5-8 Access Requirements

Service stations, roadside stands, public parking lots, and all other businesses requiring motor vehicle access shall meet the requirements as hereinafter provided. (1) Access shall be by not more than two (2) roadways for each one hundred (100) feet or fraction thereof of frontage on any street. (2) No two (2) said roadways shall be closer to each other than twelve (12) feet, and no roadway shall be closer to a side property line than three (3) feet. (3) Each roadway shall be not more than thirty-five (35) feet in width, measured at right angles to the center line of the driveway, except as increased by permissible curb return radii. The entire flare of any return radium shall fan within the right-of-way. (4) No roadway shall be closer than ten (10) feet to the point of intersection of two property lines at any corner as measured along the property line, and no roadway shall extend across such extended property line. (5) 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 roadways. On the two ends and street side of each such island shall be constructed a concrete curb, the height, the location and structural specifications of which shall be approved by the Building Inspector. (6) 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 roadways, a curb, fence, or pipe rail, not exceeding two (2) feet or less than eight inches in height.