A. Purpose
The purpose of this section is to ensure that developments are served by a coordinated multimodal transportation system that permits the safe and efficient movement of motor vehicles, emergency vehicles, transit, bicyclists, and pedestrians within the development and between the development and external transportation systems, neighboring development, and local destination points such as places of employment, schools, parks, and shopping areas. Such a multimodal transportation system is intended to provide transportation options, increase the effectiveness of local service delivery, reduce emergency response times, promote healthy walking and bicycling, facilitate use of public transportation, contribute to the attractiveness of the development and community, connect neighborhoods and increase opportunities for interaction between neighbors, reduce vehicle miles of travel and travel times and greenhouse gas emissions, improve air quality, minimize congestion and traffic conflicts, and preserve the safety and capacity of community transportation systems.
B. Applicability
All applications for approval of a Major Site Plan shall comply with the standards in this section, except the sections listed below are also required for applications for approval of a Minor Site plan, in which the application includes a change in circulation:
1. Section 155.5101.G, Vehicular Access and Circulation
2. Section 155.5101.C, Consistency with Plans
3. Section 155.5101.H, Bicycle Access and Circulation
4. Section 155.5101.I, Pedestrian Access and Circulation
The design and construction of access and circulation systems associated with a development shall be consistent with the transportation goals, objectives, and actions in the Pompano Beach Comprehensive Plan, the Pompano Beach Master Arterial Street Plan, Broward County Trafficways Plan, and other city-adopted plans addressing transportation (including transportation plans, transit plans, corridor plans, and small area plans).
D. Multimodal Transportation System
Access and circulation systems associated with a development shall provide for multiple travel modes (vehicular, transit, bicycle, and pedestrian), as appropriate to the development's size, character, and relationship to existing and planned community transportation systems. Vehicular, transit, bicycle, and pedestrian access and circulation systems shall be coordinated and integrated as necessary to offer the development's occupants and visitors improved transportation choices while enhancing safe and efficient mobility throughout the development and the community.
E. Circulation Plan Required
Applications for Major Site Plan Approval (Section 155.2407) shall include a circulation plan that addresses street connectivity, emergency and service vehicle access, parking movements, accommodation of loading operations, turning radii, traffic calming measures where future "cut-through" traffic is likely, and similar issues.
F. Developer Responsibility for Street Improvements
1. On-Site
a. If a street is proposed within a development site, the developer shall provide roadway, bikeway, sidewalk, and other access and circulation improvements in accordance with the standards in this section, and shall dedicate any required rights-of-way or easements.
b. If a development site includes the proposed corridor of a street designated on the Broward County Trafficways Plan as an arterial street, the development shall incorporate provision of the arterial street into the design of the development. The developer shall be responsible for constructing roadway, bikeway, sidewalk, and other access and circulation improvements that meet at least those standards in this section applicable to collector streets, and shall dedicate right-of-way that meets the right-of-way width standards for the arterial street, as appropriate.
2. Off-Site
If a development site fronts on and obtains vehicular access from an existing street, the developer shall be required to dedicate additional right-of-way along the street frontage or in the vicinity of the development and to provide roadway, bikeway, sidewalk, and other access and circulation improvements within the street right-of-way where the city determines such improvements are reasonably necessary to ensure the safe, convenient, efficient, and orderly accommodation of vehicular and pedestrian traffic demands and impacts generated by the proposed development. Such improvements may include, but are not limited to, turn lanes, deceleration and acceleration lanes, widening or paving of substandard roadways, medians, bike lanes, sidewalks, sidewalk ramps and crossings, and the relocation or improvement of utility lines and facilities needed to accommodate street improvements. The extent of required dedications and improvements related to the abutting street shall be roughly proportional to the traffic demands and impacts generated to and along that street by the proposed development.
