Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Applies to all districts except B-1 (Shopping Center) and B-3 (Central Commercial) districts.
Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Exempt districts
The loading space requirements apply to all districts except the 'B-1,' Shopping Center District, where special requirements may be imposed, or 'B-3,' Central Commercial District.
- Funeral home loading space dimensions10 ft
Loading spaces for a funeral home may be reduced in size to ten (10) by twenty-five (25) feet and vertical clearance reduced to eight (8) feet.
- Illumination shielding
Where loading spaces are illuminated, all sources of illumination shall be so shielded or directed as to prevent any direct reflection toward adjacent premises used or zoned for residential purposes.
- Trigger for loading space requirement
When any building or structure is hereafter erected or structurally altered to the extent of increasing the floor area by 50 percent or more, or any building is hereafter converted, for the uses listed in column 1 of the chart below, when such buildings contain the floor areas specified in column 2, accessory off-street loading spaces shall be provided as required in column 3.
- All-weather surface required
All spaces shall be provided and maintained with an all-weather surface.
- Visual screening from residential
All loading spaces shall be visually screened from any adjacent premises used or zoned for residential purposes. All such screening shall be sufficiently dense or opaque to screen the loading space(s) from such adjacent properties.
- Minimum loading space dimensions12 ft
A loading space, as defined in article 3, section 2, shall have minimum dimensions of twelve (12) by thirty-five (35) feet and a minimum vertical clearance of at least fourteen (14) feet.
- Mixed use loading calculation
Where a building is used for more than one use or for different uses, and where floor area for each use for which loading spaces is required is below the minimum for required loading spaces, the number of required loading spaces will be calculated using the aggregate floor area in the structure and the use for which the most spaces are required.
From the ordinance
Except as otherwise provided... accessory off-street loading spaces shall be provided... The loading space requirements apply to all districts except the 'B-1,' Shopping Center District... or 'B-3,' Central Commercial District. A loading space... shall have minimum dimensions of twelve (12) by thirty-five (35) feet and a minimum vertical clearance of at least fourteen (14) feet.