(a) When Required. In any district in connection with any building or part thereof hereafter erected or altered, which is to be occupied by industrial, warehousing, wholesale commercial, retail commercial, service or other uses requiring the receipt or distribution by truck of materials or merchandise, there shall be provided and maintained off-street loading space in accordance with the following schedule:
Floor Area of Building (sq. ft.) | Required Number of Off-Street Loading Spaces |
Less than 10,000 | 0 |
10,000 to 19,999 | 1 |
20,000 to 39,999 | 2 |
40,000 to 59,999 | 3 |
60,000 to 79,999 | 4 |
80,000 to 99,999 | 5 |
Where the floor area of the building is 100,000 feet or more the number of off-street loading spaces required in excess of five shall be determined by the Board.
(b) Minimum Size. Each loading space shall be not less than ten feet in width, twenty-five feet in length and fourteen feet in height.
(c) Location. Loading spaces shall be on the same lot with the building they are intended to serve and may occupy all or any part of any required yard, provided no such space shall be closer than fifty feet from any other lot located in any R -District unless wholly within a completely enclosed building or enclosed on all sides by a well maintained wall or uniformly painted solid fence not less than ten feet in height.
(d) Access. There shall be adequate provision for ingress and egress. Where a lot does not abut on a public or private street, alley or easement of access, there shall be provided an access drive leading to the loading spaces required hereunder; such access drive shall not be less than eighteen feet in width, and shall not be located in any R-District except where provided in connection with a use permitted in such R - District.
(Ord. 1-1969. Passed 3-24-69.)