(A) Scope. The provisions of this section shall apply and govern in all districts.
(B) When required. Off-street loading space shall be required and maintained in connection with any building or part thereof, hereafter erected or altered which is to be occupied by uses requiring the receipt or distribution of materials or merchandise.
(C) Location. Off-street loading space shall be located on the same lot as the structure for which provided.
(D) Duty to provide. The duty to provide the off-street loading space herein required shall be the joint and several responsibility of the operator and owner of the structure or structures for which off-street loading space is required to be provided. No structure shall be designed, erected, altered, used or occupied unless the off-street loading space herein required is provided in at least the amount herein set forth. However, off-street loading space need not be provided for structures actually used, occupied and operated on the effective date of this chapter unless, after the effective date of this chapter, such structures are enlarged, expanded or changed, so as to require a greater amount of off-street loading space than the amount of off-street loading space not required to be furnished by reason of the foregoing exclusion, in which event, the structures hereby excluded shall not be used, occupied or operated unless there is provided for the increment only of such structures, and maintained as herein required, at least the amount of off-street loading space that would be required hereunder if the increment were a separate structure.
(E) Design, development and maintenance. Every parcel of land hereafter used for off-street loading space shall be designed, developed and maintained in accordance with the following requirements:
(1) Shall not be used for the sale, repair, dismantling or servicing of any vehicles, equipment, materials or supplies.
(2) Shall be graded for proper drainage and provided with an all-weather surfacing maintained at all times in such a manner as to prevent the release of dust and to be free of dust, trash and debris.
(3) Off-street loading spaces that adjoin or are across the street from property zoned for any residential use shall have a dense evergreen planting, fence masonry wall, or such other screening, as may be determined by the Planning and Zoning Commission. The Planning and Zoning Commission shall also determine the height, location and density of screening used to provide adequate protection to adjoining property.
(4) Shall be provided with entrances and exits not less than 12 feet or more than 35 feet in width and so located as to minimize traffic congestion.
(5) No portion of a vehicle shall project into a street or alley while being loaded or unloaded.
(6) Each off-street loading space shall be not less than ten feet in width, 25 feet in length, and 12 feet in height, exclusive of access drives. When more than three spaces are required, the spaces other than the first three shall be 12 feet in width, 65 feet in length, and 15 feet in height.
(7) Off-street loading space may occupy all or any part of any required yard space, unless otherwise prohibited by this chapter.
(F) Amount of space required. At least the following amounts of off-street loading space shall be provided, plus an area or means adequate for maneuvering, ingress and egress:
Gross Floor Area (Square Feet) | Required Number of Spaces |
Up to 20,000 | 1 |
20,001 to 40,000 | 2 |
40,001 to 70,000 | 3 |
70,001 to 120,000 | 4 |
120,001 to 200,000 | 5 |
For each additional | |
100,000 square feet | 1 additional |
(G) Modifications. The Planning and Zoning Commission may authorize on appeal modification, reduction, or waiver of the foregoing requirements, if it should find that, in the particular case appealed, the peculiar nature of the business, trade, industrial or other use, or the exceptional shape or size of the property or other exceptional situation or condition, would justify such action.
(Ord. 95, passed 4-5-71) Penalty, see § 156.999