(A) Number of driveways permitted. When adequate frontage is available, two driveways to a property having a single business may be permitted. When two or more businesses are located on a single property and two driveways cannot provide adequate access, more than two drives may be permitted. Each request for more than two drives shall be accompanied by sufficient information to justify the request.
(B) Joint driveways. A jointly owned driveway may be permitted upon joint application by both property owners.
(C) Location of Driveways at Highway Intersections. New driveways shall not begin closer to an existing highway intersection than that permitted in §§ 158.07 to 158.16. The proximity of a new highway intersection to existing driveways shall conform to the Corner Island criteria set forth in § 158.09. It shall be the responsibility of the permit applicant to make all necessary arrangements and agreements with the affected property owners when the relocation of existing driveways is necessary. The expense involved shall be borne by the applicant.
(D) Right-Of-Way Use Prohibitions. No parking, servicing of vehicles, erection of lights, signs or other advertising devices shall be permitted on a highway right of way; similarly, no device or structure shall be permitted to overhang a highway right of way. Provisions shall be made in the design of driveways or approaches, such that a vehicle will not be required to back onto the right of way or through the highway pavement to gain access to the highway.
(E) Future Highway Improvement Controls. When the extent of future highway improvements can be determined, the location and design of driveways or public road approaches shall be governed by the right-of-way lines, pavement edges, intersection radii and elevations of the future highway facility.
(F) Encroachment of Driveway on Adjacent Frontage. A permit may be issued for the construction of a driveway which encroaches on the abutting property frontage in excess of the controls set forth in §§ 158.07 to 158.16 only when written permission from the affected property owner is presented and made a part of the city's record of the permit and only when such encroachment does not interfere with an existing driveway.
(Ord. 116-87, passed 12-28-87)