nine feet wide and 20 feet long with a twenty-foot access drive or not less than nine feet wide and 18 feet long with a twenty-four-foot or larger access drive.

A garage or carport may be located wholly or partly inside the walls of the principal building, or attached to the outer walls. The garage may be constructed under a yard or court, provided that the level of such yard or court shall conform to the general level of the other yards or courts on the lot. The space above an underground garage shall be deemed to be part of the open space of the lot on which it is located.

Any of the following buildings hereafter erected and any building hereafter converted into one of the following buildings and any open area hereafter used for commercial purposes shall be provided with not less than the minimum parking spaces as set forth below; these spaces shall be readily accessible to, and within a reasonable distance from, the buildings served thereby. Parking spaces shall be on the same lot as the principal building or open area, except when otherwise authorized as a special exception, and when situated within 600 feet of the principal building or open area in question.

Reasonable and appropriate off-street parking requirements for structures and uses which do not fall within the categories listed shall be determined by the Planning Committee upon consideration of all factors entering into the parking needs of each such use.

Off-street parking shall be provided as follows:

In addition to all of the above minimum requirements, additional spaces may be required according to the specific use.

No part of the public right-of-way of any street or road shall be used in computing the required area for parking.

In addition to the off-street parking spaces required above, all commercial and industrial establishments, hospitals or sanitariums, and other similar uses shall provide adequate off-street area for loading and unloading of supplies to and from vehicles.

In no case where a building is erected, converted, or enlarged, shall the public rights-of-way be used for loading or unloading space.

Access drives shall be laid out so that there will be no need for motorists to back over public right-of-way.

Access drives shall not be less than 20 feet nor exceed 40 feet in width, unless greater width is required to meet PennDOT standards.

The number of access drives shall not exceed two per lot on any one street frontage.

Access drives shall not enter a public street:

General safety requirements: sight distance. Access drives shall be located in safe relationship to sight distance and barriers to vision, and shall not exceed a slope of 10% within 25 feet of the street pavement. Where drives enter a bank through a cut, unless a retaining wall is used, the side slopes of the cut shall be graded to not more than 1/2 foot vertical to one foot horizontal within 10 feet of the point the drive intersects with the right-of-way line.

Submission of plans. A scaled drawing of proposed off-street parking and loading areas, access drives, and walks shall be submitted as part of any land use permit application. Any application requiring access onto a state highway shall be approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation prior to Township approval.