Monroe Township (Gloucester County), NJ Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

Section 175-123 of the Monroe Township Code, Off-street parking and loading, is the Township's commercial loading rule. Subsection I requires adequate off-street loading and maneuvering space for every retail or wholesale, commercial and/or industrial use. A building, structure or part thereof with over 10,000 square feet of gross floor area needs at least one truck standing, loading and unloading space on the premises, and a building with more than 15,000 square feet of gross floor area has to provide additional off-street loading space as the Planning Board determines during site plan review. Loading areas are counted separately from parking and cannot be credited as parking spaces. No loading or unloading area is allowed in a required front yard, and fire zones cannot serve as standing, loading or unloading areas unless otherwise permitted.

Other subsections fill in the design. Under E(3), loading spaces have to be of sufficient size and location to accommodate the largest vehicle anticipated and be clearly designated as loading. Under I(1), the baseline is one space per retail or wholesale commercial and/or industrial use; where several uses share a building or a shopping center, the count is cumulative by square footage, dispersed through the site and approved with the site plan. I(2) requires a trash and garbage pickup location separate from the parking and loading areas, in totally enclosed containers screened from view. Subsection D requires concrete curbing around the perimeter of all off-street loading areas. Subsection G requires loading and parking spaces, aisles and driveways to be paved with a minimum of two inches of compacted bituminous concrete wearing surface over a six-inch gravel base, unless the Board Engineer finds site conditions or traffic call for a heavier section. Subsection K requires loading spaces on the same lot as the use served, allows them to abut the building, and keeps them out of any required buffer area.