1. Vehicular Accessway Classifications
As a basis for application of many of the vehicular access and circulation standards in this subsection, proposed and existing vehicular accessways shall be classified in accordance with the following classifications, which reflect the accessway's relative functions in providing access to and from principal origin and destination points and accommodating travel mobility. Driveways represent the lowest basic classification and principal arterial streets the highest basic classification.
a. Driveways
Driveways include accessways that function solely to provide direct and immediate vehicular access between an alley or street and the principal origin and destination points within an abutting development, or part of a large development. They generally handle low vehicular travel speeds and traffic volumes, but may handle moderate to high vehicular traffic volumes within large commercial and mixed-use developments (e.g., driveways within shopping center parking areas).
b. Alleys
Alleys make up a specialized classification of accessway that primarily functions to provide secondary vehicular access and/or service and delivery vehicle access between a street and the rear or sides of lots or buildings. Alleys also may provide primary vehicular access for dwellings designed to have no driveway access from the fronting street.
c. Local Streets
Local streets primarily function to provide direct vehicular access to and from abutting development, or parts of a large development, as well as to provide travel mobility by connecting driveways and other local streets with collector streets and arterial streets. Local streets generally handle low to medium vehicular travel speeds and traffic volumes, but may handle high traffic volumes within large commercial and mixed-use developments or in urbanized areas (e.g., local roads adjacent to the Atlantic Boulevard commercial corridor).
d. Collector Streets
Collector streets primarily function both to provide direct vehicular access to and from abutting development, particularly in commercial and industrial areas, and to provide travel mobility among neighborhoods and activity centers by connecting local streets and other collector streets with arterial streets. They generally handle relatively moderate travel speeds and traffic volumes over moderately average trip lengths. Collector streets are designated on the Broward County Trafficways Plan.
e. Minor Arterial Streets
Minor arterial streets primarily function to provide travel mobility among the city's major activity centers by connecting local streets, collector streets, and other minor arterial streets with principal arterial streets. They generally handle moderate vehicular travel speeds and traffic volumes, and may provide some direct driveway access to abutting development, particularly in commercial and industrial areas. Minor arterial streets are designated on the Broward County Trafficways Plan.
f. Principal Arterial Streets
Principal arterial streets primarily function to channel intercity vehicular traffic to and through the city and to provide travel mobility among the city's major activity centers by connecting minor arterial streets with each other and with collector streets. They include freeways/expressways and other generally major roadways, handle moderate to high travel speeds and traffic volumes over relatively long distances, and provide very limited direct driveway access to abutting development. Principal arterial streets are designated on the Broward County Trafficways Plan.
2. Required Vehicular Access and Circulation
A development shall be served by a system of vehicular accessways (including driveways, local streets, collector streets, minor arterial streets, and principal arterial streets, as well as alleys, fire lanes, and other parking lot lanes) that permits safe, convenient, efficient, and orderly movement of firefighting and other emergency vehicles, public transit and school buses, garbage trucks, delivery vehicles, service vehicles, and passenger motor vehicles among the following origin and destination points within the development, and between these internal origin and destination points and the external roadway system, as appropriate for the type of vehicle:
a. Firefighting vehicles: Points within the distance from buildings and facilities prescribed for fire department access in the Florida Fire Prevention Code.
b. Other emergency vehicles: Points within 150 feet of all buildings (or the buildable area of lots, for subdivisions), major structures, and major recreational facilities.
c. Public transit and school buses: Designated or planned bus stops and shelters.
d. Garbage trucks: Bulk refuse containers and points within 150 feet of individual refuse receptacle storage/collection sites.
e. Large delivery trucks: Off-street loading spaces.
f. Small delivery trucks, service vehicles, and passenger motor vehicles: Off-street parking spaces.
