(a) Drive-through facilities and other establishments which, by their nature, create lines of customers waiting to be served within automobiles, shall provide off-street stacking areas, on the same lot as the use, in addition to the required number of parking spaces specified in this chapter.
(b) The number of required stacking spaces shall be as provided for in Table 1121-6. See Figure 1121-D for an illustration of stacking spaces:
TABLE 1121-6: STACKING SPACE REQUIREMENTS | ||
Activity | Minimum Stacking Spaces (per lane) | Measured From: |
Financial Institution or Automated Teller Machine (ATM) | 3 | Teller or Window |
Restaurant | 6 | First Drive-Through Window or Stall |
Automatic Vehicle Washing Establishment | 5 | Outside of Washing Bay |
Self-Service Vehicle Washing Establishment | 2 | Outside of Washing Bay |
Fuel Stations | 2 per accessible side of the pump island | Fuel Pump |
Other | As determined by the Director of Community Development | |
Figure 1121-D: Illustrative example of stacking space requirements for a bank and a restaurant.
(c) Stacking lanes and spaces shall be provided for any use having a drive-through facility and shall comply with the following standards:
(1) Drive-through stacking lanes shall have a minimum width of eight (8) feet and a minimum length of eighteen (18) feet for each space required.
(2) When stacking lanes are separated from other stacking lanes, bypass lanes, or from other site areas, the separation shall be by means of a raised concrete median, concrete curb, landscaping, or painted striping.
(3) The number of stacking spaces required by Table 1121-6 shall be required for each separate stacking lane. If two or more stacking lanes converge into one lane (e.g., two (2) separate lanes to order at a restaurant converge to one lane after the drive-through sign), the stacking spaces shall be measured in accordance with Table 1121-6 with the spaces located after the convergence point counting toward both stacking lanes.
(4) Vehicles shall not be permitted to wait within the public right-of-way for service at such drive-in or drive-thru facilities.
(d) The Planning Commission may reduce the number of required stacking spaces when the applicant provides credible documentation, such as studies from similar sites, that fewer than the required number of stacking spaces does not impede vehicular traffic flow on the site and ingress/egress to the site.
(Ord. 2022-22. Passed 5-10-22.)