(a) In the process of reviewing the site plan, the Planning Commission and/or Zoning Administrator shall consider:
(1) Single-family subdivision and site condominium development.
(2) The location and design of driveways providing vehicular ingress to, and egress from, the site in relation to streets giving access to the site and in relation to pedestrian traffic.
(3) The traffic circulation features within the site and the location of automobile parking areas, and may make such requirements with respect to any matters as will assure:
A. Safety and convenience of both vehicular and pedestrian traffic both within the site and in relation to access streets; and
B. Satisfactory and harmonious relations between the development of the site and the existing and prospective development of contiguous land and adjacent neighborhoods.
(b) The Planning Commission and/or Zoning Administrator may further require landscaping, fences, and walls in pursuance of these objectives and the same shall be provided and maintained as a condition of the establishment and the continued maintenance of any use to which they are appurtenant.
(c) In approving the site plan/plot plan, the Planning Commission and/or Zoning Administrator may recommend marginal access drives. For a narrow frontage, which will require a single outlet, the Planning Commission may recommend that money be placed in escrow, pursuant to Section 1262.16, with the City so as to provide for a marginal service drive equal in length to the frontage of the property involved. Occupancy permits shall not be issued until the improvement is physically provided or monies have been deposited with the City Treasurer.
(d) The Planning Commission and/or Zoning Administrator shall consider the installation, erection and construction of transmission systems for essential services.
(e) The Planning Commission and/or Zoning Administrator shall require marginal access drives for all residential developments having residential lots or sites facing onto major thoroughfares. Where practical, the Planning Commission and/or Zoning Administrator shall require a rear lot relationship to major thoroughfares.
(f) Where the City has adopted specific area or neighborhood improvement or redevelopment plans and recommendations involving, but not limited to, public rights-of-way, utilities and storm drainage, parking facilities, building placement, access drives, floor space density allocations, building facade and architectural treatment, no site plan and/or building permit shall be approved unless there is general compliance with such City plan.
(Res. 24-95. Passed 2-13-95; Ord. 2023-07. Passed 7-24-23.)