3. Vehicular Access Management
Direct driveway access to a development's principal origin or destination points (including individual lots in a subdivision) shall be located at least 100 lineal feet from an intersection with McNab Road, Blount Road, a principal arterial street, minor arterial street, or collector designated on the Broward County Trafficways Plan. Direct driveway access may be provided directly from a principal arterial street, minor arterial street, or local collector designated on the Broward County Trafficways Plan only if:
i. No alternative direct vehicular access from a lower-classified accessway (e.g., local street, driveway, or alley) is available or feasible to provide;
ii. Only one two-way driveway, or one pair of one-way driveways, is allowed onto lots with 200 or less feet of lot frontage on the arterial or collector street, and no more than one additional two-way driveway or pair of one-way driveways per additional 200 feet of frontage; and
iii. The development(s) served by the driveway is expected to generate an average daily traffic (ADT) count of 1,000 trips or less, or the Development Service Director determines that the origin or destination points accessed by the driveway will generate sufficiently low traffic volumes, and the adjacent arterial or collector street has sufficiently low travel speeds and traffic volumes, to allow safe driveway access while preserving the safety and efficiency of travel on the arterial or collector street.
The following standards shall apply to vehicular access along a street other than an arterial or collector street designated on the Broward County Trafficways Plan.
i. For single-family, two-family, triplex, and fourplex dwellings, two direct driveway access points are allowed.
ii. For multifamily dwellings other than triplex and fourplex dwellings, and for institutional, commercial, and industrial developments, the number of vehicular access points along a street shall be minimized as necessary to protect the function, safety, and efficiency of travel on the street and any associated bikeways and sidewalks.
iii. Where a through lot or
corner lot
fronts on roadways of different classifications, direct driveway access to the lot shall be from the lower-classified fronting street.
The minimum spacing between adjacent driveway intersections along a State road—or between a driveway intersection along a State road and an adjacent street intersection—shall comply with the access management standards in Fla. Admin. Code R. 14-97.
i. Driveway access shared between adjoining lots is encouraged and may be required to limit direct vehicular access along streets (See Sections 155.5101.G.3.a and 155.5101.G.3.b.) or comply with driveway intersection spacing requirements (See Section 155.5101.G.3.c.).
ii. Easements allowing cross-access to and from properties served by a shared driveway, along with agreements defining maintenance responsibilities of property owners, shall be recorded with the Broward County Records Division before issuance of a Zoning Compliance Permit for the development proposing the shared driveway access.
4. Vehicular Connectivity
a. Purpose
The purpose of the following vehicular connectivity standards is to enhance safe and convenient mobility within and between neighborhoods and developments that helps integrate and connect neighborhoods, allow residents to conveniently visit neighbors and nearby activity centers without compromising the capacity of the city's arterial streets to accommodate through traffic, improve opportunities for comprehensive and convenient transit service, enhance efficient provision of public services, and improve the speed and effectiveness with which emergency services and police and fire protection can be provided to city residents and properties.
b. Cross Access Between Adjoining Development
To encourage shared parking and minimize access points along roads, new nonresidential and mixed-use development other than industrial development shall comply with the following standards:
i. The internal vehicular circulation system shall be designed to allow for vehicular cross-access between the development's
vehicular use areas
and those on adjoining lots containing a nonresidential or mixed-use development, or to the boundary of adjoining vacant land zoned to allow nonresidential or mixed-use development. (See Figure 155.5101.G.4.b, Cross-access between parking areas of adjoining developments.)
ii. Cross-accessways shall provide for two-way vehicular traffic between the
vehicular use areas
on the adjoining lots through the use of a single driveway or drive aisle that is at least 24 feet wide or through two one-way driveways or aisles that are each at least 14 feet wide.
iii. The Development Services Director may waive or modify the requirement for vehicular cross-access on determining that such cross-access is impractical or undesirable due to the presence of topographic conditions, natural features, or vehicular safety factors.
iv. Easements allowing cross-access to and from properties served by a vehicular cross-access, along with agreements defining maintenance responsibilities of property owners, shall be recorded with the Broward County Records Division before issuance of a Zoning Compliance Permit for the development.
