4.05.1 PURPOSE AND INTENT
This section establishes the minimum requirements for the number of spaces and the design of parking areas in the Town of Lillington. This section provides administrative flexibility for the Administrator to adjust the number of required spaces and the design of spaces to provide for adequate parking, accommodate unique site conditions and capitalize on the benefits of parking opportunities on-street or in shared parking areas.
4.05.2 APPLICABILITY
The requirements of this section shall be applicable to all new development and change of use that create the need for parking or increase existing parking demands.
4.05.3 PARKING SPACE REQUIREMENTS
Permanent off-street parking (including on-street parking in accordance with the requirements below) is required subject to the table below. If required, parking shall be provided at the time of erection, alteration, enlargement, establishment or change of use of any building or open use of land which require additional off-street parking.
LAND USE TYPE | MINIMUM REQUIRED AUTO SPACES | MINIMUM REQUIRED BICYCLE PARKING SPACES |
LAND USE TYPE | MINIMUM REQUIRED AUTO SPACES | MINIMUM REQUIRED BICYCLE PARKING SPACES |
RESIDENTIAL: | ||
Dwelling – Single-Family Detached & Two Family (Duplex) | 2 per unit | 1 per 50 lots |
Dwelling – Single-Family Attached (Townhome) | 2 per unit plus 0.25 per unit for guest parking | 1 per 50 lots |
Dwelling – Multifamily | 2 per unit | 1 per 50 auto spaces |
Dwelling – Accessory | 1 per unit | N/A |
Live-Work Units | 1 per 700 sf | N/A |
Residential Care Facilities | 1 per 2 resident rooms | 1 per 40 auto spaces |
All other residential uses | No requirement | No requirement |
LODGING AND ACCOMMODATIONS: | ||
All uses | 1 per room | 1 per 50 auto spaces |
OFFICE AND SERVICES: | ||
Medical Clinic | 1 per examination room | 1 per 50 auto spaces |
All other Office & Service Uses | 1 per 700 sf | 1 per 50 auto spaces |
COMMERCIAL AND ENTERTAINMENT: | ||
Restaurant | 1 per 400 sf | 1 per 50 auto spaces |
Indoor Amusement | No requirement | 1 per 50 auto spaces |
Outdoor Amusement | No requirement | 1 per 50 auto spaces |
Theater (Indoor or Outdoor) | 1 per 8 seats | 1 per 50 auto spaces |
All other Commercial and Entertainment Uses | 1 per 500 sf | 1 per 50 auto spaces |
MANUFACTURING, INDUSTRIAL AND WHOLESALE TRADE: | ||
Storage/Warehouse Uses: | ||
1 to 50,000 sf | 1 per 1,500 sf | No requirement |
Over 50,000 sf | 1 per 2,000 sf | No requirement |
LAND USE TYPE | MINIMUM REQUIRED AUTO SPACES | MINIMUM REQUIRED BICYCLE PARKING SPACES |
LAND USE TYPE | MINIMUM REQUIRED AUTO SPACES | MINIMUM REQUIRED BICYCLE PARKING SPACES |
Other Industrial/Manufacturing Uses: | ||
1 to 3,000 sf | 1 per 250 sf | No requirement |
3,001 to 5,000 sf | 1 per 500 sf | No requirement |
5,001 to 10,000 sf | 1 per 750 sf | No requirement |
10,001 to 50,000 sf | 1 per 1,250 sf | No requirement |
Over 50,000 sf | 1 per 2,000 sf | No requirement |
EDUCATION & INSTITUTIONS: | ||
Child/Adult Day Care Centers (more than 8 persons) | 1 space per classroom | 1 per 50 auto spaces |
Religious Institutions | 1 per 8 seats in main assembly hall | 1 per 50 auto spaces |
Schools (elementary & secondary) | 1 per 8 seats in main assembly hall or gymnasium | 2 per 50 auto spaces |
Studio | 1 per 400 sf | 1 per 20 auto spaces |
All other Education and Institution uses | No requirement | 1 per 50 auto spaces |
AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTRY: | ||
All uses | No requirements | No requirements |
COMMUNICATIONS, TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE: | ||
All uses | No requirement | No requirements |
4.05.4 EXEMPTIONS AND ADJUSTMENTS
A. Exemptions. Uses in the CB District are exempt from the minimum parking requirements of this section.
B. Tree Preservation. The minimum number of parking spaces required may be adjusted by the Administrator when it has been determined that the reductions are necessary to preserve a healthy tree or trees (with a 12 inch or greater diameter at breast height) from being damaged or removed, and where the site plan provides for the retention of said tree or trees.
