A. Public use and service areas.
(1) Easements along side or rear property lines or elsewhere for utility installation and maintenance or for access to a public use area or facility may be required. Such easements shall be at least 25 feet wide and shall be located in consultation with the companies or municipal departments concerned. All such easements shall be approved by the Board.
(2) Where a subdivision is traversed by a watercourse, drainage way, channel or street, there shall be provided a stormwater easement or drainage right-of-way, conforming substantially to the lines of such watercourse and such further width or construction, or both, as will be adequate for the purpose and shall conform to comprehensive plans for these facilities in the town, if such exists or should hereafter be adopted.
(3) Natural features such as trees, brooks, hilltops and views shall be preserved whenever possible in designing any subdivision containing such features.
B. Shared parking. Owners or lessees of land uses that exhibit off-setting parking demand patterns may reduce the total amount of parking that they are required to provide if they demonstrate at the time of site plan review that the total amount of parking being provided for the combined uses will be available.
[Added 11-28-2011 by Ord. No. 23-2011]
(1) In calculating the total amount of parking available, applications shall submit a shared parking analysis report using procedures originally proposed in the report Shared Parking published by the Urban Land Institute in cooperation with the Institute of Traffic Engineers. Revised parking accumulation information published in the report Parking Generation - 3rd Edition, published by the Institute of Traffic Engineers, or later edition, shall be employed as appropriate.
(2) An applicant who seeks to employ a shared parking approach must:
(a) Demonstrate that the shared parking is either under the control of the applicant entity or document that the applicant has entered into a binding agreement authorizing the shared parking arrangement for a term of not less than three years from the date of final approval of the development application;
(b) Provide the shared parking on the same block as the parcel to be developed or a contiguous block unless otherwise approved; and
(c) Provide clear informational signage directing vehicles to the associated parking area(s).
(3) Any applicant for development or land-use change in one of the Downtown or Gateway Districts shall submit an appropriate parking analysis report as part of a complete development application.
(a) If the development requires review by the Planning Board, the Planning Board shall analyze the report findings and establish requirements as part of any approval the Board elects to grant.
(b) Developments not requiring planning board review, including changes in use, shall be reviewed administratively by the zoning officer to determine parking requirements.
(c) In cases which an applicant relies upon shared parking or arranged off-site parking, the applicant shall be required to file a report every two years with the zoning officer documenting that it is continuing to satisfy its parking requirement. Failure to maintain a shared parking arrangement in conformity with subparagraph 175-96.B.3 may constitute a violation of the original approval.
(d) When an existing property is being changed to create a more intensive use relative to parking, but will not add any building space, the plan may be reviewed administratively provided that no other conditions requiring site plan review apply.
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