§ 85-659. Enhanced parking and access standards.

A. 

Parking requirements shall be based upon the requirements of § 85-852, with the exception of mixed-use buildings containing office space or residential use on the second floor where a reduced parking rate may be applied. Required parking for the second-floor portion of mixed-use buildings within the Transitional Area Overlay District shall be based upon one stall per 500 square feet of floor area.

B. 

All parking shall be located, to the greatest possible extent, in the rear and/or side yard areas of structures fronting Montauk Highway as determined by the Planning Board or the Planning Commissioner.

C. 

Parking lots for passenger vehicles, permitted prior to the adoption of the District, may be permitted in a required front yard, provided that said parking area is located to the rear of a twenty-five-foot landscape buffer area. The intent is to ultimately relocate all front yard parking behind the actual building setback. The Planning Board, upon consideration of the existing character of the site and of the surrounding community and land uses, may waive or modify said requirement, provided the intent to provide the maximum possible landscaping along Montauk Highway is met.

D. 

In the Hoover Court Area, parking shall be permitted in the required front yard which faces Hoover Court, provided that a minimum twenty-foot landscaped area is established adjacent to the Hoover Court right-of-way. No parking is to be located in the required setback area fronting Montauk Highway.

E. 

Coordinated access is encouraged. To the extent allowable, any property within the Transitional Area Overlay District shall be coordinated with adjacent properties and shall attempt to eliminate curb cuts onto Montauk Highway in favor of access from side streets, interconnection between parking lots and shared curb cuts with cross-access agreements. To the extent allowable by law, the Planning Board or the Planning Commissioner, as part of site plan review, may request the consent of the applicant/owner for future access to or from an adjoining property to allow interconnection between parking lots and shared curb cuts. In such cases, where it has been agreed to or required, the applicant/owner shall file a cross-access agreement in a form satisfactory to the Town Attorney. The above cross-access agreement shall not apply to single- or two-family residences.

F. 

Where proposed parking is insufficient, the Planning Board is hereby empowered to consider shared parking to the extent of up to a deficiency of 10% where cross-access agreements between adjoining property owners ensure that adequate parking is provided. In the alternative, or in addition thereto in order to achieve the purposes of §§ 85-652 through 85-668, where deemed appropriate by the Planning Board, said Board may, in the alternative to meeting the parking requirements herein, give credit for payment in lieu of parking (PILOP) by contributing funds on a per-parking-stall basis. PILOP payments will be deposited to a designated account for use in creating parking opportunities within the area of the Montauk Highway Transitional Area Overlay District.