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.
B.
The plans for any new building or any expansion of an existing building,
when submitted for a building permit, shall show specifically the
location, size and type of improvements of the off-street parking
or loading space required to comply with this chapter and the means
of access to such space from the public streets or highways. Except
for one- and two-family residences, no building permit shall be issued
until such plan for parking and loading space and access to it and
required improvement is approved by the Building Inspector, who shall
determine that traffic access, traffic circulation and general layout
of the parking facility are planned with regard to safety, to traffic
on the public street and to safety and adequacy of access for cars
and pedestrians using the parking facility. No certificate of occupancy
shall be issued for any building or land use until the required off-street
parking and loading facilities have been established.
C.
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
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
except where they exceed such requirements, in which case they shall
not be reduced below such requirements.
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 structures 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 for a nonresidential use or structure to be located on any lot within 500 feet of the use or structure to which such spaces are accessory if the Board determines it is impractical to provide parking on the same lot as the use or structure. All parking spaces shall be in reasonable proximity to the respective use or structure they are intended to serve, and the determination of reasonable proximity shall be at the discretion of the Planning Board when reviewing site development plans, based upon relative standards of appropriate convenience for residential versus nonresidential uses. Parking and loading spaces for a nonresidential use shall not be located in a residence district, nor shall any off-street parking facility be developed within the required front yard nor within five feet of a side or rear yard in such a district, except in those instances as provided for in § 150-163, Commercial vehicles in residential districts.
B.
Size of parking spaces. Each parking space shall be at least nine
feet wide and 20 feet long if unenclosed and at least 10 feet wide
and 20 feet long if bordered by walls or columns on two or more sides.
Where parking spaces are defined by curbs providing space for overhang
of vehicles, such spaces may be reduced in depth to 18 feet. Backup
and maneuvering aisles between rows of parking spaces shall be at
least 25 feet wide except where the approving authority approves a
lesser dimension as adequate to serve parking spaces arranged at less
than a 90° angle.
C.
Landscaping. Except for parking spaces accessory to a one-family
or two-family dwelling, all off-street parking areas shall be curbed
and landscaped with appropriate trees, shrubs and other plant materials
and ground cover in accordance with § 150-42B of this chapter
and 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, snowplowing and the removal
of leaves and other debris. At least one tree with a minimum caliper
of three inches and a height of four feet above ground level shall
be provided within such parking area for each 10 parking spaces.
(1)
Wherever possible, raised planting islands at least eight feet
in width shall be provided to guide vehicle movement and to separate
opposing rows of parking spaces so as to provide adequate space for
plant growth, pedestrian circulation and vehicle overhang. Such raised
planting islands and the landscaping within them shall be designed
and arranged in such a way as to provide vertical definition to major
traffic circulation aisles, entrances and exits; to channel internal
traffic flow and prevent indiscriminate diagonal movement of vehicles;
and to provide relief from the visual monotony and shadeless expanse
of a large parking area. Curbs of such islands should be designed
so as to facilitate surface drainage and prevent vehicles from overlapping
sidewalks and damaging landscaping materials.
(2)
In all off-street parking areas containing 25 or more parking
spaces, at least 10% of the total parking area shall be curbed and
landscaped with trees, shrubs and other plant materials in accordance
with § 150-42B of this chapter.
(3)
No obstruction to driver sight distance 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.
D.
Grades, drainage, paving and marking.
(1)
Required off-street parking facilities may be enclosed in a
structure or may be open, except as required specifically for multifamily
dwellings. All required parking facilities shall be graded, surfaced,
drained and maintained throughout the duration of their use, to the
satisfaction of the Building Inspector, 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 areas,
entrances and exits.
(2)
There shall be no paving of property associated with any type
of use whose use classification, according to this chapter, is subject
to site development plan or special permit approval, without such
approval or amended approval by the Planning Board. To offset the
costs incurred by the Town in making drainage improvements resulting
from development taking place within the Town, all applicants for
approval of site development plans or special permits involving any
paving shall be required to submit a downstream drainage improvements
fee, payable to the Town of Fishkill, in accordance with the current
fee schedule. The just-mentioned approval and downstream drainage
improvements fee shall not apply to the repaving of existing paved
areas.
E.
Traffic circulation. 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 an applicant satisfactorily demonstrates that a use or combination of uses on a lot will generate parking or loading demands which are less than the total required herein, the Planning Board may reduce the total requirement by up to 50% of the number required according to §§ 150-160 and 150-162 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 and loading spaces required and the site plan shall bear such designation. All such undeveloped parking and loading spaces shall be used and maintained as additional landscaped grounds until and if required for parking and loading. 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, within six months of the date of written notice to the property owner by the Planning Board or building inspector that such spaces have been determined as necessary and must be constructed.
