In order to minimize traffic congestion and hazard, to control street access in the interest of public safety and to encourage the appropriate development of street frontage:
(a) No parking lot or area for off-street parking or for the storage or movement of motor vehicles shall abut directly on a public street, and each such area shall be separated from the street by a raised curb, planting strip, wall or other suitable barrier against unchanneled motor vehicle entrance or exit, except for necessary accessways. Such a lot shall be designed so as not to require vehicles to back out onto the street, and the capacity of the lot shall be sufficient to provide adequate storage area and distribution facilities to prevent back-up of vehicles on the street while awaiting entry to the lot.
(b) No separate use, planned business center or similar grouping of buildings shall have more than two accessways to any one public street for each 300 feet of frontage and, where practical, access to parking areas shall be provided by a common service driveway or minor street in order to avoid direct access on a major street. No such accessway shall be less than twenty feet or more than thirty feet in width, and the location of any accessway or driveway to a public street shall be in accordance with the regulations of the Department of Public Service and the Department of Public Safety and shall be subject to review by such Departments.
(c) In the case of a required buffer area, not more than one entrance and one exit shall be permitted from a lot to each street on which the lot abuts, except that an additional entrance and exit through a buffer area may be permitted when authorized as a special exception.
(d) In the case of a shopping center, a group of apartment houses or a similar grouping of buildings constructed as part of an integrated plan, and in any other case in which it is practical:
(1) All parking, loading or service areas used by motor vehicles shall be located entirely within the lot line of the property.
(2) All buildings shall front upon a marginal street, service road, common parking lot or similar area and not directly upon a public street.
(3) All accessways to a public street shall be located not less than 100 feet from the intersection of any street line.
(4) All streets and accessways shall be designed in a manner conducive to safe exit and entrance and shall conform to the street specifications and Subdivision Regulations of the Municipality.
(e) In any case where a shopping center or a limited industrial, professional or apartment development abuts a State highway, a traffic survey therefor shall be previously approved by the Director of the Ohio Department of Transportation. All streets in the vicinity of the development shall be adequate to serve probable increases in traffic volume, and adequate deceleration lanes and similar facilities shall be provided where desirable.
(f) All driveways, aisles, maneuvering spaces, vehicular service areas or spaces between or about buildings, other than those relating to a dwelling, shall be adequately illuminated.
(g) All outside lighting, including sign lighting, shall be directed in such a way as not to create a nuisance in any adjacent district, and all such lighting shall be arranged so as to protect the street or highway and adjoining property from direct glare or hazardous interference of any kind .
(h) The location of off-street parking, loading or service areas shall be as provided for in Chapter 1292.
(Ord. 82-38. Passed 9-20-82.)