(a) Uses Requiring Loading Area. On the same premises with every building, structure or part thereof, erected and occupied for manufacturing, storage, warehouse, retails sales, consumer services or other uses similarly involving the receipt or distribution of vehicles, materials or merchandise, there shall be provided and maintained on the lot adequate space for standing, loading and unloading services in order to avoid undue interference with public use of the streets, alleys and parking spaces. This provision shall not apply to retail sales and consumer service uses of less than 10,000 square feet.
(b) Loading Area Requirements. Loading and unloading spaces shall be paved and, unless otherwise adequately provided for, for buildings of 20,000 square feet or less shall be a minimum of twelve (12) feet wide and thirty-five (35) feet long. Loading spaces for buildings of over 20,000 square feet shall be a minimum of fourteen (14) feet wide and fifty (50) feet long. All loading spaces shall have a vertical clearance of fourteen (14) feet, according to the following schedule:
Table 1149.05, Minimum Off-Street Loading Requirements | |
Building Net GFA | Minimum Truck Loading Spaces |
10,000 - 20,000 sq. ft.
| 1 space
|
20,001 - 40,000 sq. ft.
| 2 spaces
|
40,001 - 100,000 sq. ft.
| 3 spaces
|
100,001 - 160,000 sq. ft.
| 4 spaces
|
Over 160,000 sq. ft.
| 4 spaces, plus 1 space for each 80,000 sq. ft. in excess of 160,000 square feet (or fraction greater than 1/2) |
(c) Orientation of Overhead Doors. Overhead doors for truck loading areas shall not face a public right-of-way and shall be screened to not be visible from a public street or an adjacent residential district.
(d) Residential Setback. Loading and unloading spaces shall not be located closer than fifty (50) feet to any residential district boundary, unless the spaces are wholly within a completely enclosed building or completely screened from the residential district by an approved solid, sight-obscuring wall or fence at least six (6) feet in height.
(Ord. 4-21. Passed 1-4-21.)