In any zoning district in connection with every building or part thereof hereafter erected, having a gross floor area of ten thousand (10,000) square feet or more, which is to be occupied by manufacturing, storage, warehouse, goods display, retail store, wholesale store, market, hotel, hospital, mortuary, office buildings, or other similar commercial or industrial uses which require the receipt or distribution by vehicles of material or merchandise, there shall be provided and maintained on the same lot with such building, at least one (1) off-street loading space, and for multiple tenant commercial/retail shopping centers, one (1) additional such loading space for each twenty thousand (20,000) square feet or major fraction thereof of gross floor area so used in excess of ten thousand (10,000) square feet, provided the total number of loading spaces is not required to be more than the total number of occupying tenants.
1. Each loading space shall not be less than nine (9) feet in width and nineteen (19) feet in length for loading spaces not requiring loading dock access, and twelve (12) feet in width and fifty (50) feet in length for loading dock access for trucks. All loading areas shall be designed in a manner acceptable to the City and provide adequate space for loading access.
2. Such loading area may occupy part of a required yard or court space, except required open space under Chapter 175D, and provided the loading area and access roadways meet all setbacks required of off-street parking areas as set forth in this chapter.
3. Loading yards and loading docks shall be located and buffered from general public view, public streets, public buildings, recreation facilities, parks, schools, places of assembly for worship, residential zoning districts and uses, C-O and PC Zoning Districts, and screened from all other adjoining properties where it is determined said loading areas are considered offensive to more restrictive uses.
4. All loading yards and accesses to loading yards and loading docks shall be paved with asphaltic or Portland cement concrete pavement in accordance with surfacing requirements set forth in this chapter.