A.
All structures and land uses hereafter erected, enlarged,
moved, created, changed in intensity or substantially altered shall
be provided with the amount of off-street parking and loading space
required by the terms of this article to meet the needs of persons
occupying or using such structures or land. A permit for the erection,
replacement or substantial alteration of a structure or land use shall
not be issued unless off-street parking and loading facilities shall
have been provided in accordance with an approved site development
plan and the requirements set forth in this article, and such required
parking and loading facilities shall be completed before a certificate
of occupancy shall be issued.
B.
Required off-street parking facilities which, after
development, are later dedicated to and accepted by the Town shall
be deemed to continue to serve the users or structures for which they
were originally provided.
Structures and land uses in existence or for which building permits have been approved at the time of the adoption of this chapter or any amendment thereto shall not be subject to the parking or loading space requirements set forth in this article. However, any parking and loading facilities now existing to serve such structures or uses shall not be reduced below such requirements. In the case of an application proposing the enlargement or alteration of an existing development which would require less than a twenty-five-percent increase in the total number of off-street parking spaces in existence on the effective date of this chapter, the Planning Board may modify the requirements of § 240-96B, Dimensional requirements, and C, Landscaping, herein, as they apply to existing developed portions of the site if the Board determines that it would be unreasonable or inappropriate from the viewpoint of practicality or economics.
All off-street parking and loading spaces shall
be provided with unobstructed access. They shall be designed to prevent
the backing of any vehicle across the sidewalk or into a street, except
at locations specifically designed for such purposes where no reasonable
alternative is available and approval has been granted by the Planning
Board.
A.
Location. Required parking and loading spaces shall be provided upon
the same lot as the use or structure to which they are accessory,
except that off-street parking spaces required for structures or land
uses on two or more adjacent lots may be provided in a single common
facility on one or more of said lots, provided that a legal instrument,
satisfactory to the Town Attorney, assures the continued existence
of the parking facility to serve said structure or land uses as long
as they may exist. Such agreements shall also guarantee that upon
the termination of such joint use, each subsequent use of the premises
will provide off-street parking facilities for its own use in accordance
with all requirements of this article. Also, the Planning Board may
permit all or part of the required off-street parking spaces to be
located on any lot within 200 feet of the building if the Board determines
it is impractical to provide parking on the same lot with the building.
In no event shall such parking and loading spaces for a nonresidential
use be located in any residence district. Parking structures shall
comply with all height, setback and coverage requirements for principal
buildings in the district in which they are located. At the discretion
of the approval authority, 50% of the areas immediately adjacent to
gasoline pumps may be deemed to be required parking spaces.
[Amended 9-9-2013 by L.L. No. 13-2013]
B.
Dimensional requirements. All off-street parking facilities shall
comply with the following minimum dimensional requirements:
[Amended 1-25-1999 by L.L. No. 1-1999; 9-24-2001 by L.L. No.
5-2001; 3-24-2014 by L.L. No. 1-2014]
(1)
Standard parking lots and spaces. Except as otherwise set forth below,
all off-street parking spaces shall be at a ninety-degree angle and
at least nine feet in width and 18 feet in length, with a two-way,
twenty-four-foot wide maneuvering aisle. Curbs shall be kept to a
maximum height of six inches, and 1.5 feet of the required parking
space length shall be allowed to overhang islands, provided that there
is no interference with sidewalks or landscaping. Such bumper overhang
area shall be considered part of the parking space and shall not be
counted toward meeting minimum yard setbacks or perimeter buffer screening
area requirements. In this latter case, the paved length of the parking
space shall be 16.5 feet.
(2)
Employee and commuter parking. Employee and commuter parking spaces,
which are intended for long-term use with low turnover, may be reduced
to a minimum of 8.5 feet in width where permitted by the Planning
Board. For retail or service businesses or other similar types of
uses designed to attract the general public, such reduce-width employee
parking spaces shall not exceed 10% of the total required or provided
parking, whichever is less. All employee parking spaces shall be clearly
identified and limited in their use by appropriate location, signage
and/or pavement markings.
(3)
Handicapped-accessible parking spaces. Parking spaces for the handicapped
shall be at least eight feet in width and shall have an adjacent access
aisle at least eight feet in width or as otherwise required by the
New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code, as amended.
