1. Loading Requirement. In any district with every building or part thereof hereafter erected, having a gross floor area of ten thousand square feet or more, which is to be occupied by manufacturing, storage, warehouse, goods display, retail store, wholesale store, market, hotel, hospital, mortuary, laundry, dry cleaning or other uses similarly requiring the receipt or distribution by vehicles of material or merchandise, there shall be provided and maintained on the same lot with such building, at least one off-street loading space plus one additional such loading space for each twenty thousand square feet or major fraction thereof of gross floor area, so used, in excess of ten thousand square feet.
2. Design Standards.
A. Each loading space shall be at least 12 feet wide by 40 feet long, with a vertical clearance of at least 14 feet.
B. Paving of loading spaces and access areas shall be permanent, durable, and free of dust.
C. Off-street loading areas are subject to the landscaping and buffering requirements for parking facilities set forth in this chapter.