Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Parking
- Parking surfacing
Depending on the site's topography and conditions, the zoning administrator may require that off-street parking areas for three (3) or more vehicles be surfaced with an erosion-proof asphaltic, bituminous, cement or other properly bound pavement.
- Interior drive width8 ft
No driveway shall be less than eight (8) feet in width.
- Joint use of parking
Parking spaces already provided to meet off-street parking requirements for theaters, stadiums, auditoriums, and other places of public assembly, stores, office buildings, and industrial establishments, lying within five hundred (500) feet of a church, may be used to meet not more than seventy-five (75) percent of the off-street parking requirements of a religious assembly.
- Loading space
Such loading and unloading space, unless otherwise adequately provided for, shall be an area ten (10) feet by fifty (50) feet, with fifteen-foot height clearance.
- Parking lighting
Adequate lighting shall be provided if off-street parking spaces are to be used at night. The lighting shall be arranged and installed in a downward direction and shielded to minimize glare on property in a residential district.
- Parking location
The parking spaces required shall be located on the same lot as is the principal use; provided, however, that a portion of required off-street parking for uses in districts other than residential may be located in a remote parking lot which is within five hundred (500) feet measured along lines of public access from the principal use if approved by the zoning administrator.
- Parking reduction
Parking shall not be required for non-residential uses in the B-1 business district. Any residential use in the B-1 business district may be exempted or granted reduced parking requirements by the zoning administrator.
- Parking screening
Where off-street parking areas for five (5) or more automobiles are located closer than fifty (50) feet to a dwelling in a residential district and where such parking areas are not entirely screened visually from the dwelling by an intervening building or structure, a continuous visual screen, with a minimum height of six (6) feet, shall be provided.
From the ordinance
The purpose of this section is to regulate the design, location, and maintenance of parking areas to meet the expanding needs of a growing town.