A. A Building Permit shall not be issued for new residential structure located in an area serviced by a public or private water company unless the distance from the midpoint of the frontage of such premises to a functioning fire hydrant, which has been tested and approved, as measured down to the centerline of connecting public streets, is four hundred (400) feet or less.
B. Final subdivision plats shall not be approved by the Planning Board unless fire hydrants are indicated on the final plat in accordance with the requirements herein contained as to location of and distances between fire hydrants.
C. Fire Hydrants shall not be placed at the closed end of a turnaround of a cul-de-sac unless the distance between the open end and the closed end is greater than four hundred (400) feet, in which event, the fire hydrants shall be placed at both the open end and the closed end of the cul-de-sac.
D. The installation of fire hydrants with respect to any subdivision shall not be considered a subdivision improvement to be included in the bonding requirements of this Chapter but rather the proper installation of fire hydrants shall be a condition of the issuance of Certificates of Occupancy.
F. All fire hydrants installed in the municipality shall have no less than two (2), two and one-half (2'/z) inch hose connection nozzles and one (1), four and one-half (4%Z) inch pumper nozzle. All threads are to be National Standard fire hose threads.
G. Hydrants shall be set plumb with nozzles eighteen (18) inches above the ground or, where they are to be placed in hose houses, eighteen (18) inches above the floor.
Guard-rails, pipe railing or other appropriate barricades, as required by the Planning Board shall be designed and placed at drainage structures, streams, embankment limits, curves and other required locations. Guard-rails shall be standard steel beam type with galvanized steel posts in accordance with the Standard Construction Details. Alternate design of guardrails and barricades may be used and shall be submitted for approval as part of the final plat submission.
A. Lot Size. Minimum lot size and dimensions shall be governed by the requirements of the respective zoning districts as set forth in this Chapter, except that:
1. The Planning Board may require larger lots where additional area will partially or completely eliminate the necessity of changes in grade which in the opinion of the Board would cause unreasonable destruction of the topography or environment or would create drainage or erosion problems.
2. The Planning Board may require larger lots adjacent to collector or arterial streets where, in the opinion of the Board, the larger lots would promote the health, safety and general welfare of the public and the residents of the development.
B. Lot and Block Numbers.
1. In accordance with the Tax Map specifications of the State of New
Jersey dated May 1975, prepared by the State of New Jersey
Department of the Treasury, as amended, subdivided lots and blocks shall generally bear the original numbers with a number added as a subscript. The use of letter designations should particularly be avoided.
2. Prior to final plat approval by the Planning Board, two (2) copies of the map shall be submitted to the Borough Tax Assessor for proper assignment of lot and block numbers and for the tax assessor's signature. One copy of said map shall be returned with the new lot and block numbers shown. The other copy will be retained for tax map purposes.
C. Area and Side Lot Lines.
Except as otherwise provided in this Chapter, lot dimensions and area shall not be less than the requirements of the zoning district. Insofar as is practical, side lot lines shall be at right angles to straight streets and radial to curved streets.
D. Lot Frontage.
Each lot shall front on an approved street accepted or to accepted by the Borough.
Where extra width is to be provided for the widening of existing streets, lot measurements shall begin at the proposed right-of-way line, and all setbacks shall be measured from such lines unless otherwise provided by this Chapter.
F. Unsuitable Lots.
All lot shall be suitable for the purpose for which they are intended to be used. To prevent the use of lots which are not suitable because of adverse topography, environmental, flood conditions or similar circumstances, the Planning Board may require such revisions in a layout of the subdivision as will accomplish one (1) of the following:
1. That the area of the unsuitable lot is included in other lots by increasing the size of the remaining lots.
2. That it is included in an area to be deeded to the Borough or other public or quasi-public body and will be held in its natural state for conservation and/or recreation purposes.
3. That some other suitable arrangement is made.
G. Driveways
All structures must be accessible by means of a driveway.
For single family lots, driveways shall not be less than five (5) feet from the side property line and shall not exceed a slope of twelve (12) percent..
