Huntington, NY Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

Town Code § 198-50 triggers the loading requirement for any building 'hereafter erected or structurally altered to the extent of increasing the floor area by fifty (50%) percent or more,' or converted to a use in the Article VIII loading table, with a grandfather exception for permits issued before June 21, 1966, when loading zones were not required. Section 198-51 confines the requirement geographically: it applies to all districts 'except the C-6 General Business District, the C-7 Minor Commercial Corridor District and the C-9 Harbor Use District, where no requirements are imposed,' and clarifies that meeting the table does not cap any extra loading capacity a special use permit might demand.

Where one building holds several uses each below the loading-space minimum individually but whose combined floor area exceeds it, § 198-52 requires loading space 'as if the entire building were used for that use in the building for which the most spaces are required,' preventing owners from splitting tenants to dodge the requirement. Design standards sit in § 198-53. The first required bay may be as small as ten by twenty-five feet with twelve feet of vertical clearance, and up to one-quarter of any additional required bays may share that size; every other bay must measure at least twelve by thirty-five feet with fourteen feet of clearance, and a loading zone must fall within seventy-five feet of a building entrance.

Funeral homes get a dedicated standard: a ten-by-twenty-five-foot space with only eight feet of clearance. The site plan review authority may also 'landbank' loading space, approving fewer built bays than the table calls for if projected demand does not need them, provided the reserved area stays landscaped, unused for parking or storage, and buildable later without disrupting the site; a site can never drop below half of the table's stated minimum.