G.
Shared parking. When any lot contains two or more uses having different
parking requirements, the parking requirements for each use shall
apply to the extent of that use. Where the applicant can demonstrate
that one or more such uses will be generating a peak parking demand
primarily during periods when the other use or uses is not or are
not in operation, the Planning Board may reduce the total parking
spaces required by up to 50% of the parking spaces required for that
use with the least requirement.
H.
Compact-car spaces. With regard to parking areas comprised of at least 50 parking spaces, the Planning Board, as part of site plan or special permit review and approval, may permit the substitution of compact car spaces instead of the conventionally sized parking spaces specified in § 150-159B herein, subject to the following requirements:
(1)
Compact car parking spaces shall not comprise more than 25%
of the total required number of parking spaces.
(2)
Each compact car space shall be at least eight feet wide and
16 feet long if unenclosed and at least nine feet wide and 16 feet
long if bordered by walls or columns on two or more sides. Backup
and maneuvering aisles between rows of compact car parking spaces
shall be at least 22 feet wide.
(3)
Compact car parking spaces shall be conveniently located for
both vehicular and pedestrian access. Such spaces shall be grouped
in a location or locations approved by the Planning Board. Single
compact car spaces shall not be distributed throughout the parking
area(s).
(4)
All compact car parking spaces and areas shall be clearly designated
by color-coded pavement striping and signage.
(5)
Compact car parking spaces shall not be permitted in parking
areas serving retail, service or restaurant uses or other uses in
which the frequency of parking turnover is deemed by the Planning
Board to be high.
A.
Off-street parking spaces shall be provided as follows, except that the Planning Board may modify these provisions as a condition of the issuance of a special permit according to the provisions of Article XI:
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Use
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Minimum Off-Street Parking
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1-and 2-family dwelling
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2 spaces for each dwelling unit
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Multifamily dwelling
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1 1/2 spaces for each dwellings unit, plus 1/4 space for
each bedroom shall be specifically designed and reserved for use by
visitors and guests. These visitor/guest parking spaces shall be in
common parking areas and shall therefore not be comprised of driveways,
carports or garages.
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Professional office or home occupation permitted in a residential
district
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2 spaces in addition to spaces required for the residential
use, except that there shall be 4 spaces for each medical or dental
practitioner, plus 1 space for each technician or employee in addition
to spaces required for the residential use
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Roomers or boarders
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1 space for each guest sleeping room, plus 2 spaces for each
residential unit
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Place of worship, theater, auditorium, athletic field or rink
or other place of assembly
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1 space for each 5 seats or pew spaces, or, in places without
seats, 1 space for each 100 square feet of floor space used for public
assembly. A pew space shall be considered to be 20 inches wide. 1
space per 3 theater seats
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Hospital, nursing home, convalescent home or home for the aged
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1 space for each 3 patient beds and 1 space for each employee,
including medical, nursing and service staff
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Golf and country club
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1 space for each 2 memberships
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Bowling alley or other center of public amusement
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5 spaces for each bowling lane. All others, 1 space per 100
square feet of floor space used for public amusement
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Retail or service business, other than those located in a planned
shopping center in a PSC District
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1 space for each 250 square feet of gross floor area
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Restaurant
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1 space for each 4 seats or 1 space for each 100 square feet
of gross floor area, whichever is greater
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Office for business or professional use (excluding accessory
to residential use and medical or dental office or clinic)
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1 space for 200 square feet of gross floor area
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Banking office
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10 spaces, plus 5 additional spaces for each person in excess
of 2 acting as tellers, including waiting spaces for drive-in window
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Motel/hotel
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1 space for each guest sleeping room, plus 1 space for each
2 employees, plus 1 space for each permanent resident
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Medical or dental office or clinic
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4 spaces for each doctor or dentist, plus 1 space for each technician
or employee, plus 1 space for each 250 square feet of gross floor
area
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Funeral home
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1 space per employee, plus 1 space per 50 square feet of gross
floor space in assembly rooms
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Motor vehicle or boat sales/service and gasoline stations
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1 space per employee, plus 1 space per 300 square feet of gross
floor space
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Animal hospital or veterinary office
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1 space per employee, plus 1 space per 300 square feet of gross
floor space
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Car washing establishment
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5 spaces per washing bay
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Research or office laboratory in a POL District
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1 space per employee but not less than 1 space per 600 square
feet of gross floor space
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Manufacturing or industrial use
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1 space per employee but not less than 1 space per 400 square
feet of gross floor space
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Wholesale, storage, utility or other similar commercial use
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1 space per employee but not less than 1 space per 1,000 square
feet of gross floor space
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Total use comprising a planned shopping center
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5.5 spaces per 1,000 square feet of rentable floor area devoted
to the sale of goods, merchandise or services at retail, including
such space devoted to sale of food and drink, including fast-food
establishments, including such space in any theater, office building,
hotel or motel and including such space in a mall. Rentable floor
area shall not include any space devoted to utility or equipment rooms
and penthouses. In addition, there shall be 1 space for each 3 theater
seats.
