Section 43 Motor Vehicle Services
Section 43. Motor Vehicle Services
43.1 Location Requirements. Motor vehicle service stations shall be granted a Special Permit only in conformity with the following:
43.11 No location shall be approved if a vehicular entrance or exit will be so located as to create unusual hazard. Egressing vehicles shall have at least 400 feet visibility in each travel direction, and no vehicular entrance or exit shall be located within 10 feet of a side lot line or within fifty feet of the intersection of sidelines of intersecting streets. Entrances and exits shall occupy not more than 40% of lot frontage, and shall be clearly channeled through use of curb planting areas or similar devices.
43.12 No location shall be approved if a vehicular entrance or exit will be so located as to cross a major pedestrian flow, such as sidewalks serving churches, schools, recreation areas, or compact retail districts.
43.13 There shall be adequate space off-street for not fewer than two cars to await service per filling position, and no service building shall be located within 40 feet of a street line.
43.2 Car Wash Requirements. Automatic car washes shall provide space for not less than 15 cars per washing lane to queue off-street, and where waste water does not discharge directly into a public sewer, shall provide positive means of preventing water pollution.
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