(a) Each building site shall be planned so the building can be used and maintained from an abutting street without trespass upon adjoining properties.
(1) A means of entrance shall be provided from the public right-of-way to the building. The means of entrance shall be a legal, permanent, uninterrupted, unobstructed system of access roads, driveways and walks.
(2) The use of easements to cross other properties is permitted where land configuration dictates, but such easements shall be submitted on the si te plan for evaluation of the access systems and shall be recorded in all applicable deeds. Where access easements are used/required, the following statement shall be placed on the site plan:
"The City of North College Hill does not accept any private easement shown on this plat and is not obligated to maintain or repair any installations in such easement. The applicant agrees, as a condition of approval of this plat, that there shall be included in the deed of conveyance of every lot in this subdivision subservient to an access easement a condition requiring the grantee, his heirs and assigns, to continuously maintain the easement area for the purpose designed and a condition that within such easement no structure, planting or other material shall be placed or permitted to remain which may obstruct, retard or change the use of the easement, such conditions being for the mutual benefit of the owners of all lots on which similar easements are reserved."
(b) The required means of entrance from the public street to the building shall be a system of a sidewalk or hard-surfaced path, a driveway (if a vehicle is to be kept on the premises), and any necessary roads.
(1) Slope of nonvehicular entrance means or any service means shall be limited to a maximum gradient of one inch per foot (eight percent (8%)).
(2) Minimum width of the main entrance walk means shall be three feet; the mini mum width of any other walk or path shall be two feet. Walks may be combined with the driveway; see subsection (b)(4) hereof.
(3) Slopes on driveways and access roads shall be limited to a maximum gradient of one and three-fourths inches per foot (fourteen percent (14%)).
Driveways which are dead-level (no slope in any direction) approach dead-level, or which hold or "pocket" water are not permitted. A positive slope of minimum size shall be provided to drain the driveway into the formal storm drainage system or to approved natural drainage features. No slope may start anywhere in the public right-of-way, other than as required by the City Engineer.
(4) Minimum width of driveway, eight feet. When main walk is incorporated with the driveway, the combined width shall be no less than ten feet.
(5) All driveways and access roads shall be paved or surfaced with concrete, bituminous pavement, or other appropriate hard road materials.
(c) All construction in the public right-of-way shall meet the following provisions as required by the City Engineer:
(1) Any alteration of the berm and/or ditch area relative to the driveway or access road construction shall conform with the standards of the County Engineer's Office, and shall be done under a permit from such office. Inspection required.
(2) Any driveway or access road connecting to a road having no curb shall, at the property line, be constructed no higher than six inches above the existing center line of the road pavement for a thirty foot half section of sixty foot right-of-way; and no higher than nine inches above the existing center line of the road pavement for a forty foot half section of eighty foot right-of-way, measured at a point opposite the driveway location, and no lower than an elevation level with the existing center line of the road pavement except at the discretion of the County Engineer.
(3) All driveways or access roads constructed across ditches, shall have a twelve inch minimum diameter reinforced concrete pipe or equal installed in the ditch under the driveway.
(4) Any driveway or access road connecting to a road with a curb section shall, at the property line, be constructed to an elevation based on one-fourth to three-fourths inch per foot, ascending from the top of the curb, for the distance from the back of the curb to the property line.
(5) No driveway or access road shall be constructed within the limits of any road pavement radius return, at any road intersection.
(6) No part of any driveway, driveway approach or access road within the public right-of-way shall be installed closer than five feet to any inlet, fire hydrant, utility pole, guy wire anchor or downspout overflow pipe.
(7) Curb cuts shall conform to County Engineer's standard Plate, permit and inspection procedures.
(Ord. 26-1989. Passed 12-18-89.)