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29. Off-Street Loading Requirements: In all zoning districts there shall be provided in connection with appropriate allowable uses, off-street loading facilities in accordance with the following requirements: I Any department store, industrial plant. manufacturing establishment, retail establishment, storage warehouse, or wholesale establishment, which has an aggregate gross floor area of 10,000 square feet or more, arranged, intended or designed for such use shall be provided with off-street truck loading or unloading berths at least 12 feet wide, 14 feet high and 35 feet long in accordance with the following table. There shall be sufficient space to insure that all maneuvering required to utilize such loading space will not include street right-of-way. Square feet of aggregate gross floor area: 10,000 to 40,000 40,001 to 100,000 100,001 to 160,000 160,001 to 240,000 240,001 to 320,000 320,001 to 400,000 400,001 to 490,000 Required number of berths: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 For each additional 90,000 over 490,000 1 additional B. Design and Construction Standards 1. All parking areas and spaces shall be designed and constructed in accordance with the attached tables and illustrative diagrams as approved by the City Council as evidenced by Exhibit "A" and "B" attached hereto and incorporated herein. Said tables and diagrams shall be kept of record in the office of the City Secretary and Director of Public Works for inspection by the public during reasonable office hours. In addition: I a. All parking areas and spaces shall be designed and con- structed so as to have free ingress and egress at all times. b. No parking space or parking area shall be designed so as to require a vehicle to back into a public street or across a public sidewalk, except in the case of one and two family dwe 11 i ng units. c. No parking space or parking area shall be constructed with a slope of more than six (6) percent. In such cases where a variance may be granted to construct a parking area with a slope of more than six (6) percent. which in no instance shall exceed twelve (12) percent, each parking space shall be constructed at right angles to the slope. In the event the Board of Adjustment shall consider a variance, the Board of Adjustment shall have the authority to impose drainage standards calculated to minimize the effect of the increased slope. I d. Minimum dimensions for off-street parking. 1.) Ninety-degree angle parking. Each parking space shall not be less than nine (9) feet in width and eighteen (18) feet in length. Maneuvering shall be not less than twenty-four (24) feet. 2.) Sixty-degree angle parking. Each parking space shall be not less than nine (9) feet wide perpendicular to -43-