(A) The safety and efficiency of a roadway is directly influenced by the quantity and type of interference vehicles moving along the roadway encounter. Most interference occurs due to vehicles entering, leaving or crossing the roadway at intersecting streets and driveways. To maximize the capacity of a roadway and minimize accidents, it is necessary to regulate driveways for motor vehicles entering and leaving roadside developments and intersecting streets.
(B) The city recognizes the rights of the abutting property owners to have access to their property. However, the city must also consider the right of the other roadway users to be able to travel safely and with minimal interference. Since these rights are at times in conflict, it is the city’s responsibility to reconcile and, hopefully, satisfy the needs of all roadway users by regulating driveway locations, design and construction.
(C) The city has adopted this driveway article to establish standards for the location and design of driveways providing access to developments from public or private roadways. The principle objectives of this article are:
(1) To provide maximum safety and protection to the motoring public through the control of vehicular access onto public or private streets;
(2) To provide a uniform policy for the location, design and construction of driveways throughout the city;
(3) To provide owners of abutting property with the maximum service feasible, consistent with the safe and efficient use of public and private streets; and
(4) To further increase safety and decrease congestion along major and minor thoroughfares.
(D) In order to accomplish these objectives, certain goals have been identified and listed below:
(1) To prohibit driveways within a certain distance of intersecting streets unless alternate access is not available;
(2) To decrease the number of driveways along major and minor thoroughfares; and
(3) To increase the distance between adjacent driveways along major and minor thoroughfares.
(Ord. No. 2371, § 1, passed 9-23-1991)