Parking standards

A. Ratios. Parking ratios for existing uses within the CZD shall remain the same. All new uses within the CZD shall satisfy the applicable parking requirement set forth in the following table:

Use	Parking Requirement
Office, corporate, commercial and retail	1 parking space per 250 square feet of building space
Industrial, manufacturing and storage	2 parking spaces per every 3 full-time-equivalent employees
Hotel	5 parking spaces, plus 1 parking space per room

B. Landscaping. Ten percent of the area of all parking lots shall be landscaped.
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 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 practical, the Planning Board may require common driveways and interconnected parking lots to facilitate shared parking.
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D. 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. Refuse areas. 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- and below ground parking garages are permitted.
G. Accessory parking. Accessory parking areas for uses not located within the CZD are not permitted.