The following programs and incentives are provided to permit reduced parking requirements in the locations and situations outlined herein where the basic parking requirements of this code would be excessive or detrimental to goals and policies of the town relating to traffic congestion and environmental protection.
(A) Parking reductions in the CB Districts. There are no off-street parking requirements in the HCB District. However, for each building erected and for certain other uses of land in the HMU District, parking spaces for motor vehicles and loading and unloading berths as specified for the use to which such building or land is to be devoted shall be provided, except that the Board of Zoning Appeals may approve a special exception that waives the parking spaces required when the use is located within 300 feet of a public parking lot, and where a use fronts a street with parallel parking, credit toward off-street parking shall be granted at the rate of one off-street space per every 25 feet of frontage.
(B) Credit for off-street parking or public parking in non-CB Districts. Wherever on-street parking or other public parking is provided in the improvement of a street, credit toward off-street parking requirements shall be granted at the rate of one off-street space for every marked on-street or public space.
(C) Mixed-use shared parking programs.
(1) Purpose. The town recognizes that strict application of the required parking regulations may result in the provision of excessive numbers of parking spaces, and therefore, excessive pavement and impermeable surfaces. A mixed-use shared parking program provides an option to reduce the total required parking in large mixed-use facilities in which uses operate at different times from one another throughout the day.
(2) Applicability. The mixed use shared parking program may be applied where mixed uses are proposed.
(3) Procedure.
(a) The Administrator may authorize a reduction in the total number of required parking spaces for two or more uses jointly providing on-site parking, if the respective hours of operation of the uses do not overlap.
(b) The total number of parking spaces shall not be reduced by more than 20%.
(Ord. 2014-26, passed 9- -2014) Penalty, see § 156.999