The minimum number of accessible spaces shall also be as required
by State Code. An eight-foot-wide access aisle may be shared by two
adjacent handicap parking spaces and shall be part of an accessible
route to the building or use which it is designed to serve. The minimum
vertical clearance for handicapped-accessible spaces and vehicular
access routes to and from such spaces shall be nine feet six inches
on the entry level of any parking structure and eight feet two inches
on all other levels. Such spaces shall be appropriately located and
clearly identified and limited in their use by appropriate signage
and pavement markings.
(4)
Shopping center parking. Shopping centers which exceed 100,000 square
feet of gross floor area shall be required to provide a minimum of
4.5 parking spaces for every 1,000 square feet of gross floor area.
(5)
Ninety-degree, angled and parallel parking. All parking spaces shall
be designed at a ninety-degree angle with a two-way maneuvering aisle
unless a different width or angle is permitted or required by the
Planning Board based upon the unique size, shape and/or function of
the parking facility. In those circumstances where the Planning Board
does permit parking at an angle other than 90°, circulation in
each maneuvering aisle shall be limited to one-way only. The following
is a table of minimum parking space and maneuvering aisle dimensions
(See also Parking Detail Figures 1, 2 and 3,[1] which graphically illustrate these requirements):
|
Parking Angle
(degrees)
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Parking Space Depth to Wall
(feet)
|
Parking Space Depth to Interlock
(feet)
|
Maneuvering Aisle Width
(feet)
|
Wall to Wall Double Parking Bay Dimension
(feet)
|
Interlock to Interlock Double Bay Dimension
(feet)
| |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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90°
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18.0
|
18.0
|
24.0
|
60.0
|
60.0
| |
|
75°
|
19.5
|
18.5
|
21.0
|
60.0
|
58.0
| |
|
60°
|
20.0
|
17.75
|
17.5
|
57.5
|
53.0
| |
|
45°
|
19.0
|
15.75
|
15.0
|
53.0
|
46.5
| |
|
0°
|
9.0
|
22.00
|
15.0
|
33.0
|
NA
|
[1]
Editor's Note: Said figures are included as attachments to
this chapter.
(6)
Compact car parking. In parking lots having 50 or more spaces, up
to 20% of the spaces may be compact car spaces. The compact car spaces
shall be grouped together and clearly designated with signage as compact
car parking only. For ninety-degree-angle parking, the minimum dimensions
of a compact car parking space shall be eight feet wide and 16 feet
long with a two-way, twenty-four-foot-wide maneuvering aisle. Curbs
shall be kept to a maximum height of six inches, and 1.0 foot of the
required parking space length may be allowed to overhang islands,
provided that there is no interference with sidewalks or landscaping.
In this case, the paved length of the parking space shall be 15 feet.
[Added 11-13-2019 by L.L.
No. 6-2019]
C.
Landscaping. It has been determined by the Wappinger Town Board that
large unbuffered expanses of parked, stored and/or displayed vehicles
represent an impairment to the visual environment of the Town. The
Town Board's purpose in promulgating the following provisions is to
minimize such impairment while balancing the rights of the business
community, private property owners and the general public. Therefore,
except for parking spaces accessory to a one-family dwelling, all
off-street parking areas shall be curbed and landscaped with appropriate
trees, shrubs and other plant materials and ground cover, as approved
by the Planning Board based upon consideration of the adequacy of
the proposed landscaping to assure the establishment of a safe, convenient
and attractive parking facility with a minimum amount of maintenance,
including plant care, snow plowing and the removal of leaves and other
debris.
[Amended 9-24-2001 by L.L. No. 5-2001; 7-29-2007 by L.L. No.
10-2007; 3-24-2014 by L.L. No. 1-2014]
(1)
The Planning Board shall also have the authority to require berming
and/or substantial year-round vegetative screening between parking
areas and the site's frontage(s) where the Board deems that such buffering
will not significantly adversely affect the ability of the public
to identify the location of the subject use and, in the case of motor
vehicle dealerships, where the Board deems that a sufficient display
of vehicles is achieved. Notwithstanding the sentence immediately
above, no obstruction to driver vision shall be erected or maintained
on any lot within the triangle formed by the street line of such lot,
the outer edge of the access driveway to the parking area and a line
drawn between points along such street line and access drive 30 feet
distant from their point of intersection.
