In order to encourage the sound development of highway frontage and to minimize traffic congestion and hazard, along Arterial Highways as designated in the Township Comprehensive Plan, the following special provisions shall apply:
A. All areas for off-street parking, off-street loading and unloading and the storage or movement of motor vehicles shall be physically separated from the highway or street by a raised curb, planting strip, wall, or other suitable barrier against unchanneled motor vehicle entrance or exit, except for necessary accessways or access roads which supply entrance to and egress from such parking, loading or storage area. All parking areas or lots shall be designed to prohibit vehicles from backing out on the street and the capacity of each lot shall provide adequate storage area and distribution facilities upon the lot to prevent back-up or vehicles on a public street while awaiting entry to the lot.
B. Each use with less than 100 feet of frontage on a public street shall have not more than one accessway to each such street and no business or other use with 100 feet or more of frontage on a public street shall have more than two accessways to any one street for each 300 feet of frontage. Where practicable, access to parking areas shall be provided by a common service driveway or minor street in order to avoid direct access to a major street.
C. In the case of a shopping center, group of multiple-family dwellings or similar grouping or buildings on a lot and in any other case where practicable:
(1) All buildings shall front upon a marginal street, service road, common parking lot or similar area and not directly upon a public street.
(2) All points of vehicular access to and from a public street shall be located not less than 200 feet from the intersection of any public street lines provided that such a point of vehicular access, which in effect, converts a "T" intersection into an intersection of two streets which cross another, shall be permitted.
(3) Provision shall be made for safe and efficient ingress and egress to and from public streets and highways serving the center, or other unified development, without undue congestion to, or interference with normal traffic flow within the Township and;
(4) All streets and accessways shall conform to the specifications determined by the Township Engineer and the requirements of the Township Subdivision Regulations. Provision shall be made for adequate signalization, turn, standby and deceleration lanes and similar facilities where desirable.
D. All driveways, aisles, maneuvering spaces, vehicular service areas or spaces between or about buildings, other than those related to a dwelling shall be adequately illuminated during night hours of use at no cost to the Township.
(Ord. 45, Z-§ 513, 5/12/76)