Off-street storage and loading

A. Loading areas. Loading areas shall be required to serve commercial, business and/or industrial uses throughout the Town in accordance with the following standards:
- (1) For commercial and industrial uses of 1,000 square feet or greater of gross floor or ground area in which commodities are sold, displayed, serviced, repaired, altered or fabricated as the principal use of the enterprise, off-street loading spaces shall be provided. For the first 1,000 square feet of floor/area as described, one off-street loading space shall be required. Thereafter, one off-street loading space shall be required for every 5,000 square feet of gross floor area. Each space shall have a minimum length of 60 feet by a width of 14 feet with a clearance of 15 feet.
- (2) No loading space that is provided in an approved parking plan shall be eliminated, reduced, enlarged or converted unless equivalent facilities are provided elsewhere.
  [Amended 5-22-2006 by Ord. No. 767]
- (3) All loading areas shall be surfaced and maintained in accordance with the standards of the Department of Public Works.
- (4) No part of a public right-of-way shall be used for loading except as permitted by the Town Council.
- (5) The Building Official shall have the right to require additional off-street loading spaces when deemed necessary to provide adequate area for off-street loading.
B. Submission of loading facility plan. All commercial and industrial storage and loading structures constructed prior to the adoption of this chapter shall be considered lawfully conforming. For all new construction or changes of use, plans and specifications shall be submitted in conjunction with the overall parking plan as addressed in § 260-21A of this article.
C. Screening storage and loading area. Where an open storage or outdoor loading area is located on a lot adjacent to an R or F Zone or across the street from an R or F Zone, a solid wall or opaque fence, not less than five feet in height, shall be erected and maintained between such area and the adjoining property or between such area and the street.