(2)
In all off-street parking facilities which contain 25 or more parking
spaces, at least 10% of the total parking facility within the parking
perimeter, excluding areas occupied by parking structures, shall consist
of landscaped islands, as follows, except that the Planning Board
may waive or modify the requirement for good cause and in the interest
of good design where there are fewer than 50 parking spaces:
(a)
Landscaped islands shall be located at the ends of each parking
bay which contains 10 or more spaces, separating adjacent rows of
parking spaces at least every second parking bay and elsewhere as
determined appropriate by the Planning Board to properly guide vehicle
movement, to provide for plant growth and vehicle overhang, to provide
for pedestrian circulation and to otherwise help assure proper traffic
circulation, pedestrian safety and aesthetics. Such landscaped islands
and the plantings within them shall be designed and arranged so as
to provide vertical definition to major traffic circulation aisles,
entrances and exits; to safely channel internal traffic flow; to prevent
indiscriminate diagonal movement of vehicles; to provide cooling shade
and relief from the visual impact, monotony and heat of large expanses
of paved areas; and, where appropriate, to accommodate stormwater
management practices such as bioretention areas, swales and sand filters.
(b)
Unless modified by the Planning Board, the minimum width of
landscaped islands shall be six feet where located at the ends of
parking bays and eight feet where separating opposing rows of parking
spaces or adjacent to circulation aisles. All corners shall be rounded
with a curb radius of not less than three feet unless otherwise required
by the Planning Board.
(c)
The landscaping of off-street parking areas shall include at
least one shade tree of not less than three inches caliper for each
six parking spaces. Main traffic circulation aisles shall be emphasized
with such shade trees. Other landscaped islands may be planted with
flowering trees and/or other plantings, as appropriate. This is in
addition to ground cover, shrubs and hedges which are to be provided
where appropriate to serve their intended function while not interfering
with safe sight distance for pedestrians and vehicles.
(d)
The Planning Board may also permit nonlandscaped islands, if
appropriate for purposes such as pedestrian circulation, snow storage
and so forth. Such islands shall not be less than four feet in usable
width.
(3)
Parking structures. The Planning Board may require planters or similar
forms of landscaping to be provided on the top level of a parking
structure, in addition to any other landscaping which may be required
to screen the view of the structure itself.
(4)
Screening. In addition to buffer areas required pursuant to § 240-96C(2) above, all off-street parking and loading facilities shall also be attractively landscaped along their periphery. Such landscaped screening shall be a minimum of six feet in width, excluding permitted vehicle overhang areas. It shall consist of evergreen planting of such type, height, spacing and arrangement as, in the judgment of the Planning Board, will serve the intended function. The Planning Board may allow or require a landscaped berm, wall or fence of location, height, design and materials determined suitable by the Board to be substituted for or to supplement the required screen planting.
(5)
Species. New planting shall be composed of appropriate native species
and shall not incorporate invasive species.
D.
Grades, drainage, paving and marking. All required
parking facilities shall be graded, surfaced, drained and maintained
throughout the duration of its use to the satisfaction of the Zoning
Administrator to the extent necessary to avoid nuisances of dust,
erosion or excessive water flow across public ways or adjacent lands.
The maximum slope within a parking area shall not exceed 5%. In multifamily
residential developments and in nonresidential developments, the Planning
Board shall require the provision of suitable markings to indicate
individual parking spaces, maneuvering area, entrances and exits.
E.
Interconnection of off-street parking facilities.
In order to encourage safe and convenient traffic circulation, the
Planning Board may require the interconnection of parking areas via
access drives within and between adjacent lots. The Board shall require
written assurance and/or deed restrictions, satisfactory to the Town
Attorney, binding the owner and his heirs and assignees to permit
and maintain such internal access and circulation and inter-use of
parking facilities.
F.
Waiver of improvement. Where the Planning Board determines that less than the required number of parking spaces will satisfy the intent of this chapter, it may waive the initial improvement of up to 50% of the parking spaces required pursuant to § 240-97 herein. In all cases it shall be expressly demonstrated on the site plan that sufficient space remains for the provision of the total amount of off-street parking required and the site plan shall bear such designation. All such undeveloped parking space shall be used and maintained as additional landscaped grounds until required for parking. Written guaranties, satisfactory to the Town Attorney, shall be submitted by the applicant for the eventual improvement of any such spaces which may have been waived; these spaces must be constructed by the property owner within six months of the date of written notice to the property owner by the Planning Board that such spaces have been determined as necessary and must be constructed.
G.
Commercial
vehicles. Not more than one light-duty commercially registered vehicle
and one trailer may be parked or stored outdoors on any residentially
used or residentially zoned lot at any time. For the purposes of this
section, a "light-duty commercially registered vehicle" shall exclude
vehicles which exceed 9,500 pounds in registered gross vehicle weight.
