(A) General provisions. No building or other structure shall be erected and no extensions, major repairs, or substantial alterations shall be made to an existing building or other structure in any zone unless there already exists on the zoning lot, or unless provision is made for the location of the lot concurrently with such erection or change, off-street loading space on the basis of the following minimum requirements.
(B) Multiple-family dwellings, boarding or lodging houses, dormitories, fraternity and sorority houses, and apartment hotels. One off-street loading space shall be provided for each building having 10,000 to 150,000 square feet of floor area, plus one additional loading space for each additional 150,000 square feet of floor area or fraction thereof.
(C) Hotels, motels, private clubs, and lodges, containing no retail shops, convention halls, auditoriums, exhibition halls, or business or professional offices. One off-street loading space shall be provided for each building having 10,000 to 150,000 square feet of floor area; plus one additional loading space for each additional 150,000 square feet of floor area or fraction thereof.
(D) Hotels, motels, private clubs and lodges, containing retail shoes, convention halls, auditoriums, exhibition halls, or business or professional offices. One off-street loading space shall be provided for each building having 10,000 to 150,000 square feet, plus one additional loading space for each additional 100,000 square feet of floor area or fraction thereof.
(E) Community facilities uses such as auditoriums, colleges, hospitals, museums, nursing homes, sanitariums, schools, and similar institutions. One off-street loading space shall be provided for each building having 10,000 to 150,000 square feet of floor area, plus one additional loading space for each additional 150,000 square feet of floor area or fraction thereof.
(F) Public service and public utility facilities. Airports, railroad passenger and freight stations, public transit and bus terminals and post offices. One off-street loading space shall be provided for each building having 10,000 to 50,000 square feet plus one additional loading space for each additional 50,000 square feet of floor area or fraction thereof.
(G) Banks and business involves no retail sales, professional and governmental offices, and medical clinics. One off-street loading space shall be provided for each building having 10,000 to 150,000 square feet, plus one additional loading space for each additional 150,000 square feet of floor area or fraction thereof.
(H) Retail or service establishments and eating and drinking establishments.
(1) Retail or service establishments and eating and drinking establishments. Off-street loading spaces shall be provided in accordance with the following table:
Square Feet of Floor Area
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Minimum # of Spaces
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5,000 to 9,999 | 1 |
10,000 to 24,999 | 2 |
25,000 to 39,999 | 3 |
40,000 to 100,000 | 4 |
(2) For each additional 100,000 square feet of floor area, or fraction thereof in such a building, one additional loading space shall be provided.
(I) Amusement facilities.
(1) Bowling alleys, dance halls, gymnasiums, skating rinks, recreation centers, and similar facilities. One off-street loading space shall be provided for each building having 10,000 to 150,000 square feet of floor area, plus one additional space for each additional 150,000 square feet of floor area or fraction thereof.
(2) Theaters. One off-street loading space shall be provided for each building having 8,000 to 50,000 square feet of floor area, plus one additional space for each additional 50,000 square feet of floor area or fraction thereof.
(J) School, business, dance, music or trade. One off-street loading space shall be provided for each building having 10,000 to 150,000 square feet of floor area, plus one additional space for each additional 150,000 square feet of floor area or fraction thereof.
(K) Undertaking establishments and funeral parlors. One off-street loading space shall be provided for each building having up to 25,000 square feet of floor area, plus one additional space for each additional 25,000 square feet or fraction thereof.
(L) Wholesale, manufacturing and industrial plants. In wholesale, manufacturing and industrial plants, including warehouses and storage building and yards, contractor equipment and lumber yards, business service establishments such as blueprinting and engraving, soft drink bottling establishments, breweries, fabricating plants, research laboratories, and all other establishments devoted to production, processing, cleaning, servicing, testing, or repairing of materials, goods or products. One off-street loading space shall be provided for each building having 5,000 to 39,999 square feet of floor area; two off-street loading spaces shall be provided for each building having 40,000 to 100,000 square feet of floor area, plus one additional space for each additional 100,000 square feet of floor area or fraction thereof. Each such loading space for buildings over 10,000 square feet shall be not less than 50 feet in length.
(M) Other uses. Uses not specifically listed in this division. Of f-street loading spaces shall be provided in accordance with requirements heretofore set forth for the most similar uses.
(N) Size of loading spaces. A required off-street loading space shall be not less than ten feet in width, 14 feet in height, and 25 feet in length, exclusive of access aisles and maneuvering space, unless otherwise specified.
(O) Location of off-street loading spaces. All required off-street loading spaces shall be located on the same zoning lot as the use to be served. No loading spaces for vehicles of more than two-ton capacity shall be closer than 50 feet to any property in a residence district unless completely enclosed by building walls, or a uniformly painted solid fence or wall, or any combination thereof, not less than six feet in height. No permitted or required off-street loading space located in a required rear yard shall be open to the sky.
(P) Regulation for access of off-street loading facilities. Each required off-street loading space 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 subject to approval by the city traffic engineer.
(Q) Regulations for surfacing of off-street loading facilities. All open off-street loading spaces shall be improved with a durable hard surface pavement. The pavement shall be equal to or superior to a pavement consisting of a base course of macadam not less than six inches thick, with a bituminous surface of not less than two inches thick.
(R) Regulations for repair and service facilities within off-street loading spaces. No storage of any kind nor motor vehicle repair or service shall be permitted within any required off-street loading space.
(S) Regulations on space allowed for off-street loading spaces. Space allowed to any off-street loading space shall not, while so allocated, be used to satisfy the space requirements for any off-street parking facilities or portions thereof.
(Ord. 96-54, passed 3-26-96)