Sec. 5.1.39
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Design
- Parking lot design
The parking lot shall be located, designed and constructed to reduce or eliminate significant visual impacts from all public streets, private roads and adjacent properties, and to reduce or eliminate other significant impacts to adjacent properties resulting from vehicular noise, dust, artificial lighting, glare, runoff, degradation of water quality and other similar disturbances.
Lighting
- Lighting plan
A lighting plan which identifies the location and design of all outdoor light structures and fixtures, demonstrates that all outdoor lights comply with section 4.12.6.4 and demonstrates that all outdoor lights will be shielded in such a manner that all light emitted from the fixture, either directly from the lamp or indirectly from the fixture, is projected below the horizontal plane of the fixture.
Other
- Alternative transportation efforts
The applicant shall demonstrate that he has made a determined effort to reduce reliance on single occupancy vehicle use by putting in place incentives and/or employee programs to encourage alternatives to single occupancy vehicles. Where public transit reasonably could be made available, the applicant should demonstrate that efforts have been made to coordinate routes and times with the public transportation service and the workforce hours.
- Conceptual plan or site plan
The applicant shall submit a conceptual plan or a site plan with his application for a special use permit. The plan shall show the approximate location of the parking lot on the property, its dimensions, its access to a public street, its distance from the off-site parking to the industrial site, and shall identify how persons will be transported or will transport themselves from the off-site parking to the building or use.
Parking
- On-site parking infeasibility
The applicant shall demonstrate that additional on-site parking is not physically feasible or physically desirable due to topographic constraints such as critical slopes and natural drainage features; wooded and buffer areas; unusual configuration of the lot or remaining undeveloped area on the lot; entrance corridor and/or landscaping requirements; stormwater management improvements; the location and visibility of the site; and other physical features of the property.
From the ordinance
In order to provide the minimum parking required by section 4.12 or to provide additional parking, off-site employee parking may be authorized only when...