Township of Montclair, NJ Article XVII Off-Street Parking and Loading

§ 347-101 Off-street parking requirements.

[Amended 7-29-1980 by Ord. No. 80-44; 8-12-1980 by Ord. No. 80-47; 9-16-1980 by Ord. No. 80-54; 9-20-1988 by Ord. No. 88-58; 8-11-1992 by Ord. No. 92-28; 7-11-1995 by Ord. No. 95-27; 7-11-1995 by Ord. No. 95-28; 5-26-1998 by Ord. No. 98-17; 7-25-2000 by Ord. No. 00-45; 7-25-2006 by Ord. No. 06-43; 3-12-2013 by Ord. No. O-13-09; 6-21-2016 by Ord. No. O-16-018; 9-21-2021 by Ord. No. O-21-23]

Off-street parking shall be required for all new buildings, additions to buildings and conversions to a greater residential density or conversions to other uses which require more off-street parking in accordance with the following schedule.

Use	Minimum Number of Spaces
Amusement centers	1 per 50 square feet of gross floor area
Assisted living facility	1 parking space for every 3 beds, plus 1 parking space for each staff person on the maximum shift
Automobile service or repair station	6 off-street parking spaces for the first lift, wheel alignment pit or similar work area and an additional 3 spaces for each additional work area; for service stations also dispensing fuels, 1 additional space for every 2 pumps
Automotive sales	1 per 200 square feet of indoor sales, plus 1 per 1,000 square feet of outdoor sales area
Ballet or dance studios or martial arts schools	1 per 100 square feet of gross floor area
Banks	1 per 200 square feet of gross floor area
Bars and taverns	1 per 2 seats
Billiard or pool halls	2 per table
Bowling alleys	4 per lane
Club	1 for each 100 square feet of floor area available to members and guests
Commercial recreation centers	1 per 200 square feet of gross floor area
Drive-through banks	1 per 250 square feet of gross floor area
Educational play centers	1 per 200 square feet of gross floor area
Fast-food restaurants	1 per 2 seats
Funeral home	1 each per 10 square feet in main chapel or parlor
Furniture store	1 per 500 square feet of gross floor area
General or business or municipal or governmental office	1 per 250 square feet of gross floor area
Hotel, motel or rooming house	1 per guest room, except that this requirement may be reduced by the Planning Board where occupancy is totally or partially restricted to elderly or other persons without automobiles
Houses of worship	1 per 8 seats or each 16 feet of seating capacity if benches rather than seats are used
Medical offices	1 per 150 square feet of gross floor area
Multifamily dwelling, other than townhouses	New Jersey Residential Site Improvement Standards (R.S.I.S.) apply; provided, however, that, with the exception of multifamily dwellings created through conversions, not less than 1/3 of all such parking must be within a garage building and/or within the principal building or buildings
Nursing home	1 per every 3 beds, plus 1 per every 3 employees in the maximum work shift
One-family house	New Jersey Residential Site Improvement Standards (R.S.I.S.) apply; however, not more than 4 spaces
Professional offices	1 per 250 square feet of gross floor area
Restaurants and eating and drinking establishments	1 per 3 seats, plus 1 per 2 seats in lounge or bar areas
Retail trade, including bakeries	1 per 200 square feet of gross floor area
Senior citizen housing	1/2 parking space per dwelling unit
Service retail, including travel agencies	1 per 200 square feet of gross floor area
Sports or health clubs or gyms	1 per 200 square feet of gross floor area
Storage establishment	1 per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area
Theaters, including movie theaters	1 per 4 seats
Townhouses	New Jersey Residential Site Improvement Standards (R.S.I.S.) apply
Two-family house	New Jersey Residential Site Improvement Standards (R.S.I.S.) apply
Vehicle rental business	1 per rental vehicle on site
Vocational, technical or business school	1 per 100 square feet of gross floor area
Warehousing, wholesaling and manufacturing	1 per 750 square feet of gross floor area
Uses not listed above	According to that category which most nearly approximates that use
More than 1 use on the premises	The sum of the component requirements

§ 347-102 Design of parking spaces and access.

A. Required garages and parking areas and spaces shall be paved with either a hard-surface pavement or a pervious paving system, as detailed in the latest edition of the New Jersey Stormwater Best Management Practices Manual, and shall be accessible from similarly paved areas (herein called "aisles") which must be connected directly or by means of a similarly paved driveway to a public street. Any driveway used as an aisle must satisfy the aisle width requirements. All such paving shall be drained and properly maintained.

[Amended 11-26-2002 by Ord. No. 02-52; 2-7-2023 by Ord. No. O-22-23]

B. Each required parking space for one- and two-family dwellings shall consist of a rectangular area having dimensions no less than nine feet by 19 feet and a gradient of not over 6%. Dimensions for other uses shall be as provided in § 281-9 of the Code of the Township of Montclair.

[Amended 1-4-1983 by Ord. No. 82-52]

C. Driveways shall have a minimum width of 10 feet and a maximum gradient of 10% within 20 feet of the property line.

[Amended 1-4-1983 by Ord. No. 82-52[1] ]

[1] Editor's Note: This ordinance also provided for the repeal of former Subsections D, E and F, dealing with the grade, length and width of required parking and aisles, which immediately followed this subsection.

§ 347-102.1 Mechanical parking stackers.

[Added 9-21-2021 by Ord. No. O-21-23]

A. Mechanical stackers are discouraged and shall not be permitted to count toward the minimum number of required parking spaces.

B. Mechanical parking stackers may be permitted only with site plan approval.

C. Mechanical parking stackers located outside shall comply with all principal building setback requirements and be fully screened from public view, both from public rights-of-way and adjacent properties.

D. Mechanical parking stackers located within a building must ensure that the exterior facade of the area containing the units is not visually distorted from the norm and the exterior facade is consistent with other portions of the building facade to the satisfaction of the approving Board.

§ 347-103 Off-street loading.

Off-street loading space shall be provided for all business and industrial uses, except that for office buildings and other situations where off-street loading would not be practical, where determined by the Planning Board, loading at the curb may be permitted.

§ 347-104 Parking area and driveway setbacks.

[Amended 1-4-1983 by Ord. No. 82-52; 2-21-1984 by Ord. No. 84-8; 9-12-2005 by Ord. No. 05-34]

All off-street parking areas shall be set back a minimum distance of four feet from property lines, with the intervening space appropriately landscaped. All driveways shall be set back a minimum distance of one foot from property lines.