A. General requirements. There shall be provided off-street parking and loading facilities in accordance with the requirements of this section on the same lot as the use to which they are accessory, except that parking for nonresidential uses may be provided on a contiguous lot in the same ownership and zoning district as the lot on which the principal building or use is located. The Building Inspector shall interpret and apply the requirements for parking and loading spaces. Loading or parking layout for nonresidential uses shall be shown on and approved as part of a site plan under the provisions of § 174-10.

B. Surfacing. Required vehicular use areas shall be paved with bituminous concrete unless serving a single-family dwelling. An alternative surface may be approved by the Planning Board upon its determination that drainage, erosion, siltation, dust and appearance will be satisfactorily controlled. Where an alternative to bituminous concrete is authorized by the Planning Board, the following shall be complied with:

(1) Access drives shall be paved with bituminous concrete or other pavement authorized by the Planning Board for at least fifteen (15) feet inside of the street or property line unless the street itself is not paved.

(2) Grading and materials selection shall assure that surface materials will not be carried into the street and that drainage is positively provided for.

(3) If there are eight (8) or more parking spaces there shall be provisions for identifying individual spaces through use of segmented bumper strips or other similar permanent means.

C. Dimensional requirements. (1) Loading. Each loading space shall be not less than ten (10) feet in width, fourteen (14) feet in height and of such length that a truck or trailer occupying the space shall be entirely in the loading space and shall not project into any street, vehicular accessway or pedestrian walk. The loading space may use common access driveways and aisles with parking spaces, where such access is adequate for both purposes. If located within fifty (50) feet of a residence district or if used frequently at night, loading spaces shall be enclosed. Loading spaces shall not be located within the required front yard.

(2) Parking. Each parking space shall be at least nine and one-half (9 1/2) feet wide and eighteen (18) feet long, exclusive of aisles and maneuvering space; for parking at right angles to a central aisle, the width of the aisle shall not be less than twenty-two (22) feet, and an equal width shall be provided at each end of a row of parking spaces; for angle or herringbone parking at forty-five degrees (45') or sixty degrees (60') and one-way circulation, the width of aisles shall be consistent with the dimensions recommended by the Institute of Transportation Engineers, provided that for parking facilities for more than five (5) cars, the total area shall be not less than three hundred (300) square feet times the number of parking spaces. Unobstructed access to and from a street shall be provided and shall not require backing out into a street. Two (2) or more nonresidential uses may share a combined facility, provided that its continued availability is assured and the total number of spaces equals or exceeds the number required by this section. The number of parking spaces required by the Architectural Barriers Board located nearest to and to both sides of the entrance of a building used by the public and/or by employees shall be reserved for the exclusive use of handicapped persons and shall be identified by appropriate signs at each parking space and by the wheelchair symbol painted within each such parking space. Up to twenty-five percent (25%) of parking spaces dedicated to use by employees or occupants and not by the general public and up to fifteen percent (15%) of such spaces for use by customers, visitors or general public may be reduced to not less than seventeen by eight (17 x 8) feet and marked as being reserved for compact cars only.

D. Loading requirements. Not fewer than the number of loading spaces indicated in the following table shall be provided:
Consumer Service
Floor Area Retail Trade, Offices, Hotels, Institutions
of Building Wholesale Dormitories
or Structure Trade, Storage, Other Nonresidential
(square feet) Manufacturing Uses

5,000 to 15,000 1 0

15,001 to 50,000 1 1

50,001 to 100,000 2 1

100,001 to 150,000 3 2

150,001 to 300,000 4 3

Each additional 1 additional
100,000 over 300,000

Each additional 1 additional
200,000 over 300,000

E. Parking requirements. Off-street parking spaces shall be provided according to the following schedule, and not more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the required parking spaces, other than for dwellings, shall be located in the required front yard.

(1) Dwellings: two (2) spaces for each dwelling unit containing one (1) or two (2) bedrooms, three (3) spaces for each dwelling unit containing three (3) or more bedrooms, plus one (1) space for each eighty (80) square feet of floor area devoted to a customary home occupation or a professional use.

