§ 184-161. Location of required parking spaces.

Required off-street parking and loading spaces shall be located as hereinafter specified.

A. 

General location of parking areas.

(1) 

Residential uses and residential zone districts. For all residential buildings and structures, regardless of the district in which they may be located, and for all nonresidential buildings and structures in residential zone districts, required parking shall be provided on the same lot with the building or upon an adjacent lot in common ownership. (SIS)

(2) 

Nonresidential zone districts. In all nonresidential zones, required parking shall be furnished on the same lot as the principal building, structure or use; provided, however, that up to 50% of the required number of parking spaces may be located on other property owned by the applicant, or under a joint parking program agreement, in a nonresidential zone so long as such parking spaces are located within 500 feet of any customer entrance way to the principal building, structure or use as measured along the normal pedestrian route between the parking and the entrance-way to the principal building, structure or use. (SIS)

B. 

Yard location of parking areas.

(1) 

R-75 and R-150. No vehicle shall be parked in any front yard, provided, however, that parking accessory to single-family and two-family dwellings shall be permitted in the driveway area leading from the street upon which the premises involved is located. Required parking for single-family and two-family dwellings may be located in either a garage or driveway, provided said driveway meets the residential driveway requirements herein.

(2) 

CO Zones. Off-street parking areas are prohibited in the front yard and may be permitted in the side yard provided it is screened by natural vegetation; parking areas shall be permitted in the rear yards.

(3) 

CC and LI Zones. Off street parking areas are prohibited in the front yard; parking areas shall only be permitted in the side and rear yards.

(4) 

GC Zone. Off street parking areas should be permitted in any yard.

C. 

Minimum setbacks for parking areas. Unless more stringent requirements are set forth in other portions of this chapter, the following minimum setbacks shall apply to parking areas and driveways. Where a setback distance is specified, it shall be the distance measured from the nearest point of the paved parking area or driveway to the nearest point of the building or structure that such area is required to serve, or to the property line, as the case may be; provided, however, that curb returns for driveway openings at the street shall be excluded from such setback measurement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, joint parking areas and common driveways, where permitted, shall be exempt from the following setback requirements only to the extent such exemption is necessary to connect said parking and to provide common access.

D. 

Location of loading areas.

(1) 

On lots containing a single principal building, no loading areas shall be permitted in the front yard.

(2) 

On lots containing a single principal building, no loading areas shall be permitted in the front yard.

(3) 

On lots containing more than one principal building, no loading areas shall be permitted closer to an abutting street than the minimum setback required for a building.

E. 

Loading areas shall comply with the setback requirements for parking areas applicable in the same location or to the same use; provided, however, that no loading area shall be permitted to be set back less than five feet from any property line.

F. 

In no case shall loading or unloading be conducted from public streets.