(A) Requirements: Each parcel on which a structure is to be constructed or a mobile-home placed shall be connected by means of an approved access road or roads to a public street which is maintained by the City or other public entity or government agency.
(B) Approved Access: Approved access shall be over permanent recorded public easements granted for ingress and egress; however, the building official may consider permanent recorded private easements, if appurtenant and in satisfactory form, as approved access under the following circumstances:
1. For properties having permanent recorded private easement access rights appurtenant prior to August 13, 1981.
2. Notwithstanding the foregoing, public access shall be required for any parcel created by a recorded map having thereon a statement to the substantial effect that building permits would not be issued until the parcel had rights of public access.
(C) Other Code Requirements: Approved access easements shall comply with all other requirements of this code.
(D) Variance: Upon public hearing held after twenty (20) days' notice to all persons having any recorded interest in any parcel of real property traversed by or abutting the proposed access route, the city council may issue a variance determining that a temporary recorded appurtenant license will constitute approved access under the following circumstances:
1. The proposed structures or mobilehomes are necessary and accessory to a legal and properly permitted existing main use of the legally created parcel on which they are to be built or placed.
2. The applicant has exhausted all reasonable means for securing a permanent access right to the parcel on which the structures or mobilehomes are to be placed.
3. The structures or mobilehomes are to be removed if the temporary access rights terminate. (Ord. 696-02, 10-1-2002; amd. Ord. 840-21, 5-4-2021)