For all non-single family uses, driveways must provide turnarounds to eliminate the necessity of any vehicle backing onto any street.
A. Monuments shall be of a size and shape required by Section 4, Chapter
358 of the Laws of 1953, and shall be placed in accordance with said statute. In addition to the required monuments, after grading is finished, the developer shall install a steel stake one (1) inch in diameter and thirty
(30) inches in length on lot corners, lot line angle points or other changes in direction, not marked by monuments, and at all angle points or discontinuities in easement lines where such easements are not parallel to property lines.
B. Monuments shall also be installed along the elevation six (6) contour the
NGVD datum as it traverse the property to delineated the limits of the coastal wetland areas within the Borough.
A. For every building, structure or part thereof having over ten thousand
(10,000) square feet of gross floor area erected and occupied for any use other than residential, there shall be provided at least one (1) truck standing loading and unloading space on the premises not less than twelve (12) feet in width, thirty-five (35) feet in length and a minimum vertical clearance of fourteen (14) feet. Buildings that contain in excess of fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet of gross floor area shall be required to provide additional off street loading spaces as determined by the
Planning Board during site plan review.
B. Access to truck standing, loading and unloading areas may be provided directly from a public street or alley or from any right-of-way that will not interfere with public convenience and will permit orderly and safe movement of truck vehicles.
C. Unless otherwise permitted, fire zones shall not be used as standing, loading or unloading areas.
D. Loading areas, as required by this Section, shall be provided in addition to off-street parking spaces and shall not be considered as supplying off street parking spaces.
E. No off-street loading or unloading area shall be permitted in any required front yard area.
F. Every commercial and business use shall provide a dedicated parking space for express mail and package delivery vehicles. The dedicated space shall be provided in addition to off-street parking spaces and shall not be considered as supplying off-street parking spaces.
In all zones and in connection with every industrial, commercial, institutional, professional, recreational, residential or any other use, there shall be provided off-street parking spaces in accordance with the following requirements and parking lot standards:
A. Type of Parking Permitted. Each dead storage bay of an off-street parking space may be perpendicular with the aisle, parallel with the aisle, or at any angle between sixty (60) degrees and ninety (90) degrees. No angle parking layout shall be permitted with an angle less than sixty (60) degrees.
B. Stall Size.
1. Automobiles: Each perpendicular or angle off-street parking space shall occupy a rectangular area of not less than nine (9) feet in width and eighteen (18) feet in depth, for shopping centers shall be not less than ten (10) feet in width and twenty (20) feet in depth. exclusive of access drives and aisles, except that parking spaces for the physically handicapped shall be twelve (12) feet wide and sixteen (16) feet wide for van accessible parking. Parallel parking spaces shall occupy a rectangular area ten (10) feet by twenty-three
(23)feet.
2. Other Vehicles:
a. Uses that own, rent or service motor vehicles larger than automobiles which must be parked and/or stored on the site shall indicate in the statement of operations submitted with the site plan, the size of such vehicles and the anticipated largest, number of such vehicles to be stored and/or parked on-the site at any single time and the site plan shall show a sufficient number of parking and/or storage stalls at an adequate size for the largest number of such vehicles to be parked and/or stored on the site at any one tine. Aisles providing for access to such parking and/or storage stalls shall be of adequate width for the vehicles to be served.
b. Failure of an applicant to indicate, where applicable, in the statement of operations that vehicles larger than automobiles are to be parked and/or stored on the site and provide for such parking and/or-storage on the site plan shall be a violation of this Chapter, and any building permit or Certificate of Occupancy that has been issued shall not be valid and may be revoked.
c. Any change of use to a use which requires parking and/or storage space for a greater number of vehicles larger than automobiles than the previous use shall be required to make application for site plan approval.
