(A) External circulation. The type and arrangement of streets and driveways within the development area shall be coordinated with the redevelopment area’s street classification system.
(1) Principal vehicular access to any parcel shall be designed to encourage smooth traffic flow with a minimum of hazards to pedestrians, bicycles, and other vehicular traffic.
(2) Vehicular access will not be permitted within one hundred fifty (150) feet of an intersection where both streets are classified as an arterial or a collector street or where one is an arterial and the other a collector street.
(3) A five (5) foot sidewalk shall be constructed along all collected or arterial streets. A five (5) foot earthen border shall be constructed between the sidewalk and the curb where arterial streets front residential uses.
(4) On-street parking will not be permitted along streets classified as arterial.
(5) Where street width is adequate on-street parking shall be permitted on collector and local streets.
(6) One point of access shall be permitted to every zoning lot from all streets fronting the property for the first fifty (50) feet of frontage. An additional access will be allowed for the next one hundred (100) feet of a zoning lot fronting a collector or arterial street. Access points to the same street from the same parcel shall be one hundred (100) feet apart from the centerline of each driveway. Driveways may not exceed twenty-six (26) feet in width at the right-of-way line.
(7) Pedestrian sidewalks crossing vehicular driveways shall be clearly indicated and at the same grade as the remainder of the sidewalk.
(B) Internal circulation.
(1) Internal circulation shall provide the types, amounts, and locations of accessibility appropriate to the type and size of the development, and shall be designed so as to facilitate the movement of persons, goods, services, and waste products in a safe and efficient manner.
(2) Safe and convenient vehicular access shall be provided for emergency and service vehicles.
(3) The separation and integration of circulation systems and patterns (such as vehicular circulation, pedestrian circulation, and loading and unloading systems) shall be provided as is appropriate for the type and size of the development.
(C) Clear-vision areas. To assure safe sight distances at street and driveway intersections and pedestrian crossings, a minimum clear vision area shall be provided at each corner of such intersections and crossings. No structure or planting that would impair visibility between the heights of three (3) feet and ten (10) feet above the street, driveway, or sidewalk center line grade shall be erected or established in the clear-vision area, provided that the above requirement shall not apply to:
(1) An official traffic control sign or signal.
(2) Any structure or planting having a maximum horizontal cross-sectional diameter of eighteen (18) between the heights of three (3) and ten (10) feet above the street, driveway, or sidewalk grade, providing that the structure or planting is isolated and solitary and that any combination of such which impairs the required cross-corner vision shall be prohibited.
(3) Grading of land within the clear-vision area may be required where such topography impairs the required cross-corner visibility.
(4) The minimum clear-vision area shall consist of a triangular prism of unobstructed space between the heights of three (3) feet and ten (10) feet of the street grade and bounded by the edges of the intersecting streets and driveways, and by a straight line connecting points located on these edges a distance of ten (10) feet from the intersection. For intersections with arterial streets these points shall be located on the edges of the arterial streets at a distance of twenty-five (25) feet from the intersections.
(Ord. passed 1-27-87)