The following expressly prohibited examples include but are not limited
to tractors, tractor-trailers, semitrailers, rollers, tractor and
truck cranes, power shovels, road-building machines, snowplows, road
sweepers, sand spreaders, trailers, excavators, tank trailers, tow
trucks and buses, and any other similar vehicle.
[Added 1-23-2012 by L.L. No. 3-2012; amended 4-27-2015 by L.L. No. 1-2015; 1-30-2017 by L.L. No. 1-2017[2]; 5-14-2018 by L.L.
No. 6-2018; 11-13-2019 by L.L. No. 6-2019]
[2]
Editor’s Note: This local law was adopted as a remedial
measure and also stated in Section 10 that any approvals issued under
L.L. No. 1-2015 after its effective date of 5-18-2015 shall be considered
valid notwithstanding the readoption of this law.
H.
In any 1-Family Residence District, no parking shall be permitted
between the front lot line and the principal building line, except
on a driveway.
[Added 9-9-2013 by L.L. No. 13-2013]
[Amended 7-19-2007 by L.L. No. 10-2007; 4-27-2015 by L.L. No. 1-2015; 1-30-2017 by L.L. No.
1-2017[1]]
A.
Except where otherwise modified by other provisions of this chapter, off-street parking spaces shall be provided as follows. Off-street parking spaces in excess of the minimum numbers specified below shall not be permitted. Reasonable and appropriate off-street parking requirements for structures and land uses which do not fall within the categories listed below or within the special standards of Article VIII shall be determined by the Planning Board. The Planning Board shall consider all factors entering into the parking needs of each such use or reuse of land or buildings and may, in the course of site plan or special permit review, reduce or increase the parking and loading requirements for such uses in an amount which it considers appropriate and in the best interest of the Town. In all cases, the Planning Board shall require appropriate safeguards for the provision of the required parking and loading facilities for uses for which standards exist.
B.
Notwithstanding Subsection A above, the Planning Board, at its sole discretion, may reduce the cumulative parking requirement in a mixed-use development, where it has been demonstrated to the Board that the proposed amount of parking will be adequate to serve the peak parking requirements of the development. In order to demonstrate this, the applicant shall provide a shared parking study prepared by an appropriate professional in accordance with accepted industry standards, such as that described in the latest edition of the Urban Land Institute's Shared Parking report, the Institute of Transportation Engineers' Shared Parking guidelines, or other approved procedures, which may be supplemented as appropriate by actual experience and studies of, or known to, the professional preparing the report. The study shall consider parking demand variations due to factors such as time of day, weekday versus weekend demand, monthly variations in parking demand, captive markets within the site and modal split, all of which affect when the peak accumulated parking demand would occur.
|
Use
|
Minimum Number of Off-Street Parking Spaces
|
|---|---|
|
1-family and 2-family dwellings
[Amended 6-27-2005 by L.L. No. 6-2005] |
2 for each dwelling unit, plus 1 for any accessory
apartment (associated with a 1-family dwelling)
|
|
Mobile home
|
2 for each dwelling unit
|
|
Multifamily dwelling
[Amended 9-10-2020 by L.L. No. 3-2020] |
1.5 for each dwelling unit, plus 0.5 for each
bedroom; in addition, the Planning Board may adjust the parking requirement
to account for such matters as a clubhouse or recreation area in a
multifamily development, garage parking (which could be turned into
storage space), driveways, and assigned parking spaces which cannot
be used in common, etc. Notwithstanding the above, this standard shall
not apply to multifamily developments existing as of September 30,
2020.
|
|
Professional office or home occupation permitted
in a residential district
|
2 in addition to spaces required for the residential
use, except that there shall be 4 for each medical or dental practitioner
in addition to spaces required for the residential use
|
|
Historic house tours, receptions and similar events, as per § 240-81.3
[Added 1-26-2009 by L.L. No. 2-2009] |
To be determined by the Planning Board and made a condition
of special permit approval
|
|
Rooming house or boardinghouse
[Amended 11-12-2013 by L.L. No. 14-2013] |
1 for each dwelling unit, efficiency unit or sleeping room
|
|
Place of worship, theater, auditorium, athletic
or other place of assembly
|
1 for each 4 seats or pew spaces or, in places
without field seats, 1 for each 100 square feet of gross floor area
used for public assembly
|
|
Hospital, nursing home, convalescent home or
home for the aged
|
1 for each 3 patient beds and 1 for each employee,
including medical, nursing and service staff
|
|
Golf and country club
|
1 for each 2 memberships
|
|
Bowling alley or other center of public amusement
|
5 for each bowling lane; all others, 1 per 100
square feet of gross floor area used for public amusement
|
|
Retail or service business
|
1 for each 150 square feet of gross floor area
on the ground floor and 1 for each 250 square feet of gross floor
area on other floors
|
|
Pawnshop
[Added 5-11-2009 by L.L. No. 5-2009] |
1 for each 150 square feet of gross floor area
|
|
Shopping centers greater than 100,000 square
feet of gross floor area
[Added 1-25-1999 by L.L. No. 1-1999;
amended 9-24-2001 by L.L. No. 5-2001] |
4.5 for each 1,000 square feet of gross floor
area
|
|
Restaurant
|
1 for each 3 seats or 1 space for each 100 square
feet of gross floor area, whichever is greater
|
|
Bar or restaurant-brewer
[Added 5-14-2018 by L.L.