3. When off-street parking is provided in connection with a use which will assign or can control the utilization of parking areas (for example, employee only parking areas), the Planning Board may approve separate parking areas for subcompact vehicles having a length of less than seventeen (17) feet and a width of eight (8) feet or less. Appropriate signing and marking shall be required. The number of parking stalls which may be designed for subcompact vehicles shall be determined by the Planning Board based upon documentation submitted by the applicant.
C. Aisle Widths
1. Aisles from which cars directly enter or leave parking spaces shall not be less than twenty-four (24) feet wide for perpendicular parking or for parking at any angle greater than sixty (60) degrees, and twenty (20) feet wide for sixty (60) degree angle parking, except that all two-way aisles shall be a minimum of twenty-four
(24) feet wide.
2. Only angle parking stalls or parallel parking stalls shall be used with one-way aisles.
D. Access Drives. (See Figures 5 and 6)
1. Entrance and exit drives shall have a minimum width of eighteen (18) feet for those designed for one-way traffic and twenty-four
(24) feet for those carrying two-way traffic.
2. Parking areas for twenty-five (25) or more cars and access drives for all parking areas on arterial highways shall provide curbed return radii of not less than twenty-five (25) feet for all right turn movements and left turn access from one-way streets and concrete aprons on entrance and exit drives.
3. Parking areas for less than twenty-five (25) cars shall utilize concrete aprons without curb returns at entrance and exit drives which are not located on a minor arterial or principal arterial highway.
E. Paint Striping.
All parking areas may provide paint striping to delineate parking stalls, barrier lines, lane lines, directional arrows, stop lines, fire lanes and other striping as may be required to insure safe and convenient traffic circulation. Such striping shall be in substantial conformance with the Uniform Manual on Traffic Control Devices.
F. Traffic Signs.
All parking areas shall provide traffic control signs and devices necessary to insure safe and convenient traffic circulation. Such devices shall be in substantial conformance with the Uniform Manual on Traffic Control Devices.
G. Curbing.
The perimeter of all parking areas and internal islands within all parking areas open to the general public shall have continuous cast in place concrete curbing in accordance with Section 8.10 of this chapter with a six (6) inch face or such alternate curb types as may be approved by the Planning Board at the time of site plan approval. The Planning Board may waive the requirement for curb in parking areas open only to employees, service vehicles or for loading and unloading, provided that drainage, vehicle control and safety can be properly accommodated by alternate means.
H. Paving.
All parking areas shall provide pavement in accordance with the requirements of local streets set forth in Section 8.22 of this Chapter, except as follows:
I. 1. Parking areas for less than fifty (50) cars which the Planning Board determines are not likely to be utilized by heavy truck traffic or drive-up window service, may be paved with two (2) inches of surface pavement, Mix I-5, over a four (4) inch stabilized bituminous base, Mix 1-2, all in accordance with the specifications contained in Section 8.22.
2. In parking areas for one hundred (100) or more cars, access drives and aisles, which the Planning Board determines are likely to be utilized by heavy trucks or unusually high traffic volumes, shall provide paving in accordance with the requirements for streets other than local streets set forth in Section 8.22 of this Chapter.
3. Parking areas in residential zones for uses other than single family dwellings may be located in any rear or side yard, but may not be located in any required front yard.
4. Where parking is permitted between the front building line and the street line, whether by this Chapter or variance, a safety island or raised median separating the public street from the parking area shall be provided in accordance with the following minimum requirements:
a. The width of the safety island shall be that width between the proposed curb line to a point eight (8) feet inside the properly line. When this width is less than eighteen (18) feet, the parking area shall be reduced to provide a minimum width for the safety island of eighteen (18) feet. All required tree and shrub plantings shall be placed on the on-site portion of the safety island.
b. When perpendicular or angled parking spaces abut the safety island, the stall depth shall be measured from a point two (2) feet outside the face of the curb for perpendicular spaces or angled spaces greater than sixty (60) degrees, and three (3) feet outside the face of the curb for sixty (60) degrees angle spaces. Such parking spaces shall be separated from access drives by curbed islands with a minimum width, of ten (10) feet.
