Compliance required. Off-street parking and loading spaces shall
comply with the regulations set forth in this chapter.
A.
The Superintendent of Buildings shall determine the amount of off-street
parking and loading spaces and the size and location thereof. Subject
to the approval of the Board of Trustees, the Superintendent of Buildings
shall determine the design of off-street parking and loading spaces
and the means of ingress and egress for the same. The Board of Trustees
may require such screening of off-street parking and loading spaces
as it may find to be necessary in order to prevent detriment to neighboring
property or annoyance to the occupants thereof.
B.
No use shall be maintained in the Village unless off-street parking
spaces as specified in the Schedule of Minimum Spaces Required in
this article are provided and a parking plan has been approved by
the Board of Trustees. For any premises where there are multiple uses,
the number of required parking spaces shall be the sum of the requirements
for all uses thereat.
C.
No building, or part thereof, shall be expanded or altered so as
to increase the gross floor area, or change the use thereof, unless
off-street parking, as specified in the Schedule of Minimum Spaces
Required shall be provided, and a parking plan has been approved by
the Board of Trustees.
D.
No parking of vehicles shall be permitted on lawns or sidewalk areas
nor, as to multifamily developments, in fire lanes, buffer areas or
within five feet of any property line.
The following supplemental regulations shall apply in any residential
district:
A.
All driveways and parking areas serving one-family and two-family
dwellings shall have one curb cut, unless otherwise approved by the
Board of Trustees, and shall be paved or graveled to handle adequately
the vehicles for which provision is made. All driveways and parking
areas serving multifamily developments shall be paved in accordance
with the specifications of the Village Building Department.
B.
The off-street parking facilities required for one-family and two-family
multifamily developments shall be on the same lot or parcel of land
as the building they are intended to serve.
C.
All parking areas serving multifamily developments shall be designed
to permit each vehicle to proceed to and from the parking space provided
for it without the moving of any other vehicle, except in the case
of a space in front of an enclosed garage. Aisles providing access
to parking spaces shall have the following minimum dimensions:
|
Angle of Parking Space
|
One-Way Aisle
(feet)
|
Two-Way Aisle
(feet)
| |
|---|---|---|---|
|
90°
|
25
|
25
| |
|
60°
|
18
|
20
| |
|
45°
|
15
|
20
| |
|
30°
|
13
|
18
| |
|
Parallel
|
13
|
18
|
D.
Where the angle of the parking is different on both sides of the
aisle, the larger aisle width shall prevail.
F.
No part of the parking area shall be used for the storage or abandonment
of any article or material.
G.
No commercial vehicle shall be parked or stored outdoors overnight
in any residential zone, and only one such vehicle per lot may be
housed in such district(s), provided that it is completely housed
within a garage and not visible at all times.
H.
Where required by the Superintendent of Buildings, access driveways
shall be marked with arrows indicating proper flow of traffic and
individual parking spaces shall be shown.
I.
Parking areas serving multifamily developments shall be illuminated.
Such illumination, lighting and screening shall be subject to the
prior written approval of detailed plans submitted to the Superintendent
of Buildings and shall be so constructed, arranged and shielded that
no direct light rays from any light or fixture used in such illumination
shall constitute a nuisance to the occupants of any neighboring residences
or buildings. Any lighting or illumination constituting such a nuisance
is hereby strictly prohibited.
J.
The total area of driveway, parking space, pavement, gravel or any
combination thereof in the front yard of a dwelling that is intended
and used for the parking of vehicles shall not exceed the amount of
square footage derived by multiplying the shortest distance in feet
between the front line of the plot and the nearest point of the building
by 20.
The following supplemental regulations shall apply in any nonresidential
district:
A.
Landscaping. To the maximum extent possible, each off-street parking
area shall have a minimum landscaped area equivalent to one parking
space per every 10 parking spaces, with 1/2 said area having shrubs
no higher than three feet and the other half having trees with branches
no lower than seven feet. Such landscaped areas shall be distributed
throughout the parking area in order to break the view of long rows
of parked cars in a manner not impairing visibility, and shall be
provided separate and apart from the requirements for buffers as specified
elsewhere in this chapter.
C.
Access driveways shall be marked with arrows indicating proper flow
of traffic, and individual parking spaces shall be striped.
D.
Parking areas shall be illuminated. Such illumination, lighting and
screening shall be subject to the prior written approval of detailed
plans submitted to the Superintendent of Buildings and shall be so
constructed, arranged and shielded that no direct light rays from
any light or fixture used in such illumination shall constitute a
nuisance to the occupants of any neighboring residences or buildings.
Any lighting or illumination constituting such a nuisance is hereby
strictly prohibited.
E.
Location of parking and loading.
(1)
No parking of vehicles shall be permitted in fire lanes, driveways,
landscaped areas, aisles, buffer areas, sidewalks or turning areas
or within five feet from any property line.
(2)
Off-street parking facilities required for nonresidential uses
shall be provided within 300 feet of the building they are intended
to serve, measured between the nearest point of the off-street parking
facilities and the nearest point of the building. All such parking
spaces shall be owned, leased or otherwise under the control of the
user of the nonresidential use.
