The following schedule of parking and loading requirements shall apply to all zones:
21.1 - Basic Requirement
Facilities for off street parking shall be provided to serve all building erected, moved, altered or enlarged in excess of twenty-five (25%) percent of their present floor area. Such facilities shall be sufficient to accommodate vehicles for all occupants, employees, customers and others normally visiting the building or premise at any one time.
21.2 - Location
Required parking facilities shall be provided on the same lot as the building they serve or may be located on another lot not exceeding three hundred (300) feet from the building which it is intended to serve, and shall be situated in the same zone, (effective 8/10/06). Two (2) or more parking facilities on adjoining lots, if designed for use as a single parking area, may use a single access. Rooftop or indoor parking may serve to satisfy any or all of the parking requirements of this Section.
21.3 - Parking Space Area
A required outdoor parking space shall contain not less than two hundred (200) square feet, except for required handicap access spaces, which shall conform to the standards found in the Connecticut Building Code, ANSI, or other required standards. Garage or indoor parking shall contain at least one hundred sixty (160) square feet per space except for handicap access as noted above.
21.4 - Schedule of Parking Spaces by Use (effective 12/06/03)
Use |
Min. Spaces Required |
1 & 2 Family Dwellings |
2 per dwelling unit |
3 or more Dwelling Units |
2 plus 1.5 for each dwelling unit in excess of two units |
Industrial & Manufacturing |
3 per each 1000 gross sq. ft. or one per each employee, based on the numerically largest shift. The largest number shall apply but spaces in excess of the largest numerical employee total may be provided as area reserve for future parking. |
Hotels |
1 per guest room plus 1 for each employee. |
Motels, Tourist Homes Resident Trailer Parks. |
1 per each unit plus 1 for manager. 1 for each employee |
Boarding and Rooming Houses Dormitories |
1.5 for each resident plus 1 for resident manager |
Hospitals, Sanitariums, Nursing or Convalescent Homes |
1 for each 4 beds plus 1 additional for each ermployee |
Medical and Dental Offices |
5 for each doctor engaged at the office plus 1 for each employee |
Funeral Homes |
1 for each "Official Vehicle", 1 for each employee and 1 for each 4 legal occupants |
Theaters and Places of Assembly |
1 for each 3 legal Assembly occupants plus 1 for each employee |
Business Offices and Financial Institutions |
1 per 160 sq. ft. net plus 1 per employee |
Restaurants, etc. |
1 per 100 sq. ft. net public area or1 per 4 seats(whichever is greater) |
Retail, Personal Service |
2 plus 1 per 160 sq. ft. net |
Roadside Stands |
5 plus dwelling unit minimum |
Active Adult & Senior Housing |
2 per dwelling unit plus1 per employee, where facilities are included. |
Congregate & Assisted Living |
.60 spaces for each dwelling unit plus 1 per employee |
*(Note) Where this regulation calls for employee parking, the numerically largest shift shall be used for the computation.
21.5 - Multiple Use Requirements
In the case of more than one use of a building or lot, required parking facilities shall be construed to be the sum of the requirements for all uses computed separately according to the above schedules except as provided in Section 21.6, hereafter (revision effective July 8, 2006).
21.6 - Adjustment for Change in Use
Whenever after the date of these Regulations, there is a change in the number of employees or business visitors or in the lawful use of the premises or in any other unit of measurement specified in any of the foregoing paragraphs of this section, and whenever such change creates a need for an increase or decrease or more than fifteen (15%) percent of the number of off-street parking facilities shall be provided within 180 days time on the basis of the adjusted needs, as determined by this paragraph, recourse may be had to the Zoning Board of Appeals, in the manner provided by law (revision effective July 8, 2006).
21.7 - Access
All off-street automobile parking facilities shall be designed with appropriate means of vehicular access to a street or alley as well as maneuvering areas. No driveway or curb cuts in any district shall exceed twenty-five (25') feet in width, and detailed plans shall be submitted to the proper official for approval for all curb cuts or driveway openings before a permit many be obtained therefore.
21.8 - Surface and Drainage
Parking spaces and loading facilities, and access roadways shall have adequate all-weather surfacing, treated to inhibit dust, with proper drainage, and shall be capable of allowing free and safe movement of all vehicles customarily using the facility.
21.9 - Barriers to Sidewalks
Any parking area designed or intended for use by three or more vehicles which is located and adjacent to any public sidewalk or the planned location of a public sidewalk shall be separated from such sidewalk by a landscaping and/or suitable barrier so placed as to prevent the encroachment or parking of automobiles on such public sidewalk or planned location thereof.
21.10 - Lighting
Lighting of parking areas and access driveways shall have the light source shaded from residential districts and public streets.
21.11 - Loading Space Requirements
On the same premises with every building devoted to retail trade, retail and wholesale food markets, warehouses, supply houses, wholesale or manufacturing trade, hotels, hospitals, laundry, dry cleaning establishments or other building where large amounts of goods are received or shipped, erected in any district after the date of the adoption of these Regulations, loading and unloading space shall be provided as follows:
1. Every building or block of building containing more than five thousand (5,000) square feet gross floor area--one loading space.
2. Every building or block building containing more than twenty thousand (20,000) square feet gross floor area -- one loading space for each twenty thousand (20,000) square feet or fraction thereof.
21.12 - Loading Space Dimensions
A required loading space shall be not less than ten (10') feet wide, forty (40') feet long and fourteen (14') feet high.
21.13 - Landscaping Within Parking Area
Landscaping area in an amount equal to at least ten percent (10%) of the required parking area shall be provided within the parking areas. These areas shall be considered pervious surface and shall be designed in accordance with the provisions for landscaping found in Section 28 (Site Plan Requirements) (revision effective July 8, 2006).
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