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Article VI: Design Standards
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Section 605 Vehicular Parking Facilities

a.                 Parking Areas.  Off-street vehicular parking facilities shall be provided in accordance with the Township Zoning Ordinance.

 

b.                 Parking compound dimensions shall be no less than those listed in Appendix.

 

c.                 Landscaping and screening shall be provided in accordance with the Township Zoning Ordinance.

 

d.                 No portion of a parking compound will be permitted within ten (10) feet of side or rear property lines or street right-of-ways.

 

e.                  Not less than five (5) foot radius of curvature shall be permitted for horizontal curves in parking areas.

 

f.                  All dead-end parking lots shall be designed to provide sufficient back-up area for all end stalls.

 

g.                 Painted lines, arrows and dividers shall be provided and maintained to control parking when necessary to direct vehicular circulation.

 

h.                 Parking areas, main entrances and exits which are open to the public shall be lighted to the following standards:

 

1.                  Lighting shall be provided at a minimum average of two (2) foot candles at an elevation of three (3) feet above the surface.

 

2.                  All lighting shall be so arranged as to reflect the light downward and away from adjoining premises and public rights-of-way.

 

3.                  Poles for mounting lights shall not exceed twenty-five (25) feet in height.

 

4.                  All lighting plans shall be delineated on the plan and shall include photometrics.

 

5.                  Appropriate footer and mounting details shall be included on the plans.

 

I.                    All parking compounds and access drives shall be paved to meet the following minimum standards:

 

1.                  Crushed aggregate base course with a minimum thickness of six (6) inches, as specified in PennDOT Specifications, Form 408, and its latest revisions.

 

 

2.                  The bituminous surface shall consist of a minimum of one and one-half (1-1/2) inches of ID-2 binder course and one (1) inch ID-2 wearing course.  Material shall be equal or superior to PennDOT Specifications Publication 408/90, as amended, and shall be applied in accordance with those same specifications.

 

3.                  Truck areas may require a heavier pavement section.





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Rapho Township
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Manheim, PA  17545
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