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Before the issuance of the permit required by this chapter, the applicant therefor shall file with the Community Development Department, in form satisfactory to the City, a plan of the work as proposed to be made, setting forth in detail the extent and nature of the same and its location upon the street with reference to the improved street and the adjacent property. No permit shall be issued until such plans are filed with the Community Development Department and approved by the City, and until the fee for such permit has been paid.
For lots less than one-hundred (100) feet wide at the right-of-way line, no automobile driveway for a single-family residential property shall be designed, constructed or maintained in the City that is more than twenty-four (24) feet in width at the sidewalk. For lots one-hundred (100) feet wide or greater at the right-of-way line, an automobile driveway may have a maximum width of twelve (12) feet per garage stall up to a total maximum width of thirty-six (36) feet, except when located on a cul-de-sac bulb where the maximum width remains twenty-four (24) feet at the sidewalk. No automobile driveway for a single-family residential property shall be designed, constructed or maintained in the City that is within four (4) feet of the throat of an intake to any sewer, unless otherwise approved by the City's engineering staff. For lots one-hundred (100) feet wide or greater at the right-of-way line, a maximum of two (2) driveways leading to the same lot, or serving the same property or business will be allowed, but they shall be at least twenty (20) feet apart. Between such driveways, the sidewalk zone shall be limited to the use of pedestrians only. On the lot side of such sidewalk zone, a perpendicular curb at least six (6) inches in height shall be constructed and maintained by the property owner.
All automobile driveways shall be constructed in accordance with the standard sidewalk specifications of the City relating to driveways. The applicant shall notify the Community Development Department, when the driveway forms are in place and before the concrete is poured, for the City to inspect such driveway forms.
The City may, by ordinance, designate the permissible direction of traffic flow onto and from multiple driveways that serve the same premises on any occasion when the City determines that such regulation is necessary for the safety of the traveling public. In such event, the property owner shall, at the property owner's expense, erect traffic direction control devices of a sufficient size to give notice of said ordinance to the traveling public. After erection of said control device, a vehicle shall only be driven in the direction designated or permitted.
If any automobile driveway is discontinued or the use thereof abandoned by the owner of the property in front of which such driveway was constructed, such owner, upon notice from the City, shall restore the curbing, parking and sidewalk area to the condition they were in prior to the time such driveway was constructed. If such owner, after receiving such notice, for a period of ten (10) days, refuses to comply with such order, the Council may order the restoration of such curbing, parking and sidewalk. The cost of such restoration shall be assessed against the property in front of which such automobile driveway was constructed, and may be collected with and in the same manner as general property taxes.
(Ch. 156 - Ord. 2070 - Oct. 21 Supp.)