No. 6-2018] |
1 space for each 3 patron seats or 1 space for each 50 square
feet of gross floor area, excluding kitchen and storage areas, whichever
is greater
|
|
Microbrewer or microdistiller
[Added 5-14-2018 by L.L.
No. 6-2018] |
1 space for each employee on the largest shift, plus 1 space
for each 3 patron sitting or standing spaces in any tasting room or
other visitor facility open to the general public
|
|
Office for business or professional use (other
than accessory to residential use)
|
1 for each 300 square feet of gross floor area
|
|
Banking office
|
10, plus 1 for each employee, plus 4 additional
spaces for each person in excess of 2 acting as tellers, including
waiting space for drive-in window or 1 for each 150 square feet of
gross floor area, whichever is less
|
|
Motel
|
1 for each guest sleeping room, plus 1 for each
2 employees, plus 1 for each permanent resident
|
|
Funeral home
|
1 per employee, plus 1 space per 50 square feet
of gross floor area in assembly rooms
|
|
Veterinary office
|
1 per employee, plus 1 space per 300 square
feet of gross floor area
|
|
Kennel or animal hospital
|
4 per doctor, plus 1 space per employee, but
in no case less than 1 per 400 square feet of gross floor area
|
|
Pet crematorium
[Added 10-27-2008 by L.L. No. 7-2008] |
1 per employee, plus 3 visitor parking spaces
|
|
Car washing establishment
|
10 per washing bay
|
|
Research or development laboratory
|
1 per employee, but not less than 1 per 600
square feet of gross floor area
|
|
Manufacturing or industrial use
|
1 per employee, but not less than 1 per 400
square feet of gross floor area
|
|
Wholesale, storage, utility or other similar
commercial use
|
1 per employee, but not less than 1 per 1,000
square feet of gross floor area
|
|
Congregate care facility
[Added 1-26-1998 by L.L. No. 1-1998] |
1 per every 3 beds, subject to the provisions of § 240-80
|
|
Research or development laboratory
[Added 3-28-2016 by L.L.
No. 1-2016] |
1 per employee, but not less than 1 per 600 square feet of gross
floor area
|
|
Medical or dental laboratory
[Added 3-28-2016 by L.L.
No. 1-2016] |
1 per employee, but not less than 1 per 600 square feet of gross
floor area
|
|
Health care office
[Added 3-28-2016 by L.L.
No. 1-2016] |
1 for each 300 square feet of gross floor area
|
|
Substance abuse clinic
[Added 3-28-2016 by L.L.
No. 1-2016] |
1 for each 150 square feet of gross floor area on ground floor
and 1 for each 250 square feet of gross floor area on other floors
|
|
Day-care center
[Added 5-14-2018 by L.L.
No. 6-2018] |
1 for each 250 square feet of gross floor area
|
[1]
Editor’s Note: This local law was adopted as a remedial
measure and also stated in Section 10 that any approvals issued under
L.L. No. 1-2015 after its effective date of 5-18-2015 shall be considered
valid notwithstanding the readoption of this law.
Required off-street parking facilities shall
be maintained as long as the use of structure exists which the facilities
are designed to serve. Required parking areas developed for specific
structures and uses shall be reserved at all times to those persons
who are employed at or make use of such structures and land uses,
except when dedicated to and accepted by the Town as public parking
areas.
Off-street loading and unloading facilities shall be located on the same site with the use to be served, except as provided in § 240-96A, and shall be provided as follows:
A.
Size. Each off-street loading space shall be at least
15 feet in width, at least 40 feet in length and at least 14 feet
in height, exclusive of access and turning areas, except that adjacent
loading spaces may be each 12 feet in width, except where delivery
service will be by tractor trailer, in which case the minimum length
shall be 60 feet and the minimum width shall be 14 feet.
