(a) General Requirements. On the same premises with every building or part thereof, erected and occupied for manufacturing, processing storage, warehouse, goods display, department store, restaurant, wholesale, grocery, laundry, dry cleaning, or other uses similarly involving the receipt or distribution of vehicles, material or merchandise, there shall be provided and maintained on the lot adequate space for standing, loading and unloading services in order to avoid undue interference with street or parking areas.
(1) Such loading and unloading space, unless completely and adequately provided for within a building, shall be a minimum area of ten (10) feet by fifty (50) feet, with fourteen (14) foot height clearance, and shall be provided according to Table 1.
(2) Access to truck loading and unloading space shall be provided directly from a public street or alley or from any right-of-way that will not interfere with public convenience and that will permit the orderly and safe movement of trucks. No permitted or special loading zone shall be located within fifty (50) feet of the nearest point of intersection of any two (2) thoroughfares.
(3) No loading space shall be located within a required front or side yard when adjacent to any "R" District. No permitted or required loading space shall be closer than fifty (50) feet to any lot in any "R" District unless wholly enclosed within a building.
(4) All loading areas in view of any residential district shall be screened from such view in a manner satisfactory to the Planning Commission.
(5) All open loading spaces shall be graded and improved with bituminous concrete or Portland cement concrete.
(6) All loading spaces shall be provided with adequate drainage facilities as approved by the Zoning Enforcement Officer.
(7) Off-street loading space areas shall not be construed as, or counted towards, the supplying of area required as off-street parking space area.
(b) Specific Off-street Loading Requirements. In connection with every building or part thereof hereafter erected, except dwellings, there shall be provided, on the same lot with such buildings, off-street loading spaces or berths, for uses which customarily receive or distribute material or merchandise by vehicle, in accordance with the following requirements:
TABLE 1
(1) Retail/service/office establishments | 1.0 per first 10,000 sq. ft. of floor area; |
1.0 per next 30,000 sq. ft.; and | |
1.0 per every additional 20,000 sq. ft. | |
(2) Truck terminal/warehouse/wholesale establishments | 1.0 per every 7,500 sq. ft. of floor area. |
(3) Industrial plant | 1.0 per first 10,000 sq. ft. of floor area; |
1.0 per every additional 20,000 sq ft. |
Where receiving and shipping goods are not an integral part of the business of industry, the above requirements may be waived by the Zoning Enforcement Officer.