(a) Generally. Off-street loading and/or unloading facilities shall be provided for all business, service, commercial and industrial buildings hereafter erected or altered for such uses. The facilities shall be maintained as long as such building is occupied, shall continue unobstructed and shall not be used for repair or servicing of motor vehicles. Space required and allocated for off-street parking shall not be allocated or used to satisfy the space requirements for off-street loading.
(b) Dimensions. A required off-street loading space shall be at least twelve feet wide by at least twenty-five feet in length for a building of less than 15,000 square feet of gross floor area, and each required loading space for a building of 15,000 square feet or more of floor area shall be not less than fourteen feet wide by sixty feet in length. Each space shall have a vertical clearance of at least fourteen feet. Such areas shall be exclusive of aisle and maneuvering space.
For manufacturing and service uses, the maneuvering space or apron for off-street loading shall be at least sixty feet wide, measured from the outermost part of any vehicle backed up to a loading dock or any other possible obstruction in the maneuvering area.
Uses which otherwise require off-street loading facilities but are located in buildings of less than 5,000 square feet of floor area shall be provided with a receiving platform or other facility adjacent to a service drive or other open space on the same lot.
(c) Location; Surfacing. Loading facilities shall not be located in a front yard or in a required side or rear yard. Off-street loading spaces shall be provided with surface improvements as required for parking areas.
(d) Number of Required Spaces. Loading spaces shall be provided in accordance with the following schedule:
Building or Use | Gross Floor Area of Building (sq. ft.) | Required Number of Spaces |
Retail stores of all types | 5,000 to 10,000 | 1 |
10,001 to 40,000 | 2 | |
40,001 to 100,000 | 3 | |
Each additional 50,000 | 1 additional space | |
All manufacturing service and storage establishments | Up to 40,000 | 1 |
40,001 to 100,000 | 2 | |
Each additional 50,000 | 1 additional space | |
(Ord. 1985-29. Passed 10-14-85.)