B.
Required number of spaces.
(1)
For retail and/or service business establishments:
a minimum of one space for the first 6,000 square feet, plus one space
for each additional 8,000 square feet of gross floor area or major
part thereof, except that no berths shall be required for buildings
with a gross floor area of less than 5,000 square feet.
(2)
For office establishments: a minimum of one space
for the first 10,000 square feet of gross floor area, plus one space
for each additional 15,000 square of gross floor area or major part
thereof, except that no berths are required for buildings of less
than 5,000 square feet of gross floor area.
(3)
For office research establishments: a minimum of one
space for the first 8,000 square feet of gross floor area of building,
plus one space for each additional 10,000 square feet of gross floor
area or major part thereof.
(4)
For wholesale business, industry, storage, warehouses
and other commercial establishments: a minimum of one space for each
establishment, plus one space for each 8,000 square feet of gross
floor area or major part thereof.
(5)
Other uses which do not fall within the categories
listed above shall be determined by the Planning Board.
A.
General. For reasons of fire protection, on-site and off-site vehicular and pedestrian traffic safety, as well as to provide for possible future road widening or other improvements, all new driveways and sidewalk crossings entering onto any street shall comply with all requirements of these regulations and shall be subject to the approval of the Superintendent of Highways, except where such are part of a use subject to special permit or site development plan approval by the Planning Board, in accordance with Article VII and Article IX.
B.
Driveway grades.
(1)
One-family residences. The maximum grade for
any new driveway for a one-family dwelling shall be 12% except that
where it can be demonstrated to the satisfaction of the approving
authority that, because of practical difficulty or unreasonable hardship
affecting a particular property, the construction of a driveway shall
be permitted, provided the increase in driveway grade is the minimum
increase required and further provided that in no case shall such
driveway grade be permitted to exceed 15%. No driveway serving a single-family
dwelling shall have a grade in excess of 4% within 35 feet of the
center line of the traveled way of the street or within 10 feet of
the right-of-way line of the street, whichever distance is greater.
(2)
All other uses. The maximum grade for new driveways for uses other than one-family dwellings shall not exceed 7%, except that the approving authority shall have the same power to permit increased grades here as in § 240-100B(1) above, provided that such grades in no case exceed 10%. No driveway serving a use other than a single-family dwelling shall have a grade in excess of 3% within 50 feet of the center line of the traveled way of the street or within 25 feet of the property line of the street, whichever distance is greater. The Planning Board may require increased platform areas of this type in situations where, because of the nature of the proposed use, substantial traffic volumes are anticipated.
(3)
All positive grade driveways shall continue
at positive grade to the point of connection to the paved roadway
to prevent ponding.
[Added 8-5-2002 by L.L. No. 10-2002]
C.
Driveway alignment and location. Any driveway entering onto a street shall be located and aligned in such a way as to create the minimum possible traffic hazard. The platform portion of the driveway, as required by § 240-100B above, shall be aligned at approximately right angles at the street. Access to all off-street parking and loading facilities serving multifamily and nonresidence uses shall be not less than 20 feet in width and shall be connected to the street with a radius return at each comer of not less than 15 feet.
D.
Sight distance. Clear visibility shall be provided
in both directions at all exit points so that the driver of an automobile
stopped on the platform portion of any new driveway will have an unobstructed
view of the highway for a reasonable distance (commensurate with the
speed and volume of traffic on such highway) and so that the driver
of an automobile traveling on the highway shall have a similar view
of the automobile in the driveway.
E.
Driveways and access roads shall be so designed so
as to provide Fire Department apparatus access to within a distance
of 75 feet or less of the structure that may be called upon to be
protected, and such driveways and access roads shall be designed so
as to meet the following requirements:
[Amended 9-24-2001 by L.L. No. 5-2001; 8-5-2002 by L.L. No.
10-2002]
(1)
Driveways under 500 feet long shall have a minimum
width of 12 feet; driveways over 500 feet long shall have a minimum
width of 12 feet and, in addition, shall have a fifty-foot by twelve-foot
pull-off every 500 feet to accommodate a forty-foot-long piece of
fire-fighting apparatus.
(2)
The driveways shall have and maintain an overhead
clearance of 15 feet, free of any obstructions such as tree branches,
personal light poles, utility wires, etc.
(3)
The driveway base shall be sufficient to support
a thirty-ton fire-fighting apparatus.
(4)
No turns shall be of such a degree as to prevent
access of Fire Department apparatus.
