Off-street loading and service facilities shall be provided in accordance with the following standards and specifications:
(A) On the same lot with every structure or use, hereinafter erected or created there shall be provided and maintained adequate space for loading and unloading of materials, goods or things and for delivery and shipping so that vehicles for the service may use this space without encroaching on or interfering with the public use of sidewalks, streets, parking areas, aisles, driveways and alleys by pedestrians and vehicles.
(B) Where any structure is enlarged or any use is extended so that the size of the resultant occupancy comes within the scope of this section, the full amount of off-street loading space shall be supplied and maintained for the structure or use in its enlarged or extended size. Where the use of a structure or land or any part thereof is changed to a use requiring off-street loading space under this section, the full amount of off-street loading space shall be supplied and maintained to comply with this section.
(C) For the purposes of this section, an off-street leading space shall be an area at the grade level at least fourteen (14) feet wide, forty-five (45) feet long, and having fourteen (14) feet of vertical clearance. Each off-street loading space shall be arranged for convenient and safe ingress and egress by motor truck and/or trailer combinations. No off-street loading space or necessary access way thereto shall be designated or utilized as off-street parking space. Each off-street loading space shall be accessible from the interior of any building it is intended to serve.
(D) Off-street loading spaces shall be provided and maintained in accordance with the following schedule:
(1) For buildings or structures containing retail, food store, restaurant, laundry, dry cleaning or similar retail or service uses which have an aggregate gross floor area of:
(a) Over five thousand (5,000) square feet, but not over twenty-five thousand (25,000) square feet — one (1) space;
(b) Over twenty- five thousand (25,000) square feet, but not over fifty thousand (50,000) square feet — two (2) spaces;
(c) One (1) additional loading space shall be provided for each additional fifty thousand (50,000) square feet, or fractional part thereof, for buildings larger than fifty thousand (50,000) square feet.
(2) For each auditorium, exhibition hall, museum, hotel, or motel, office building, or similar use, which has an aggregate gross floor area of over ten thousand (10,000) square feet, but not over fifty thousand (50,000) square feet, one (1) space. One (1) additional loading space shall be provided for each additional fifty thousand (50,000) square feet, or fractional part thereof, for buildings larger than fifty thousand (50,000) square feet.
(3) For any light manufacturing, ware-house, research and development, assembly or similar industrial use which has aggregate gross floor area of over ten thousand (10,000) square feet, but not over fifty thousand (50,000) square feet, one (1) space. One (1) additional loading space shall be provided for each additional fifty thousand (50,000) square feet, or fractional part thereof, for buildings larger than fifty thousand (50,000) square feet.
(4) For any use not specifically mentioned in this section, the requirements for off-street loading for a use which is mentioned and to which the unmentioned use is similar shall apply. Where there is any question as to the off-street loading needs of any other use, the number shall be determined and fixed by the Growth Management Director, or designee.
(E) Off-street loading facilities to meet the needs of one (1) use shall not be considered as meeting the off-street loading needs of any other use.
(F) No area supplied to meet the required off-street parking areas for a use shall be utilized for or be deemed to meet the requirements of this section for off-street loading facilities.
(G) Nothing in this section shall prevent the collective, joint or combined provision of off-street loading facilities for two (2) or more buildings or uses; provided, that such off-street loading facilities are equal in size and capacity to the combined requirements of the several buildings or uses and are so located and arranged as to be usable thereby.
(H) Plans for buildings or uses requiring off-street loading facilities under the provisions of this section shall clearly indicate the location, dimensions, clearance and access of such required off-street loading facilities
('74 Code, § 25-192) (Ord. 89- 08, passed 4-27-89; Am. Ord. 2016-17, passed 4-21-16)