Category: Parking & Transportation By Frank Rubacky Nov 29

Developers are often allowed to use on-street and municipal parking lot capacity to make up for deficiencies in the on-site parking requirements. Increases in square footage of less than 15% already receive a waiver in the C-1 commercial zone. Developers are also allowed to lease parking space from other private property owners to meet the requirements. However, larger projects are allowed to purchase municipal parking spaces to meet these requirements. Essentially, it is a form of Payment-In-Lieu-Of-Parking that utilizes municipal-parking resources for private development - but, without the benefit to the township of a formal PILOP program. The Planning Board has come out against any type of PILOP in their 2016 Master Plan Reexamination Report, but they not against this current practice. Large developments should meet their parking needs on-site or by leasing private space.