A. Required Loading Spaces for Delivery and Distribution. A building, or part thereof, having a floor area of ten thousand (10,000) square feet or more that is to be occupied by any use requiring the receipt or distribution by vehicles or trucks of material or merchandise must provide at least one (1) off-street loading space, plus one (1) additional such loading space for each additional forty thousand (40,000) square feet of floor area. The off-street loading space(s) must be maintained during the existence of the building or use it is required to serve. Truck-maneuvering areas must not encroach into required parking areas, travel ways, or street rights-of-way.
B. Required Loading Spaces for Customers. Customer loading spaces allow bulky merchandise to be loaded into customers' vehicles. Each home improvement sales and service use shall provide at least two (2) customer loading spaces per business establishment or one (1) customer loading space per forty thousand (40,000) square feet of floor area, whichever is greater. Customer loading spaces shall be located adjacent to the building or to an outdoor sales area where bulky merchandise is stored and shall be clearly visible from the main building entry or through directional signage visible from the main entry. Customer loading spaces shall be not be located in such a way that they impede on-site traffic circulation, as determined by the Director of Public Works.
C. Requirements for Off-street Loading Spaces.
1. Minimum size. Each off-street loading space required by this section must be not less than twelve (12) feet wide, thirty (30) feet long, and fifteen (15) feet high, exclusive of driveways for ingress and egress and maneuvering areas. Loading spaces for customers may be twelve (12) feet wide, twenty-six (26) feet long and twelve (12) feet high.
2. Driveways for ingress and egress and maneuvering areas. Each off-street loading space required by this section must be provided with driveways for ingress and egress and maneuvering space adequate for trucks, per city standards.
3. Location of loading areas. An off-street loading space (excluding loading spaces for customers) required by this section must not be located closer than thirty (30) feet to any lot or parcel of land in a residential district, unless such off-street loading space is wholly enclosed within a building or on all sides by a wall not less than eight (8) feet in height. Except in industrial zoning districts, a loading door or loading dock that is visible from a public street must be screened with an eight (8)-foot-high, solid masonry or other sound-absorbing wall, with landscaping planted between the wall and the right-of-way. (Ord. 2010-02 § 1 (part), 2010)