On the same premises with every building, structure or part thereof, erected, altered and occupied for manufacturing, storage, warehouse goods, display, a department store, a wholesale store, a market, a hotel, a hospital, a mortuary, a laundry, a dry cleaning establishment, or other uses similarly involving the receipt or distribution of vehicles or materials or merchandise, there shall be provided prior to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy and maintained on the lot, adequate space for standing, loading and unloading services adjacent to the opening used for loading and unloading. The space shall be designed so that no part of a truck shall project into a public street or sidewalk during the loading and unloading process.
The minimum number of off-street loading and unloading spaces shall be determined in accordance with the following schedule:
Gross Floor Area in Square Feet | Loading and Unloading Spaces Required in Terms of Square Feet of Useable Floor Area |
0 to 3,000 | None |
3,000 to 20,000 | One space |
20,000 to 100,000 | One space plus one space for each 20,000 square feet of excess over 20,000 square feet |
100,000 to 500,000 | Five spaces plus one space for each 40,000 square feet of excess over 100,000 square feet |
Over 500,000 | Fifteen spaces plus one space for each 80,000 square feet of excess over 500,000 square feet |
Space required and allocated for any off-street loading shall not be used to satisfy the space requirements for off-street parking. No loading space may be on any street frontage and provisions for handling all freight shall be on those sides of any building which do not face on any street or proposed street, except where such areas are obscured, from such street, with a solid masonry wall, not less than six feet in height.
(Ord. 72-72. Passed 8-31-72.)