§ D. Off-street loading and unloading.

On the same premises with every building or structure erected hereafter and occupied for any manufacturing, processing, or related uses, storage, warehousing, wholesaling, or related uses, and retailing, trade, and its related uses involving the receipt or distribution by vehicles of material or merchandise, there shall be provided and maintained on the same lot adequate space for standing, loading, and unloading in order to avoid undue interference with the public use of sidewalk, street, or alley. Such space unless otherwise adequately provided for shall include at minimum:

(1)

A 12-foot by 25-foot loading space, with 14 feet overhead clearance for every 20,000 square feet or fraction thereof in excess of 7,000 square feet of floor area of land used for above-mentioned purpose.

(2)

An off-street loading space or spaces of sufficient dimensions and size to allow normal off-street loading an unloading operations of a kind appropriate to the property served thereby, where the floor area of land used for above mentioned purposes is less than 7,000 square feet.

(3)

In no case shall a loading berth or loading space be so located as to hinder the free movement of vehicles and pedestrians over a street, sidewalk, alley, or access route to or from an off-street parking area.

(4)

Any light used to illuminate any parking/loading area shall be so arranged as to reflect light away from adjoining premises in a residential district.

(Res. No. 18-29, § 3(Exh. A), 6-26-2018)