5. General Accessway Layout and Design
a. Coordination with Transit, Bicycle, and Pedestrian Access and Circulation
i. The vehicular access and circulation system of a development located on a site abutting an existing or planned transit route shall accommodate a transit stop and other associated facilities unless the Development Services Director determines that adequate transit facilities already exist to serve the needs of the development.
ii. The vehicular access and circulation system of a development shall be coordinated with the bicycle and pedestrian access and circulation systems within and adjacent to the development to minimize conflicts.
b. Traffic Control and Calming Measures
Traffic-calming measures—such as, but not limited to, diverters, street gardens, and curvilinear alignments—shall be integrated into a development's vehicular circulation system where necessary to mitigate the impact of potential future cut-through traffic.
6. Roadway Layout and Design
Except as otherwise provided in this section, the design and construction of:
a. Roadways for state roads shall be approved by the Florida Department of Transportation in accordance with its roadway design standards;
b. Roadways for county roads shall be approved by Broward County in accordance with its roadway design standards; and
c. Roadways for city streets shall be approved by the Director of Public Works in accordance with the standards in Chapter 100 (Streets and Sidewalks) of the
Code of Ordinances
.
7. Driveway Layout and Design
a. Driveway Width
Except for driveways serving single-family dwellings, all driveways shall comply with the following minimum width requirements:
i. One-way driveways shall be at least 12 feet wide, as measured between the edges of paving.
ii. Two-way driveways shall be at least 24 feet wide, as measured between the edges of paving.
Driveways serving single-family dwellings shall comply with the following minimum requirements:
i. Driveways shall be a minimum 20 feet in length.
ii. No front yard shall be accessible by more than two driveways.
(A) For front yards accessible by one driveway, the driveway shall be a minimum of 10 feet wide and a maximum of 24 feet wide.
(B) For front yards accessible by two driveways, each driveway shall be a minimum of 10 feet wide and a maximum of 18 feet wide.
iii. Driveways shall be located at least three feet from a side or rear lot line and the resulting area located between the side lot line (or rear lot line for
corner lots
) and the driveway shall be pervious.
iv. Front yards with two driveways shall contain a landscaped island that is at least 60 square feet and extends from the front property line to the paved area.
c. Dead-End Driveway Length
Driveways that do not connect back to a street shall be no longer than 150 feet unless they include adequate provision for fire trucks to turn around, as approved by the Fire Chief.
d. Driveway Intersections
In addition to the standards in Section 155.5101.G.3.c, Driveway Intersection Spacing Along State Roads, driveway intersections shall comply with the following standards:
i. Alignment
To the maximum extent practicable,
(A) Driveway intersections along a street shall line up with existing or approved driveway or roadway intersections on the opposite side of the street unless the intersections are separated by a median in the street.
(B) The angle of driveway approaches to an intersection with a street shall be approximately 90 degrees for two-way driveways and between 60 degrees and 90 degrees for one-way driveways.
ii. Proximity to Adjoining Property
Except for shared driveways provided in accordance with Section 155.5101.G.3.d, Shared Driveways, driveway intersections shall be spaced from an adjoining property line by at least two feet or such greater distance needed to avoid encroachment of the driveway radius onto the adjacent property or interference with safe use of a driveway on the adjoining property.
iii. Medians in Driveway Entrances
Medians may be provided at driveway entrances provided:
(A) Planted material within the median is limited to understory trees, shrubs, ground cover, and grass; and
(B) The minimum driveway width is maintained for each travel and turning lane
a. For Drive-through and Related Uses
i. Required Number of Stacking Spaces
In addition to meeting the off-street parking standards in Table 155.5102.D.1, Minimum Number of Off-Street Parking Spaces, uses with drive-through facilities and other auto-oriented uses where vehicles queue up to access a service facility shall provide at least the minimum number of stacking spaces established in Table 155.5101.G.8.a, Minimum Stacking Spaces for Drive-Through and Related Uses.