4.05.5 SATELLITE PARKING
A. If the off-street parking spaces required by this section cannot be reasonably provided on the same lot on which the principal use is located, such space may be provided on any land within 600 feet. Such measurement shall be taken from the edge of the parking area on the lot to the entryway of the remote parking area.
B. Shared Satellite Parking: Upon approval by the Administrator, satellite parking facilities may be shared by two or more uses which do not share normal operating hours.
C. Parking for Permitted Uses Only: If satellite parking is utilized to fulfill parking requirements, the owner or authorized agent for the land upon which such remote parking is located shall restrict the use of such parking area for parking only in connection with the use(s) or structure(s) for which such remote parking is provided. Such restriction shall be recorded as an easement at the time of final plat approval. If no final plat is required as part of the development approval, a shared parking agreement between uses can be submitted to the Administrator in lieu of recording a such easements on a final plat. Remote parking for a particular use shall not be established in any district that does not allow that use.
4.05.6 VEHICLE DESIGN STANDARDS
A. Parking Area General Design Standards
1. Parking areas shall be maintained to provide for vehicle access and shall be kept free of litter, debris, outdoor display and sales and material storage, including portable containers.
2. Parking for service vehicles shall be designated, located and screened to minimize the view from adjacent properties and rights-of-way, generally at the rear of buildings.
3. Parking areas shall be located and designed to avoid undue interference with the use of public rights-of-way, driveways or pedestrian ways. Parking stalls shall not be located in areas that would require backing into access driveways or streets except where allowed for residences.
4. Parking design and location shall be in accordance with the Lillington Specifications Manual and at minimum shall the following minimum dimensions:
Parking Angle (degrees) | Parking Space Width (feet) | Parking Space Depth (feet) | Min. Aisle Width (feet) |
0 | 9 | 20 | 12 |
30 | 9 | 18 | 11 |
45 | 9 | 20 | 13 |
60 | 9 | 21 | 18 |
90 | 9 | 18 | 24 |
5. Parking stalls shall be located a minimum of ten feet from public rights-of-way and buildings to allow sufficient separation for sidewalks, landscaping and other site features except along the backs of buildings in areas designed for loading and unloading.
6. Parking shall not be located in landscaped, open space or tree save areas.
7. Vehicle storage or display areas shall be identified on a site plan distinct from customer and employee parking areas and shall comply with parking access, location and design requirements, except that striping of the display or storage area shall not be required. Vehicle storage or display areas shall not be located in a manner that interferes with vehicle or pedestrian access aisles or driveways.
8. Tractor trailers, cargo trucks, busses and other large commercial vehicles or heavy equipment parking and storage shall comply with parking access, location and design requirements except for stall size and aisle size which shall be as appropriate for the vehicles to be stored and shall be designated on a site plan.
B. Stacking Spaces
1. Uses with drive-through facilities and other auto-oriented uses where vehicles queue up to access a service shall provide adequate stacking spaces on-site for the uses or buildings in accordance with this section. Such uses include but are not limited to: restaurants with drive-through, convenience store with fuel sales, and other uses with service bays or drive-throughs.
2. Required stacking spaces are subject to the following design and layout standards:
a. Stacking spaces shall be a minimum of nine feet wide and 16 feet long.
b. Stacking spaces shall not impede vehicular traffic movements or movements into or out of parking spaces, whether on-site or off-site.
c. Stacking spaces shall not impede onsite or offsite bicycle or pedestrian traffic movements, whether on-site or off-site.
d. Stacking spaces shall be clearly delineated through such means as striping, landscaping, pavement design, or curbing.
C. Surfacing
Off-street parking areas shall be properly graded, marked and located on improved lots or within parking structures. The material for surface parking spaces and corresponding access drives required by this section, except for single-family detached and duplex residences, shall consist of suitable material as set forth below.
1. Suitable Materials: Suitable paving materials for required parking areas include, but are not limited to, asphalt, porous asphalt, porous paving blocks, and concrete. Compacted stone (road bond) and gravel may be permitted by the Administrator as paving materials in the rear setback area for loading and service areas in areas zoned LI or HI (Industrial Districts).
2. Accessible Spaces: All accessible spaces and corresponding access paths shall consist of concrete or asphalt.
3. Pervious Surfaces: Porous paving blocks and pervious paving materials are permitted and encouraged as material for parking lots. The use of reinforced grass as a parking lot surface is permitted for satellite parking areas.
4. Parking Space Marking: The individual parking spaces in a lot shall be delineated in all parking lots except those utilizing road bond, gravel, grass or other vegetative surfacing.
