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Township of Mansfield, NJ
Warren County
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Provision shall be made for at least two off-street parking spaces for each single-family dwelling unit hereafter erected. Garages provided for use by the dwelling unit shall be located on the same lot as the dwelling unit.
All family-dwelling uses permitted by the zoning chapter shall provide, as a minimum, the number of off-street parking spaces specified in this article. When computation of the number of required parking spaces based upon this schedule results in a fraction, such fraction shall be resolved to the next highest whole number. Where more than one use is involved, the total requirement shall be the sum of the requirements of the component uses computed separately.
A. 
Number of spaces. Unless specifically noted, off-street parking spaces shall be provided in accordance with the following schedule:
Code
Requirements
A
1 space for each 50 square feet of gross floor area
B
1 space for each 150 square feet of gross floor area
C
1 space for each 200 square feet of gross floor area
D
1 space for each 250 square feet of gross floor area
E
1 space for each 300 square feet of gross floor area
F
1 space for each 500 square feet of gross floor area
G
1 space for each 1,500 square feet of lot area
B. 
Schedule of parking requirements.
[Amended 8-8-2001 by Ord. No. 2001-15; 11-10-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-16]
Use
Parking Spaces Required
Special Requirements, if any
Advertising agencies
E
Alcoholic beverage retail sales
D
Appliance retail sales
E
Art galleries
E
Art or ceramic school
D
Auditoriums
1 space for every 3 seats
Auto supplies, parts and accessories
E
Automotive body and paint shops
C
Automotive laundry or car wash
E
Plus 20 stacking spaces
Automotive repair
C
Automotive sales and rentals, new or used
F
In addition to parking required for display
Banks
D
5 minimum plus 3 stacking per drive-up window
Banquet facilities
B
Or 1 space for every 3 seats permitted by code, whichever is greater
Barbershop
3 per chair
Beauty and cosmetic shop
5 per chair
Blueprinting and photostating sales and service
C
Book, periodical, newspaper sales
C
Bowling alleys
6 spaces per alley
Broadcasting studios and offices
E
Business and factory maintenance firms
D
Business offices
D
Business services office
Business school
C
Building materials sales
G
Butcher shop or meat market
C
Cafeterias
B
Carpet and rug retail sales
F
Plus 1 per employee
Caterers
E
Churches/temples
1 space each 4 seats or 1 space each 400 square feet gross floor area, whichever yields a greater number of spaces
Cleaner or launderer
D
Clinic, medical and offices, outpatient
B
Clubs and lodges
B
Cocktail lounges
B
Costume rental
D
Credit union office
D
Counter service food establishments
A
5 minimum
Dairy bars
A
Delivery services
E
Dentist's office
C
Diners and restaurants
B
Or 1 every 3 seats, whichever yields a greater number of spaces
Display equipment materials sales
E
Doctor's office
B
5 minimum
Drive-in establishments not specified herein
A
Dance school
C
Eating and drinking establishments
B
Finance companies
E
Florists, wholesale
F
Food products retail sales
B
Fraternal organizations, lodges and other private clubs
B
Funeral homes or mortuary
B
Gasoline service station
E
Garden and landscape supplies
G
Garden apartments and townhouses
1.5 spaces per dwelling unit plus 0.5 spaces per bedroom
General office buildings
C
Grocery
B
Hardware, retail sales
C
Heating and plumbing supplies
E
Hi-fi, radio and TV sales and repairs
C
Home improvement supplies
D
Home occupation or home professional office
D
2 may be permitted on street in front of premises
Hospitals
F
Ice cream shops
A
Indoor theater
2 for each 2 seats
Industrial equipment sales and service
E
Industrial establishments
1.5 spaces for each employee on the maximum work shift or 1 space for each 400 square feet of gross floor area, whichever yields a greater number of spaces
Interior decorating establishment
F
Kitchen equipment retail sales
F
Laboratory and research facilities
E
Laundry and dry cleaning, self-service
C
Lawn maintenance service office
E
Leather goods or luggage
D
Library
E
Locksmith
E
Lumberyard
G
Luncheonette
B
Major appliance sales
F
Management consultant offices
E
Manufacturing establishments
1.5 spaces for each employee on the maximum work shift or 1 space for each 400 square feet of gross floor area, whichever yields a greater number of spaces
Medical clinics and offices, outpatient
B
Monument and tombstone sales
G
Motels and hotels
1 space for each unit plus 1 for each employee
Music school
E
Nursery and supply sales, retail
E
Nursery schools
3 per classroom
Office fixtures and furnishings sales and equipment
E
Office, business and professional
C
Office, general
C
Office, services
C
Optometrist's office
C
Physician's office
B
Professional offices other than medical
D
Professional schools
D
Public service offices
C
Public utilities office
C
Photographic studio
D
Physical culture or health establishment
D
Post office
C
Printing establishments
E
Public facilities
E
Quarry operations
1 for each employee plus 10 visitors
Reducing salon
D
Refreshment stands
A
Retail sales, except as specifically listed
C
Sandwich shop
B
Schools, other than mentioned
E
Snack bar
A
Seed and garden supplies
E
Shoe and hat repair
D
Social service organization offices
E
Swim clubs
G
Swimming pools and related equipment sales
G
Taverns and inns
B
Telephone answering service office
E
Tire shops
E
Trailer and mobile home sales and rentals
G
Taxicab dispatch office
E
Plus 1 per taxicab
Telephone and telegraph office
E
Television, radio and phonograph sales
E
Travel bureau office
D
Trucks and truck body sales
G
Truck terminals
1 for each employee
Veterinary hospitals and kennels
D
Warehousing
1.5 spaces for each employee on the maximum work shift or 1 space for each 800 square feet of gross floor area.