c. Safety islands shall be landscaped, topsoiled and seeded, except that they may, as an alternative to seeding, be provided with cover or mulch of maintenance free materials which provide a clear and unmistakable distinction between the parking area and the safety island.
d. Notwithstanding the use of maintenance free materials, there shall be provided at least, one (1) desiduous tree two (2) inches in diameter at breast height every forty (40) feet, or part thereof, on all safety islands. A greater distance will be allowed for plantings is necessary for traffic safety. The area between trees shall be planted with a minimum of three (3) evergreen type shrubs. The portions of any safety island within twenty-five (25) feet of any access drive or street intersection shall be planted with evergreen shrubs less than thirty (30) inches in height. Alternate or additional plantings may be omitted by the Planning Board in accordance with an approved site plan.
e. No commercial signs, light stands or other aboveground obstructions other than plantings shall be permitted within ten (10) feet of the street right-of-way.
5. All required parking spaces and facilities shall be located on the same lot or parcel as the structure or use it shall serve. In the case of non-residential uses, parking facilities may be provided on other lots or parcels within a radius of three hundred (300) feet from the boundary of the lot containing the use to which said parking facilities are accessory, provided the said lots are in the same ownership as the lot containing the principal use and subject to deed restrictions binding the owner and his heirs, successors and assigns to maintain the required number of spaces available and required facilities throughout the life of such use.
6. Required parking spaces for the physically handicapped should be located to provide convenient access to building entrances by way of depressed curbs and ramps in accordance with State regulations.
a. Parking spaces for the physically handicapped shall be a minimum of twelve (12) feet in width and a minimum of sixteen (16) feet in width for van accessible and the number or spaces to be provided be determined by the following table:
Total Parking Minimum Number of
Spaces in Spaces to be Provided
Parking Area for Physically Handicapped up to 25 1 (van accessible)
26 to 50 2 (1 shall be van accessible)
51 to 75 3 (1 shall be van accessible)
76 to 100 4 (1 shall be van accessible) over 100 4 plus 1 for each 50 over 100 spaces (2 van accessible)
b. Where possible, such spaces shall be located so that persons in wheelchairs or using braces or crutches are not compelled to wheel or walk behind parked cars.
c. Lines designating the handicapped spaces shall be painted in blue paint, and a sign(s) shall be posted and maintained, said sign(s) to conform to regulations adopted by the Director of Motor Vehicles and/or be in conformance with NIS.A. 39:4-198.
d. All signing, pavement marking, depressed curbing and/or ramps shall be maintained in good and proper condition, including but not limited to the condition of required markings and signs which should remain distinctly visible at all times.
e. Any owner of premises required to provide handicapped parking stalls who fails to maintain stalls, curbing, signs, or markings in proper condition shall be subject to a fine of not less than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) nor more than Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00). Each date that an owner fails to satisfy the obligations of this Article shall constitute a separate violation.
J. Small Parking, Areas. Parking lots having fifty (50) or less spaces shall be designed to provide the following minimum design requirements.
1. A safety island where parking is permitted in the front yard area.
2. A five (5) foot unbroken landscaping strip along side and rear property lines. The five (5) foot landscaping strips shall have the same minimum planting requirements as safety islands, except that:
a. Where screening is required under this Chapter, the screening requirements shall take precedence.
b. Where the property abuts a lot zoned for non-residential purposes, but utilized for residential purposes, the Planning Board may also require screening.
3. Not more than one (1) two -way access drive or two (2) one-way access drives shall be permitted on any street.
4. Where possible, access drives shall not be located closer than one hundred (100) feet from the nearest right-of-way line of an intersecting street, or closer than twenty-five (25) feet to any side or rear property line.
5. No parking stall shall be located to require a vehicle to back into any portion of the right-of-way in order to enter or exit the parking stall.
6. All parking areas for ten (10) or more vehicles shall have artificial lighting that will provide a minimum lighting level of 0.5 horizontal foot candles throughout the parking area and access drives. Free standing light poles shall be no higher than the height of the highest principal building plus five (5) feet. Shielding shall be required where necessary to prevent glare upon adjacent properties or streets.