(3)
No parking space or aisle shall be provided within a ten-foot
setback from the public street right-of-way.
F.
The provision of parking spaces shall also include adequate driveway
and necessary turning areas for handling the vehicles for which provision
is made. Parking areas shall be designed to permit each motor vehicle
to proceed to and from the parking space provided for it without requiring
the moving of any other motor vehicles.
G.
Notwithstanding the requirements herein, whenever a building existing
at the time of the adoption of this article shall be structurally
altered or added to in an amount less than 10% of its total floor
area, only that portion of the area of the existing building which
has been structurally altered or added to need comply with the Schedule
of Minimum Spaces Required.
H.
The applicant shall cause a parking plan to be prepared by a licensed
engineer, licensed architect or licensed landscape architect at a
scale sufficient in size to permit adequate review as determined by
the Board of Trustees. Said plans shall show the location, layout,
design and arrangement of all off-street parking and loading spaces,
including ingress and egress, curb cuts, sizes of such spaces, width
of circulation aisles and distances from property lines.
I.
All off-street parking shall consist of parking spaces having a direct
means of access thereto from the public street, all paved to specifications
of the Village.
J.
All off-street parking spaces shall be at least nine feet wide by
20 feet long. The Board of Trustees, as part of its site plan and/or
parking plan review, may vary the size of off-street parking spaces
to provide for small-car parking.
K.
All off-street parking spaces shall be on or below ground level.
A.
Municipal parking within 300 feet of the building may be used to
satisfy all or part of the parking requirements, subject to the approval
of the Board of Trustees in connection with site plan and/or parking
plan approval. Before approving any waiver of parking requirements
pursuant hereto, the Board of Trustees shall find that such waiver
will not:
B.
Prior to making such findings and granting any waiver pursuant hereto,
the Board of Trustees may require the applicant to submit traffic
and/or parking studies prepared by recognized experts and may request
advisory reports from the Village Traffic Commission, Police Commissioner,
Fire Chief or other Village officials or agencies. Requested advisory
reports shall be submitted within 30 days of the Board's request.
The applicant shall reimburse the Village for the cost of such reports
or studies.
C.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Board of Trustees
may waive up to 90% of the parking requirement if applicant shall
pay to the capital reserve fund for parking the substitute value of
all parking spaces so waived by the Board of Trustees, provided that
the applicant's site is within 500 feet of a municipal lot. The Board
of Trustees shall, from time to time, establish the value of such
parking spaces and such value shall be set forth in the Schedule of
Fees.
In any district, the following regulations with respect to off-street
parking shall apply. No application shall be made for a building permit
for the construction, alteration or use of any building, structure
or premises for any purposes, and no building permit for such purposes
shall be issued, unless the parking spaces shall be provided as follows:
|
Use
|
Minimum Number of Off-Street Parking Spaces
| |
|---|---|---|
|
Building supply or lumber yards, garden centers
|
1 per 200 square feet of indoor sales area and 1 per 500 square
feet of outdoor sales area
| |
|
Clubs, dance studios, martial arts schools, or commercial recreation
facilities
|
1 per 100 square feet of gross floor area
| |
|
Health care and assisted-living facilities
|
1 per 2 beds
| |
|
Hotels or motels
|
1 per guest room
| |
|
Medical offices
|
1 per 150 square feet of gross floor area
| |
|
Multifamily dwellings:
| ||
|
Studio
|
1
| |
|
1-bedroom unit
|
1 1/2
| |
|
2-bedroom unit
|
2
| |
|
3+ bedroom unit
|
2 1/2
| |
|
Age-restricted senior citizen housing (62 years of age and over)
|
1 per dwelling unit
| |
|
Museums, libraries
|
1 per 200 square feet of gross floor area
| |
|
Offices, except medical offices
|
1 per 250 square feet of gross floor area
| |
|
Places of assembly, such as movie theaters, places of worship,
community centers, etc.
|
1 per 4 seats
| |
|
Restaurants; eating and drinking establishments
|
The greater of: 1 for every 3 seats plus 1 additional space
for every 3 linear feet of bar plus 1 space for every 2 employees;
or 1 space for each 200 square feet of gross floor area
| |
|
Retail stores and banks
|
1 per 200 square feet of gross floor area, or for retail stores
with 20 or fewer seats in which food is served or eaten, 1 per 200
square feet of gross floor area or 1 per 3 seats, whichever is greater
| |
|
Retail uses with outdoor sales
|
1 per 200 square feet of indoor sales areas; 1 per 1,000 square
feet of an additional outdoor sales area
| |
|
Single-family houses
|
2
| |
|
Storage establishments
|
1 per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area
| |
|
Two-family houses
|
2 per dwelling unit
| |
|
Warehousing, wholesale or manufacturing establishments
|
1 per 750 square feet of gross floor area
| |
|
Uses not listed above
|
According to that category which most nearly approximates the
use
| |
