Parking standards

A. Ratios. Parking ratios for all uses within the SMD shall be:
- (1) Commercial: four spaces per 1,000 square feet of building area.
- (2) Hotel: five spaces plus one per room.
  [Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
B. Landscaping. Parking lot landscaping for all uses within the SMD shall be as provided in this chapter.
C. Shared parking. Common parking areas shall be encouraged for mixed-use developments which have different hours, days and/or seasons of peak parking demand. The Planning Board may, in approving development within the SMD, permit individual parking standards to be reduced for separate uses where it can be demonstrated that adequate parking may be made available on a shared basis. The Planning Board may require written easements or other assurances as may be required to enforce shared parking arrangements. Where reasonable and practicable, the Planning Board shall require common driveways and interconnected parking lots in order to facilitate shared parking.
D. Required loading and service areas. When required, loading and other service areas such as trash dumpsters shall be placed to the rear or side of buildings in visually unobtrusive locations. Screening and landscaping shall prevent direct views of the loading areas and their driveways from adjacent properties or from public or private streets used by the general public. Screening and buffering shall be achieved through walls, fences and landscaping, and shall be visually impervious.
E. All outdoor refuse storage, collection and recycling areas shall be enclosed and solidly screened, and shall extend on three sides of such an area, with a gate or door on the fourth side. A brick wall, if used, shall be capped at the top. The Planning Board may modify this requirement if such area is not visible from abutting property or streets and, in the opinion of the Planning Board, is not necessary in order to screen or buffer abutting property or streets or to otherwise meet the purposes of the Comprehensive Plan or this chapter.
F. Parking GARAGES, above- or below ground, are permitted.
G. Accessory parking areas for uses not located within the SMD are not permitted; except the parking on Lot 4-6.