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Planning staff presents final parking ordinance changes; committee discusses restaurant, residential and ADA standards
Summary
Planning staff presented a near-final draft of parking code changes including new square-foot standards for restaurants and retail, exemptions for historic overlay districts and revised ADA, loading and stacking requirements; the committee discussed but did not take a formal vote.
Planning staff on the Manchester City Commissions' zoning steering committee presented a near-final draft of parking ordinance revisions that would change how restaurants and retail are calculated, clarify treatment of outdoor seating in the public right-of-way, and align some rules with state and national guidance, including ITE and IBC/ADA references.
The changes staff described include exempting the Gaslight Historic Overlay District from local parking standards, reducing some commercial parking requirements in DT1 and the Milliard zoning district to half of the current commercial standard, and keeping lodging and dwelling-unit parking at one space per unit. Staff also proposed switching restaurant parking from a seat-based standard to a gross floor-area standard of one space per 125 square feet; general neighborhood retail and service uses would use one space per 300 square feet.
Kristen (staff member) told the committee the shift from seat counts to…
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