Parking. The purpose of minimum parking ratios is to create the right balance between parking areas and other facilities, based on the occupying uses. We recognize that needs will vary among tenants, and encourage you to take advantage of off-site and shared parking (which allows for shared use of the same space when activities have different schedules) wherever practical.

Minimum Parking Requirements:

Entertainment	1 space per 2 occupants plus 1 space per employee
Excursion and Charter-Boat Operations	1 space per rate capacity plus 1 space per employee
Hotels	1.25 spaces per room plus 1 space per 2 occupants of banquet or meeting rooms
Industrial/Warehouse	5 spaces per 1,000 gross square feet of building area
Marinas   Service areas Retail areas	1 space per 4 boats in rack storage, 1 space per 2 boats in wet slips 5 spaces per 1,000 gross square feet 3 spaces per 1,000 gross square feet
Offices	3 spaces per 1,000 gross square feet
Restaurants	1 space per 2 seats of occupancy rating
Retail	4 spaces per 1,000 gross square feet

Landscaping. To enhance the beauty of our environment, we encourage generous landscaping of a near-tropical character. The salty air and sandy soil of the Port do require some special strategies and the use of appropriate materials. The most successful plantings over time tend to be dense clusters of salt- and drought-tolerant plants established in berms or excavations in which the native sand has been replaced with well drained, nutrient-rich soil. (See full Guidelines for a list of shrubs, trees and grasses that have been used successfully at the Port.) You also will need to provide adequate irrigation.

For visual variety, tenant landscaping should be informal, irregular and asymmetrical in appearance, in contrast to the formality of plantings provided along roadways and in common spaces by the Port Authority. We encourage you to plan for landscape buffers along continuous security fencing, along the edges and in internal islands of parking areas and between commercial/industrial facilities and major roadways.

Site lighting. To the greatest extent practical, site lighting should be provided by high cut-off fixtures that are building mounted or by low bollard-type fixtures. See our Light Management Plan for more information.

Site signage. To avoid visual clutter and confusion, we limit principal business signs to one major building-mounted sign per facility and one major free-standing sign for the principal use or tenant only. Multiple-tenant signs are not permitted.

Building height. The maximum building height for all buildings, except hotels within the Cove and rack storage buildings in the Marina area, is 40 feet (to the midpoint of sloped roofs or the top of the structure above occupied space.)

Setbacks and open space. These guidelines are tailored to the uses within each area. For example, locating buildings close to sidewalks in the Cove area helps create active and interesting pedestrian paths, while keeping industrial uses in the Mullet Drive/Scallop Drive area back from major roads produces a more attractive setting.
The Cove: Setbacks – 30' waterfront, 10' front, 15' side; Open space – minimum 30%
Mullet Rd./Scallop Drive: Setbacks – 30' waterfront, 40' front, 15' side; Open space – 15' landscape buffer along all roads and streets
Marina Area: Setbacks – 20' waterfront, front and side; Open space – minimum 15%
Columbia Road area: Setbacks – 20' front, 15' side and rear; Open space – minimum 25%