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 so long as the building is occupied, shall continue unobstructed and not be used for repairing or servicing 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. Loading spaces shall be constructed as follows:
(a) Location of Loading Spaces. All required loading spaces shall be located on the same lot as the use served and arranged so that a public street or sidewalk will not be occupied during the loading or unloading process. Such spaces may be open or enclosed. They shall not be located in any required yard or less than fifty feet from a residential district.
(b) Access Driveways. Each required off-street loading space shall be designed for direct access to a street or alley in a manner so as to cause the least possible interference with traffic movements on the street. All open off-street loading spaces and driveways shall be provided with surface improvements as required for parking areas in Section 1197.09.
(c) Size of Loading Space. A required off-street loading space shall be at least twelve feet wide by at least twenty-five feet in length for buildings with less than 15,000 square feet of gross floor area, and each required loading space for a building with 15,000 square feet or more of floor area shall be not less than twelve feet wide by fifty feet in length. Each space shall have a vertical clearance of at least fourteen feet. The above areas shall be in addition to aisle and maneuvering space. Uses for which off-street loading facilities are otherwise required, but which are located in buildings of less than 5,000 square feet of floor area, shall be provided with a receiving platform or other facilities adjacent to a service drive or other open space on the same lot.
(d) Schedule of Requirements. Loading facilities 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 - all types | 5,000 to 10,000 | 1 |
10,001 to 40,000 | 2 | |
40,001 to 100,000 | 3 | |
Each add. 50,000 | 1 add. space | |
All commercial, manufacturing and industrial establishments | Up to 40,000 | 1 |
40,001 to 100,000 | 2 | |
Each add. 50,000 | 1 add. space | |
(Ord. 254-91. Passed 12-16-91.)