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Swimming pools; tennis courts and other general recreation and
athletic facilities in a multifamily development or in a Hudson River
Waterfront Recreation District development
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1 space for each 10 dwelling units within the multifamily development
to be served by the facility or 1 space for each 3 persons the facility
is designed to accommodate, whichever unit of measurement is most
appropriate to the customary use thereof, as determined by the Planning
Board when reviewing site development plans. These parking spaces
shall be in addition to those required for the dwelling units in the
project.
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Clubhouses, lodges, community houses and/or meeting facilities
for service organizations in a multifamily development or in a Hudson
River Waterfront Recreation District development
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1 space for each 10 dwelling units within the multifamily development
to be served by the facility or for each 5 permanent seats or 150
square feet of floor area, whichever unit of measurement is most appropriate
to the customary use thereof, as determined by the Planning Board
when reviewing site development plans. These parking spaces shall
be in addition to those required for the dwelling units in the project.
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Conference centers
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To be determined by the Planning Board according to the area
devoted to each use, i.e., lodging, place of assembly or restaurant
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Senior citizen housing
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1.2 spaces per dwelling unit. The 0.2 fractional spaces shall
be accumulated for staff and visitors.
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B.
Reasonable and appropriate off-street parking requirements for structures
and land uses which do not fall within the categories listed above
shall be determined by the Planning Board, which shall consider all
factors entering into the off-street parking needs of the particular
land use.
Required off-street parking facilities shall be maintained as
long as the use of the structure or the use of loading exists which
the facilities are designed to serve. Required parking areas developed
for specific structures and uses shall be reserved at all times for
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 as the use to be served 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 each be 12 feet in width.
B.
Required number of spaces.
(1)
For retail or service business establishments, restaurants and
other places serving food or beverages: a minimum of one space for
each 10,000 square feet of gross floor area or portion thereof.
(2)
For industry, wholesale businesses, storage, warehouses and
other similar commercial establishments; a minimum of one space for
the first 20,000 square feet of gross floor area or portion thereof
and one space for each additional 40,000 square feet of gross floor
area or portion thereof.
(3)
For office or research laboratory establishments: a minimum
of one space for the first 25,000 square feet of gross floor area
or portion thereof and one space for each additional 150,000 square
feet of gross floor area or portion thereof.
(4)
For hotels or motels: a minimum of one space for the first 50
sleeping rooms or portion thereof and one space for each additional
200 sleeping rooms or portion thereof.
C.
Joint facilities. Loading berths may be provided in spaces designed
to serve jointly two or more adjacent establishments, provided that
the number of required berths in such joint facilities shall be not
less than the aggregate of all such requirements; and further provided
that adequate legal documentation of such joint use is approved by
the Town.
A.
Pickup trucks, vans and other similar vehicles that require commercial
registration, but are not used for commercial purposes, may be parked
on a regular basis in a residential district, subject to the same
restrictions as are imposed on the parking of family passenger vehicles.
B.
Commercial vehicles that are used in connection with one's livelihood,
but not in connection with any illegal business use of a residence,
shall be permitted to park in a residence district on a regular basis
subject to the following restrictions:
(1)
There shall be no parking within the right-of-way of any roadway.
(2)
Such vehicles shall not be placed in dead storage on the premises,
but must be used on a regular basis in relation to the occupant's
employment responsibilities.
(3)
The occupant shall produce, upon request of the Zoning. Administrator,
an affidavit stating the occupant's place of employment and attesting
to the requirement of driving the vehicle to and from this same place
of employment. This affidavit shall be signed by the occupant's employer.
(4)
Vehicle engines shall not be left idling for a warmup period,
during the hours between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
(6)
All parking must be set back from side and rear yard property
lines at whatever distance is required for accessory buildings in
the residential district in which the premises is located.
(7)
All parking areas and access drives thereto must have pavement
or other customary or generally accepted parking surface.
(8)
Parking areas shall be screened as necessary from property or
properties adjacent to it This determination shall be made by the
Zoning Administrator.
(9)
The following classes of vehicles shall be prohibited from parking
on a regular basis in any residential district, except that they may
be temporarily parked in connection with any lawful exercise of their
use:
