In the Rural, Farming, Residential Zones, the parking or storage
of major recreational equipment, owned by the legal occupant, which
includes travel trailers, pick-up campers or coaches, motorized dwellings,
tent trailers, boats, and boat trailers, but does not include mobile
homes, must comply with the following regulations:
A. No major recreational equipment, while parked or stored, shall be
used for living, sleeping or housekeeping purposes.
B. No major recreational equipment shall be stored out of doors in a
Rural, Farming, Residential Zone unless it is in condition for safe
and effective performance of the function for which it was intended
or can be made so within a six-month period.
All commercial and industrial structures shall provide off-street
loading facilities. Plans and specifications for such loading facilities
shall be submitted at the time of application for a permit for the
main use.
A. Location of facilities.
(1) The off-street loading spaces required by this chapter shall in all
cases be on the same or a contiguous lot or parcel of land as the
use or structure they are intended to serve. In no case shall any
required off-street loading space be part of an area used to satisfy
the off-street parking requirements.
(2) Loading bays shall be located at the side or the rear of the structure
they are intended to serve. Where practicable, such loading bays shall
not be visible from a public highway.
(3) No area designated as a loading space shall be located within 50
feet of a Rural, Farming, Residential District boundary.
(4) Where a loading facility abuts a Rural, Farming, Residential District, the restrictions contained in §
400-92C shall apply.
B. Requirements.
(1) For each nonresidential use or structure equal to or less than 1,000
square feet of gross floor area or ground area in which commodities
are sold, displayed, serviced, repaired, altered or fabricated as
the principal use of the parcel or lot, one off-street loading space
of at least 300 square feet in area shall be provided.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
(2) For each nonresidential use or structure of over 1,000 square feet
of gross floor area or ground area in which commodities are sold,
displayed, serviced, repaired, altered or fabricated as the principal
use of the parcel or lot, one off-street loading space with minimum
dimensions of at least 60 feet by 12 feet and with minimum overhead
clearance of 14 feet shall be provided.
(3) Additional off-street loading space shall be required by the Zoning
Inspector when necessary to provide adequate area for off-street loading.
Detailed plans for off-street loading space provision and use may
be required before the issuance of a zoning permit.