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Also amend Article III as follows: Change the title of Article III from "Off-Street Parking"to "Parking Facilities"; In Section 174-35 replace the phrase "the off-street parking space requirements" with the phrase "parking facilities"; Replace the current wording of Section 174-37 with the following: "§174-37. Location of facilities. Required parking facilities shall be provided on the same lot or parcel as the principal use they are designed to serve, unless otherwise permitted by a Special Permit issued by the Planning Board. Parking facilities shall be located to the side or rear of the principal structure(s) on a lot or parcel, unless the permitting authority determines that an alternative location will improve the project aesthetically, substantially reduce impacts on natural or historic resources or improve public safety." Change the title of Section 174-38 from "Size and dimension of spaces" to "Parking facility dimensions" and replace the current wording with the following: 44§174-38. Parking facility dimensions. Each required parking stall for restaurants, banks, pharmacies or similar establishments with drive-through windows, supermarkets, convenience markets, hardware stores, discount department stores, home improvement centers, medical or dental offices and other establishments involving high parking turnover, or the use of shopping carts, shall be nine and one-half(91/2) feet in width. Any other required parking stalls may be nine (9) feet in width, if approved by the permitting authority, where it is demonstrated that the use served will not involve high parking turnover, the use of shopping carts, or frequent use by large vehicles such as pickup trucks, vans or commercial vehicles, except that on-street parallel parking spaces may be eight (8) feet in width when adjacent to travel lanes of at least 10 feet in width. Except when part of a parking module sized as indicated below, each required parking stall shall be not less than twenty (20) feet in length, exclusive of aisles, drives and maneuvering space. Otherwise, minimum parking lot aisle width, and one bay and two-bay parking module widths (from curb to curb or edge of pavement to edge of pavement) shall, be as follows: Parking Angle Aisle Width* I Bay Module Width 2 Bay Module Width 90 degree 24' 43 14" 621 75 degree 20,E 3919" 5916" 70 degree 18'4" 3 8121� 58' 65 degree 17' 3619" 5616" 60 degree 16' 3 516" 55' 55 degree 14XI 3 3'10" 53' 50 degree 13'8" 3214" 51' 45 degree 13' 311 491 *Aisles for 90 degree parking may be permitted for two-way traffic. All other parking aisles may allow only one-way traffic, heading in to angle parking spaces. October 20, 2003 Town Meeting