§ 165-66. Off-street loading.

A. 

In any district in connection with every building or buildings, group or part thereof hereinafter erected which is to be utilized by industrial and commercial uses or requires the distribution by vehicles of materials or merchandise and for any residential development containing 30 or more dwelling units and for large-scale public and quasi-public uses, there shall be provided and maintained on the same lot with such building off-street loading spaces in accordance with the requirements of Table 7.

B. 

Each such loading space shall not be less than 12 feet in width and 35 feet or more in length, depending upon the functions to be performed. The overall floor-to-ceiling height or clear height distance shall not be less than 12 feet, which may be increased where required.

	Table 7 Off-Street Loading Requirements
	Land Use**	Floor Area at Which First Berth is Required (square feet)	Floor Area at Which Second Berth is Required* (square feet)
	Industrial, manufacturing	5,000	40,000
	Laboratory, research or commercial	5,000	40,000
	Retail	5,000	20,000
	Service establishments	5,000	40,000
	Commercial recreation	5,000	100,000
	Restaurant	2,000	25,000
	Office buildings	5,000	100,000
	Funeral home	10,000	100,000
	Residential apartment building, including senior housing complexes	10,000	100,000
	Institutional, public schools	10,000	100,000
	Hospitals, nursing homes, congregate care facilities	10,000	100,000
	Auditoriums, arenas	10,000	100,000

	NOTES:
	* An additional berth shall be required for each additional amount of square feet as indicated, and as required between the need for one- and two-berth intervals.
	** In the case of a multiple-use building, the amount of off-street loading required shall be equal to the sum of the parts, unless same can be demonstrated to be in excess, and shall be subject to determination by the approving authority.

C. 

Except for required buffer areas, each such loading space may occupy any required side or rear yard but shall not be located in any required front yard. When adjoining a residential use, institutional use or place of general assembly, a suitably screened or landscaped buffer shall be provided.

D. 

Off-street loading spaces shall not be located within any fire prevention zone, within 25 feet of any fire hydrant or within 10 feet of any stairway, doorway, elevator or other general means of entry to and from a building for the general public, nor shall it block or in any manner interfere with the free flow of pedestrians from any means of ingress or egress, nor shall it interfere with the free flow of pedestrians or vehicles. All such loading spaces shall be appropriately indicated by a sign or other visual communication as to said location.

E. 

All loading and unloading shall be conducted entirely within the boundaries of the lot concerned, and no vehicle or conveyance shall, in any manner, use public streets, sidewalks or rights-of-way for loading or unloading operations other than ingress or egress to the lot.