Extracted standards
9 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
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- Loading berth dimensions
Each loading berth shall be of a length and width, and shall have an overhead clearance sufficient to accommodate fully the maximum size of vehicles used in loading or unloading operations.
- Entrance approval
Entrances and exits shall be provided at locations approved under site plan review procedures of this code.
- Lighting deflection
If the loading area is illuminated, lighting shall be deflected away from abutting sites so as not to cause annoying glare to such sites.
- Loading area location
A loading area shall not be located in a required front yard. A loading area may be located in a required side or rear yard.
- Paving requirement
The loading area, access drives and aisles shall be paved so as to provide a durable, dustless surface and shall be so graded and drained as to dispose of surface water.
- Loading space threshold10,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Every building or part thereof hereafter erected and having a gross floor area of ten thousand square feet or more...
- Turning room
Sufficient room for the turning and maneuvering of vehicles shall be provided on the site.
- Minimum loading spaces1 spaces
At least one off-street loading space, plus one additional off-street loading space for each twenty thousand square feet or major fraction thereof of gross floor area.
- No repair in loading area
No commercial repair work or servicing of vehicles shall be conducted in an off-street loading area.
From the ordinance
In any district, in connection with every building or part thereof hereafter erected and having a gross floor area of ten thousand square feet or more, which is to be occupied by manufacturing, storage, warehouse, goods display, retail store, wholesale store, market, hotel, hospital, mortuary, laundry, dry cleaning or other uses similarly requiring the receipt or distribution by vehicles of materials or merchandise, there shall be provided and maintained, on the same parcel with such building, at least one off-street loading space, plus one additional off-street loading space for each twenty thousand square feet or major fraction thereof of gross floor area.