5.8.9. Stacking Spaces

   A.   General. Uses with drive-through facilities and other auto-oriented uses where vehicles queue up to access a service shall provide adequate stacking spaces on-site for the uses or buildings in accordance with Table 5.8.9.A: Stacking Spaces Required.

TABLE 5.8.9.A: STACKING SPACES REQUIRED
Use of Activity	Minimum # of Stacking Spaces Required	Origin Point for Measurement
Assisted living facility and nursing home	3	Building entrance adjacent to stacking spaces
Automated teller machine (drive through)	2	Teller machine
Automobile repair and servicing/automotive painting or body shop	1 per bay	Bay entrance
Car wash or automobile detailing	1 per bay for manual car washes, otherwise 3	Bay/wash process entrance
Child day care center	2	Building entrance adjacent to stacking spaces
Convenience store with gasoline sales	1	Each end of the outermost gas pump
Coffee shop with a drive through	[1]	[1]
Equipment and tool rental	2	Security gate
Financial services with a drive through	3 per lane	Agent window
Funeral-related service	2	Building entrance adjacent to stacking spaces
Gasoline sales, whether as a principal or accessory use	1	Each end of the outermost gas pump

 

TABLE 5.8.9.A: STACKING SPACES REQUIRED
Use of Activity	Minimum # of Stacking Spaces Required	Origin Point for Measurement
Heavy equipment sales, rental, and repair	2 [2]	Security gate
Hospital	4	Building entrance adjacent to stacking spaces
Hotel or motel	2	Building entrance adjacent to stacking spaces
Laundry and cleaning service with a drive through	3	Agent window or door intended for service to vehicles
Outpatient treatment facility	4	Building entrance adjacent to stacking spaces
Pharmacy with a drive through	3 per lane	Agent window
Post office	2	Each mailbox intended for access via automobile
Public convenience center/transfer station	5	Front edge of scale
Restaurant with a drive through	[1]	[1]
School (elementary, middle, or high school)	3	Building entrance adjacent to stacking spaces
Truck of freight terminal	1 [3]	Security gate
Notes: [1] Stacking spaces shall be provided in accordance with a stacking space needs study prepared for the specific use type proposed and in accordance with the business model and local experience of similar establishments and authored by professional engineer licensed by the State of North Carolina. [2] The stacking space shall be of sufficient length to accommodate a trailer attached to a cab. [3] Subject to the standards for gasoline sales if provided to individual passenger automobiles.

 

   B.   Design. Stacking spaces are subject to the following design and layout standards (see Figure 5.8.9.B: Stacking Spaces):

      1.   Size. Stacking spaces shall be a minimum of nine feet wide and 25 feet long.

      2.   Traffic Movements. Required stacking spaces shall not impede vehicular traffic movements or movements into or out of parking spaces, whether on-site or off-site.

      3.   Bicycle and Pedestrian Movement. Required stacking spaces shall not impede on-site or off-site bicycle or pedestrian traffic movements, whether on-site or off-site.

Figure 5.8.9.B: Stacking Spaces

(Ord. 2020-36, passed 12-2-2019)