§ 25-32. Required loading space.

No building or structure shall be erected or changed in use, and no extensions, major repairs or substantial alterations shall be made to an existing building or structure in any district, except in the CBD, where no off-street parking is required, unless there already is in existence upon the lot, or unless provision is made for the location on the lot concurrently with such erection or change of use, off-street loading space on the basis of the following requirements:

(a)

Every department store, freight terminal or railroad yard, hospital or sanitarium, industrial plant, manufacturing establishment, retail business, storage warehouse or wholesale establishment, which has an aggregate floor area of ten thousand (10,000) square feet or more, arranged, intended or designed for such use shall provide off-street loading spaces in accordance with the following table:

Aggregate floor area devoted to such use	Required number of loading spaces
From ten thousand up to forty thousand square feet	1
Over forty thousand up to one hundred thousand square feet	2
Over one hundred thousand up to one hundred sixty thousand square feet	3
Over one hundred sixty thousand up to two hundred fifty thousand square feet	4
For each additional one hundred thousand over two hundred fifty thousand square feet	1 additional space

 

(b)

Every auditorium, convention hall, exhibition hall, funeral home, hotel, multifamily dwelling, office building, restaurant, sports arena or welfare institution, which has an aggregate floor area of ten thousand (10,000) square feet or more, arranged, intended or designed for such use shall provide off-street loading spaces in accordance with the following table:

Aggregate floor area devoted to such use	Required number of loading spaces
From ten thousand up to fifty thousand square feet	1
Over fifty thousand up to one hundred fifty thousand square feet	2
Over one hundred fifty thousand up to three hundred thousand square feet	3
For each additional one hundred fifty thousand over three hundred thousand square feet	1 additional space

 

(Ord. No. 10904, 3-19-90; Ord. No. 11296, 6-16-97; Ord. No. 11813, 11-6-2007)