A drive-thru establishment or other establishment which, by its nature, creates lines of customers in vehicles waiting to be served shall provide off-street stacking spaces on the same lot as the use, in addition to the required number of parking spaces in Schedule 150.376, in accordance with the requirements in Schedule 150.384(A).
(A) Schedule 150.384(A) Minimum Number of Stacking Spaces:
Use | Minimum Requirement |
(1) Establishments selling food/drinks: | Six (6) stacking spaces per drive-thru window as measured from the first window |
(2) Automatic car wash facilities where a chain conveyor or other similar method is used to move the vehicle through the structure: | Ten (10) stacking spaces, not counting the washing bay |
(3) Banks, ticket booths, drive-up ATM machines and other similar facilities with service windows or service entrances: | Four (4) stacking spaces for the first drive-thru window or stall plus two (2) stacking spaces for each additional window or stall, which may be distributed as determined by the applicant |
(4) Self-serve car wash facilities: | Two (2) stacking spaces per stall, not counting the washing bay |
(5) Gasoline stations: | Two (2) stacking spaces per accessible side of a gasoline pump island |
(6) All other uses, such as retail pick-up windows: | Three (3) stacking spaces for each window, stall, and entrance |
(B) Off-street stacking spaces, which includes the space for the vehicle being waited upon at the service window or fuel pump, shall be clearly delineated on the development plan.
(C) The number of stacking spaces required by Schedule 150.384(A) shall be required for each separate stacking lane. If two or more stacking lanes converge into one lane (e.g., two separate lanes for ordering at a restaurant converge to one lane after the menu board), the stacking spaces shall be required in accordance with Schedule 150.384(A) with the spaces located after the convergence point counting toward both stacking lanes.
(D) Stacking Space Dimensions. The area of an off-street stacking space shall be at least 144 square feet (measuring 8 feet by 20 feet) exclusive of access drives and parking aisles and shall not interfere with parking or circulation.
(E) Stacking lanes shall be designed to prevent circulation congestion, both on site and on adjacent public streets. The circulation shall separate drive-through traffic from site circulation traffic, not impede or impair access into or out of parking spaces, minimize conflicts between pedestrian and vehicular traffic by physical and visual separation between pedestrian ways and stacking lanes and driveways, or at the crossing of the two.
(F) Vehicles shall not be permitted to wait within the public right-of-way for service at any drive- through facility.
(Ord. 2023-03, passed 2-27-2023)