Zoning Dictionary
Category: Parking/Access/Loading
Parking Space
A space exclusive of driveway, ramps, columns, to park one vehicle. An area exclusive of driveways, or aisles, for the temporary parking or storage of motor vehicles, and which has adequate access to permit ingress or egress of...
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Parking Space, Tandem
A parking space which has access to a driveway or aisle used for vehicular traffic only over another parking space. One parking space located immediately behind another parking space where both spaces are for the exclusive use of one dwelling unit. A parking space that abuts a driveway or aisle and which is used to […]
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Parking, Mechanical Access
A parking lot or garage that employs parking machines, lifts, elevators, or other mechanical devices for vehicles moving from and to the street level, including the following: (a) Automated Valet-Type Mechanical Access Parking. Mechanical parking lifts where the car is driven on to a pallet, and the pallet moves the car to a parking slot where […]
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Parking, Off-street
The on-site parking allotment required for a given property based on a specific use or uses carried out there.
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Parking, Shared
The development and use of parking areas on two or more separate properties for joint use by the businesses on those properties. Joint use of a parking area for more than one use. Shall mean the provision of parking spaces to meet the combined peak parking needs of more than one (1) use on a […]
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Parking, Underground
An area that contains parking spaces and associated driveways and maneuvering aisles, is located within a buildings and, has its roof or the finished floor above it not more than .8 meters (2.62 feet) above the adjacent finished grade
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Private Lane
A thoroughfare or way, which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting property.
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Private Road
A private right-of-way over private property which affords access to abutting lots and is not maintained by a public body. A thoroughfare which affords a means of access to abutting lots from a street and is not intended for general traffic circulation.
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Public Access Point
Public land designated by the appropriate authority and developed and maintained by the authority as a public access to a navigable water body.
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