Parking plan; location, number and ownership of parking spaces

A. Submission of parking plan.
- (1) Designs and specifications for the required parking lot shall include, but not be limited to, information about the proposed parking spaces, access drives, circulation patterns, bicycle storage, dedicated areas for pedestrians, areas for snow storage, loading areas, landscaping and maintenance plans. All such plans and specifications shall be submitted at the time of application for a building permit for work described in § 260-19 of this article.
- (2) Such plans shall be reviewed by the Building Official/Zoning Enforcement Officer and the Director of Planning or his/her designee to determine compliance with the provisions of this article.
B. Location and ownership of parking spaces. Required off-street parking spaces shall be provided on the same lot or premises as the generating use which they are intended to serve or on a contiguous lot under the same ownership unless otherwise permitted by this article. Where parking spaces are not provided on premises or on a commonly owned contiguous parcel, parking may be provided on another lot located not more than 500 feet radially from the subject lot within the same or a less restrictive zoning district. The exclusive use of such parking must be dedicated to the use via lease or other agreement.
C. Reduction of existing spaces. If a property owner wishes to reduce the number of existing parking on his/her lot such that the resulting number of parking spaces falls below the number required by this article, such reduction may be done only with approvals as prescribed elsewhere in this chapter.
D. Parking spaces not counted toward meeting the requirement. No part of a minimum front yard setback or any land physically inaccessible for the actual parking of a car (because of structures or for any other reason) shall be used to satisfy the above off-street parking requirements.