16. Policy: Service Areas
Service areas include loading areas as well as areas for storing resource recovery containers, snow storage and site maintenance equipment. Many of these require access year-round and should therefore be carefully planned as an integral part of a site. At the same time, the visual impacts of service areas should be minimized from major pedestrian ways.
In commercial uses, service entrances should be separate from those used by customers.
A. Minimize the visual impacts of resource recovery areas
1. Locate a service area along the rear portion of a site, accessed by an alley, when feasible.
2. Resource recovery areas, including large containers (dumpsters), shall also be screened from view of major pedestrian routes, using a fence, hedge or a shed to enclose it.
B. The use of an off-street loading zone is encouraged
1. In large structures locating a loading area in the building is preferred.
C. Provide access to a service area such that service vehicles will not interfere with pedestrians and other vehicular traffic
D. All service areas should be designed to fit into the treatment area, be secure and to discourage animals (bears in particular) from accessing resource recovery containers