17-44-040 OFF-STREET PARKING: ACCESS

A. Except for single-family and two-family dwellings, access to each parking space shall be from a private driveway and not from a public street. B. Adequate ingress and egress to and from all uses shall be provided as follows: 1. Residential lots: For each residential lot not more than two driveways, each of which shall be a maximum of twenty feet wide at the street lot line. 2. Other than Residential Lots. Access shall be provided to meet the following requirements: a. Not more than two driveways shall be used for each one hundred (100) feet or fraction thereof of frontage on any street. b. No two of the driveways shall be closer to each other than twelve (12) feet, and no driveway shall be closer to a side property line than three (3) feet, c. Each driveway shall be not more than thirty-five feet wide, measured at right angles to the centerline of the driveway, except as increased by permissible curb return radii. The entire flare of any return radius shall fall within the right-of-way, d. No driveway shall be closer than ten feet to the point of intersection of two property lines at any corner as measured along the property line, and no driveway shall extend across such extended property line, e. In all cases where there is an existing curb and gutter or sidewalk on the street, the applicant for a permit shall provide a safety island along the entire frontage of the property, except for the permitted driveways. On the two ends and street side of each such island shall be constructed a concrete curb, the height, location and structural specifications of which shall be approved by the local surveyor or engineer, f. Where there is no existing curb and gutter or sidewalk, the applicant may at his option install such safety island and curb or, in place thereof shall construct along the entire length of the property line (except in front of the permitted driveways) a curb, fence or pipe rail not exceeding two feet or less than eight inches in height. (Ord. dated 5/14/82 §§12-503, 12-505)