Off street loading spaces scaled to the type of vehicle anticipated to utilize the spaces shall be provided accessory to any structure which is to be erected or substantially altered, and which requires the receipt or distribution of materials or merchandise by trucks or similar vehicles in accordance with the following:
A. Location: Off street loading berths shall be on the same lot as the principal use and they shall not be located in a front yard.
B. Screening: When a use which requires or provides off street loading facilities adjoins a residential district, such facilities shall be concealed from view therefrom by a fence or wall not less than six feet (6') or more than eight feet (8') in height. In lieu of a concealing fence, a densely planted evergreen tree or shrub hedge shall be provided and maintained to not less than six feet (6') in height. If an evergreen tree or shrub hedge is utilized, original plantings shall be at least three feet (3') in height.
C. Access: Each required off street loading berth shall be designed with appropriate means of vehicular access to a street or alley in a manner which will least interfere with traffic movements and shall be subject to the approval of the administrative official.
D. Surfacing: All off street loading spaces and access to them shall be surfaced to meet the standards of section 15.4.8.6 of this chapter.
E. Use: Space allocated to any off street loading space shall not, while so allocated, be used to satisfy the space requirements for any off street parking facilities. No storage of any kind or motor vehicle repair work or service of any kind shall be permitted within any required loading space.
F. Required Spaces:
1. Uses In Nonresidential Districts: Uses in SB, BPL, LI, GI, and BWA which require the receipt or distribution of materials or merchandise by trucks or similar vehicles shall provide off street loading spaces in accordance with the following schedule:
REQUIRED SPACE
Gross Floor Area Of Establishments | Required Spaces |
15,000 to 25,000 | 1 |
25,001 to 40,000 | 2 |
40,001 to 100,000 | 3 |
a. For each additional one hundred thousand (100,000) square feet of gross floor area or fraction thereof over the first one hundred thousand (100,000) square feet, one additional loading space. "Gross floor area" shall mean the sum of the several floors of a building or buildings devoted to the use for which off street loading is computed as measured from the faces of exterior walls or the centerline of party walls. Gross floor area shall not include covered mall space which is not used as sales area.
2. Nonresidential Uses In Residential Districts: One off street loading space for buildings containing ten thousand (10,000) to one hundred thousand (100,000) square feet of gross floor area plus one additional space for each one hundred thousand (100,000) square feet of gross floor area or fraction thereof. (Ord. 2013-20)