(2) Hotels, motels, board or rooming houses and other places providing overnight accommodations: one (1) space for each room accommodation, plus one (1) space for each two (2) employees, plus one (1) space for each four hundred (400) square feet of public meeting area and restaurant.

(3) Restaurants and other places serving food or beverages: one (1) space for each three (3) seats, plus one (1) space for each employee, provided that drive-in establishments shall instead provide one (1) space for each fifty (50) square feet of gross floor area, plus one (1) space for each two (2) employees.

(4) Schools and colleges: two (2) spaces per classroom for elementary and intermediate; two and one-half (21/2) spaces per classroom for secondary, and one (1) space per two (2) students beyond secondary, none to be fewer than one (1) space per teacher and staff.

(5) Banks and libraries: one (1) space for each two hundred fifty (250) square feet of floor area in public use, plus one (1) space for each five hundred (500) square feet of other gross floor area.

(6) Hospitals, nursing homes, homes for the aged. Hospitals: one (1) space per bed; nursing homes: one (1) space per two (2) beds; homes for the aged: one (1) space per one and one-half (1 1/2) units.

(7) Theaters, membership clubs and places of amusement, recreation and assembly (public or private): one (1) space per four (4) seats.

(8) Retail stores and consumer service establishments: one (1) space for each one hundred fifty (150) square feet of gross floor area, exclusive of storage space.

(9) Gasoline service stations: two (2) spaces for each lubrication pit, lift or bay, plus one (1) space for each employee.

(10) Warehouses: one (1) space for each one thousand five hundred (1,500) square feet of gross floor area.

(11) Medical and dental offices: one (1) space per two hundred (200) square feet gross floor area.

(12) Industry, processing, manufacturing, assembly and research and development: one (1) space for each three hundred (300) square feet of floor area, plus space for company-owned trucks and vans and the required loading spaces.

(13) All other offices and nonresidential uses: three and one-half (3 1/2) spaces for each one thousand (1,000) square feet of gross floor area.

(14) Temporary reduction in the number of paved parking spaces. Whenever new or increased off-street parking spaces are required to be provided on premises subjected to a site plan review and approval by the Planning Board under the provisions of § 174-10 hereof and if, in the opinion of the Planning Board, based on evidence presented by the applicant, the full number of parking spaces will not be needed for at least three (3) years, the Planning Board may, in its approval of the site plan, temporarily reduce the number of parking spaces paved, designated, striped and graded, subject to the following requirements:

(a) The Planning Board shall have the right to review the temporary reduction every three (3) years or whenever evidence is presented to it that such review is warranted and shall have the right to require the paving and development of additional parking spaces up to the full number required by this chapter.

(b) The applicant shall be required to provide the entire area called for by this chapter and shall landscape, plant with grass or shrubbery and maintain as open space any part thereof not needed for parking.

(c) In no case shall the number of parking spaces developed, paved, marked and available for parking be less than sixty percent (60%) of the total number of such spaces called for by this chapter, and no cars shall be parked on undeveloped reserved land, except in an emergency. The areas to be developed and paved and to be temporarily held as landscaped open space shall be clearly identified on the site plan, and their location and layout shall be consistent with § 174-10B, C and D. Anyone required to provide at least twelve (12) parking spaces and wishing to take advantage of this temporary reduction provision shall proceed in accordance with the provisions of this subsection and of § 174-10 hereof, even though not otherwise subject to its requirements.

F. Egress.

(1) Any driveway likely to carry more than two hundred (200) trips per average business day must comply with the following unless the Board of Appeals grants a special permit for an alternative configuration, upon its determination that safety will be adequately protected, based on commonly employed engineering standards:

(2) No existing parcel shall be divided into lots with frontage which would preclude meeting the driveway separation requirements, unless access rights-of-way are deeded to enable shared egress.