(1) 
Uses related or similar to one of the above uses shall provide adequate off-street parking in accordance with the above standards. For any uses not listed there shall be minimum off-street parking requirements as listed in Code C above.
(2) 
The listing of any use in this subsection shall not be construed as permission for such a use unless expressly permitted by Chapter 363, Zoning.
C. 
Multiuse requirements. Any building containing more than one use shall meet the combined parking space requirements for all uses in the building. Any change in use within a building shall be required to meet the minimum parking requirements for the new use.
D. 
Waiver of improvement. If it can be clearly demonstrated that because of the peculiar nature of any use, all of the required parking is not necessary, the Board may permit a reduction in the amount of parking area to be paved; provided that the entire required parking area shall be shown on the site plan so that it will be available in the event that future conditions should so require. The area to be reserved shall be properly graded and drained. The Board may require partial or complete enlargement up to these standards as conditions indicate such enlargement is warranted, and upon failure to comply with the request of the Board within 120 days, the certificate of occupancy shall be revoked.
For any buildings or premises used for commercial or industrial purposes, indoor or outdoor space for loading and unloading of goods and materials shall be provided on the premises whenever the aggregate floor area used for such purposes is 4,000 square feet or more, in accordance with the following schedule:
A. 
Four thousand feet to 20,000 square feet, one space.
B. 
Twenty thousand feet to 40,000 square feet, two spaces.
C. 
Over 40,000 square feet, three spaces.
A. 
Off-street parking facilities shall be located on the same tract with the principal building.
B. 
Off-street parking facilities shall be graded, paved or graveled, drained and maintained by the owners; such facilities shall be arranged for convenient access and for safety of pedestrians and vehicles. In the interest of safety, such facilities shall have adequate means of ingress to and egress from a street.
C. 
Driveway areas may be used for the required parking spaces, provided that the portion of the driveway area within the street right-of-way shall not be included therein.
D. 
Driveways shall be at least eight feet in width.
E. 
No driveway shall be constructed to enter onto a roadway within 25 feet of the end of an intersection curb radius.
All other off-street parking and loading areas except non-retail agricultural uses shall meet the following requirements:
A. 
All parking areas shall be curbed with concrete or granite block curbing which shall conform to current Township standards.
(1) 
In parking areas with 50 or fewer parking spaces, the Board may waive the curbing requirement, provided the following conditions are met:
(a) 
All access roads and driveways shall be curbed as provided above.
(b) 
A method of prohibiting automobiles from driving off the edge of the pavement shall be provided.
(c) 
Curbing shall not be required for the control and channelization of traffic nor for the control or management of stormwater.
(2) 
Alternatively, except along access roads and driveways, the Board may permit the substitution of bituminous concrete curbing, complying with current Township standards, for concrete or granite block curbing in parking areas having fewer than 50 parking spaces.
B. 
All parking areas shall be paved. Paving shall consist of the following:
Pavement Course
Material
Thickness
Alternative 1
(inches)
Alternative 2
(inches)
Surface
Bituminous Concrete Surface Course, Mix I-5
2
1 1/2
Base
Bituminous Stabilized Base Course, Mix I-2
4
3
Subbase
Dense Graded Aggregate Base Course
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4
(1) 
Those areas of a commercial or industrial site which are not accessible to the traveling public's or employees' automobiles and which are not utilized for loading or unloading need not be paved in accordance with the above specifications, provided that the parking area meets the following requirements:
(a) 
The area shall be fenced to provide controlled access prohibiting entrance of the traveling public's or employees' automobiles.
(b) 
The area shall have adequate pavement to effectively prohibit tracking of mud, dirt or other foreign material onto the public road system.
(c) 
The area shall have adequate pavement to eliminate the production of dust.
C. 
All parking and loading areas shall be graded, drained, delineated, lighted and have adequate ingress, egress and traffic circulation.
D. 
The off-street parking area shall be screened pursuant to this chapter on any side which adjoins or faces premises situated in any residential zone. Where parking is located in a front yard, the Board may require construction of landscaped berms. Where two parking lots adjoin, a buffer strip totaling 20 feet in width shall be provided which shall be unbroken except as approved by the Board.
E. 
Except as hereinafter provided, off-street parking as necessary to any use shall be provided on the same lot with the use.
F. 
Off-street parking areas shall be used solely for the parking of passenger automobiles, and no commercial repair work or service of any kind shall be conducted on the parking lot, nor shall such lots be used for the parking of disabled, dismantled, inoperable or unregistered vehicles.
G. 
No signs other than "entrance," "exit" or conditions of use signs shall be erected or maintained.
H. 
Location requirements; parking lots on adjoining tracts.
(1) 
Unless otherwise provided by this chapter, parking areas shall be located at least 10 feet from any property line or six feet from the nearest structural wall of a building, except that in the B-2, B-3 and I zones, off-street parking and other paved areas shall meet the following minimum distance requirements:
(a) 
Twenty-five feet from a street.
(b) 
Twenty-five feet from a property line.
(c) 
Fifty feet from a residential zone boundary.
(2) 
Parking lots on two adjoining tracts shall be interconnected by a driveway or driveways at least 25 feet in width, which shall be spaced not less than 200 feet nor more than 500 feet apart. Provision shall be made on all properties for these drives, whether or not the adjoining tract is developed.
I. 
Service aisles.
(1) 
All parking areas shall be designed with service aisles to meet the following standards:
(a) 
Parallel parking for one-way traffic, twelve-foot aisle width.
(b) 
Thirty-degree-angle parking, one-way traffic, twelve-foot aisle width.
(c) 
Forty-five-degree angle parking, one-way traffic, fourteen-foot aisle width.
(d) 
Sixty-degree-angle parking, one-way traffic, seventeen-foot aisle width.
(e) 
Ninety-degree-angle parking, two-way traffic, twenty-five-foot aisle width.
(2) 
In addition, there shall be a minimum distance between parallel parking spaces of three feet when found necessary to provide for convenient access.
J. 
A parking space for one passenger automobile shall accommodate an inscribed rectangle having a minimum length of 20 feet and a minimum width of 10 feet, except that parking lots exclusively for the use of employees may have a stall width of nine feet. Parking spaces abutting a curb need only be 18 feet in length, provided that a two-foot clear area, in addition to any required sidewalk, shall be maintained behind the curb.
K. 
All portions of the property not used for off-street parking shall be attractively landscaped or contain pedestrian walkways.
L. 
An off-street loading berth shall be at least 55 feet long, 12 feet wide and 14 feet high, not including driveways or entrances and exits, maneuvering areas or loading platforms.
M. 
Off-street parking areas which provide parking for 10 or more vehicles shall be provided with shade trees of a type approved by the Board. The shade trees shall be located in curbed islands in a planned manner within the parking lot area, in quantity equal to one shade tree for every 10 parking spaces. Trees required in parking lots shall be in addition to any other required trees and landscaping and shall be in accordance with the provisions of § 361-83B and C.
[Amended 8-8-2001 by Ord. No. 2001-16]
N. 
No more than two curb openings on any one lot frontage of 1,500 feet or less shall be permitted, except that for a lot frontage over 1,500 feet, one additional opening shall be allowed for each additional 750 feet or less. Curb openings shall not be located within 200 feet of another curb opening located on the same lot or on the opposite side of the street unless the curb openings are not offset.
O. 
Parking lots providing in excess of 50 parking spaces shall meet the following requirements:
(1) 
Driveways shall be separated from parking stalls and aisles by raised curbed islands which shall be a minimum of five feet wide.
(2) 
In every fifth row of parking, the opposing stalls shall be separated by raised curb islands which shall be a minimum of four feet wide.
(3) 
At least one tree shall be planted within each island required herein.
(4) 
All islands required herein shall be landscaped and stabilized with grass, decorative stone or other suitable material.