[Amended 7-18-2005 by Ord. No. 05-14]
Parking spaces, off-street parking areas or off-street loading
spaces shall be provided for any principal building or other structure
erected or constructed upon a lot or for any lot or area of land put
into use after the date of the enactment of this Part 3 in accordance
with the following provisions:
A.
General design standards.
(1)
All
single-family detached homes shall contain a garage.
[Added 1-17-2012 by Ord.
No. 12-01]
(2)
Each parking space, as hereinbefore defined, shall have the
minimum dimensions of nine feet by 18 feet, except that, for retail
business and personal service uses, the minimum dimensions shall be
10 feet by 20 feet.
(3)
For the purpose of determining the land requirement of an off-street parking area, as hereinbefore defined, each parking space to be provided in accordance with the parking schedule, § 195-142, or as recommended by the Planning Board, pursuant to § 195-148, shall be allotted not less than 350 square feet of area, which shall be sufficient to include the area or the parking space plus area to be devoted to interior drives, backup areas or turning areas. In addition, sufficient entrance and exit driveways shall be provided.
(4)
All off-street parking areas shall be separated from sidewalks,
streets or alleys by curbing, except at entrances and exits, and all
such sidewalks, streets or alleys shall be protected from vehicular
overhang by wheel bumpers, curbs, planted strips, walls, fences or
other appropriate method where the yard depth for accessory uses is
not sufficient to accomplish this purpose. Curbing may be designed
as flush curbing when being incorporated into a stormwater management
scheme utilizing natural vegetation or grassed swales.
(5)
Entrance and exit driveways to and from all off-street parking
areas shall be at least 12 feet in width to allow for free one-way
movement, and at least 22 feet in width for two-way movement, provided
that two-way entrances and exits shall be no wider than 28 feet in
width. Whenever possible, one-way movement should be provided for
all entrance and exit driveways, as well as interior driveways.
(6)
Wherever practicable and not prohibited in this Part 3, access
to off-street parking areas shall be gained from local streets or
service streets rather than from streets designated on the Comprehensive
Master Plan as arterial streets.
(7)
No required off-street parking shall be encroached upon by buildings,
other structures, open storage areas or other uses.
(8)
No layout of an off-street parking area shall be acceptable
if such layout would require vehicles to back out onto a street to
exit from such off-street parking or loading area.
(9)
When any land or building is used for two or more purposes,
the number of parking spaces required shall be the sum of the requirements
for the various individual uses, computed separately in accordance
with this article. Parking spaces for one use shall not be considered
as providing the required parking spaces for any other use.
(10)
Requirements for the provision of parking facilities with respect
to two or more property uses of the same or different types may be
satisfied by the permanent allocation of the requisite number of spaces
for each use in a common off-street parking area, cooperatively established
and operated, provided that the total number of spaces designated
is not less than the sum of the individual requirements.
(11)
All public garages or roof space allocated for the parking of
vehicles shall be considered part of the required off-street parking
area.
(12)
When off-street parking areas shall be used at night, they shall
be adequately lighted. Such lighting shall be installed and maintained
in a manner not to reflect or cause glare into abutting or facing
residential properties.
(13)
All parking or loading space surfaces shall be paved in accordance
with Township standards.
(14)
Required off-street parking spaces may be provided on a nearby
lot, provided that the distance between the parking lot and the entrance
to the use it serves shall not exceed 200 feet.
(15)
In residential zones, R-150, R-100, R-75, R-60, and R-A, off-street parking shall be prohibited for all commercially registered vehicles whose empty gross weight, as defined in § 347-30, exceeds 6,500 pounds and for all commercially registered vehicles whose loaded gross weight, as defined in § 347-30, exceeds 8,000 pounds, other than those vehicles temporarily parked for the purpose of making deliveries.
[Amended 7-18-2005 by Ord. No. 05-14]
A.
Off-street parking shall be provided in accordance with the following
schedule:[1]
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Use
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Minimum Spaces
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|---|---|---|
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Business and professional offices, banks
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1 per 200 square feet of gross floor area
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Civic or fraternal organizations, libraries
|
1 per 100 square feet of gross floor area
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|
Commercial recreation facilities, such as bowling alleys and
health clubs
|
1 per 150 square feet of gross floor area
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|
Dwellings, one- and two-family
|
2 per unit; a paved private driveway and private garage space
shall be considered as fulfilling the dwelling requirement
| |
|
Dwellings, townhouse and multifamily
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2 per unit
| |
|
Educational institutions
|
1.5 parking spaces per staff member or employee
| |
|
Funeral homes
|
1 per each 10 square feet in main chapel or parlor
| |
|
Furniture stores
|
1 per 500 square feet of gross floor area, plus 1 per employee
| |
|
Gasoline filling stations
|
2 per each grease bay or similar service area located within
a building, plus 1 per employee on duty, minimum 5; this requirement
shall be in addition to the paved area to be provided adjacent to
gasoline pumps where temporarily standing vehicles are being serviced
| |
|
Hospitals
|
2 per bed
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|
Hotels, motels, rooming houses
|
1 per guest room and 1 per 1.5 employees
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|
Manufacturing plants
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1 per 200 square feet of gross floor area (or 1 per 1.5 employees)
| |
|
Medical or dental clinics
|
1 per 100 square feet of gross floor area
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|
Nursing homes
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1 per bed
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|
Personal service businesses
|
1 per 250 square feet of gross floor area
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|
Places of assembly, including churches and theaters
|
1 per 4 seats in the auditorium or, in the case of churches
with classrooms, 1 per 4 seats in classroom, if this is a larger number
than required for the auditorium
| |
|
Professional offices
|
1 parking space per employee, plus for the office of a physician,
doctor or dentist, 5 spaces for each practitioner on the premises
| |
|
Restaurants
|
1 per 50 square feet of gross floor area
| |
|
Retail businesses
|
1 per 150 square feet of gross floor area
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|
Service or repair garages
|
Minimum of 8 spaces
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|
Warehouses, wholesaling operations
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1 per 750 square feet of gross floor area (or 1 per 1.5 employees)
|
B.
