A. Intent. This section is intended to accomplish the following goals in multi-family, commercial, and industrial developments.
1. Provide safe, efficient, and convenient vehicular and pedestrian access and circulation patterns within and between developments.
2. Preserve the efficiency of arterials as additional development occurs.
3. Ensure that service areas (delivery, trash, and loading facilities) are located and sized to function without impeding regular vehicular and pedestrian circulation and access routes.
B. Vehicular circulation and access.
1. Uses shall not access local streets unless a local street provides the only legal access to the lot.
2. The number and location of access driveways must be approved by the town engineer.
3. Vehicular connections shall be provided from a development site to abutting roadways or circulation routes on adjacent properties to allow convenient access to multiple businesses and to help reduce the overall number of access points on arterials.
4. Circulation patterns for drive-thru facilities shall be designed to accommodate the stacking of vehicles without interfering with the movement of vehicles or pedestrians on primary circulator routes.
5. To the maximum extent practicable, drive aisles shall utilize a two-way traffic circulation pattern unless buildings are configured in a "main street" pattern that can efficiently accommodate on-street parking, a one-way traffic flow, or other alternative circulation pattern
6. The preferred parking design shall be 90-degree parking stalls, with two way traffic.
C. Refuse containment:
1. All outdoor trash and refuse storage areas must be enclosed from view on all sides by opaque fencing and solid gates made of materials and colors consistent with on-site building materials and design.
2. Trash may be contained within an enclosable metal bin if screened from public view.
D. Pedestrian circulation and access.
1. All sidewalks and pedestrian walkways must be a minimum of five feet in width. A minimum of eight feet is required where wheel stops are not used and parked vehicles overhang sidewalks.
2. A continuous network of on-site pedestrian walkways must be provided to allow for direct access and connections to and between the following:
a. The primary entrance or entrances to each commercial building on the site, including pad site buildings;
b. Any sidewalks or walkways on adjacent properties that extend to the boundaries shared with the commercial development;
c. Public sidewalk along the perimeter streets;
d. Adjacent land uses and developments; and
e. Any adjacent public park, greenway, or other public or civic use.
3. On-site pedestrian walkways may not end without a logical current or future connection.
4. At each point that a pedestrian walkway crosses a parking lot, street, or driveway, the walkway must be clearly visible to pedestrians and motorists through the use of two or more of the following methods:
a. A change in paving material or paving color;
b. A change in paving height;
c. Decorative bollards;
d. A painted crosswalk;
e. Signage; or
f. A raised median walkway buffered by landscaping.