D. Connectivity
1. Adjoining parking lots serving (or potentially serving) non-residential or multifamily uses shall be interconnected as follows:
a. The parking lot under development has a minimum of 24 parking spaces or equivalent parking area.
b. At least one connection is provided at all lot lines that are coincident for at least 60 feet with another lot zoned for non-residential use.
c. The connection is at least 20 feet wide.
d. If applicable, the connection aligns with a connection that has been previously constructed on an adjacent property.
e. The connection has a slope of no greater than 15%.
f. The connection is not placed where a building on an adjacent property is within 50 feet of the lot line which would hamper traffic movements within the parking lot.
g. The connection is placed in an area which will not require the removal of significant natural features such as wetlands or trees with a caliper of 6 inches or more.
h. In the event these conditions cannot be met without undue hardship, or if such connections would create undesirable traffic flow, the Administrator may waive the connection requirement.
i. Where a parking lot connection is required an easement for ingress and egress to adjacent lots shall be recorded by the property owner with the Harnett County Register of Deeds in the form of an easement plat.
E. Off-street Loading Requirements
1. Off-street loading spaces shall be required for industrial, major institutional, and business uses that can be expected to regularly receive or deliver goods, pursuant to the following schedule (areas within the Downtown Overlay District - Central Business/Main Street Area are exempt from this requirement):
Building Square Footage | Required Number of Spaces |
Under 20,000 | 0 |
20,001 to 40,000 | 1 |
40,001 to 100,000 | 2 |
Over 100,000 | 3 |
2. Required loading spaces shall have the following minimum dimensions: 12-foot minimum width, 25-foot minimum length, and 14-foot minimum vertical clearance.
3. Locations
a. Required off-street loading spaces shall not be located within a building, but shall be on the site of the use served or on an adjoining site.
b. Required off-street loading spaces shall be located to the sides and/or rear of the lot to maximize the street exposure of the primary structure.
c. A loading area shall not be located in a required setback. In addition, street-side loading docks shall be set back at least 70 feet from the street property line or 110 feet from the street center line, whichever is greater.
d. No loading bay may intrude into any portion of a required parking aisle or access dimension.
e. Loading areas visible from a street shall be screened on three sides by a solid, decorative fence, wall, or hedge at least six feet in height.
4. Access
a. A required loading stall shall be accessible without parking a truck across a street property line unless the Administrator determines that provision of turnaround space is infeasible and approves alternate access.
b. An occupied loading space shall not prevent access to a required off-street parking space.
F. Parking Alternatives
The Administrator is authorized to approve an alternative parking plan for agricultural uses, industrial uses and recreational facilities that proposes alternatives to the standards in this section.
G. Driveways
1. No portion of any residential or mixed-use driveway intersection with a town public street shall be closer than 20 feet to the comer of any intersection, measured along the right-of-way line. In commercial and industrial zones, this distance shall be 30 feet. The width of any driveway intersection with the public street shall not exceed 30 feet at its intersection with curb and street line. Driveway connections to NCDOT controlled streets must be requested from and approved by DOT. Driveways that have double lane ingress and egress (four lanes) shall be a minimum 60 feet width at intersection with curb and street line.
2. All driveways shall be paved with either asphalt or concrete, or with alternative paving material (e.g., concrete pavers, brick, "turfstone" or similar material) determined to exhibit equivalent wear resistance and load bearing characteristics as asphalt or concrete.
3. No driveway shall conflict with any town facility such as traffic signal standards, catch basins, fire hydrants, crosswalks, loading zones, bus stops, utility poles, fire-alarm supports, meter boxes, and sewer clean-outs or other necessary structures, except with the express approval of the Administrator. Any adjustments to town facilities to avoid such conflicts shall be at the expense of the driveway applicant.
4. Location of Driveway Access Points
a. Two driveways entering the same street from a single lot shall be permitted only if the minimum distance between the closest edges of the driveways equals or exceeds 50 feet.
b. Three driveways entering the same street from a single lot shall be permitted only if the minimum distance between the closest edges of the driveways equals or exceeds 150 feet
c. Four or more driveways entering the same street from a single lot shall be prohibited.
d. In no case may the total width of all driveways exceed 50% of the total property frontage.
e. No driveway (nearest edge) shall be located within five feet of a side lot property line except in the case of a shared driveway (single curb/access point) utilized by two or more lots.
f. No driveway (nearest edge) shall be located within 25 feet of an intersection on a secondary road and 40 feet on a primary road except in the case where no other lot access to a public street or town-approved private road is available.
(Ord. passed 2-14-2017; Ord. 2020-05, passed 8-10-2019; Ord. 2022-06, passed 7-13-2021; Ord. 2022-12, passed 9-14-2021; Ord. passed 3-15-2022)