The location and width of entrance and exit driveways to parking facilities shall be planned to interfere as little as possible with the use of nearby property and with pedestrian and vehicular traffic on the adjacent streets. Whenever possible, the center line of the access driveways on the frontage street shall be at least forty feet from the right-of-way line of the nearest intersecting street and spaced at not less than 120-foot intervals, measured from the center line of the driveway.
Parking areas shall be designed so that vehicles may be driven forward into the street. Parking areas of fifteen spaces or less shall have at least one single-lane driveway, and the maximum width occupied by all driveways shall be twenty-four feet. Parking areas of sixteen spaces or more shall have two single-lane driveways if possible or at least one two-lane driveway; each accessway shall be limited to two lanes.
The width of such entrances and exits, measured at the setback line, shall conform to the following schedule:
Lanes | Minimum Feet | Maximum Feet |
One | 10 | 12 |
Two | 18 | 24 |
The angle of intersection between the driveway and the street shall be between sixty degrees and ninety degrees. The radius at the edge from the apron shall be at least twelve feet, twenty feet recommended, so that a motor vehicle entering or leaving may not obstruct vehicles in other traffic lanes in the driveway or in the curb lane of the street.
(Ord. 84-94. Passed 6-17-85.)