If it can be shown that a particular applicant can demonstrate that
fewer spaces would be required and that an area can be set aside for
additional spaces if necessary, the number of spaces required herein
can be reduced by up to 20% of the required spaces.
A.
Off-street
parking shall be prohibited for all commercial registered vehicles
larger than 8,000 pounds, other than those parked temporarily for
the purpose of making deliveries, in the following residential zones
within the Township: R-60, R-75, R-100, R-150 and R-A.
B.
Parking and/or storage of all recreational vehicles, including boats,
trailers, campers, and other vehicles used or intended for recreational
purposes, on private driveways is prohibited in the R-60, R-75, R-100,
R-150 and R-A, unless the said recreational vehicle, as defined hereinabove,
is parked on the owner's private driveway at least 15 feet distant
from the curbline and six feet distant from the adjoining property
owner's side yard.
[Added 7-16-2018 by Ord.
No. 18-18]
A.
An off-street loading space shall have minimum dimensions of 12 feet
by 25 feet for standard two-axle commercial vehicles and 14 feet by
50 feet for standard three-or-more-axle vehicles. A minimum clear
height of 14 feet shall be required.
B.
Off-street loading spaces for commercial and industrial uses shall
be provided in accordance with the following:
|
Floor Area Devoted to Use
(square feet)
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Number of Spaces Required
| |
|---|---|---|
|
5,000 to 30,000
|
1
| |
|
30,000 to 70,000
|
2
| |
|
70,000 to 120,000
|
3
| |
|
Each additional 60,000
|
1
|
[Amended 7-18-2005 by Ord. No. 05-14]
A.
All off-street parking areas with provision for more than five vehicles,
or establishments with more than two loading bays or spaces for the
temporary parking of commercial vehicles, shall be effectively screened
on each side which adjoins or faces a residential district or an institutional
premises, except that such screening shall not be required where the
parking or loading area is already effectively screened by a natural
terrain feature or a street classified in the major street portion
of the Comprehensive Master Plan as a major arterial street requiring
a right-of-way of 80 feet or more.
B.
Such screening shall be a solid wall or a solid fence, not less than
five feet in height, together with a three-foot planting strip on
the outside of such wall or fence, planted in shrubs and evergreens.
In lieu of such wall, fence and planting strip, a compact evergreen
hedge of not less than three feet in height at the time of planting
may be used. The fence, wall, planting strip or hedge shall be maintained
in good condition, and no advertising shall be placed thereon. Where
appropriate, native vegetation should be favored over types of ground
cover that may require fertilizers to sustain a hearty life.
C.
The screening shall be so designed that vehicle sight distance shall
not be affected by entrances, exits and street intersections. Where
an off-street parking area abuts or adjoins another, a five-foot-wide
planting strip, maintained in good condition, may be used in lieu
of the required screening. Separation in impervious areas with the
use of vegetative strips of land is encouraged to minimize runoff
and to enhance water quality.
A.
Any portion of any entrance or exit driveway shall not be any closer
than 20 feet to the curbline of an intersecting street.
B.
Any two driveways leading from a street to a single lot shall not
be within 30 feet of each other at their intersections with the front
lot line for an interior lot and 40 feet for a corner lot.
C.
No lot shall have more than two driveway entrances or exits along
the same street. Not more than one such driveway shall be provided
unless traffic circulation on the site and to and from the street
will be facilitated.
D.
In the CG and I Districts, no vehicle entrance or exit to or from
any lot used for commercial or industrial purposes shall be permitted
to or from any local street where such street serves abutting properties
in any adjacent residential district.
E.
Requiring the installation of traffic control signs on manners of
ingress or egress to commercial properties.
(1)
Any application for development which is presented to the Board
of Adjustment or the Planning Board of the Township of Clark for commercial
property of whatsoever nature and which provides for ingress and egress
shall have been determined by the Planning Board or Board of Adjustment
to be one way only, shall be signed accordingly, prior to the issuance
of a final certificate of occupancy, and the owners of the property
shall, as a condition of issuance of a certificate of occupancy and
of final approval by any Board, be required to grant to the Township
of Clark the authority to approve all motor vehicle laws and regulations
on the property.
(2)
All signs and traffic control devices required hereunder shall
be in accord with and shall be of a design and construction as provided
for in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, current edition,
which is incorporated herein by reference.
[Amended 1-17-2012 by Ord. No. 12-01]
A.
No application for a building permit or certificate of occupancy
for a building or use in any district shall be approved unless there
is included within the plot plan for such building or use a plan showing
the required space designated for off-street parking or loading purposes
to be provided as accessory uses to such building or use and in accordance
with the provisions of this article.
B.
The design and layout of any off-street parking area, hereinbefore
defined as having spaces for five or more automobiles, and loading
areas in which two or more spaces are required shall be reviewed by
the Planning Board with respect to the adequacy of such areas to serve
the principal use of the lot and the layout and design of exits and
entrances to such areas with respect to the ease of traffic movement
in and out of such off-street areas. The plot plan of the lot shall
show in detail the location and extent of such off-street areas; the
locations and types of screening provided; the layout of parking and
loading spaces, driveways and other maneuvering areas; and other requirements
of this Part 3.
