(a) The following minimum allocation of off street parking spaces shall apply to business uses in the Office/Professional, General Business, Retail Business and Light Manufacturing Districts, and conditional uses in the Residential District:
(1) Automotive Repair Services: Two spaces for each service bay, plus one space per employee, not counting space for cars being fueled.
(2) Automotive Service Stations: One space per fuel pump, plus one space for each 1.5 employees.
(3) Automotive Dealers: One space for each 400 square feet of floor area or any portion thereof, one space for each 1000 square feet of outside display space or any portion thereof, plus one (1) for each employee.
(4) Banks and Other Financial Institutions: One space for each 400 square feet of floor area plus sufficient stacking space at drive-through facilities to accommodate the number of automobiles equal to five times the number of such teller windows.
(5) Bars/Taverns: One space for each three seats.
(6) Bed and Breakfast Inn: One space for each guest room plus two spaces for the permanent residence.
(7) Bowling Alleys: Five spaces for each alley.
(8) Car Wash Facilities: Automobile car washes shall provide sufficient stacking spaces for four vehicles per bay, and one space per employee.
(9) Commercial Nursery: One space per 1,000 square feet of floor or greenhouse area plus one space per 2,000 square feet of land area.
(10) Commercial School: One space per 300 square feet of floor area.
(11) Contractor Yard: One space for each 1,000 square feet of floor area plus one space for each facility vehicle.
(12) Convalescent Care Facility: One space for every six beds plus one space for every two employees.
(13) Convenience Store: One space for each 200 square feet of floor area.
(14) Convention or Conference: Four spaces per 300 square feet of floor area.
(15) Day Care Center: One space for each 500 square feet of floor area plus one space for each employee.
(16) Elementary and Middle Schools: One space per teacher or employee plus one space per fifteen classroom seats.
(17) Business, technical or trade school, college or university: One space per 5 students over 16 years old plus one space per teacher or employee.
(18) Entertainment & amusement: One space for each three seats or one space for each 200 feet of floor area, whichever is greater.
(19) Funeral Home: Four spaces per 300 square feet of floor area.
(20) Golf Course: One space per two employees, plus three per golf hole.
(21) Group Home: One space for each four beds.
(22) High Schools: One space per two teachers, employees and administrators, plus one space per ten classroom seats.
(23) Hospitals; One space for each two beds.
(24) Motel/Motels: One space for each sleeping room plus one space for each 400 square feet of public meeting area and/or restaurant space.
(25) Industrial/Manufacturing: One space for each employee on the shift with the highest number of employees plus six.
(26) Medical Clinics: One space for each 100 square feet of floor area .
(27) Office: One space for each 250 square feet of floor area as the minimum parking space requirement.
(28) Service: One space for each 200 square feet of floor area.
(29) Printing and Related Trades: One space for each 500 square feet of floor area.
(30) Private Member Recreation: One space per 200 square feet of floor area or one space for each four seats, whichever is greater.
(31) Public Buildings: One space for each 200 square feet of floor area.
(32) Recording, Radio or TV: One space per 400 square feet of floor area.
(33) Recreational: One space for each two participants at maximum utilization.
(34) Places of Worship: One space for each four seats in the place of assembly. When individual seats are not provided, each 20 inches of a bench shall be considered one seat. Such uses may establish with public or commercial establishments joint parking facilities for up to fifty percent of their required spaces provided that a written agreement thereto is obtained and that all parking area so designated lie within 300 feet of the main entrance of the church.
(35) Research and Development: One space for each 500 square feet of floor area.
(36) Restaurants: One space for each two seats of seating capacity plus sufficient stacking space at drive-through facilities to accommodate the number of automobiles equal to five times the number of server windows
(37) Retail Business: One space for each 300 square feet of floor area.
(38) Rooming Houses, Apartments, Condominiums: One space for each rentable unit.
(39) Skating Rink: One space per each 200 square feet of floor area.
(40) Swimming Club: one space for each 300 square feet of pool and promenade area.
(41) Theaters: One space for each three seats plus one for each two employees.
(42) Veterinarian Facility: Four spaces for each examination room.
(43) Warehousing: One space for each 1,000 square feet.
(44) A minimum of three car stalls for each 1,000 square feet of total gross floor area shall be provided whenever building usage is not specified.
(Ord. 2017-7-15. Passed 9-12-17.)
(45) Tobacco and Vapor Lounge: One space for each two seats of seating capacity plus one for each two employees.
(Ord. 2019-4-7. Passed 6-11-19.)
(b) The number of required off-street parking spaces may be eliminated or reduced if there exists within 500 feet of a place of worship, public or private parking lots containing a sufficient number of off-street parking spaces to satisfy the requirements of Section (a). Any spaces provided in public or private lots must be shown to be legally available for worshipers on the day or days of greatest use.
(c) Parking and loading facilities for separate uses may be provided jointly if the total number of spaces so provided is not less than the sum of the separate requirements for each use.
(d) The parking spaces required shall be increased to the next highest whole number where a fractional space results from any computation.
(e) At the express discretion of the Planning Commission, up to 25% of the minimum parking specified in (a) may be set aside for possible future parking needs and left as undeveloped space. This undeveloped space may not be counted in complying with other sections of the zoning code, riparian setback requirements, or wetlands delineation.
(f) Parking may not exceed 150% of the minimum specified in subsection (a) hereof except as provided below. Parking beyond 150% of the minimum specified in subsection (a) hereof is permitted only if a permanent green space area equal to twice the area allotted to parking beyond 150% of the minimum specified in (a) is set aside. This is in addition to any green space or open areas required by any other sections of the zoning code, riparian setback requirements, or wetlands delineations. (Ord. 2017-7-15. Passed 9-12-17.)