K. Large Parking Areas. Parking lots which have a capacity for parking more than fifty (50) vehicles shall incorporate the following minimum design standards:
1. All the minimum design standards for small parking areas.
2. All entrance drives shall extend a minimum distance of one hundred (100) feet back from the street curb line or to an access aisle.
3. All exit drives shall extend a minimum distance of sixty (60) feet back from the street curb or to a major access aisle.
4. No parking stalls shall utilize the required entrance and exit drives or major circulation drives as access aisles.
5. Wherever feasible, access drives located along one-way streets or divided highways shall be separate one-way drives. Said drives shall be located so that vehicles enter the parking area at the beginning of the property and exit at the far end of the property unless other considerations, such as a median opening, dictate otherwise.
6. Access drives shall not be located closer than one hundred (100) feet from the nearest right-of-way line of an intersecting street, except that for uses such as shopping centers, which in the opinion of the Planning Board will generate large traffic volumes, access drives shall not be located closer than two hundred (200) feet from the nearest right-of-way line of an intersecting street.
7. No driveway shall be located less than twenty-five (25) feet from the side property line or within fifty (50) feet of an existing drive, whichever is greater.
8. Properties having a frontage in excess of five hundred (500) feet on any one street shall be permitted two-way and one-way access drives providing for not more than two (2) entrance and two (2) exit movements on the street. Properties having a frontage in excess of one thousand (1,000) feet on any one street nay be permitted to have additional access drives subject to the approval of the Planning Board.
9. Where the Planning Board determines that the total number of off-street parking spaces required by this Chapter may not be immediately required for a particular use, it may permit a staged development plan, which requires that only a portion of the parking area, but not less than sixty-five (65%) percent of the required spaces, be completed initially, subject to the following regulations:
a. The site plan shall clearly indicate both that portion of the parking area to be initially paved and the total parking needed to provide the number of spaces required by this Chapter.
b. The site plan shall provide for adequate drainage of both the partial and total parking areas.
c. The portion of the parking area not to be paved initially shall be landscaped in accordance with Section 8.4, C of this Chapter.
d. The applicant shall post separate performance guarantees in addition to the performance guarantees required under Article VII of this Chapter which shall reflect the cost of installing the additional parking facilities necessary to provide the total number of parking spaces required.
e. In lieu of a permanent Certificate of Occupancy, a temporary Certificate of Occupancy shall be issued for a period of two (2) years. Prior to the expiration of the two (2) year period, the applicant may either (1) install the additional parking shown on the site plan and apply to the Construction Official for issuance of a permanent Certificate of Occupancy or (2) apply to the Planning Board after the use has been in operation a minimum of eighteen (18) months for a determination as to whether or not the initial parking area provided is adequate. If the Planning Board determines that the parking facility is adequate as originally constructed, the performance guarantees may be released and a permanent Certificate of Occupancy issued. If, however, the Planning Board determines that the partial off-street parking area, is not adequate, the applicant shall be required to install the additional parking facilities in accordance with the terms of the performance guarantees prior to issuance of a permanent Certificate of Occupancy.
f. Any change of use on a site for which the Planning Board may have approved a partial paving of off-street parking areas, to a use which requires more parking spaces than are provided on the site, shall require submission of a new site plan.
L. Parking Area Landscaping. Every parking lot with more than one hundred (100) spaces shall be divided as nearly as possible into smaller lots of fifty (50) spaces separated by landscaped dividing strips, excepting the area for access aisles. The plantings required within the parking area shall be considered exclusive from any other plantings that may be required for screening or safety island planting. All landscaping for dividing strips shall be shown as part of the detailed landscaping plan submission, where required. The following criteria shall apply for internal landscaped dividing strips:
1. They shall have a minimum width of ten (10) feet.
2. They shall be seeded and topsoiled. The use of maintenance free material other than seeding and topsoil may be permitted if the same provides a safe and attractive alternative.
3. Unless otherwise approved by the Planning. Board, they shall be planted with deciduous trees of two (2) inch diameter at breast height with a maximum distance between trees at ground level of forty (40) feet. All trees shall be planted in a dormant state and in accordance with the appropriate requirements of Section 8.4. The area between trees shall be planted with a minimum of three (3) evergreen type shrubs.
4. The depth of perpendicular or angled parking stalls, which abut a landscaped dividing strip, shall be measured from a point two (2) feet outside the face of the curb for perpendicular spaces or angled spaces greater than sixty (60) degrees and three (3) feet outside the face of the curb for sixty (60) degree angled spaces.
M. Retaining Walls and Embankment Slopes.
1. In the event that parking is proposed on a lot or site having a slope greater than ten (10%) percent, regardless of site, it shall be terraced, utilizing retaining walls or properly reinforced embankment slopes and providing for adequate safety, stability and drainage. At no time should an embankment slope that is not reinforced, or any other earthen material having a greater elevation than the adjacent parking area, have a slope exceeding a ratio of three to one (3:1).
2. When retaining walls, terraces, embankment slopes or similar types of earthen retaining devices are necessitated adjacent to or within the parking area, they shall be kept in good repair or otherwise maintained so as to keep the parking area free of debris and dirt.
N. Access to Adjoining Property No unrestricted vehicular access shall be permitted between adjacent properties. Vehicular access, if agreed upon by the owners or possessors of adjacent properties, or if required by the Planning Board, shall normally be limited to one (1) opening providing two (2) lanes of traffic and shall be located in such a manner as to offer continuity of a similar access drive on the adjacent property. The opening shall occur at a point having the greatest distance from the street line which would facilitate the joining of properties.
Access shall normally be denied across the remainder of the side lines by construction of a landscaped dividing strip, five (5) feet in width on the property being developed. If and when the adjacent property is developed, there shall be a similar dividing strip at least five (5) feet wide. All dividing strips shall be landscaped as provided in this section. The Planning Board may also require that provision be made for future connection to adjacent undeveloped properties.
O. Minimum Off-street Parking Spaces Required.
1. Automotive Repair Garage or Body Shop: one (1) parking space for each four hundred (400) square feet of gross floor area.
2. Automotive Sales and Service: one (1) parking space for each four hundred (400) square feet of gross floor area shall be provided for customer and employee parking. These areas shall be in addition to areas utilized for display and storage of vehicles. Site plans shall specify which parking spaces are designated for customers, employees, display and storage.
3. Automotive Service Station: five (5) parking spaces for each service bay, exclusive of vehicle service area. In no instance shall there be less than five (5) off-street parking spaces.
4. Banks, Savings and Loan Associations and Similar Financial Institutions: one (1) parking space for each two hundred (200) square feet of gross floor area.
5. Barber and Beauty Shop: three (3) parking spaces for each chair (if known) , but not less than one (1) parking space per two hundred (200) square feet of gross floor area.
6. Business Offices: one (1) parking space for each one hundred fifty (150) square feet of gross floor area.
7. Church, Temple or Chapel: one (1) parking space for each four (4) seats in the main congregation seating area. Where no individual seats are provided, twenty (20) inches of bench shall be considered as one (1) seat. Where seats or benches are not provided, or are provided only in a portion of the main congregation seating area, one (1) parking space for each fifty (50) square feet of floor area within the main congregation seating area.
8. Community Center, Library, Museum, Art Gallery: one (1) parking space for each two hundred (200) square feet of gross floor-area.
9. Community Club, Private Club, Lodge: one (1) parking space for each one hundred (100) square feet of gross floor area, plus one and one-half (1.5) spaces for each boat slip where applicable.
10. Meeting Rooms, Assembly or Exhibition Hall: one (1) parking space for each fifty (50) square feet of gross floor area.
11. Dwellings: two (2) parking spaces for each single family dwelling.
12. Dental or Medical Offices: one (1) parking space for each one hundred
(100) square feet of gross floor area, except that if located within a building housing three (3) or more separate, unassociated practioners the requirement shall be one (1) parking space for each one hundred fifty (150) square feet of gross floor area.
13. Farmers Market: One (1) parking space for each one thousand (1,000) square feet of land area in the site.
14. Furniture, Appliance Stores or Similar Types of Uses Requiring Large Amounts of Storage: one (1) parking space for each four hundred (400) square feet up to four thousand (4,000) square feet, plus one (1) parking space for each eight hundred (800) square feet of gross floor area above four thousand (4,000) square feet.
15. Government Office: to be determined by the Planning Board, except that governmental offices within privately owned buildings shall provide, a minimum of one (1) parking space for each one hundred fifty (150) square feet of gross floor area.
16. Hardware, Auto Supply Stores: one (1) parking space for each four hundred (400) square feet of gross floor area.
17. Laundromats or Similar Coin-operated Cleaning: one (1) parking space for each two hundred (200) square feet of gross floor area.
18. Manufacturing or Industrial Establishment, Research or Testing Laboratory, Bottling Plant or Similar Uses: one (1) parking space for each five hundred (500) square feet of gross floor area.
19. Professional Office: One (1) parking space for each two hundred (200) square feet of gross floor area.
20. Public and Private Utilities, Electrical Substation, Gas Regulator, Water Works. Pumping Station and Similar Facilities: to be determined by the Planning Board based on the specific need of the use.
21.Restaurant, Cafe, Diner: one (1) parking space for each fifty (50) square feet of gross floor area.
22.Recreation Facilities: those not specifically mentioned herein shall be determined by the Planning Board.
23.Residential: for all residential developments, parking shall be provided as set forth in the Residential Site Improvement Standards (RSIS), as set forth in Table 4.4.-Parking Requirements for Residential Land Uses.
24.Retail Stores, Except Otherwise Specified: one (1) parking space for each one hundred fifty (150) feet of gross floor area.
25.Studio: art, music, dance, gymnastics and similar for the purpose of giving instruction rather than shows or exhibitions: one (1) parking space for each one hundred (100) feet of gross floor area.
26. Schools:
a. Elementary: one (1) parking space for each eight (8) students based on design capacity.
b. High School: one (1) space for each three (3) students based on design capacity.
27. Nursery School, Day Camp or Similar Uses: one (1) parking space for each five hundred (500) square feet of gross floor area.
28.Shopping Centers: six (6) parking spaces for each one thousand (1,000) square feet of gross floor area.
29.Veterinary Clinics or Hospitals or Animal Care Facilities: one (1) parking space for each four hundred (400) square feet of gross floor area.
30.Warehouse, Wholesale, Machinery or Large Equipment Sales; one (1) parking space for each one thousand. five hundred (1,500) square feet of gross floor area, plus one (1) parking space for each vehicle used in connection with the business.
Criteria for Determining Required Parking Spaces. In computing the number or the above required parking spaces, the following rules shall govern:
1. Where fractional spaces result, the required, number shall be construed to be the nearest whole number.
2. The parking space requirements for a use not specifically mentioned herein shall be the sane as required for a use of similar nature as determined by the Planning Board based upon that use enumerated herein which is most similar to the proposed use. If there is no use enumerated herein having sufficient similarity to the use proposed to enable the Planning Board to establish rational parking requirements, the
Planning Board may, in its discretion, direct the applicant to furnish the
Planning Board with such data as may be necessary to enable the Planning
Board to establish rational parking requirements.
3. Nothing in the above requirements shall be construed to prevent the joint use of off-street parking facilities by two (2) or more uses on the same site, provided the total of such spaces shall not be less than the sum of the requirements for various individual uses computed separately by the above requirements.
4. No part of off-street parking required by a structure or use shall be included as part of an off-street parking requirement of another use unless substantial proof and assurances are presented and it is determined by the
Planning Board that the use of this parking will not be simultaneous.
