(A) As per Allen County Highway Department Manual. The Leo-Cedarville Zoning Ordinance hereby adopts the standards contained in the Allen County Highway Department Manual pertaining to entrance drives except to the extent that those standards expressly conflict with a standard otherwise set forth in this chapter.
(B) ED-01. The intent of entrance and drive standards is to provide for a safe and efficient vehicular and pedestrian transportation system. The following standards apply to curb cuts, entrances, and drives:
(1) No curb cut, entrance, or drive shall be permitted within:
(a) One hundred twenty feet of an intersection of two or more roads in which the largest of the roads is a major thoroughfare;
(b) One hundred feet of an intersection of two or more roads in which the largest of the roads is a minor thoroughfare;
(c) Eighty feet of an intersection of two or more roads in which the largest of the roads is a major collector;
(d) Sixty feet of an intersection of two or more roads in which the largest of the roads is a minor collector; or
(e) Fifty feet of an intersection of two or more roads in which the largest of the roads is a local road.
(The distances for the above standards shall be determined by measuring from center line of a curb cut, entrance, or drive to the center line of the nearest intersecting road.)
(2) No curb cut, entrance, or drive shall be permitted within:
(a) One hundred forty feet of the apex of a curve (30 degrees or greater) and where the road is a major thoroughfare;
(b) One hundred twenty feet of the apex of a curve (30 degrees or greater) and where the road is a minor thoroughfare;
(c) One hundred feet of the apex of a curve (30 degrees or greater) and where the road is a major collector;
(d) Eighty feet of the apex of a curve (30 degrees or greater) and where the road is a minor collector; or
(e) Seventy feet of the apex of a curve (30 degrees or greater) and where the road is a local road.
(3) All curb cuts, entrances or drives shall not exceed the following pavement widths for two-way traffic (if one-way, the measurements shall be one-half of the below measurements):
(a) Thirty-two feet if from a commercial zoning district onto a major thoroughfare;
(b) Thirty feet if from a commercial zoning district onto a minor thoroughfare;
(c) Twenty-eight feet if from a commercial zoning district onto a major collector;
(d) Twenty-six feet if from a commercial zoning district onto a minor collector;
(e) Twenty-four feet if from a commercial zoning district onto a local street;
(f) Thirty feet if from a multi-family residential zoning district onto a major thoroughfare, minor thoroughfare, or major collector;
(g) Twenty-eight feet if from a multi-family residential zoning district onto a minor collector or local street;
(h) Twenty-eight feet if from a single-family residential zoning district onto a any type of street; or
(i) Twenty-two feet if from a single-family residential unit onto any type of street.
(4) The Planning Commission may determine if:
(a) An acceleration or deceleration lane is necessary; or
(b) A passing blister is necessary as a condition of a new curb cut, entrance, or drive.
(5) Except in agricultural zoned districts, all required entrance drives, together with parking lots, and other circulation areas, shall be dust-free and of a hard-surface with a pavement having an asphalt or concrete binder, such as concrete, asphalt, double chip and seal, or paver bricks provided; however, that variances for parking related to school auditoriums, assembly areas, sports fields, and other community meeting or recreation areas may be granted, provided that paved areas shall be provided for daily-use parking areas. Where paving is not required, proper dust control measures shall be undertaken and maintained.
(Ord. passed - - ; Ord. 2021-08, passed 10-19-2021)