Notice of Public Hearing: Off-street parking

TOWN OF RIVERHEAD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a public hearing will be held before the Town Board of the Town at Riverhead at Riverhead Town Hall, 200 Howell Avenue, Riverhead, New York, on the 5^th day of June, 2012 at 2:05 o’clock p.m. to amend Chapter 108, entitled “Zoning” of the Riverhead Town Code.

Be it enacted by the Town Board of the Town of Riverhead as follows:

Zoning

§ 108-60. Off-street parking. 

F. The minimum acceptable pavement improvements required for parking areas shall be as follows:

For retail businesses, a home occupation or home professional office with a maximum required number of four parking spaces: a crushed stone aggregate with a sieve size no greater than 3/4 inch placed at a rate of 25 pounds per square yard on a compacted four-inch-thick stone blend base and stabilized subgrade.

For a business and commercial building with a maximum required number of 12 parking spaces: a two-inch-thick wearing course, after compaction, of New York State Department of Transportation Type 6F Top Course Asphalt mix placed on a compacted four-inch-thick stone blend or approved equal aggregate base and stabilized subgrade.

For a business or commercial building with a maximum required number of parking spaces exceeding 12 spaces: a one-and-one-half-inch-thick wearing course, after compaction, of New York State Department of Transportation Type 6F Top Course Asphalt mix placed on one two-and-one-half-inch-thick binder base course, after compaction, of New York State Department of Transportation Type 6F Top Course Asphalt mix placed on compacted four-inch-thick stone blend or approved equal aggregate subbase and stabilized subgrade.

For retail businesses accessory to an agricultural use or zoning districts where pervious parking surface is recommended pursuant to the supplementary guidelines, or as required as part of the review or approval process: a crushed stone aggregate with a sieve size no greater than 3/4 inch placed at a rate of 25 pounds per square yard on a compacted four-inch-thick stone blend base and stabilized subgrade.

(5) When deemed appropriate by the Town Engineer and Planning Department consulting engineer and approved by the applicable Board approving the site plan, the following alternative pervious paving techniques may also be allowed: 

Porous asphalt, porous concrete, or permeable pavers over appropriate base and subbase material;

Other pervious paving techniques not specifically listed when deemed suitable as to use and location. 

Since alternative pervious pavement techniques may require maintenance not required for conventional paving systems, the applicable Board may require as part of the covenants approving a site plan a maintenance agreement and periodic inspections.

(5)(6) For designated handicapped accessible parking spaces, access aisles and pathways: the surface improvement must conform to the design requirements and standard specifications of the Americans with Disabilities Act, while the balance of the parking improvement (subsurface layers) must comply with the minimum requirements as noted in Subsection F(1) through (4)  (5) of this section.

Overstrike represents deletion(s)

Underscore represents addition(s)

Dated:  Riverhead, New York 

             April 17, 2012

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD

OF THE TOWN OF RIVERHEAD

DIANE M. WILHELM, Town Clerk