Sec. 29-33

Off-street parking facilities shall be drained to eliminate standing water and prevent damage to abutting property and/or public streets and alleys.

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.

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, and shall be provided according to the following schedule.

On the same premises with every building or structure or part thereof erected and occupied for manufacturing, storage, warehousing, goods display, or as a department store, wholesale store, market, hotel, hospital, mortuary, laundry, dry-cleaning establishment, or other use similarly involving the receipt or distribution of vehicles, materials, or merchandise, there shall be provided and maintained on the lot adequate space for standing, turning, loading and unloading services, in order to avoid interference with public use of the streets and alleys.

Off-street parking areas shall be maintained in a clean, orderly, and, to the extent possible, dust-free condition at the expense of the owner or lessee and not used for the sale, repair, or dismantling or servicing of any vehicles, equipment, materials, or supplies.

Parking spaces shall be marked by painted lines or curbs or other means to indicate individual spaces.

In general, there shall not be more than one (1) entrance and one (1) exit or one (1) combined entrance and exit along any one (1) street.

Interior drives shall be of adequate width to serve a particular design arrangement of parking spaces, except that no driveway shall be less than eight (8) feet in width.

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 between the parking area and the dwelling.

In the case of mixed or joint uses of a building or premises having different peak parking demands, the parking spaces required may be reduced if approved by the zoning administrator in conjunction with site plan approval.

Off-street parking shall not be located in a required yard or near the front entrance of a structure unless an all-weather driving surface is provided as approved by the town.

Parking spaces already provided to meet off-street parking requirements for stores, office buildings, and industrial establishments, lying within five hundred (500) feet of a place of public assembly, as measured along lines of public access, that are not normally in use between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 12:00 midnight and that are made available for other parking may be used to meet not more than fifty (50) percent of the total requirements of parking space.

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, as measured along lines of public access, that are not normally used between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on Sundays and that are made available for other parking may be used to meet not more than seventy-five (75) percent of the off-street parking requirements of a religious assembly.

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.

In the case of mixed or joint uses of a building or premises having the same peak parking demands, the parking spaces required shall equal the sum of the requirements of the various uses computed separately.

Off-street parking spaces shall be separated from walkways, sidewalks, streets, or alleys by a wall, fence, or curbing or other approved protective device, or by distance, so that vehicles cannot protrude over publicly owned areas.

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.

The requirements of this section are in addition to space for storage of trucks, campers, recreational vehicles or other similar vehicles used in connection with any use.

Off-street parking required by this chapter shall only occur on an all-weather driving surface approved by the zoning administrator.

The parking requirements in this article do not limit special requirements which may be imposed in connection with uses permitted by approval of a conditional use or special exception.

The requirements for off-street parking space and off-street loading space shall be a continuing obligation of the owner of the real estate on which any structure or use is located as long as such structure or use is in existence and its use, requiring vehicle parking or vehicle loading facilities, continues.

Whenever a building or use is changed or enlarged in floor area, number of employees, number of dwelling units, seating capacity, or otherwise, to create a need under the requirements of this article for an increase in parking spaces of ten (10) percent or more, such additional spaces shall be provided on the basis of the change or enlargement. However, no additional spaces shall be required for a change or enlargement which would result in an increase of spaces of less than ten (10) percent.

Loading space, as required in subsection 29-33(i) off-street loading, shall not be construed as supplying off-street parking space.

Parking shall not be required for non-residential uses in the B-1 business district.

There shall be provided, at the time of the erection of any principal building or structure or at the time any principal building or structure is altered, enlarged, or increased in capacity by adding dwelling units, guest rooms, floor areas, or seats, or a change of use, not less than the amounts of parking space given in subsection 29-33(h), schedule of required spaces.

Off-street parking space required under this article may be reduced at a time when the capacity or use of a building is changed in such a manner that the new use or capacity would require less space than before the change.

Any residential use in the B-1 business district may be exempted or granted reduced parking requirements by the zoning administrator in conjunction with site plan approval.

Off-street parking shall be provided according to the following schedule. Where application of the schedule creates a fractional number of spaces, the parking spaces required shall be construed to be the next highest whole number.

The parking space requirements for a use not specifically listed in the chart shall be the same as for a listed use of similar characteristics of parking demand generation.

If a particular use is not specified on the table, the Zoning Administrator shall determine the minimum number of off-street parking spaces by reference to the land use listed in the table that has the most similar off-street parking generation based on the most recent edition of the Institute of Transportation Engineers Parking Generation Manual or similar parking generation data.