§ 122-982. Off-street loading facilities.

(a)

Required. On the same plot with every structure or use hereafter erected or created, there shall be provided and maintained adequate space for loading and unloading of materials, goods or things, and for delivery and shipping, so that vehicles for these services may use this space without encroaching on or interfering with the public use of streets and alleys by pedestrians and vehicles. Where any structure is enlarged or any use is extended so that the size of the resulting occupancy comes within the scope of this section, the full amount of off-street loading space shall be supplied and maintained for the structure or use in its extended or enlarged size.

(b)

Size of spaces; access to spaces. For the purpose of this section, an off-street loading space shall be an area at grade level at least 12 feet wide by 45 feet long with 12-foot vertical clearance. Each off-street loading space shall be directly accessible from a street or alley without crossing or entering any other required off-street loading or off-street parking space. Such loading space shall be accessible from the interior of the building to be served.

(c)

Required number of spaces. Off-street loading spaces shall be provided as follows:

(1)

For all business uses, all industrial uses, and all warehouse uses:

Square Feet	Spaces Required
Over 5,000—25,000	1
25,001—60,000	2
60,001—120,000	3
120,001—200,000	4
200,001—290,000	5
Each 90,000 square feet over 290,000 or major fraction thereof	1

 

(2)

For each auditorium, convention hall, exhibition hall, museum, hotel, office building, apartment house, sports arena, stadium, hospital, sanitarium, welfare institution or similar use with aggregate gross floor area of:

a.

Over 10,000 square feet but not over 40,000 square feet, one space.

b.

For each additional 60,000 square feet or major fraction thereof, one space.

(d)

Use restrictions; joint facilities. Off-street loading facilities supplied to meet the needs of one use shall not be considered as meeting the needs of any other use, nor shall off-street parking facilities required by this article be used to meet the off-street loading requirements of this section. Nothing in this section shall prevent the collective or joint provision of off-street loading facilities for two or more uses or buildings, provided the total requirements of this section are fulfilled. Off-street loading spaces shall be plainly marked on plans submitted with the application for permit, and shall be maintained at all times as an off-street loading space.

(Code 1961, § 22-12(8); Code 1985, § 7-922; Ord. No. 2753, § 20, 8-19-97)